Danse Macabre!
Send us cartoons about fundamental freedoms – we’ll print them giant-size and paste them on a public wall
The right to a free press, the right to vote, the right to strike, the right to education, the right to health, the right to free expression – these and other freedoms are increasingly under threat around the world.
To celebrate and vindicate such basic freedoms, we will be enlarging cartoons to giant size and pasting them on a prominent wall in Galway.
We’re looking for cartoons about essential rights and freedoms from two groups:
1. Professional cartoonists from around the world.
2. Children and schools around Iereland.
The Galway Cartoon Festival
38 Cuan na Coille
Fort Lorenzo
Salthill
Galway
H91 F8E8
Please get yours to us as soon as possible!
It began as the shared dream of some European NGOs – Europeans Without Borders, Cartooning for Peace, Reporters Without Borders – but soon resonated with young volunteers, many from underprivileged neighbourhoods outside Paris, who were inspired to create a wall of cartoons celebrating the vital role of a free press.
Following their example, we will cover walls in cartoons to raise awareness of important freedoms. Contributors draw on paper or send us images, we print these enlarged and paste them up on two walls – one for professional cartoonists from many countries, the other for local and visiting children.
This project is undertaken in cooperation with the Architecture At The Edge and the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, two festivals running consecutively with ours.
Beginning on Culture Night, it will continue through all three and reach completion a month later.
Freedom Wall: Lower Merchants Rd, on vacant houses leading to Pálás Cinema
Children’s Freedom Wall: Eyre Square Shopping Centre, opposite Mediaeval wall
Come along and help us stick things to walls!
1.00pm, Sunday 5th October: Freedom Wall, Lower Merchants Road
3.30pm, Wednesday 8th October: Children’s Freedom Wall, Eyre Square Centre
Charlie Byrnes Bookshop, Friday 19th September, 7-8.30pm
The Galway Cartoon Festival is an international celebration of funny drawings, hosted in Ireland’s most sociable city. Galway is a place obsessed with art and culture, with festivals for everything from literature to furniture. But noticeable by its absence was the ‘ninth art’ – comics, caricature, and cartoons. In 2017, we decided to change that.
The Galway Cartoon Festival is a wholly voluntary, non-profit-making project that depends on the generosity of the public and of our sponsors.
If you would like to help in any way, from volunteering and a show to funding one, please get in touch.
