Coming up in the Galway Arts Festival

Shows still to come in the Galway Arts Festival: Mark Thomas, Saturday 18th July 9pm (€22.00): Acclaimed comic and activist, Mark Thomas creates a manifesto - a policy paddle to help steer our way out of the current economic crisis. The economy’s bust, the environment broken and governments have run out of ideas, the only people who can save the day is us! Every audience gets to vote on the policies they like, Mark road tests them and then sets off to make them happen. It is somewhere between Jim’ll Fix It for anarchists and White Collar Crimewatch, with a passing nod at Bill Drummond, the Fluxus art movement and Anneka Rice. Join Mark as he creates a People’s Manifesto to light our way through the gloom at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Saturday, 18th July at 9pm. Described by The Guardian as “Moving and inspiring…as gripping as any live performance … There’s more