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A PAN-EUROPEAN group exhibition currently on display in the Galway Arts Centre brings together a range of artists and media in the pursuit of a contemporary slant on the European Romanticism movement. IMAGINATION Romantik brings 13 artists together in a panoply of light, sound, video, painting, sculpture, photography, metal, and even wine which depicts a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Though the opening Untitled pieces by Italian artist Luisa Lambri in the front gallery are a bit disappointing -- at least given the choice of possible works which could have been used to renowned Cotton Club in Black Church. The theme of draw the viewer in on entering the Harlem. The choir has some each performance is gallery -- a bizarre collection lies of the finest singers and bringing people and nations beyond. The Untitled works comprise a Joan Coughlan, sculptor John Behan, and Sinead Coughlan pictured at the and giving musicians from the many together series of images of glass doors laid opening of the Imagination- Romantik exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre something back. Black churches in Harlem. against walls, out of place, coupled as part of The Tulca Festival of Visual Art 2002. The HGC is dedicated to For booking contact with a DVD loop of images of the viewer. The arts centre has appealed for drawing the viewer in to examine the bringing about a better Mulligan Records on 091 doors in situ. a replacement camera for the piece tiny features with Gulliver-like understanding of African- 564561, Zhivago Records The overtly sexual The Times of Day while the Garcia attempts to locate the fascination. American culture and the on 091 - 509960, or Music by Portugese Rui Chafes, which uses original one. Another Day features two light inspirational music called City, Tuam on 093 - 28692. pencils and. of all things, smears of Latvian Leonards Laganovskis' boxes, depicting a sunrise and a sunset. Gospel as it relates to the Kernan Andrews dried medicines to create semi-abstract Dornfelder I999er and Silvaner 1999er The two pictures are of a single organic shapes suggestive of flowers, make an impressive grouping. These moment in time, captured female genitalia, bones, and gonads, is four pieces are essentially large mirror- simultaneously at the beginning and in stark contrast to Dawn, his massive backed tanks filled with wine; two with end of the same day at opposite sides of iron sculpture which dominates the red and two with white. While the the earth. room. meaning is unclear the pieces are In stark contrast, the Galway Arts SOUTH PACIFIC is the inaugural show for the new musical society The 9 Arch Dawn is a huge ball, which stands intriguing. Centre is also currently showing works Musical Society, based in Claregalway. stable but incredibly on what look like Set in WWII, Roger and Hammerstein's South Pacific introduces a rich mix of Mariele Neudecker provides an from the Madden-Arnholz collection of delicate tendrils hanging from its base. exciting and unique depiction of the European Romanticism from the Irish characters such as Bloody Mary, who will be played by Annette Cavanagh, the The piece, a massive, heavy-looking well-worn subject of landscapes in Museum of Modern Art. A bizarre vivacious Nellie (Hildegarde Naughton), comical Luther Bills (Ronan Lardner). sphere standing on ribbons, seems to three pieces in the exhibition. Gravity collection of prints provide a debonair Emile de Becque (Ken Long), Cable (Marcus Wynne), Liat (Shelia Coleman), defy gravity. Prevents the Atmosphere from Drifting caricaturish depiction of -- largely and Adam Miller and Aine Fitzgerald as the two children. The musical director is Philip Webproject, an audio visual Into Outer Space is a tiny, perfect peasant -- life. The grotesque creatures Short and Ronan Lardner is the director. Lardner and Tara O'Carroll are the installation by German artist Christine landscape in a glass tank. A mist of of Francisco Goya's They Spruce choreographers. Meierhofer, was unfortunately acrylic polymer curls around the lower Themselves Up and Hans Sebald South Pacific will be performed at the Town Hall Theatre from Thursday October 24 vandalised after the exhibition opened reaches of a miniature mountain range Beham's The Vomiting Peasant are far last week. A massive cobweb and lake, and it will rise slowly to removed from the rural idyll of Samuel to Saturday 26 at 8pm. For more information contact 091 - 569777. constructed from wires transects the engulf the entire landscape over the Palmer's The Early Ploughman, or space, and a television in the middle is course of the installation. Georg Pencz's heroic horror The supposed to show the viewer, caught on Waterfall features two DVD loops of Triumph of Death. camera, suspended in the web. a waterfall, viewed as a reflection in the Both exhibitions will be on display at However the piece was redundant eye of a beholder. Again