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Mar 10 2025

Marketing and Sales Officer Town Hall Theatre

Closing date 4pm Tuesday 11 March!

Galway City Council is looking for a driven marketer to lead Town Hall Theatre Galway’s marketing and digital communications. The successful candidate will be responsible for the execution of the Theatre’s overall marketing activities to drive sales, increase occupancy, and diversify audiences. Galway City Council invites suitably qualified applicants for the above position - all fully completed application forms must reach the Human Resources Department by 4pm Tues 11 March.

Information/Application Booklets for the above positions are available on Galway City Councils website - https://www.galwaycity.ie/human-resources Applications may be shortlisted on the basis of the information provided on the application form. Please note that applications may also be submitted via email to recruitment@galwaycity.ie. Please ensure to populate the subject bar as outlined in the attached application booklets. Any queries may be forwarded to the Recruitment Team in the Human Resources Department to recruitment@galwaycity.ie

We are looking for a driven marketer to lead Town Hall Theatre Galway’s marketing and digital communications. The successful candidate will devise and implement an integrated marketing communications strategy incorporating a cost-effective mix of online and offline activity and will be responsible for the execution of the Theatre’s overall marketing activities to drive sales, increase occupancy and diversify audiences. The Town Hall Theatre Galway, owned and managed by Galway City Council and incorporating the 400-seat Main Auditorium and the 52-seat Studio Space at Courthouse Square, and the nearby, multi-purpose Black Box performance space (up to 550 seated, 750 standing) on Dyke Road presents an extensive and eclectic mix of theatre, concerts, musicals, dance, film, comedy, and family shows year-round. The venue attracts audiences in excess of 100,000 annually making it one of the busiest and most successful theatres of its size in Ireland. Each year, the venue is the epicentre of activity for virtually all of Galway's key festivals and cultural events including Galway International Arts Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Cuirt Festival of Literature, Baboro Children's Festival and Galway Comedy Festival to name but a few. Druid have premiered many of their acclaimed and award-winning productions at the venue before embarking on national and international tours, and an increasing number of Galway International Arts Festival's own productions tour the world following premieres at Town Hall Theatre and Black Box. Acclaimed for consistently delivering the best of national and international talent year-round to Galway audiences, the venue's programme proudly features the work of many performers, companies, musical societies and arts organisations (both professional and amateur) from across the city and county.


Feb 27 2025

Visceral love letter to dance at Black Box

Night Dances, created by choreographer Emma Martin, with music by Daniel Fox will be at Galway’s Black Box Theatre on Saturday, March 8, as part of a month-long national tour. This production from Emma Martin and her company United Fall premiered at the 2021 Dublin Theatre Festival, when the Irish Times praised it as ‘a thrilling hour of relentless dancing and music’. It consists of four dance vignettes created by one of Ireland’s most exciting choreographers in collaboration with dancers Robyn Byrne, Aoife McAtamney, Ryan O’Neill, Jessie Thomson and Jonas Krämer, who describe it “an expression of the invisible energetic connective tissue that joins us”.

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Nov 14 2024

Theatre show explores complex world of care

Feidlim Cannon has recently become a first-time dad and is delighted to have a healthy child. The co-artistic director of Dublin theatre company Brokentalkers is also gaining first-hand experience of what’s involved in caring for eight-week old baby, even as he’s helping to care for his ageing mother, organising medical appointments and ensuring her medication is in order.

“The dynamics have shifted for us and it’s about trying to find the balance,” he says of the new reality for him and his partner.

So, his company’s new show Everything Falls, which comes to Galway’s Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday, November 26, seems particularly appropriate.

 

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Nov 08 2024

Good vibrations key to CoisCéim dance show

When jazz musician Conor Guilfoyle sent choreographer David Bolger a message during Covid, saying he’d like to work with David’s dance company, CoisCéim, it started a creative collaboration that resulted in a unique, high-energy, jazz-era dance show, The Piece With the Drums, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre next Tuesday, November 12.

David was intrigued when he read Conor’s message.

“He explained that he was thinking of doing something with jazz percussion and dance, and asked if we would be interested,” the choreographer recalls.

Drummer Conor is one of the jazz world’s foremost percussionists, who has played and recorded with top names in the field and David knew working with him could be a great creative experience.

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