A get together has been organised to explore setting up a Men's Shed for the Letterfrack/Renvyle/Kyelmore/Moyard area. The event will take place in the Wild Goat Cafe on Tuesday 15th April at 3.30pm. Contact colin.clarke@connemarawest.ie for further information.  

Join us for a ‘Casting The Net’ workshop with Caoimhe Dunn where we will weave stories and found objects into willow sculptures. Saturday 18th January - Teach Ceoil, Tully - two workshops - families 10am-1pm and adult 3-6pm.  Bookings to Twistedlaneproductions@gmail.com.  The workshops are  Twisted Lane Productions and Connemara West collaboration and are  kindly supported by Galway County Council Arts Office. About 'Casting the Net' workshop Cast the net and [...]

Discover the technique of relief printmaking,  workshops with Brigid Mulligan. Brigid Mulligan is an award-winning visual artist from county Longford. Brigid works in multi-media, she enjoys printmaking in cyanotype and linocut. Brigid holds a master’s in creative Practice & First-Class Honours Degree in Fine art Sculpture from ATU Galway. In 2020 she packed in the day job as a chef to focus all her energy on her artistic practice. Since then, [...]

Some 80 attendees from across Ireland, Scotland, England, Canada, and the USA attended the first day of the North Atlantic Forum (NAF) bi-annual conference in ATU Conmemara and Connemara West, Letterfrack on Tuesday (18 June 2024). Community leaders, business leaders, community-led development organisations, students, government representatives, and researchers gathered together to share knowledge on the future of rural and island communities. Over 45 presentations were shared over the four-day conference [...]

Super day with the 5th and 6th classes of Eagles Nest, Tully, Lettergesh and Letterfrack National Schools who visited the Connemara West Centre on the 17 June 2025 and much thanks to Youthreach Letterfrack  who showed the children how to make keyrings and ice cakes; Ryan and Charmaine (Flaherty)  in Diamond Hill Community Centre who put the children through their paces; Caroline (Heanue) and Patricia (Glynn)  in Tigh na Nog [...]

The sculpture workshop led by Lelia Ni Chathmhaoil and Aoife Casby took place in the Teach Ceoil yesterday Sunday 15 Oct.  During the workshop participants made amazing sculptures using materials that had been found along the seashore from pieces of rope, driftwood, plastic waste, sea glass.   It  was such a beautiful afternoon of creativity and good will. A   small 'exhibition' of all the work will take place this  Sunday (October [...]