Culture Night Late with Cathedral (AKA Shampain).

Tickets FREE but pre-booking is essential.

Nothing lasts forever and nothing reflects this more than the changing facade of the city that surrounds us. An hour exploring the power of holding onto what makes you happy and ultimately letting it go in search of eternal peace; Cathedral looks to pose the question, not whether change is good or bad, but whether a city can hold its own in a time where its inhabitants have never had such uncertain futures. 

Artist Bio

Having spent years toying with ambient and ominous sounds, Cathedral is the new experimental alias from Shampain. Prior to this he had already soundtracked silent classics such as Man Of Aran, Nos Feratu, Faust and Irish Destiny in celebrated venues such as The Pepper Canister Church, The Complex, An Taibhdhearc, The Galway Town Hall & The Sugar Club. 

Cathedral aims to challenge audiences and explore the boundaries of electronic, underground and avant garde music while presenting a sound that he had nurtured in the club scene with a new artistic vision. 

 Project credits

"Cathedral" is part of the AATE 2026 Culture Night Late programme, funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Night-Time Economy programme with support from Galway City Council Arts Office.

 For more details on our Culture Night Late events in Galway City, you can check the @Archattheedge Instagram page for updates.

Gathering at Tigh Páidín 

Menlo’s vernacular heritage Gathering

Workshop / Community Event

Venue: Tigh Páidín (H91 YW9W)


2 - 5pm, Saturday 19th September, 2026



FREE entry - All are welcome, no booking required 

Galway City Council have been engaged in a vernacular survey and research over the past year in North Galway City in the townland of Ballindooley, which has been part funded by the Heritage Council.

Following on from this, Galway City Council have commenced Phase 1 of a Vernacular Heritage Survey of Menlo, a vernacular settlement to the north west of Galway City.

The survey will focus on revisiting and resurveying dwellings that were recorded by UCD Architecture students in the 1940s. The survey will utilise these drawings and mapping, which are held by the National Museum of Ireland, as a baseline to undertake the reassessment of Menlo’s vernacular heritage.

As part of the vernacular heritage survey process and in line with the spirit of this year’s AATE festival – ‘Le Chéile – the Architectures of Belonging’, the Galway

City Council Architectural Conservation Officer and the appointed vernacular consultants will host a community event to gather information on Menlo’s vernacular heritage.

Supported by: 

Galway City Council 

settle by TRESTLE is the location for a talk with local food hero Chef JP McMahon

“For me, cooking is essentially trying to tell a story and give a gift.”

JP McMahon is a chef, restaurateur and author. He is the owner and culinary director of Michelin-starred Aniar Restaurant and award-winning Cava Bodega, and runs the Aniar Boutique Cookery School.

He is also the founder of Food on the Edge, an international event that gathers people from all over the world to cook, eat and exchange ideas on how to make the food industry more sustainable. McMahon is committed to buying and supporting the best of local and free-range produce and engaging directly with farmers and producers.

As a director, founding member and the current Chair of the Galway Food Festival, McMahon is an ambassador for Irish food, travelling widely to promote Ireland, its produce and food culture. He is also an ambassador for Spanish food in Ireland promoting wines from Galicia and Jerez.

He is also a published author, a food writer and a contributor to the Irish Times, Radio One and Newstalk Radio and has a monthly slot on RTE TV and was twice the winning mentor for the RTE Series Taste of Success.

Tickets FREE but pre-booking is essential.

A Place to Gather 

Hosted by Guzzle and Almost Anywhere

Talk at the Table

The Printworks 15 Market Street, Galway, H91 TCX3
18:00-21:30 hr, Saturday 26, September 2026
Tickets  – €65 via Guzzle mag ( guzzlemag.com/events/aate). 

For Architecture at the Edge, Guzzle and Almost Anywhere come together at settle, TRESTLE’s temporary public interior, for a site-specific dinner exploring place as something we create through gathering, rather than a space we are fixed to.

There is a certain freedom in not having a permanent kitchen. We arrive with what we need, find our bearings and begin to cook. The kitchen takes shape around us; the table follows. In this sense, we carry our rituals of hospitality from one place to another, finding a sense of identity and belonging through the act of gathering.

settle feels like a natural meeting point for this idea. Designed to be dismantled, rearranged and reimagined, the installation asks how objects and infrastructure can transform a space into somewhere to gather. Our dinner will extend that invitation, activating the structure as a site of commensality, a dining room and a temporary home. Then, like us, it moves on.

Guzzle is a print food publication and events collective founded in Dublin and now based in East London. The first two issues honed in on nostalgia and love, challenging familiar narratives by approaching them from unexpected angles. Issue Three: A Hunger for Home imaginatively opens doors to spaces and places across the globe, from Irish pubs overseas to a cookbook club in Copenhagen and a writer’s early upbringing in Hanoi.

Since its launch, Guzzle has cultivated an engaged international readership, reflecting a growing global appetite for thoughtful, art-led conversations around food and culture. The publication has appeared at festivals including Body & Soul, Ballymaloe Festival of Food, Bound Art Book Fair in Manchester, Dublin Art Book Fair and Athens Art Book Fair. It has been distributed across 18 cities in 11 countries, toured Berlin as part of a Culture Ireland-funded exhibition, and featured in an exhibition at London’s Gallery of Photographers.

Almost Anywhere is a hospitality collective, hosting feasts at the intersection of food, culture and the arts. Almost Anywhere was founded by Tom Hayes, a Ballymaloe Cookery School alumnus, after training in London and Copenhagen, where he developed a love for celebrating the finest seasonal produce at any given time of year. 

Almost Anywhere allows the best produce of the season to express itself, supporting regenerative farmers along the way. This work has brought them to many interesting locations across Ireland and beyond from art galleries to forests and cliff edges. They have hosted feasts in farmhouses of France and Italy and even as far as Utah in the USA. 

settle is a temporary installation designed and curated by TRESTLE. The project proposes a new public interior for gathering and collective experience in the contemporary city. Inspired by the functionalism and adaptability of Irish vernacular furniture, the installation explores how an infrastructure of considered objects can formulate a new, albeit temporary, public interior. The installation can be recast and reformatted to host a variety of events and gatherings – in this way it acts as an extended invitation to the city.