Magic Walks Tall in Galway City
Imagine turning a corner and coming face to face with an enormous fire spitting dragon, or a giant, wide-eyed girl seemingly lost in a strange land.
In a flash, you turn to find a ghoul sniffing your shoulder before a seated dinosaur wheels by, accompanied by a brass band.
Meanwhile, just as you think you’re safe, two witches ask you to tango… this was the madness of the Annual Galway Arts Festival Parade!!
The theme was “This Fierce Beauty” so there was a lot of dragons and scary, yet oddly pretty characters. The paper mache-ing was out of this world, all those participating were extremely into it and the whole show was full of fire. A definite win in the Barnacles book.
Later things to come during this week for arts fest that we’re looking forward to is an art exhibition by Aideen Barry at the NUIG campus, The ‘Comedy of Errors’ show (we have 2 free tickets to give away!!), the Misterman show featuring the gorgeous Ciaran Murphy, Blondie performs in the Big Top and a Silent Disco complete with laser-robots on Friday night. Needless to say this will be a fantastic week.
And what’s more….Barnacles Hostel have joined in on the Arts Festival Madness with beds from only 10 Euro!!! Don’t miss out on this fantastic festival book your stay today!!
