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Aron Hegarty, co-founder of Candlelit Tales

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
A moment of peace beside the sea, the sun in my face, and the wind in my hair.
Which living person do you most admire?
Fionn McCoole? That's not history but it's a good story nonetheless...
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Diarmuid Lyng is up there - great hurler.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Procrastination! (how long did it take me to look at this like? ).
What is your favourite journey?
Booking a flight to Mexico with my first big paycheck from a butter advert a few years ago!
On what occasion do you lie?
A journey to the unknown...
Which living person do you most despise?
Only when it's called for, like now, perhaps.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
There's a few political leaders I could mention, but I prefer not to give them the air time to even mention their names.
When and where were you happiest?
Stories! In all their beautiful forms and variable means of being transmitted from one to another.
Which talent would you most like to have?
When I'm staring at the sea, or surrounded by music.
What is your current state of mind?
To write applications.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Fluctuating between restless and relaxed.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
Performing in the Abbey Theatre last year and working with Edna O'Brien on her self adapted version of The Country Girls.
What is your most treasured possession?
A hawk! They seem pretty chilled up there.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
My current notebook I'd say.
What is your favourite occupation?
Being all alone and falling down a well miles away from anyone knowing you are stuck there.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Being a performer!
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Honour - the quality of knowing and doing what is morally right.
Who are your favourite writers?
Honour.
What is your motto?
Neil Gaiman, Terry Prachett, Douglas Adams, Lois McMaster Bujold, JK Rowling, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwel.

Breath... this too will pass.

Aron Hegarty, co-founder of Candlelit Tales, was in the middle of rehearsals for the Gaitys's Circle Of Friends before lockdown, but has kept himself busy with podcasts, writing, and researching.

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What is your idea of perfect happiness? Which historical figure do you most identify with? A moment of peace beside the sea, the sun in my face, and the wind in my hair. Which living person do you most admire? Fionn McCoole? That's not history but it's a good story nonetheless...

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Actor, writer, and yoga teacher

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Sharing a beautiful feast with friends, family, and newcomers.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?

An intrepid Victorian lady.

Which living person do you most admire?

The person who protects those more vulnerable than themselves.

Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Self-criticism.

What is your greatest extravagance?

I just bought a (blunt ) sword to play with.

What is your favourite journey?

The train from Dublin to Galway.

On what occasion do you lie?

When I want something that's not good for me.

Which living person do you most despise?

I send them love instead. It's more effective.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?

The sun. Every morning. Thank goodness.

When and where were you happiest?

At the kitchen table.

Which talent would you most like to have?

Singing, dancing, painting, and rock-climbing.

What is your current state of mind?

Grateful.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Making an audience laugh.

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?

A bee.

What is your most treasured possession?

My grandfather's desk.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Self-hatred. It poisons everything else.

What is your favourite occupation?

Make-believe.

What is the quality you most like in a man?

True humanity.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?

True humanity.

Who are your favourite writers?

At present, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Manda Scott, Michelle Cassandra Johnson, and Muhammad Khan.

What is your motto?

Thank you.

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Getting To Know... Charlotte Gallagher Questionnaire

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Sharing a beautiful feast with friends, family, and newcomers. An intrepid Victorian lady. The person who protects those more vulnerable than themselves. Self-criticism. I just bought a (blunt ) sword to play with. The train from Dublin to Galway. When I want something that's not good for me.

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK - Charlotte Gallagher

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK - Charlotte Gallagher

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https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/115013/getting-to-know-charlotte-gallagher-questionnaire

Searlit Ní Gallochoir ~ Fantasy Ireland participated as part of Galway Theatre Festival 2019:

Created for the Galway Theatre Festival and twirling stand up, storytelling and spiritual memoir, Searlit Ní Gallachoir ~ Fantasy Ireland explores humour, heritage and belonging.

Charlotte - ahem - Searlit, is a seeker. She’s on a quest to discover her IRISHNESS. She’s English, but she has Irish blood, and she’s decided to find the mysticism and magic that Hollywood, romance novels and the Irish tourist board have promised her. She’s packed her bags and moved to Galway. She lives in a little house by the sea. She’s waiting for magic...

But she’s waded into the bog of a very dangerous question: Is she really Irish at all?

Searlit Ni Gallachoir Fantasy Ireland (GTF 2019)

https://vimeo.com/426202594

Charlotte Gallagher & TOCHMARC productions.

Carlotta de Galleon ~ A Fool for Love! For Edinburgh Festival 2016 https://vimeo.com/410780944

Carlotta de Galleon – A Fool for Love! is a comic romp through one woman’s love of trashy novels. Negotiating feminism, literary criticism and an improvised romance novel, Carlotta might just reach her happily ever after.

Shake-Scene Shakespeare:

Shake-Scene Shakespeare, the cue-scripting theatre company who have recently claimed zoom as a live online performance space: https://www.shake-sceneshakespeare.co.uk

You can see recorded shows on their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDDaJfvFHM_gWpm3aufWtw  and watch scenes performed live on Sundays.

