The GALPAL Collective

08/12/2024

The GALPAL Collective won Community Organisation of the Year at the Black and Irish Gala Awards🌟

Community is at the heart of everything we do, so this award and recognition means the world to us. We want to say a massive thank you to the Black & Irish team as well as the panel who selected us.

For those of you who are new here, The GALPAL Collective is an arts and media organisation dedicated to community cultivation as well as support and celebration of the Black community, migrants, people of colour, q***r
folks and women navigating creative fields. We curate, organise events, workshops, mentor and more all in service of a more inclusive and dynamic industry.

We are excited for what the future holds. We are grateful we get to do this together.

with love,

- Aisha, Ashley, Oyin, Lulit 💗💐

25/09/2024

Join us this Saturday, 28th September at 13:40 for the short film documentary programme “Blossoming Tales of Growing Up” at The Irish Film Institute Dublin 2.

“Blossoming Tales of Growing Up” is part of The IFI Documentary Festival 2024. The programme is a selection of short documentaries from Ireland and around the world that focuses on themes of adolescence, identity, and self-discovery.

Don’t miss out, get your tickets now and experience these incredible stories!

🎟️ Tickets can be found in our bio or IFI.ie

Curated by the GALPAL Collective’s Aisha Bolaji () and Lulit Luis ()

24/09/2024

🎂 The GALPAL Collective is 4! 🎂

We’ve gone through so many shifts and changes to bring us to where we are today and we couldn’t be more grateful for everyone who’s been a part of that journey! 🌟

Co-founders Ashley and Aisha started this when they were just 19, so to see how the work of the collective has grown and evolved brings us such joy. We’ve had so many wonderful and impactful collaborations, have run initiatives such as Writers Club, Directed by Her, Coffee Conversations, AJOYO and more. We’ve had the privilege of working with organisations such as Local Enterprise Offices, Screen Ireland, DIAGEO, GORM, South Dublin County Council, CnaM, Dublin International Film Festival to name a few. There’s still so much we want to do and to learn so we cannot wait to see what the future holds for this collective and the community around us! So THANK YOU 🌟💗

with love,

- Aisha, Ashley, Oyin, Lulit

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02/09/2024

The GALPAL Collective has curated a selection of short documentaries from Ireland and around the world, as part of the 23rd IFI Documentary Festival. Titled Blossoming: Tales of Growing Up, the programme explores the multi dimensional aspects of coming of age stories.

Saturday, 28th September @ 13:40 at

One Flower at a Time dir. Plex Goldwin
Cumha dir. Elena Horgan
Nido dir. Jose Miguel Jimenez
Dear Ishan dir. Ashish Prasai
We Beg to Differ dir. Ruairi Bradley
The Archive: Q***r Nigerians Simisolaoluwa Akande .notes

Curated by the GALPAL Collective’s Aisha Bolaji () and Lulit Luis ()

Tickets in Bio

13/08/2024

The Writers Club, spearheaded by the GALPAL Collective, invited applicants to submit a short film project that they would like to develop and work on throughout the duration of the club. After an overwhelming response, we’re excited to announce the brilliant writers who have been selected:

Aedamur Kelly
Annabel Rickerby
Ceara Carney
Danielle Adéyínká-Uche
David Donovan
David Power
David Walsh
Eimear Reilly
Elena Walsh O’Brien
Gabrielle Deeny
Greg O’Reilly
Heather O’Sullivan
Jack Hickey
Jack Warren
Jemma Curran
Lavinia DeVito
Leah Rogers
Meghan O’Shaugnessy
Mina Eusebio (Ylroy)
Neltah Chadamoyo
Oisin McKeogh
Rachel Alexander
Ruaidhri Hallinan
Sthiti Pady
Tess Doolan Burke
Tari Takavarasha

These 26 talented creatives will be divided into four groups, each guided by facilitators Emer Hussey (), Ian Fallon (), Katie Lee Lynch () and Lucille Carolan ().

