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Galway International Arts Festival in Galway
A roughly two-week mid-to-late-July multidisciplinary arts festival in Galway, founded in 1978, spanning theatre, music, opera, and street spectacle across around thirty venues, including a large Big Top tent erected annually beside the River Corrib, with roughly two hundred performances, talks, and exhibitions spread across about thirty venues during a recent fourteen-day edition.
A group of Irish artists founded this festival in 1978, according to its own history, over conversations around a kitchen table, and it has since grown into a roughly two-week mid-to-late-July programme spanning theatre, music, visual arts, opera, dance, and street spectacle across the city.