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

  • Galway Arts Centre 47 Dominick St Lower Galway H91 X0AP (map)

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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