TULCA Festival Closing Event

TULCA Festival Gallery - Sunday 17 November - 18.00

A reception marking the conclusion of TACTICAL MAGIC, featuring a special performance by Branwen Kavanagh in the TULCA Festival Gallery on William Street, Galway.

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Keening Garden Door - Performance by Day Magee

TULCA Festival Gallery - Sunday 17 November - 17.00

In the wake of the bereavement of his Father, the artist performs a male equivalent of the keener.

An Evening of Mythological Music with Natalia Beylis and From the Bogs of Aughiska

Róisín Dubh - Thursday 14 November - 20.00

Musicians respond to the myths and landscapes of their homes in the West of Ireland.

TICKETS - FREE

TULCA Curator’s Tour - REALITY

Meet at NUIG Gallery, Quadrangle, NUIG - Wednesday 13 November - 18.00

Is magic real? In this tour Curator Kerry Guinan poses questions about the nature of reality in the exhibited artworks, exploring how magic may be used to shape, access, or create realities. 

TICKETS - Free (SOLD OUT)
Limited capacity - book online now

Reading Group with Jesse Jones: ‘Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation’ by Silvia Federici

Black Gate Cultural Centre - Tuesday 12 November - 18.00

Artist Jesse Jones facilitates a dialogue regarding Federici’s seminal feminist text, which inspired Jones’ installation Tremble Tremble, exhibited in the Irish Pavillion of the Venice Bienalle in 2017. 

TICKETS - Free (SOLD OUT)
Limited capacity - book online now

What Time Is Death? - Film screening followed by Q&A with Director Paul Duane

Pálás Cinema - Saturday 9 November - 18.00

In 2017 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence with a new project. They were no longer a pop group but undertakers, building the People's Pyramid out of bricks made from the ashes of dead people. This documentary follows their reunion and new venture.

TICKETS - €5
Buy tickets at Palas Cinema

Keening Garden Door - Performance by Day Magee

TULCA Festival Gallery - Saturday 9 November - 13.00

In the wake of the bereavement of his Father, the artist performs a male equivalent of the keener.

TULCA Curator’s Tour - LIFE & DEATH

Meet at Engage Art Studios - Saturday 9 November - 12.00

Does magic give life? In this tour Curator Kerry Guinan leads a discussion on how ideas of life and death have influenced exhibited artworks, considering magic as a factor of the life cycle.

TICKETS - Free (SOLD OUT)
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An Introduction to Weather-Reading with Nikita Coulter

Environmental scientist Nikita Coulter combines scientific and folk techniques in this unique weather reading and prediction demonstration.

TICKETS - Free (SOLD OUT)
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Curator’s Tour - NATURE (all ages)

Meet at 126 Artist-run Gallery - Sunday 3 November - 10.30

What is the difference between the natural and the supernatural? In this family-friendly tour Curator Kerry Guinan highlights how exhibited artworks respond to the theme of magic and nature, against present threats to the environment. 

TICKETS - Free
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TULCA Festival of Visual Arts warmly invites you and your friends to the official afterparty of TACTICAL MAGIC curated by Kerry Guinan.

Join the TULCA party in Electric to celebrate the launch of the festival as GASH Collective leads a journey from darkness to light.

Samhain Afterparty Celebration with GASH Collective | 21.00
Electric | Friday 1 November

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
TACTICAL MAGIC curated by Kerry Guinan
1-17 November 2019

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Official Launch of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts - TACTICAL MAGIC

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts warmly invites you and your friends to the official launch of TACTICAL MAGIC curated by Kerry Guinan. Please join us from 7pm for a reception marking the opening of this years festival with performances by Day Magee and Mark Cullen in the TULCA Festival Gallery on William Street.

Official Launch | 19.00
TULCA Festival Gallery | Friday 1 November
A reception marking the opening of TACTICAL MAGIC with performances by Day Magee and Mark Cullen

Samhain Afterparty Celebration | 21.00
Electric | Friday 1 November
GASH Collective leads a journey from darkness to light.

TULCA 2019 Artists
Anri Sala, Barry Mulholland, Christian Fogarolli, Day Magee, Diana Copperwhite, Helen Mac Mahon, Jesse Jones, Katherine Sankey, Linda Pense, Mark Cullen, Martina O'Brien, Michelle Doyle, Michael Fortune, Paul Duane, Rajinder Singh, SUBSET, Una Quigley, From the Bogs of Aughiska, Natalia Beylis, Branwen Kavanagh, Geels Lampa A Ela.

Venue opening hours - Friday 1 November
TULCA Festival Gallery: 19.00 - 21.00
Galway Arts Centre: 10.00 - 17.00
126 Gallery: 15.00 - 18.00
Columban Hall: 15.00 - 18.00
NUIG Gallery: 15.00 - 18.00
Engage Art Studios Gallery: 15.00 - 18.00
The Hall of the Red Earl: 10.00 - 16.45
Galway City Museum: 10.00 - 17.00
Tuam Library: 10.30 - 17.00

TULCA Festival Gallery, William St, Galway - https://bit.ly/2VVluRh

Launch of Michael Fortune’s The Plants, Flowers and Trees of Our People

Marking the opening of Michael Fortune’s TULCA commission supported by Creative Ireland Galway County Council Bursary 2019.

Thursday 31 October - 13.00
Tuam Library / County Council Building

The Plants, Flowers and Trees of Our People, 2019

For Tulca 2019 artist/folklorist Michael Fortune has produced a new body of work which explores the flowers, plants and trees found within the gardens, farms and homes of people around Skehana and the memories and histories associated with them.

Working in conjunction with Skehana Heritage Group and pupils/staff of Garbally National School, he has encountered people from the area who have plants and trees that hold deep memories and associations. The culture of sharing plants within families and communities developed naturally over millennia  in rural Ireland and the concept of buying plants was completely foreign for most people, so the natural thing was to take slips and cuttings from family and neighbours. As a result of this localised sharing and planting, patterns and styles developed which you will still spot to this day around the country.

Alongside this film, he has also produced another work based on a young mountain ash/rowan tree which he encountered in July this year. This ‘flying rowan’ was spotted in the remote townsland of Ballycrystal under Mount Leinster in Co. Wexford after it took root in an old pole which was being used a gate post.  The mountain ash/rowan is a revered tree in Irish folklore and although this probably grew from bird droppings, these ‘flying rowans’ are attributed as having magic powers as they never touched the ground.

Michael Fortune
Michael Fortune has cut many a furrow with his work over the past twenty years and his pioneering practice has widened the conversations regarding the intersection of traditional and contemporary cultures especially in the area of folklore, belief, story and song.

Working predominantly in film and photography, much of his practice revolves around the collection of material – material which he generates out of the relationships and experiences he develops with the people he encounters.  His works connects with many audiences and on many levels, and he is as comfortable presenting work in a village hall in Wexford as he is at an international film festival or academic conference. In recent years much of his work is presented on social media where he connects directly with new audiences while he also contributes for features for various newspapers and journals, as well presenting on RTÉ/BBC radio and television.