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TULCA Education Workshop: Contemplating TULCA 2025
Nov
23
3:00 pm15:00

TULCA Education Workshop: Contemplating TULCA 2025

On the final day of the 23rd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, audiences are invited to join TULCA Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan for a closing reflection at the TULCA Gallery.

This event provides an opportunity to revisit the artworks and themes of Strange lands still bear common ground, offering a chance to reflect on what has resonated throughout the festival. Participants will consider what has lingered, what has shifted, and what continues to unfold.

As TULCA 2025 draws to a close, this open conversation will invite collective reflection on the ideas and impressions that have emerged throughout the exhibition.

No booking required. For any enquiries, please contact: education@tulca.ie


TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building
St. Augustine Street
Galway H91 R6WF

Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking

Opening Times
23 November 2025
12pm - 6pm

Getting There
3-minute walk from Eyre Sq.
Nearest bus stops: Eyre Sq. / Spanish Arch
Paid parking nearby


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Image: Gallery Tour with ATU, Photo: Laura Griffin, 2022


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TULCA Education Workshop: Our Dialects
Nov
22
1:00 pm13:00

TULCA Education Workshop: Our Dialects

TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building
St. Augustine Street
Galway H91 R6WF
Saturday 22 Nov 2025
1pm - 2pm

The TULCA Education Team invites participants to an archival language-sharing workshop, Our Dialects. As part of the project Language, Culture, and Art: Engaging Irish Language, TULCA Education has collected an archive of words used to describe the artworks and contributions featured across the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. During this workshop, participants are encouraged to share their own descriptive words in any language, contributing to the growing archive. This is a space for connection, sharing, and understanding, where participants can express themselves in ways that may not have been explored before. 

Focussing on how elements of understanding can get lost in translation we will look at language as a tool to reimagine the possibilities around understanding and acknowledgment.

Contributions will include words in English, Irish, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. All language speakers are welcome to participate in this collective archive of shared experiences.

For any enquiries, please contact: education@tulca.ie

 
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Thursday Lates | TULCA Education Tour: Dogs, Memory, and Myth
Nov
20
6:00 pm18:00

Thursday Lates | TULCA Education Tour: Dogs, Memory, and Myth

Thursday Lates: TULCA Education Tour: Dogs, Memory, and Myth


In this guided tour led by Aoife Natsumi Frehan, Education Coordinator for TULCA, we explore two works that each centre on human relationships with dogs, but in very different ways.

Artist Tom O'Dea’s Dog Liberation Organisation constructs a fictional radical archive questioning power, obedience, and control through the lens of human–animal relations. Meanwhile, Mourad Ben Amor’s film Bamssi weaves a tender portrait of displacement and longing, where dogs appear as quiet, loyal companions in a Tunisian domestic landscape.

This session is informal and discussion-led, a space to pause with moving image works, reflect together, and engage more deeply with the ideas they raise.

Free, no booking required.

Thursday Lates is funded by Galway City Council and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sports as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan.


Galway Arts Centre
47 Dominick St Lower
Galway H91 X0AP

Access
Accessible venue (ground floor only)
Accessible toilets
Seating provided
Accessible parking (Dominick St Lower)

Opening Times
Thurs 20 Nov 2025
6-9pm

Getting There
10 min walk from Eyre Sq.
Bus: Spanish Parade stop
Paid street parking


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Image: Mourad Ben Amor, still from Bamssi, 2024, video, colour, 26 mins


 
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Artist Talk: Jess Zamora-Turner | ATU
Nov
18
2:00 pm14:00

Artist Talk: Jess Zamora-Turner | ATU

Artist Talk: Jess Zamora-Turner

TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2025 programme, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will host four talks throughout October and November 2025.

The series invites audiences to engage directly with artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Wellpark Road, Galway. Admission is free and open to the public.

Jess Zamora-Turner is a British-Chilean visual artist and grower based in Berlin. Jess's practice can best be described as patchworking—making materials and histories belong together in ways they weren't meant to. Their emotional and spiritual remaking, unfolds slowly, either through her own hands or by allowing the elements—rain, mud, sunlight—to colour and shape the materials. As the textiles, threads, leaves, flowers and seeds come together to form her sculptures they form alternative sacred landscapes that challenge our political and environmental realities.

Jess frequently collaborates with poets, musicians, cooks, dancers, performers, and filmmakers to activate her works in collective rituals and events. Her practice expands on the tradition of Andean abstraction and experimental dyeing with plants that are foraged or specially grown. Jess is currently in her sixth year seasonally tending a garden on the Polish-German border, where she grows a diverse selection of heirloom plants as well as stewarding and saving at risk seed varieties.

Jess has exhibited at Shahin Zarinbal and Galerie Molitor in Berlin and at Hotel Warszawa Art Fair in Warsaw, Poland. Her collaboration with musicians and dancers, a public performance Zaplatanie was staged in Hasenheide Park in Berlin in 2022. She often leads workshops or communal events, such as herbal smudging workshops at Floating University in Berlin or Public Works Group in London.

