Chicago Sister Cities - Discover Galway: The Capital of Culture as a Backdrop to Diversity

Join Chicago Sister Cities on Thursday, May 20 for Discover Galway: The Capital of Culture as a Backdrop to Diversity. Click on the link under 'website' to register

We will hear from Marilyn Gaughan-Reddan about how Galway was chosen as the European Capital of Culture in 2020 and why it is so important for ancient cities to celebrate their diverse, modern populations, and how Galway managed to achieve this successfully through a year of robust cultural programming.

Marilyn is passionate about Galway in every way, married to Barry, they are raising their three girls in Galway. Marilyn is really proud to have been part of a number of incredible cultural designations for Galway in Ireland including; The Designation of Galway as European Capital of Culture for 2020, The designation of Galway as a UNESCO City of Film and the designation of Galway as a Music Generation location. The bidding process for the European Capital of Culture designation also led to Galway?s designation as European Region of Gastronomy in 2018. She co-founded a number of cultural organisations including the Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust, Galway Music Education Partnership, Aras Eanna, The Arts Centre on Inis Oirr and Tucla Season of Visual Arts. She also sat on the boards of Macnas, Galway RNLI fundraising and currently is a Director of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce.

The Discover Our Sister Cities series is aimed at telling interesting stories about Chicago?s many sister cities. Each month we?re taking a deep dive into a different sister city to hear from subject matter experts on a wide variety of topics ? from history to current events and culture.