Clifden Arts Festival 2024

12 - 22 Sep, 2024 (tbc), Galway Events Calendar

Connemara’s Premier Arts Festival 🎭

Clifden Arts Festival brochure
2024 Programme (tbc)

The longest running community arts festival in Ireland, Clifden Community Arts Week, now in its 47th year yet again promises to have something to excite everyone in this years programme. Described as “Ireland’s best-kept secret” by Novel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, 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.

Highlights of the previous Clifden Arts Festival

The legendary Christy Moore delivered a memorable performance. Singer-songwriters Lisa Hannigan, Paul Noonan, and Gemma Hayes collaborated in their much-anticipated show. The Raines brought their distinctive sound to the stage. Classical music enthusiasts enjoyed the Irish Chamber Orchestra and West Ocean String Quartet. The Irish National Opera presented the groundbreaking virtual reality experience “Out of the Ordinary.” Notable speakers like Diarmaid Ferriter, David McCullagh, and Francis Brennan engaged in robust discourse along with Prof. Bernard O’Donoghue, a close friend of Seamus Heaney. Visual arts included Rhona Byrne’s immersive work “Bolthole.” The festival culminated with a spectacular performance by landscape theater company LUXE.

Origins of Clifden Arts Festival

Clifden 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.

Learn about the festival

Contact

💻 www.clifdenartsfestival.ie
📞 087-3315009

Address

Clifden,
Co. Galway,
Ireland

Directions

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