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ATU Galway City
Wellpark Road
Galway H91 DY9Y

Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking

Opening Times
18 November 2025
2pm - 3.30pm

Getting There
Bus: Wellpark Road stop
Free parking


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


 
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TULCA Education Workshop: Framed History and Future
Nov
16
3:00 pm15:00

TULCA Education Workshop: Framed History and Future

TULCA Education Workshop: Framed History and Future

Join Aoife Natsumi Frehan, TULCA Education Coordinator for a discussion to deep dive into the work of Marie Farrington in the historic James Mitchell Geology Museum. 

Artist Marie Farrington’s DIAGONAL ACTS uses site-responsive work and participatory gestures to excavate sites of interdisciplinary, convergence and borders reworked. This multi-platform project arose from research into geological and archaeological imaginations. In its encounter, DIAGONAL ACTS explores diagonality as a relational and collaborative stance, temporarily ‘leaning’ against contexts, communities and histories.

This session is informal and discussion-led, open to the participants to shape the workshop in its trajectory. This is a space to pause, engage with the work more deeply while sharing such experience with others.

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James Mitchell Geology Museum
Quadrangle
University of Galway
H91 FN8X

Access
Not wheelchair accessible
Venue has steps/stairs
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking (Quadrangle Building)

Opening Times
16 November 2025
3pm - 4pm

Getting There
Bus 402, 404, 405, 410, 411, 412 (stop 523031 University Road)
Paid parking available


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Photo: Mary McGraw, 2024


 
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Thursday Lates: TULCA Curator’s Tour and Archive Engagement
Nov
13
6:00 pm18:00

Thursday Lates: TULCA Curator’s Tour and Archive Engagement

Thursday Lates: TULCA Curator’s Tour and Archive Engagement


Join us for a special evening at Galway Arts Centre as part of TULCA’s Thursday Lates series. Curator Beulah Ezeugo will lead a public tour of the full exhibition, sharing insights into works by Tom O'Dea, Saoirse Amira Anis, Peter Tresnan, Mourad Ben Amor, Abel Shah, and the Shared Migrants (Archive) project.

Throughout the evening, the TULCA Education team will also be on hand to support informal engagement with the Shared Migrants (Archive), a participatory installation by Bojana Jankovic and Nessa Finnegan. This is a chance to experience the archive in an open, drop-in format and contribute to a growing body of reflections and stories.

Free, no booking required.

Thursday Lates is funded by Galway City Council and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sports as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan.


Galway Arts Centre
47 Dominick St Lower
Galway H91 X0AP

Access
Accessible venue (ground floor only)
Accessible toilets
Seating provided
Accessible parking (Dominick St Lower)

Opening Times
Thurs 13 Nov 2025
6-9pm

Getting There
10 min walk from Eyre Sq.
Bus: Spanish Parade stop
Paid street parking


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Image: Bojana Janković and Nessa Finnegan, An entry from the Shared Migrants (Archive). Photo: Nessa Finnegan


 
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Artist Talk: Tom O'Dea | ATU
Nov
11
2:00 pm14:00

Artist Talk: Tom O'Dea | ATU

Artist Talk: Tom O'Dea

TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2025 programme, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will host four talks throughout October and November 2025.

The series invites audiences to engage directly with artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Wellpark Road, Galway. Admission is free and open to the public.

Artist Tom O’Dea will present a performance lecture combining readings, moving image, and reflection on his work developed for TULCA 2025. This hybrid talk expands on his interest in human relations with animals and artificial intelligence, and the role of power in these relationships.

Tom O’Dea
Tom O’Dea is an artist who works with sculpture, media and social practice to explore how different forms of knowledge impact upon our ways of acting and being the world. His work interrogates the political implications of knowledge production, practices of computation and organisation in contemporary society. His work explores “computation” beyond that which occurs on electronic machines to a series of knowledge practices that are connected to intertwining histories of scientific legitimation, bureaucracy and colonial expansion.

Tom is a studio lecturer in Sculpture and Expanded Practices in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He is member of the Orthogonal Methods Group (OMG), an art-research group, one of the organisers of Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) and an member of Dublin Digital Radio.

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ATU Galway City
Wellpark Road
Galway H91 DY9Y

Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking

Opening Times
11 November 2025
2pm - 3.30pm

Getting There
Bus: Wellpark Road stop
Free parking


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


 
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TULCA Education: Language Tours
Nov
11
to 23 Nov

TULCA Education: Language Tours

TULCA Education: Language Tours
TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building, St Augustine Street, Galway, H91 R6WF
11–16 November & 18–23 November 2025, 12–6pm


TULCA Education presents a series of Language Tours offering visitors the opportunity to experience the exhibition through different languages.

Each tour will be delivered by a member of the TULCA Education team and live translated by a native speaker. Depending on the group, translation may be directed to individuals within a larger tour or offered to the entire group.

