Clifden Community Arts Week (15th - 25th September 2011)

The longest running community arts festival in Ireland, Clifden Community Arts Week, now in its 34rd year will take place from September 15th - 25th and yet again promises to have something to excite everyone in this years programme. Audiences can expect a very high quality artistic programme with a superb literary, musical and visual art content which again will have the community arts of Clifden and the surrounding hinterland as a central focus with creative writing, music, theatre, graphic design and film workshops and performances taking place in the local schools for the duration of the festival.

Community Arts Week began life as a week-long celebration of the arts for the children of Clifden Community School - helping to develop artistic and social skills, and provide an outlet for self-expression and development. Over the years Arts Week at the school gave such pleasure to the greater community that an encompassing and fervent support network grew around it, allowing it to develop. Many of the dramatists, graphic designers and copywriters that work on the festival every year were once the children that attended Clifden Community School, and are now delighted to contribute their professional services.

For further information visit www.clifdenartsweek.ie or call ( 095) 21644 / (087) 2405053