Watch links for Sunday June 7th

3PM

https://youtu.be/bOw6g1DajIo

5PM

https://youtu.be/bGxOGsmgfiM

Yoga Links:

These are guided relaxations where you are invited to remain aware while you sleep. It’s a brilliant resource for everyone especially in this uncertain time and also aids creativity.
https://soundcloud.com/charlotte-gallagher-3
For more information and more yoga nidras please visit www.yoganidranetwork.org

One of NUI Galway playwriting teacher's Dr Justine Nakase, now Lecturer at Portland State University (she also teaches critical theory in film and theatre) has created an indispensable twitter thread on racism in Ireland https://twitter.com/justinenakase/status/1266807743970545666?s=20 and you can hear her discussion on with Sean Moncrieff on Newstalk here: https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-moncrieff/racism-in-ireland-3?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web

Website:

www.charlotte-gallagher.com

You can donate to Charlotte directly here:
https://www.paypal.me/charlottiegallagher

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Galway Theatre Festival will not go ahead in May 2020.

Beatha agus sláinte chugaibh, In response to the current COVID-19 situation, and after careful consideration, we have made the decision to cancel the Galway Theatre Festival (1-9 May 2020).

Our priority is to the health and safety of our artists, audience, festival team and the wider public. We would like to thank the Arts Council, Galway City Council, Foras na Gaeilge and all our partners, funders, sponsors, volunteers, artists and friends for their continued support.

Galway Theatre Festival holds the support and celebration of artists at its core, and we will work to continue to support artists, and on ways to present our programme to you in the coming weeks and months. We will keep in touch with updates soon. Our thoughts are with the families and communities impacted by the COVID-19 virus.

Please stay safe and healthy.

Beir bua agus beannacht, Galway Theatre Festival Board & Team

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Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture & Galway Theatre Festival present

InterAction

Six artists will showcase work throughout 2020 exploring interactive technologies & participatory theatre.

Scratch Shows:

May 1 - 9 2020

www.interactiongalway.com

Project produced by

Jane Hanberry

Flagship project: The Stars in Winter by John Rogers

Genre by Tara Jaye Burke

BréagChuimhne | Memory Lies  by Feilim O'hAoláin

Slow Down (You Move Too Fast)

by Máiréad Ní Chróinín

Victory Over The Sun/’Figuren’

by Padraig Conway

Speak Like No One In Particular

by Eszter Némethi

#GalwayTheatreFest #Galway2020 #InterAction

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Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture & Galway Theatre Festival present

InterAction

A creative laboratory for participatory theatre and interactive technologies.

InterAction explores interaction among citizens and inhabitants of Europe, prompting audience members to explore new ways of "inter-acting" with the world around them. The project consists of Make A Move creative laboratories and six InterAction artists who will showcase original works in progress across 2020.

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Speeches by
Sorcha Keane - Director of GTF
Marylin Gaughan of Galway 2020
Jane Hanberry - Producer of InterAction

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LITERATURE AIMED FOR INDEPENDENT THEATRE ARTISTS & THEATRE ENTHUSIASTS

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Make A Move Handbook and of Special Monographic Issue of the journal “Mise en Abyme” – International Journal of Comparative Literature and Arts dedicated to Make a Move Project, “Debating Independent and Non-institutionalised Theatre in Europe”.

Read about:

MAKE A MOVE Art Incubator – its topics, implementations, findings

Artistic practices, experiences and challenges in terms of digital practices, site-specific practices, audiences and positioning in the business and journalistic context

Research findings on the non-institutionalised theatre sectors

Solutions to many challenges of the sector.

The Make a Move project executed and tested an innovative Art Incubator program. This program was designed particularly for non-institutionalised theatre practitioners and small independent cultural operators, primarily from the field of contemporary movement-based theatre.

The Make a Move project improved capacities of 45 independent, movement-based European artists to work transnationally and internationally, enhanced their professional skills, facilitated peer learning, education and training, improved their career opportunities to access new markets and reach new and wider audiences, enabled network possibilities, building partnerships and contacts. The Make a Move project was born as a way to bridge the gap between where we as an arts sector are now, and where we would like to be in the near future.

Make A Move Handbook

MAKE A Move_HandbookDownload

Journal “Mise en Abyme” Debating Independent and Non-institutionalised Theatre in Europe

E- JOURNAL Make a Move ProjectDownload

For more information see the project website: www.makeamoveproject.eu

Follow the project artists on: Facebook: @Makeamoveproject, Instagram: make_a_move_project

Partner organisations:

Creative Laboratory of Contemporary Theatre KRILA

Institute of Arts Barcelona

Galway Theatre Festival

University of Arts Targu-Mures

Associate partners:

ACTS – laboratory for performance practices

Platform 88

Workinglifebalance Ltd.

ToTum TeaTre

Poulpe Electrique

MOVEO

Supporters:

EACEA – Creative Europe

Arts Council Ireland

Galway 2020 - European Capital of Culture

Rijeka2020 – European Capital of Culture