Languages available: Irish, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Prior booking is essential to ensure translator availability.
To book a Language Tour, contact education@tulca.ie


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TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building
St. Augustine Street
Galway H91 R6WF

Access
Wheelchair accessible / step free
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking (St. Augustine Street)
Seating provided

Tour Times
11-23 November 2025 (closed Mondays)
12pm - 4pm

Getting There
3-minute walk from Eyre Sq.
Nearest bus stops: Eyre Sq. / Spanish Arch
Paid parking nearby


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Image: Laura Giffin Photography, 2023


 
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TULCA Education: Audio Description Tours
Nov
11
to 23 Nov

TULCA Education: Audio Description Tours

Across all TULCA Galleries

11-16 November 2025
18-23 November 2025
12-6 pm


The Education Team is pleased to announce the availability of pre-booked Audio Description Tours for TULCA 2025. Participants will have the opportunity to select any artwork they wish to have described by the TULCA Education Team, comprising Aoife Natsumi Frehan (Education Coordinator) and Kate McSharry (Education Officer). Following the audio description of the artworks, a guided discussion will take place, during which participants will be encouraged to share their experiences and insights regarding the works.

Audio Description tours are available upon booking any day during TULCA 2025. The tour duration is 45 minutes. Please note that Advance Booking is Essential for this tour, and bookings must be confirmed 24 hours prior to the start time of the tour. 

To make a booking, please contact Aoife Natsumi Frehan, Education Coordinator, at education@tulca.ie

Access: The TULCA Education team is based in the TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building during the festival.

  • Tours can be arranged for other TULCA Galleries (each venue has its own capacity and accessibility).

  • Visit our Access Page for more info.

  • We are committed to ensuring all tours are accessible.

  • Please inform us of any specific access needs when booking.


TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building
St. Augustine Street
Galway H91 R6WF

Access
Wheelchair accessible / step free
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking (St. Augustine Street)
Seating provided

Tour Times
11-23 November 2025 (closed Mondays)
12pm - 6pm

Getting There
3-minute walk from Eyre Sq.
Nearest bus stops: Eyre Sq. / Spanish Arch
Paid parking nearby


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Image: Laura Giffin Photography, 2022


 
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TULCA Education: Child Friendly Tours
Nov
11
to 23 Nov

TULCA Education: Child Friendly Tours

TULCA Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan leads a special gallery tour designed for families and younger visitors. This informal session offers an opportunity for children and adults to explore the artworks together through guided discussion and shared observation.

Families, friends, and young visitors of all ages are welcome. Adults are encouraged to join the conversation alongside the young people they bring.

Please note: all young visitors must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Young people under 18 cannot be left unattended in the gallery.

To book a place, contact: education@tulca.ie


TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building
St. Augustine Street
Galway H91 R6WF

Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking

Opening Times
11-16 November 2025
18-23 November 2025
12-6 pm

Getting There
3-minute walk from Eyre Sq.
Nearest bus stops: Eyre Sq. / Spanish Arch
Paid parking nearby


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


 
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Gallery Tours: Community Groups
Nov
11
to 23 Nov

Gallery Tours: Community Groups

Gallery Tour with Oranmore Secondary School, Photo: Ros Kavanagh, 2024

Across all TULCA Galleries

11-16 November 2025
18-23 November 2025
9am - 4pm


The TULCA Education Team welcomes community groups to participate in our gallery tours as part of TULCA 2025. These tours are open to local residents, cultural organisations, youth groups, and other non-academic participants who are interested in engaging with contemporary art.

These tours are participant-led, fostering open discussions that focus on personal interpretation of the artworks, the spaces they inhabit, and the artists intentions. No prior knowledge of art is required. If your group has a specific theme or focus, please let us know when booking, and we will incorporate it into the discussion.

Group bookings for community organisations are available every day of the festival, with tours running every hour from 9am to 4pm. The tour duration is 45 minutes. Advanced booking is required.

Capacity: No minimum, maximum 40 per group (subject to venue capacity)
Age: Late primary school level and above.

Bookings: To make a booking, please contact Aoife Natsumi Frehan, Education Coordinator, at education@tulca.ie

Access: The TULCA Education team is based in the TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building during the festival.

  • Tours can be arranged for other TULCA Galleries (each venue has its own capacity and accessibility).

  • Visit our Access Page for more info.

  • We are committed to ensuring all tours are accessible.

  • Please inform us of any specific access needs when booking.


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TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building
St. Augustine Street
Galway H91 R6WF

Access
Wheelchair accessible / step free
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking (St. Augustine Street)
Seating provided

Tour Times
11-23 November 2025 (closed Mondays)
12pm - 4pm

Getting There
3-minute walk from Eyre Sq.
Nearest bus stops: Eyre Sq. / Spanish Arch
Paid parking nearby


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Photo: Gallery Tour with Oranmore Secondary School, Photo: Ros Kavanagh, 2024


 
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Gallery Tours: Academic Groups
Nov
11
to 23 Nov

Gallery Tours: Academic Groups

NCAD visit to the TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building. Photo: Laura Griffin, 2022

Across all TULCA Galleries

11-16 November 2025
18-23 November 2025
9am - 4pm


The TULCA Education Team is pleased to offer a series of gallery tours tailored for academic groups as part of TULCA 2025. These tours are designed for universities, colleges, post-primary schools, and primary schools, offering an opportunity for students and educators to engage with contemporary art in a meaningful and structured way.

