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.

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

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.

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

Shared Migrants (Archive) | Open Studio Session

The Shared Migrants Archive is open for contributions!

The Shared Migrants Archive documents what it feels like to be a migrant on the island of Ireland: it is an ongoing project which invites contributions of words, reflections, drawings, and scribbles, expressed in any language or style, in answer to the following prompts:

• How does it feel to be a migrant on a ‘shared island’?

• When do you feel the border?

• How does the border feel?

The archive is anonymous, responding to and evolving through new contributions, insights, and community preoccupations. We think of migrancy as expansive - relating to lived experience of migration rather than a legal status; we think of the border (Irish or otherwise) not as a physical line but as a regime of exclusion - from territories but also rights and histories.

Artists Bojana Janković and Nessa Finnegan are holding an open studio session at the start for the festival: an opportunity for local migrant communities to meet, see some of the collection and add to it. Drop in to explore the archive and try your hand at using text, collage, collective writing, and counter-mapping as we document what it means to be a migrant in Galway - and how this local experience relates to Ireland (the country) and Ireland (the island).

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

Image: courtesy the Shared Migrants (Archive)