Volunteering: Why and how you should get involved
With everything from renovation to quick phone calls, there’s a role to suit everyone, plus 20 ways to give back in 2019
A serious comedy about a strangely forbidden love
Until recently, it was illegal for people with intellectual disabilities to have sex. ‘Sanctuary’ cleverly and playfully manages the issue without being preachy
Big drama – helping children with special needs to act out
Music and drama is bringing children with intellectual difficulties out of their shells
Blue Teapot performance arts students graduate in Galway
Galway 2020 Capital of Culture participation in sight for artists with intellectual disability
Flying cows, spiralling elves and spicy feet among Baboró festival events in Galway
Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published
Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight
Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue
Love and disability: ‘It’s still taboo for many’
An RTÉ documentary explores the issue of sexuality in people with disabilities and dispels common myths
Alone at last
Two lovers with intellectual disability slip away to a hotel room in Christian O’Reilly’s finely balanced play for Blue Teapot. Do they need protection?
Special-needs actors centre stage: ‘For once they have the power in the room’
Several new theatrical productions are asking audiences to stare at disabled people, and explore their loves, lives and issues
International circus, dance and drama for Galway Arts Festival
Macnas promises street spectacle later in year
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