Using Visual Thinking Strategies, the tours facilitate inclusive, learner-centred discussions that prioritize viewer interpretations over traditional information delivery. This approach encourages critical thinking and rich conversations, sparked by the shared experience of exploring art.

For academic groups, worksheets will be provided, tailored to different educational levels. These will include reflective exercises and practical activities that can be taken back to the classroom.

Group bookings for academic institutions are available during weekdays, with tours running every hour from 9am to 4pm. The tour duration is 45 minutes. Advanced booking is required.

Capacity: No minimum, maximum 40 per group (subject to venue capacity)
Age: Late primary school level and above

Bookings: To make a booking, please contact Aoife Natsumi Frehan, Education Coordinator, at education@tulca.ie

Access: The TULCA Education team is based in the TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building during the festival.

  • Tours can be arranged for other TULCA Galleries (each venue has its own capacity and accessibility).

  • Visit our Access Page for more info.

  • We are committed to ensuring all tours are accessible.

  • Please inform us of any specific access needs when booking.


Request Tour

TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building
St. Augustine Street
Galway H91 R6WF

Access
Wheelchair accessible / step free
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking (St. Augustine Street)
Seating provided

Tour Times
11-23 November 2025 (closed Mondays)
12pm - 4pm

Getting There
3-minute walk from Eyre Sq.
Nearest bus stops: Eyre Sq. / Spanish Arch
Paid parking nearby


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


Photo: NCAD visit to the TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building. Photo: Laura Griffin, 2022


 
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Artist Talk: Seán O’Riordan | ATU
Nov
4
2:00 pm14:00

Artist Talk: Seán O’Riordan | ATU

Artist Talk: Seán O’Riordan

TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2025 programme, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will host four talks throughout October and November 2025.

The series invites audiences to engage directly with artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Wellpark Road, Galway. Admission is free and open to the public.

Artist Seán O’Riordan will discuss their recent work presented in Strange lands still bear common ground, reflecting on their process, research, and the ideas underpinning their installation for TULCA 2025.

Seán O’Riordan
Seán O’Riordan (b. Galway) works across ceramics, woodwork, textiles, writing, and digital processes to explore the politics of desire, value, and the iconographic histories of consumption. Combining architectural and industrial techniques with found materials and ceramic works, O’Riordan encodes perceptions of value through sexuality and non-dominant language, examining how linguistic, material, and affective economies shape our sense of worth, place, and identity.

Through the subversion of cultural codes, O’Riordan treats sculpture as a tool for semi-fictional worldbuilding. The works interrogate dominant frameworks through large-scale installations and detailed objects that often spill outward as rebellious, sometimes playful, built environments.

Seán is a graduate of NCAD, Dublin (BA Fine Art, 2016), and the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (MFA, 2023). Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at VISUAL Carlow, Engage Art Studios (Galway), W139 (Amsterdam), and Western Carolina University (US).

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ATU Galway City
Wellpark Road
Galway H91 DY9Y

Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking

Opening Times
4 November 2025
2pm - 3.30pm

Getting There
Bus: Wellpark Road stop
Free parking


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


 
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Curator's Talk: Beulah Ezeugo | ATU
Oct
21
2:00 pm14:00

Curator's Talk: Beulah Ezeugo | ATU

Curator's Talk: Beulah Ezeugo

TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2025 programme, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will host four talks throughout October and November 2025.

The series invites audiences to engage directly with artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Wellpark Road, Galway. Admission is free and open to the public.

The opening talk of the series features Beulah Ezeugo, curator of Strange lands still bear common ground. Beulah will discuss the curatorial framework behind this year’s exhibition, exploring how the selected artists respond to questions of belonging, shared histories, and the role of collective imagination in fractured times.

Beulah Ezeugo
Beulah Ezeugo is a curator and writer who works between Ireland and the UK. Her practice engages with postcolonial geographies and memory, and expands outward through critical writing, exhibition-making, and public programming. Beulah programmes the lecture series, Race, Rights, and Sovereignty at Glasgow School of Art, and is a cofounder (with Joselle Ntumba) of Éireann and I – a community archive and memory project. 

Recent residencies and awards include Platform Commissions, 41st EVA International (2025), SIRIUS Critic-in-Residence (2024), and 11:11 x Iniva Residency, Stuart Hall Library, London (2024). She was a Research Associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry (2022-24) and recipient of Glasgow International’s Black Curators Collective Bursary (2021). Her writing has appeared in The Irish Times, as well as in publications by Douglas Hyde Gallery, Durty Books, and Bloomers Magazine.

