Visual Arts Thursday 7 September 2017 – Sunday 29 October Triskel Arts Centre, Cork The Yellow River is a joint exhibition by painter Seán McSweeney and poet Gerard Smyth responding to The Yellow River area in Co. Meath which unites their personal … Gerard Smyth – The Yellow River
Visual Arts 17 June to 8 July 2017 CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Clarke’s Bridge, Wandesford Quay, Cork A multi-disciplinary exhibition by Leslie Mutchler + Jason Urban (USA) – part of a trail of shows accompanying the FIRST EDITION Print Symposium, initiated by … Leslie Mutchler and Jason Urban : Bable Unbound
Visual Arts 23 June to 8 July CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery presents Layers and Lines a solo exhibition by Stephen Murray, which is taking place in our gallery project space from. Stephen Murray creates intricate and abstract … Brían Crotty: Stephen Murray – Layers and Lines
Festivals Literature Paul Howard, Eileen Battersby and Anne Sebba, William Wall, Billy O’Callaghan and Alan McMonagle are the first of the writers to be announced for the 13th outing of the Cork World Book Festival running 18-23 April 2017 at Cork City … Ann Luttrell and Liam Roynane : Cork World Book Fest 2017
Visual Arts Sculpture cast from red hot lava, fin whale bones engraved with the whale’s final journey before beaching, a video installation layering endangered fish with a chorus of birds and prints of dinosaur skeletons; these are some of the intriguing artworks … Danny Osborne and Frieda Meaney : Landmarks and Lifeforms
Visual Arts Sirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the … Miranda Driscoll : Activities at Sirius Arts Centre
Festivals The 28th Cork French Film Festival, coming up 5th to 12th March 2017, brings you the latest and best from France, with a strong emphasis on contemporary French cinema. The main programme is at the Gate cinema, packed with new … Nora Callanan : Cork French Film Festival
Visual Arts An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Ivan Daly In his first solo exhibition Ivan Daly presents a series of paintings and drawings made in response to the powerful coastal landscape of Co. Clare. Doonmacfelim is the particular stretch of … Ivan Daly : DOONMACFELIM
Visual Arts Gutted, gutsy, gut feelings, gut wrenching, butterflies in your tummy, go with your gut – are all expressions used in everyday language, art and literature to portray a raft of human emotions. How we feel is driven by both emotional … The Glucksman, UCC : Gut Instinct
Music Dr Fionnuala Moynihan performing the complete cycle of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas in its entirety for the first time in Cork. Fionnuala is widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s leading pianists. She has a particular affinity with the works of both … Fionnuala Moynihan : MOZART: THE COMPLETE SONATAS
Visual Arts Acton Town to Cork City captures an arrested moment, a family in transit who attempt to find comfort in possession of the familiar. They return to their own country to find it has become unknown to them and which they … Marcella Reardon : Acton Town to Cork City
Visual Arts Anthony Kelly is a Dublin-based artist whose practice involves sonic and visual approaches to art-making. This includes painting, drawing, field recording, sculpture, sound installation, film/video, and improvised sound performance. Although diverse in construction, his work chiefly concentrates on the shifting … Anthony Kelly : Floating Point . Future Memories
Visual Arts For this exhibition Roseanne Lynch was invited to make work in response to the West Gallery of Sirius Arts Centre, which was formerly the Coffee Room of the Royal Cork Yacht Club. Through her photographic practice Lynch considers the connections … Miranda Driscoll : Here
Visual Arts I Went to the Woods looks at how artists have experienced and portrayed their surroundings in the course of walks, journeys and aimless wanderings. Featuring works by Irish and international artists, the exhibition explores the artist as a drifter, nomad, … Chris Clarke : I Went to The Woods
Visual Arts A native of Crosshaven, Luke Sisk draws on childhood folklore from Camden Fort Meagher as well as architectural and engineering details, to create a body of work that combines fact and fiction through the medium of glass and ceramics. Sisk’s … Luke Sisk : Pale Green Ghosts
