{"id":37517,"date":"2025-08-21T03:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/sounds-of-the-stories-from-the-town\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:03:23","slug":"sounds-of-the-stories-from-the-town","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/sounds-of-the-stories-from-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds of the Stories from the Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The aim of this project is to creatively and imaginatively \u2018capture the Acoustic Heritage of the city\u2019 \u2013 one of the actions outlined in Galway City Council\u2019s Heritage Plan \u2013 and through the art of storytelling explore the cultural richness of Galway City through its soundscape.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A secondary aim of this project is to highlight the importance of the source of sounds within the city and raise awareness of the natural sounds and spaces that surround us with a view to protecting this intangible asset.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We have engaged well-known musician and storyteller Aindrias Stack and expert acoustician Eugene McKeown to collaborate on a three-part podcast mini-series that captures the sounds of what makes Galway <\/span><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Galway<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> through music and storytelling.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37518,"template":"","class_list":["post-37517","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sounds of the Stories from the Town - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The aim of this project is to creatively and imaginatively \u2018capture the Acoustic Heritage of the city\u2019 \u2013 one of the actions outlined in Galway City Council\u2019s Heritage Plan \u2013 and through the art of storytelling explore the cultural richness of Galway City through its soundscape.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/sounds-of-the-stories-from-the-town\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sounds of the Stories from the Town - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The aim of this project is to creatively and imaginatively \u2018capture the Acoustic Heritage of the city\u2019 \u2013 one of the actions outlined in Galway City Council\u2019s Heritage Plan \u2013 and through the art of storytelling explore the cultural richness of Galway City through its soundscape.&nbsp; 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