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ATU Galway City
Wellpark Road
Galway H91 DY9Y

Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking

Opening Times
21 October 2025
2pm - 3.30pm

Getting There
Bus: Wellpark Road stop
Free parking


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


 
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Language, Culture, and Art: Engaging Irish Language
Sept
1
to 28 Nov

Language, Culture, and Art: Engaging Irish Language

Language, Culture, and Art: Engaging Irish Language is a cultural initiative designed to enrich primary, post primary and adult students’ experiences with the Irish language through contemporary art. This project offers a distinctive opportunity for students from Irish language schools in County Galway to engage directly with the TULCA Festival programme, using contemporary cultural practices and art as a means to strengthen their connection to the Irish language, culture, and community.

The project will be led by an Irish Language Education Officer, who will work closely with the TULCA Festival team to bring this initiative to life. The Education Officer will collaborate with Irish language schools and colleges to coordinate the participation of students in the festival. The project will culminate in a series of field trips, where students will be transported to the festival’s exhibitions, providing them with an immersive experience to explore art in a culturally and linguistically meaningful context.

In addition to these visits, the Education Officer will conduct preparatory sessions in schools before the festival. These sessions will introduce students to the artists and themes featured in the exhibitions, as well as encourage them to explore the artworks in Irish. By guiding students through the process of interpreting art through their native language, the project will help develop their vocabulary and communication skills in Irish while fostering a deeper appreciation for contemporary art.

This project aims to create a lasting impact on students by providing them with an engaging, hands-on approach to both the Irish language and art, fostering creativity, cultural pride, and linguistic fluency. It will also strengthen the relationship between the Irish language schools and the broader Galway cultural community, enriching the cultural landscape for young and old learners in the region.

Updates will appear here as the programme develops.

Supported by the Galway County Council.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland


 
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Gallery Workshop: Memory Webbing
Nov
17
1:00 pm13:00

Gallery Workshop: Memory Webbing

Niamh Schmidtke,‘X’ Mapping, 2021

TULCA Education Coordinator, Aoife Natsumi Frehan, is pleased to invite you to a workshop taking place in the Printworks Gallery for TULCA 2024. Aoife designed this workshop taking inspiration from the installations by artists Niamh Schmidtke and David Beattie. Participants will create a memory map of their own, followed by a guided discussion.

This workshop will explore and examine the similarities and the differences in the way a person associates an object to another through their individual means of organisation.

You will need to bring something you can take some notes with. Ideally a notebook and a pen/pencil or a tablet so you can draw if you feel this is the best way to represent a connection you made between objects.

Capacity: 30
Age: 18+


Printworks Gallery
15 Market Street
Galway H91 TCX3

Access
Accessible venue
No toilets
Accessible parking (Market Street)

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1-17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland


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Gallery Workshop: Memory Webbing
Nov
10
1:00 pm13:00

Gallery Workshop: Memory Webbing

  • Zoology and Marine Biology Museum (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

TULCA Education Coordinator, Aoife Natsumi Frehan, is pleased to invite you to a workshop taking place across two museums at the University of Galway. The workshop has been designed by Aoife, drawing inspiration from her discussions with Stuart Whipps and his artistic practice. Participants will engage in creating a personal memory map in the Zoology and Marine Biology Museum, followed by a guided discussion in the Geology Museum, where Stuart’s works are exhibited.

The workshop aims to explore and analyse the similarities and differences in how individuals associate objects, focusing on their unique methods of organisation.

Participants are advised to bring a means for taking notes—ideally a notebook and pen/pencil, or a tablet - to facilitate drawing or note-taking as they identify connections between objects.

Capacity: 15
Age: 18+


Zoology and Marine Biology Museum
Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute
University of Galway
Galway H91 R8EC

Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking (Quadrangle Building)

James Mitchell Geology Museum
Not wheelchair accessible
Toilets

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1-17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland


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Child Friendly Tour
Nov
9
12:00 pm12:00

Child Friendly Tour

The TULCA Education team is excited to offer a child friendly tour outside of academic and group bookings. We use the model of Visual Thinking Strategies to facilitate an inclusive, audience-centred discussion. These would take a conversational format that invites participants to share their interpretation of the work, focusing on hosting a space of discussion. Together, we will celebrate the breadth of conversation that can flourish through the shared experience of looking together. There will be worksheets that can be taken home afterwards, catered to different levels of interest in the arts which include a reflective exercise and a practical element. 

This workshop is suitable for any learners in between 5th class all the way up to Leaving Certificate or equivalent. However, the group will be split if the age difference in the participants is too great.


Printworks Gallery
15 Market Street
Galway H91 TCX3

Access

Wheelchair accessible
No toilets
Accessible parking (Market Street)

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1-17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland


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TULCA Education | Evening Gallery Tours
Nov
7
to 14 Nov

TULCA Education | Evening Gallery Tours

The TULCA Education team is pleased to announce the provision of a series of evening gallery tours for the public this year. Utilising Visual Thinking Strategies, we facilitate inclusive, participant-centred discussions that prioritise viewer interpretations rather than conventional information dissemination. This methodology cultivates engaging conversations inspired by the collective experience of exploring art collaboratively.

