Galway Arts Centre is proud to participate in “Thursday Lates”, a six-month pilot programme developed in partnership with Galway City Council and the Department of Culture, Communications & Sport, to extend their opening hours to provide greater access to arts and culture in Galway City outside of traditional working hours.

In this guided tour led by Aoife Natsumi Frehan, Education Coordinator for TULCA, you will explore two works that each centre on human relationships with dogs, but in very different ways.

Artist Tom O’Dea’s Dog Liberation Organisation constructs a fictional radical archive questioning power, obedience, and control through the lens of human–animal relations. Meanwhile, Mourad Ben Amor’s film Bamssi weaves a tender portrait of displacement and longing, where dogs appear as quiet, loyal companions in a Tunisian domestic landscape.

This session is informal and discussion-led, a space to pause with moving image works, reflect together, and engage more deeply with the ideas they raise.

Free, no booking required.

For more information on these events, see www.galwayartscentre.ie.

Feature image by Mourad Ben Amor; still from Bamssi, 2024, video, colour, 26 mins