Theatre Sacrifice at Easter, a new play by Pat McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, The Big Yum Yum) for 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Entitled Sacrifice at Easter, the production will take place … Mel Mercier : Sacrifice at Easter
Visual Arts Experimental Film Society Exhibition at Triskel Project Space Experimental Film Society (EFS) is a group of experimental filmmakers and associated artists whose work is distinguished by an uncompromising devotion to personal, experimental cinema. They have in common an exploratory approach … Maximilian Le Cain : Luminous Void
Theatre At the Everyman Theatre till 20th February Meet the Boyles: a hilarious, drunken father; a ferociously loyal mother; a wounded son; and a daughter with “notions”. Theirs is a family beset by poverty and war but offered the tantalising promise … Julie Kelleher : Juno and the Paycock, Everyman Theatre, Cork
Music Visual Arts Sirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the … Miranda Driscoll : Sirius, Cobh
Visual Arts Since moving to the United States in 1975 and taking up American citizenship, Dublin-born Sean Scully has become established as one of New York’s leading contemporary artists. East Coast Light, an early work, was exhibited in Cork in 1973 during … Tina Darb and Marc O’Sullivan : Sean Scully
Cork City Ballet in association with Cork Opera House presents Swan Lake If you’ve never seen “Swan Lake”, now’s the time! Cork City Ballet is back, and the company’s full length production of this ballet lays claim to a legacy … Alan Foley : Swan Lake, Cork City Ballet
Festivals Music Sounds from a Safe Harbour is a brand new festival of music, art and conversation, curated by Bryce Dessner of The National. Two years since its inception by Bryce and Cork Opera House CEO, Mary Hickson, Sounds from a Safe … Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival
Visual Arts Triskel Arts Centre was founded in 1978, and moved to its current home in Tobin Street in 1986. Triskel celebrated its Thirtieth Anniversary in 2008. As Cork’s principal Arts Centre our mission has always been to commission, present, and promote … Triskel Arts Centre
Music For the 100th anniversary of the formation of Ireland celebrated bass guitarist and composer Ronan Guilfoyle introduces a musical project to celebrate the life of his grandfather, Joe Guilfoyle, a teenage volunteer during the 1916 Rising. The finished composition will … Ronan Guilfoyle : Work in Progress
Visual Arts ‘all things considered’ is an exhibition featuring new works by forty artist members of Cork Printmakers, which will be displayed at the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, from Thursday 3rd until the 23rd December 2015. The artists explore a wide variety … Valerie Byrne : all things considered
Music The world’s most prestigious record label ECM arrives in Cork this November to Triskel Christchurch who are proud to stage the inaugural ECM Weekend Festival from Friday 27 until Sunday 29 November. Four Concerts featuring well known artists including June … Tony Sheehan : ECM Weekend Festival
Visual Arts An exhibition of works of art influenced by dreams and the unconscious Encompassing strands of artistic expression ranging from early twentieth century Symbolism, to late twentieth century Photo-Realism, The Language of Dreams explores aspects of Irish art often overlooked in … Crawford Art Gallery : The Language of Dreams
Ireland’s oldest film festival and Cork’s flagship cultural happening, the Cork Film Festival lights up and delights the Rebel City in November. In 2015 the Festival celebrates its 60th Edition, taking place 6-15 November. Its log line is ‘Films. Music. … James Mullighan : Cork Film Festival
Visual Arts CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, 2 – 24 October 2015 An exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Thurloe Conolly. Thurloe Conolly’s paintings are not narratives, and not representational in the commonly understood sense of the word; but through the signs … Nicola Carragher : Thurloe Conolly, recent works 2005 – 2015
Visual Arts According to Dr. Gary Kielhofner, ‘Interests are what one finds enjoyable or satisfying to do. Interests reveal themselves both as the enjoyment of doing something and as a preference for doing certain things over others. Interests can infuse life with … Jennings Gallery Cork : Interest – Infusing Life with Meaning
