Belmullet, Ballycastle and Ballina to feature in new architecture festival

Belmullet and Ballycastle will feature prominently when the West of Ireland's largest architecture festival begins next week.
From Friday, September 29 to Sunday, October 8, the festival aptly titled, Architecture at the Edge, returns with a critical and climate-friendly program that will embrace a wide range of tours, exhibitions, talks, demonstrations and more.
In Mayo, eleven works from the Ballinglen Collections will feature at The Ballinglen Museum of Art in Ballycastle, while Reimagine Belmullet, an initiative of the Irish Architecture Foundation’s nationwide Reimagine placemaking programme will illustrate the planned origin of the 19th century market town.
Recipient of a New European Bauhaus Award, the Ripple Paradise Garden Tour is presented with the Greenhills community and nature-based solutions will be explored at the Moy Catchment Area Geodesign Project and the GreenRoofCraft Workshop, supported by HeritACT.
This year, the festival will be hosted at the Printworks Gallery in Galway where a range of works will be showcased for the duration of the event. 
This is the first time the festival will have a dedicated space for architecture. It will feature work from over a dozen individual artists/ architectural practices such as Valerie Mulvin,(McCullough Mulvin Architects), BothAnd Group, Aidan Conway, (MarMar
architects) and Peter Carroll, (A2 Architects).
In total, the festival will extend over 10 days with more than 50 events revolving around the social, cultural and climatic contexts that characterise Mayo and Galway, and its built environment.

Co-created with the communities of the West of Ireland, the AATE Festival is an opportunity to be part of the region’s largest showcase of architecture and helps define how locals would like their built environment to be represented, discussed, and shaped.
Most events in the festival are free and all information on the events and tickets can be found at  www.architectureattheedge.com