For group bookings for educational institutions or community organisations, click here.

If you are interested in booking a tour outside of these dates or have specific requests, please reach out to Aoife at education@tulca.ie to make a booking.


Printworks Gallery
15 Market Street
Galway H91 TCX3

Access
Accessible venue
No toilets
Accessible parking (Market Street)

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1 - 17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland


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TULCA Education | Public Gallery Tours
Nov
6
to 15 Nov

TULCA Education | Public Gallery Tours

 

The TULCA Education team is excited to offer a series of gallery tours to the public this year. Using Visual Thinking Strategies, we facilitate inclusive, learner-centred discussions that emphasise viewer interpretations over traditional information delivery. This approach fosters rich conversations sparked by the shared experience of exploring art together.

For group bookings for educational institutions or community organisations, click here.

If you are interested in booking a tour outside of these dates or have specific requests, please reach out to Aoife at education@tulca.ie to make a booking.

 

Printworks Gallery
15 Market Street
Galway H91 TCX3

Access
Accessible venue
No toilets
Accessible parking (Market Street)

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1 - 17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland


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Audio Description Tours
Nov
4
to 13 Nov

Audio Description Tours

The Education Team is pleased to announce the availability of pre-booked Audio Description Tours for TULCA 2024. Participants will have the opportunity to select any artwork they wish to have described by the TULCA Education Team, comprising Aoife Natsumi Frehan (Education Coordinator) and Kate McSharry (Education Officer). Following the audio description of the artworks, a guided discussion will take place, during which participants will be encouraged to share their experiences and insights regarding the works.

Please note that Advanced booking is essential for this tour, and must be made 24 hours prior to the start time of the tour.

If you are interested in booking a tour outside of these dates, have specific requests or access needs, please reach out to Aoife at education@tulca.ie to make a booking.


Printworks Gallery
15 Market Street
Galway H91 TCX3

Access
Accessible venue
No toilets
Accessible parking (Market Street)

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1 - 17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland


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Academic Gallery Tours
Nov
4
to 15 Nov

Academic Gallery Tours

The TULCA Education team is excited to offer a series of gallery tours to educational institutions and community organisations this year. Using Visual Thinking Strategies, we facilitate inclusive, learner-centred discussions that emphasise viewer interpretations over traditional information delivery. This approach fosters rich conversations sparked by the shared experience of exploring art together.

Participants will receive worksheets tailored to various academic levels, which will include a reflective exercise and a practical activity to take home.

Group bookings for educational institutions and community organisations will be available during weekdays. To book a group tour, please complete the TULCA 2024 Gallery Tour Booking Form.

If you are interested in booking a tour outside of these dates or have specific requests or access needs, please reach out to Aoife at education@tulca.ie to make a booking.

Tours available every hour starting at 9am / ending 4pm
Duration: 45 minutes
Advanced booking required


Printworks Gallery
15 Market Street
Galway H91 TCX3

Access
Accessible venue
No toilets
Accessible parking (Market Street)

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1 - 17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland


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TULCA 2023 Artist Talk: Bridget O'Gorman | Pálás
Nov
20
11:00 am11:00

TULCA 2023 Artist Talk: Bridget O'Gorman | Pálás

47:38

Artist Talk: Bridget O'Gorman


Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower
Monday 20 November 2023
11am - 1pm


TULCA’s Artist Talks Series in partnership with ATU presents the final talk of this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts by artist Bridget O’Gorman. This year’s talks series is kindly hosted by Pálás Cinema.

Bridget O’Gorman
Bridget O’Gorman is a visual artist and writer. Using text, live event, video and sculptural installation, her work explores the body as material, considering otherness, the speculative and expanded corporeal experience. Bridget recently reached an impasse in the way that she works due to the deterioration of a permanent spinal injury known as Cauda Equina Syndrome.

Support | Work, 2023
A sculptural installation, forming an ecosystem of balance and precariousness reflecting on what it means to support and be supported and ultimately how we affect one another. The sculptures are large-scale ‘mobiles’: reflecting upon ideas of support and equilibrium, and created using found and fabricated media, using pulleys, parts from mobility aids, and hoists. The sculptures are informed by support and access, but will also be produced through access, made with a support worker.

A commission supported by Arts & Disability Ireland’s Connect+ Award 2023.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Step free venue. Accessible toilet facilities located at -2 level. Each screen has wheelchair accessible seats, at the back room of each screen. A complimentary carer seat is provided with these seats. Three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery, a 4-minute walk from the venue. The talk will be live captioned.

Video edit: Jonathan Sammon

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Helium Arts Galway Youth Showcase
Nov
18
2:30 pm14:30

Helium Arts Galway Youth Showcase

Helium Arts Galway Youth Showcase


Porter Shed 1, Bowling Green
Saturday 18 November 2023
2.30pm - 4.30pm


Helium Arts is pleased to present an art showcase by young people with lifelong health conditions that spotlights issues with accessing cultural and public spaces in Galway.