massive the Galway Arts Centre until Saturday this week following the theft of the topographical forms are rendered in November 9. camera which picks up the image of the miniature and facinating detail. UNA SINNOTT THE GALWAY Film Centre is continuing life to the full. However they have always to help community groups explore their been on the outside looking in. Here is a fascinating opportunity to experience what it identity through the medium of film. "We are now in our third season," GFC is like to be 'within'. This is exactly the kind manager Anna O'Sullivan told me. "We at of group and the kind of ethos we had in the centre have learned such a lot ourselves mind when we set up the ID Films project" in that time - how to schedule better, how to said McDermott. facilitate better." The scheme encourages the Plearca Teo from Rosmuc are the first What is your idea of perfect happiness? What is your current state of mind? groups to learn the techniques of film Irish language group to participate in ID A home, with my slippers on, curled up on the Mayhem. making - from pre-production, through Films. They chose to investigate the history sofa, in front of the f i r e , watching TV. What do you consider your greatest camera work and directing, to the final of the beet campaign. During the 1950s and process of post-production and editing. The 60s men would leave their families and Which historical figure do you most identify achievement? participants do all these jobs themselves homes to go to England for the sugar beet with? To have my degree. * with the guiding hand of a project Grainneuaiie. If you were to die and come back as a person or coordinator. The four groups this year are crop. Gone for perhaps eight or nine months of the year, it was a kind of partial Which Irving person do you most admire? a thing, what do you think it would be? Fairgreen Men's Group/Cope, the Centre for emigration. Plearca talks to the men about My mother. A ferret, or something really annoying like that. Independent Living, Plearca Teo, and the the conditions they found when they arrived Whkh is the trait you most deplore in yourself? What is your most treasured possession? Tuam Community Resource Centre. and also to the women who were left Headstrongness. Aringmy grandmother gave me. Fairgreen Men's Group/Cope chose to behind. What is your greatest extravagance? The Tuam Community Resource Centre, What do you regard as the lowest depth of take a simple but very effective way of highlighting what they do by taking 'a day set up the Happy Days creche 10 years ago. Shoes, I love shoes. misery? in the life' in one of Galway's hostels for Their premises then was a bike shed. Since What is your favourite journey? A real rainy wet day. homeless men. "It's a beautifully crafted then they have gone from strength to The train to Dublin. What is your favourite occupation? piece." Felim McDermott, GFC's education strength, and now are looking into having a On what occasion do you Ik? Reading. officer said. The group are actually no purpose built building. In their documentary Little white lies to the bank manager. . ' What Ls the quality you most like in a man? strangers to working behind a camera, they the women talk about how important a Which living person do you most despise? Sense of humour. previously worked with Access Cinema to simple thing like a creche has liberated their produce another short documentary. "But lives and how the close relationship between Osama Bin Laden What is the quality you most like in a woman? they have built enormously on that children and adults is important to them. What or w ho is the greatest love of your life? Personality. experience, through the current project," The premiere of the ID Films will be Who are your favourite writers? said O'Sullivan. screened in the Town Hall Theatre on When and where were you happiest? J K Rowling, Tolkien. "So many documentaries have been made Sunday October 20 at 4pm. Admission is Lying on a beach in Spain last summer. What is your motto? about groups like the Centre for Independent free. Which talent would vou most like to have? No problem. Living, who facilitate, support, and guide Mkhele Viney Mkhele Viney people with physical disabilities into living

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THE CELEBRATORY sounds of the world famous Harlem Gospel Choir will set Headford alight on Sunday October 27, when they perform in the Headford church at 7pm. Solstice Arts Group in association with Headford Parish is presenting this concert and the proceeds are going to the Galway Hospice. The Harlem Gospel Choir is one of the pre-eminent gospel choirs in the world and travels the globe, sharing the joy of faith through its music, and raising funds for charities wherever possible. The choir was founded in 1986 by Allen Bailey, who got the idea while attending a celebration in honour of Dr Martin Luther King jr at the

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