Array Collective: Oein De Bhardúin faery and folk stories

Download Turner Prize 2021 Array Collective programme here.

As part of Galway Arts Centre's presentation of Array Collective's 2021 Turner Prize winning The Druthaib's Ball, Galway Arts Centre presents a weekly series of public events with social justice groups, artists, academics, and musicians that takes place in the Turner Prize winning installation or síbín with talks, workshops, traditional music sessions, dance, storytelling and song. These events have been coordinated in partnership with Array Collective, Galway Arts Centre’s Artists in Residence REWIND << FASTFORWARD >> RECORD and education partner NUI Galway.

Poet and LGBTQ+ activist Oein De Bhardúin will share faery and folk stories rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community.

Oein DeBhairduin is a writer, activist and educator with a passion for preserving the beauty of Traveller tales, sayings, retellings and historic exchanges. He is the author of the award-winning Why the moon travels and Traveller Culture Collections Development Officer with the National Museum of Ireland. He seeks to pair community activism with cultural celebration, recalling old tales with fresh modern connections and, most of all, he wishes to rekindle the hearth fires of a shared kinship.

Galway Arts Centre’s Public Programme is supported by Creative Ireland and NUI Galway.