Online Exhibition: 13 November - 1 December 2023, on Helium Arts website and social media.

An accompanying in-person ‘Sharing Day’ for family and friends is taking place at Porter Shed 1, Galway on Saturday, 18 November, 2.30 - 4.30pm.

The Helium Arts Youth Showcase will display artworks by teenagers with lifelong health conditions from Galway and across the region, who have been participating in a programme of Saturday meet ups and art camps, with artist Niamh Gibbons.  Expect to see thought-provoking pieces, including bunting, badges and stamps, among the works on display.

View online exhibition here

Presented in association with TULCA Festival of Visual Arts with funding support from Galway City Arts Office, Helium Arts, Creative Ireland, Dept of Health, HSE, Arts Council, Dept Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Community Foundation.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Step-free venue, accessible toilet facilities, accessible parking at Market St Car Park in front of Porter Shed 1.

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Gallery Workshop: Discussion and Reflection
Nov
18
12:30 pm12:30

Gallery Workshop: Discussion and Reflection

Gallery Workshop: Discussion and Reflection

University Gallery, The Quadrangle, University of Galway
Saturday 18th November 2023
12:30pm - 13:30pm

An hour-long session of guided discussion and a reflective exercise will be hosted in the University Gallery. Along with a discussion on the themes of TULCA 2023, we will be delving further into contemplating some works selected by the participants. The background of the artist, artwork, concept and the curatorial decision for the work being selected would be shared, along with the responses that each may give to this work. These sessions will be hosted by TULCA Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan, and Kate McSharry, Education Officer.

About the Artist and Work
Jenny Brady is an artist filmmaker based in Dublin, exploring ideas around speech, translation and communication. Her films have been presented with LUX, The New York Film Festival, This Long Century, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, MUBI, International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, TENT Rotterdam, EMAF, Videonale, Camden International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Images Festival, November Film Festival, the Irish Film Institute, EVA International, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Whitechapel gallery and Tate Liverpool. Her works are distributed by LUX.

Music for Solo Performer, 2022
Part-homage, part-sequel, Music for Solo Performer is a filmic reimagining of composer Alvin Lucier’s work for amplified brainwaves, drawing connections between the 1969 composition, speech synthesis and the passing of the filmmaker’s mother. Brady’s disparate assemblage of found sound and image – including EEG analysis, a Jerry Lewis Telethon and the first pizza ordered via synthesised voice – combines to form a densely concentrated transmission of cinematic pleasure, meditating on the relationship between illness and technology with pathos and care.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: University Gallery is a basement venue accessed by three steps to reach the ground floor, followed by a flight of stairs or a stair lift to the basement. There is accessible parking located on campus in front of the Quadrangle Building. The nearest accessible bathroom is located at O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, a 4 minute walk across the green. The film time has captioned and audio described versions, played on loop. Seating is provided.

Image: Ros Kavanagh

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TULCA 2023 Artist Talk | Sarah Browne | TULCA Gallery
Nov
13
11:00 am11:00

TULCA 2023 Artist Talk | Sarah Browne | TULCA Gallery

38:35

Artist Talk: Sarah Browne | TULCA Gallery


TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Monday 13 November 2023
11am - 1pm

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series in partnership with ATU presents the third talk of this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts by artist Sarah Browne.

Sarah Browne
Sarah Browne is an artist concerned with spoken and unspoken, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. Her practice involves sculpture, film, performance and public projects, and frequent interdisciplinary collaboration.

Echo’s Bones, 2022
A collaborative film-making project made with autistic young people in North County Dublin. The project borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett set in that landscape of Fingal, where now an old asylum building meets the coastline. Beckett’s plays are populated with people who might move with difficulty, mutter over each other, talk into the dark or not speak at all. The project questions why such neurodivergent or disabled styles of communication may be treated poorly in everyday situations, but valued as artistically exciting in others. It is a way of asking what a neurodivergent cinema, art, and world could be like.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: A step-free venue, with accessible toilet facilities. There are three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery. The talk will be live captioned.

Image: Sarah Browne, Echo’s Bones, 2022. 4K video with open captions (English language), 22:18 minutes. Film still. Cinematographer Cathy Dunne.

Video edit: Jonathan Sammon

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Gallery Workshop: Sit within the Faery Fort
Nov
11
2:15 pm14:15

Gallery Workshop: Sit within the Faery Fort

Gallery Workshop: Sit within the Faery Fort


Outset Gallery, The Cornstore, Middle St

Saturday 11 November 2023
2.15pm - 3.30pm


An immersive workshop will be held within the Faery Fort by Bog Cottage in Outset Gallery by Aoife Natsumi Frehan, TULCA Education Coordinator, and Kate McSharry, Education Officer. This will be a meditative workshop. Participants would be invited to engage their senses, giving time to notice the bodily and mindful responses to this tactile installation work. Reflecting on what we are drawn towards without focusing solely on what our eyes perceive. There will be time allocated towards exploration documented as drawing (in its broad sense) with materials such as thin, smooth thread, thick bristly wool and fuzzy chunks of felt to fill a space and reflect on our inner thoughts. 

