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Music and marine life in Galway Atlantaquaria and jazz hosted by Claddagh hooker sailors are among events with maritime themes at this year’s Culture Night in the west on Friday, September 23rd.

After a summer of sailing, Bádóirí an Chladaigh return to the Claddagh basin as hosts of a “rip roaring” music session at Raven Terrace from 7pm to 9pm on Friday.

Music Among Marine-Themed Events in Galway for Culture Night

Music will be provided by BackWest, Galway’s ” trad super group”, along with Róisín Mulliez, a jazz vocalist, accompanied by Jimmy Fitz (Fitzgerald), guitarist, music producer and music teacher.

The 16-piece Sonics Strings Youth Orchestra of Coole Music under the artistic direction of Katharina Baker are also special guests at the Claddagh Basin.

Earlier on Friday, Soapbox Science, a novel public outreach platform for promoting women and non-binary scientists and the science they do, will take place at the Spanish Arch from 4pm.

Thalassa – Sounds of the Sea – is title of a night of music and marine life in the deep ocean at Galway Atlantaquaria, Salthill, from 5 pm to 8 pm.

Featuring Francis Heery, Galway Ukers, and Eugene Lambe, it promises to be an eclectic mix of sea and sound.

Guided events at Galway City Museum from 6 pm include a tour of the “Monument” exhibition by director Eithne Verling from 7 pm. For booking, email [email protected] or call (091) 532460

Old Aran in Colour, a presentation of a colourised collection of photographs from the three Aran islands, will be presented by Dr John Bresling Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley at University of Galway’s Arts Millennium Building from 6pm to 7.30pm.

Old Aran in Colour, a presentation of a colourised collection of photographs from the three Aran islandsOld Aran in Colour, a presentation of a colourised collection of photographs from the three Aran islands

There will also be a collaboration with Inis Oírr-based composer MacDara Ó Conaola to co-create a soundtrack around the exhibition photographs.

Details of the events are on these links

https://culturenight.ie/event/the-claddagh-basin-session-raven-terrace/

https://culturenight.ie/event/galway-soapbox-science-2022/

https://nationalaquarium.checkout.roller.app/products/culturenight2022?date=20220923#/sessions

https://culturenight.ie/event/thalassa-sounds-of-the-sea/

https://culturenight.ie/event/pictiuir-daite-darann-arsa-old-aran-in-colour/

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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.