Architecture at the Edge festival to take place in Mayo

Architecture at the Edge Festival is known for its inspired cultural experiences and this year the festival presents a comprehensive programme, offering exclusive building tours, and featuring film screenings, exhibitions, workshops, talks and much more this autumn.

Now in its tenth year, The Architecture at the Edge festival is an annual free festival brought to you by Architecture at the Edge in partnership with The Arts Council which will run over 11 days from Friday, September 17, until Sunday, September 27 in Mayo, Galway, and Sligo. The festival will include the presentation of The Mayo Atlas by Aidan Conway, MARMAR Architects at the Printworks Gallery in Galway City from September 17 to 26.

The Book of References exhibition extends The Mayo Atlas to the satellite location of the historic Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar, from September 20, with three related talks presented at Rosserk Abbey and Moyne Abbey by Conservation Architect Pat Ruane, by Dr. Benjamin Thébaudeau at the Red Sandstone Quarry, and by Michael Gibbons, archaeologist at the Achill Amphitheatre. A talk and tour with Architect Philip Prendergast of the old Castlebar Post Office will reveal the conservation, restoration and adaptation of this structure as a dedicated new community youth resource centre.

Dr. Freddie O’Dwyer will open dialogue on the drawings of Ballycastle from 1974 which had been archived for decades at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation.

Depictions of public space and interiors will be discussed with David Connolly at Yeats Revisited - an exhibition from the Ballinglen Permanent Collection in response to Jack B. Yeat’s work at The Ballinglen Museum of Art in Ballycastle.

Join Studio Myco and James Grieve Architects to help shape the Wonder Wander Walking Trails being developed in Ballina and Westport with several events including walks and talks on their histories at The Clarke Museum of Irish History, Ballina, and Westport Library.

There will be a discussion on the history of the Heinrich Böll cottage, the residencies, and how it is managed by a community company. Further to the recent exhibition Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman - Camille Souter and Alberta White at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the public are invited to continue the conversation at Camille Souter’s traditional vernacular cottage and studio which has been recently purchased. Her home is one of the oldest and continuously inhabited cottages in Dooagh.

Other talks and tours include those by Cillian Briody Studio on town centre living in Westport and a new-build project in Cong; Áine Doyle and Anna Doherty on the only remaining thatched structure in Mulranny, and Susan and DJ Kellett at Enniscoe House to discover the stories and architecture of this enchanting house at the foot of Mount Nephin.

For further details on these events and to view the full programme, visit here.