The program is carefully curated by Aisha Bolaji () and Ashley Chadamoyo Makombe (), the co-founders of The GALPAL Collective.

The National Talent Academy for Film and TV Drama is an initiative of Screen Ireland managed by Ardán

06/08/2024

Facilitators for the 2024 WRITERS CLUB Announced

Earlier this year, NTA Film & TV Drama announced an exciting collaboration with The GALPAL Collective to launch the 2024 WRITERS CLUB. With a shared ethos to support storytellers and creatives, particularly those from marginalised and underrepresented backgrounds, this innovative programme aims to guide writers as they take their first steps into the film industry. The WRITERS CLUB offers a series of informative sessions, peer-to-peer feedback, writing exercises, and industry guest-led workshops, all while fostering a supportive community for new and emerging writers.

The WRITERS CLUB, led by The GALPAL Collective, invited applicants to submit a short film project that they would like to develop and work on throughout the duration of the club. After receiving an overwhelming number of applications, we are excited to reveal that this year’s club will feature four writer groups, comprising a club of over 25 talented new and emerging writers. Each of the four groups will be facilitated by a skilled writer to support the participants during their time on the programme. We are delighted to announce this year’s facilitators: Lucille Carolan, Ian Fallon, Emer Hussey and Katie Lee Lynch!

The selected writers will be announced on social media ahead of the first in-person event on August 16th. Stay tuned for more updates as we prepare to embark on this creative journey with the next generation of writers.

For more information, please contact: [email protected]

The National Talent Academy for Film and TV Drama is an initiative of Screen Ireland managed by Ardán

22/06/2024

This year we are delighted to team up with the Irish Film Institute to programme the festival’s short documentary programme.

The GALPAL Collective presents a short documentary programme entitled ‘Blossoming : Tales of Growing Up’. Selected films will focus on capturing the essence of growing up. Utilising culture, youth and coming of age as a thematic framework will explore the universal notion of growing up and will unravel the many diverse experiences faced by individuals and communities around the world.

Applications are open now and close July 17th at 6:00PM via FilmFreeway.

Link in bio

13/03/2024

Aisha Bolaji of The GALPAL Collective will present Andrea Arnold’s AMERICAN HONEY for this month's Bigger Picture event.

📆 Tue 19th
⏰ 19.50
Book now 🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/the-bigger-picture-american-honey/

15/02/2024

12/02/2024

The GALPAL Collective are back with Directed by Her for 2024! We are looking for submissions for our short form programme for International Women’s Month, we are looking for shorts and music videos directed by female and FLINTA* filmmakers!

*FLINTA - Female, Le***an, Intersex / Intergender, Non-Binary, Transgender, Agender

Tag your favourite filmmaker and let them know !

06/02/2024

We are happy to announce that The GALPAL Collective are receipents of Screen Irelands Audience Development fund for Directed By Her 2024, a weekend event celebrating the works of women behind the camera with a focus on short form filmmaking! 🌟

We are 1 of 20 successful recipients of the agency’s pilot Audience Development Fund. From ambitious new film events, research studies, screening programmes and regional film development, funding was awarded to a wide range of projects which aim to build a greater and more diverse audience for independent Irish film, animation and documentary.

16/01/2024

DIFF 2024 is coming soooon so we wanted to offer you all our 20% off code for the DIFF 2024 programmes - including their highly anticipated African Season and short films programmed by GALPALs very own Aisha Bolaji (you can catch Writers Club facilitator ‘s film Amœba in the mix!)

💓🌟💓🌟💓🌟💓🌟💓🌟

07/01/2024

What a way to start the year with a feature in the Irish Independents rising stars and hottest talent of 2024 list 🌟

2023 was a wonderful year filled with an abundance of achievements for the GALPAL Collective. We appreciate the support and participation from everyone!

Thank you to Irish Independent for featuring us 🌟🤍

Stay tuned for all things GALPAL this year!