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Culture Night 2024 offers over a thousand free events across Ireland, celebrating creativity from high-energy street performances to quiet gallery reflections. The festival emphasises community-led activities and inclusivity, with highlights including a tractor parade in Galway, a tapestry of tales in Kerry, and a foodlore workshop in Longford.
From tribal dance and earthquake education to clay sculpting and an after-dark tractor parade, there is plenty to experience this Culture Night. Culture Night takes to the skies, the waters, the main stages and the back lanes of Ireland in this, its 21st year.
With more than a thousand free things to do across the country, it gives the lie to the idea that culture has to be highbrow, and this year's line-up proves that culture, as musician and artist Brian Eno once described it, is 'anything you don't have to do'. There is also a welcome emphasis on community-led events in this year's programme. Organised types will already have planned their itineraries and booked their spots, as many events do book out early.
Still, there's plenty of available craic to be had. We've gone off the beaten track for 12 picks to get you going
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