Festival Events

Day By Day

With links to event details

Friday
3rd

Galway City

 

(School Workshops)

Comic Workshop with Lucie Arnoux*
12:30pm-2.00pm. Sub-City Comics 

 

Press Cartoon Masterclass with Thibaut Soulcié*
2.30-4.00pm. PorterShed a Dó

Artist Meet and Greet
4.00-5.00pm. Tigh Neachtain

 

Galway Cartoon Festival
Launch Event!
5.30-8.00pm. PorterShed a Dó

 

 

Galway Cartoon Festival Club
Drinking & Drawing
8:30pm-Late.
Galway Mechanics Institute

 
 

Saturday
4th

Galway City

 

Ian Knox
Exhibition Opening
11.30am. Town Hall Theatre

Press Cartoon Masterclass with Camille Besse*
1.00-2.00pm. Portershed a Dó

Gilbert Shelton
in Conversation with
Hunt Emerson
2.00-4.00pm. Portershed a Dó

“Are We Still Charlie?”
Round Table Discussion
4.00-5.30pm. Portershed a Dó

(Chloé Verlhac talk cancelled due to illness)

Documentary Film “Je Ne Veux Plus Y Aller Maman”
6.30-8.30pm. Charlie Byrne’s

Galway Cartoon Festival Club
Drinking & Drawing
8:30pm-Late.
Galway Mechanics Institute

Sunday
5th

Galway City

Caricature at the RED*
10.30-11.30am. Radisson Red

Children’s Drawing Workshop with Hunt Emerson of the Beano*
12.00-1.00pm. Charlie Byrne’s

Pasting Pictures To Cartoonists’ Freedom Wall
1.00pm. Lower Merchants Road

Ian Knox Talk
2.00-3.00pm. Portershed a Dó

John McCrea Talk
3.00-4.00pm. Portershed a Dó

Brendan McCarthy Presentation
4.00-5.00pm. Portershed a Dó

Comic Signing with Gilbert Shelton, Hunt Emerson, Brendan McCarthy and more
5.00-6.00pm. Sub-City

The Drawing Room
7.00-8.30pm. Tigh Neachtain

Galway Cartoon Festival Club
Drinking & Drawing
8:30pm-Late.
Galway Mechanics Institute

 
 

Monday
6th

Inis Oírr

Ferry to Inis Oírr
10.30am from Rossaveal
(Book with Aran Island Ferries. Bus from Galway at 9.30)

 

Draw with Lucie Arnoux
12.30-2.00pm. Tigh Ruairí

 

(School Workshop)
(2.00-3.30pm)

 

Island Appreciation Time
3.30-6.30pm

 

 

Inis Oírr Festival Launch and Lucie Arnoux Exhition Opening
6.30-8.30pm. Áras Éanna

 

 

Ól agus Líníocht
8.30pm-Late. Tigh Ned

 

Tuesday
7th

Inis Oírr

 

(School Workshop)
(11.00am-12.30pm)

Walking and Drawing
on Inis Oírr
1.00-4.00pm.
Starts at Tigh Ruairí

via Óstán Inis Oírr

Finishing in Tigh Ned!

 

Boat back to Galway
4.30pm. Inis Oírr Harbour

 

 
 

Galway City

 

Andy Leuenberger
Comics Self-Publishing
Workshop

7.30pm. Galway Mechanics Institute

Wednesday
8th

Galway City

 

(School Workshops)

 

Guided Tour of the Exhibitions
12.30-2.00pm.
Starts at Mediaeval Wall,
Eyre Square Shopping Centre

 

Pasting Pictures To Children’s Freedom Wall
3.30pm. Mediaeval Wall,
Eyre Square Shopping Centre

 

Final Words…
and Pictures!
6.00pm. Tigh Neachtain

 

The Drawing Room
7.00pm-Late. Tigh Neachtain

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