About the Artists and work:
Bog Cottage is an artist collective originally conceived as a formalised response to art making in the West of Ireland. Born from a yearning for queer community and spaces, Bog Cottage first started as friends hanging out making clay, friends doing DIY and opening a queer cafe. Bog Cottage is a response to the question of where do we go for a drink? Where do we go to make out and dance? Where do the queers go? Since then Bog Cot has transformed into an art making tool; a platform for fostering a queer network of artists who want to share skills, knowledge and resources.

The Faery Fort is a place of respite, an otherworldly space to enter into, and be enveloped by its softness and protection. Walls of patchworked curtain maze around the room, hiding what's beyond them. Portals to another space are at the end of your fingertips. Through these familiar walls rugs snake along the floor, tempting your touch. Follow the path till you come to rest, an encircling seat inviting you stop, sit, touch, listen, look - you belong here. This space is for you, in whatever way you need to take it. The faery fortress is a space to meet, to sit, a reprieve from life outside the curtains. A sacred place, a healing space.

The Faery Fort is a new installation by Bog Cottage, specially commissioned for TULCA 2023.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Gallery Workshop: Bog Cottage will be held in the Outset Gallery, which is wheelchair accessible from the Cornstore entrance. No accessible toilet.

Image: Soft Day Media

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TULCA 2023 Curator's Tour: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais | TULCA Gallery
Nov
11
1:00 pm13:00

TULCA 2023 Curator's Tour: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais | TULCA Gallery

33:36

Curator's Tour: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais


TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Saturday 11 November 2023
1pm - 2pm

Join Iarlaith Ní Fheorais for a walk around the TULCA Gallery to hear about the development of the TULCA 2023 programme.

Curator: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer based between the UK and Ireland. She is an Independent Producer with field:arts, working closely with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. Recently she has curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence at VISUAL Carlow as part of Carlow Arts Festival and collaborated with Emma Wolf-Haugh on a new film commission for Ulysses 2.2. In previous roles she worked at Tate Modern and Britain as Assistant Curator of Young People’s Programmes and was the co-director of Basic Space from 2016-18.

As a writer she has written on the work of Jesse Darling, Manuel Solano and Lorenza Böttner for Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and has an art and access column with Visual Arts News Sheet. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, Arts and Disability Ireland and Goldsmiths University.

Committed to improving access in the arts, she is currently developing an Arts Council England funded access toolkit for curators and producers. She is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design and is currently studying at the Dutch Art Institute.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: A step-free venue, with accessible toilet facilities. There are three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery.

Image: Ros Kavanagh

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TULCA Education | Child Friendly Tours
Nov
11
to 18 Nov

TULCA Education | Child Friendly Tours

Child Friendly Tours


TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Saturdays 11 & 18 November 2023
11am - 12pm


The TULCA Education team are offering a series of gallery tours to the public this year.

We use the model of Visual Thinking Strategies to facilitate an inclusive, audience-centred discussion. These would take a conversational format that prioritised eliciting interpretations of the work from the viewer over imparting information to them, celebrating the breadth of conversations sparked through the shared experience of looking together. There will be worksheets that can be taken home afterwards, catered to different level of interest in the arts which will include a reflective exercise and a practical element. 

*Group bookings for educational institutions and community groups will be running during working hours, while there will be a focus on inviting the public in the evenings and the weekends.

For booking a group tour, please fill out this TULCA 2023 Gallery Tour Booking Form - https://forms.gle/Cn1xktCZrnvPdwn57

If you are interested in booking a tour outside of these dates with any specification, please contact Aoife at education@tulca.ie to make a booking.


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: The majority of the Gallery Tours will be held at the TULCA Gallery which is a step-free venue. Audio description tours outside of stated times are provided upon request. There is seating provided. TULCA Gallery | accessible toilet facilities.

Image: Soft Day Media

 
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Gallery Workshop: Unwind with Art
Nov
10
5:00 pm17:00

Gallery Workshop: Unwind with Art

Gallery Workshop: Unwind with Art

TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Friday 10 November 2023
5-6pm

An hour-long session of guided discussion and a reflective exercise will be hosted in the TULCA Gallery. Along with a discussion on the themes of TULCA 2023, we will be delving further into contemplating some works selected by the participants. The background of the artist, artwork, concept and the curatorial decision for the work being selected would be shared, along with the responses that each may give to this work. These sessions will be hosted by TULCA Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan, and Kate McSharry, Education Officer.

Capacity: 25 participants


TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: The workshop will be held in the TULCA Gallery. TULCA Gallery is a step-free venue. Some works seen in the venue are closed captioned and audio described, played on loop. There is seating provided. TULCA Gallery | accessible toilet facilities

Image: Soft Day Media

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