Fantastic line-up as Cairde Sligo Arts Festival to return for a week this July
THE Cairde Sligo Arts Festival will return this summer with an exciting programme.
Artists, audiences and communities from near and far will come together for a unique celebration of the arts against the backdrop of the Wild Atlantic Way.
The festival will run for one week in July and includes several highlights.
To The Lighthouse is a new commission of an illuminated outdoor spectacle by Luxe inspired by Blackrock lighthouse, Oyster Island, the ‘Waiting on the Shore’ sculpture and the surrounding coastal area of Rosses Point. The event will explore themes of coastal living, beacons of safety and hope, way making, community, people and place.
Tumble Circus’ Travelling Cycle Circus is a 45-minute show inspired by the satirical work of Flann O’Brien.
Cairde Word returns with writing from the west featuring Kevin Barry, Louise Kennedy and Una Mannion on Tuesday, July 6. An In Conversation event with Ingrid Persaud – winner of the Costa First Novel award for her debut novel ‘Love after Love’ will also take place on Thursday, July 8 and the award for the inaugural Cairde Word – Short Story Competition
will be presented on Saturday, July 10.
The inaugural Cairde Word – Short Story Competition will take place with submissions being accepted from March 1 to April 30 via the festival website and the competition will be judged by Sinead Gleeson and Louise Kennedy. The first award of €2,000 is being generously sponsored by Callan Tansey solicitors.
Human Signature, a lensbased exhibition curated by Barry McHugh,will take place in the Hyde Bridge Gallery in July. Vagabond Voices curated by Patrick Karl Curley returns for the festival, while the Cairde
Young Curators project with facilitator Andy Parsons, assisted by Sinead Sexton, will see a panel of 15 to 19 years olds curate a strand of the festival programme.
The Cairde Sligo Arts Festival will run from July 3 to July 11. More events will be announced soon.