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
Visual Arts Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there – walls, floors and common objects. Blanco does not mask but honors what has … Olmo Blanco : Instalodecoracion
European Local TV Visual Arts Jessica Lloyd-Jones who exhibited at Summerhall during the Science Festival last year now has a new exhibition on at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre. But you don’t have to go all the way to Ireland to see it, just tune in to our video. … Jessica Lloyd-Jones : At the Edge of Light and Darkness
Visual Arts Artist Rhona Byrne’s hand-made objects, installations and collaborative, event‐based, projects explore the interactions between people and their habitat. Bolthole invites visitors to construct and reconstruct the installation to make their own environments. The spaces can be individual shelters/dens or a … Rhona Byrne : Bolthole
Visual Arts The installation, including sculpture, drawing and wearables, reflects on the desires and tensions experienced between private thought and public behaviour, feelings of isolation and belonging, connectivity and relating, distraction and attending and the fragile state between comfort and discomfort. Rhona … Rhona Byrne : Huddle tests
The fifth compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art in Ireland TV. ArtsIreland V
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there – walls, floors and common objects. Blanco does not mask but honors what has … Olmo Blanco : Instalodecoracion
Visual Arts “In the story politicians, intellectuals and artists are standing at a bus stop without realising that it is in fact, the final stop.” – Francis Fukuyama What if, as Fukuyama stated in his 1992 book, The End of History and … Lucy Elvis and Marcel Badia : Alternate Route
Visual Arts The Peshmerga are Iraqi Kurdistan’s military forces. Unit 70, based in Sulaimaniyah, has a detachment of female Peshmerga who train to be combat ready and in theory may face ISIS on the frontline. The unit also performs an important political … Beyond Borders : WOMEN AT WAR
ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. This feature is a compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art … Culturefox : ArtsIreland IV
ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. This feature is a compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art … Culturefox : ArtsIreland III
Visual Arts Jessica Lloyd-Jones is a visual artist based in North Wales, with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art and MFA in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007. Merging art, science and technology, Lloyd-Jones investigates concepts of energy … Jessica Lloyd-Jones : At the Edge of Light and Darkness
Community Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents This installation by the artist Siemon Scamell-Katz was produced by The Knitting Circle and Beyond Borders Scotland in response to the capture and persecution of Yazidi girls and women by ISIS/Daesh. Inspired by photographs taken by Falah Shakarm of the … Beyond Borders : A Mile in their Shoes
Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Sarah Dawson introduced this year’s Africa in Motion season of films showing in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The opening night birthday party is on the 23rd October at Summerhall and the season continues till the end of October with a screening … Sarah Dawson : Africa in Motion, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake
Festivals Music The Wexford Festival’s success is due in no small part to Wexford itself. This ancient Viking town, nestled in a wonderful setting on the banks of the River Slaney, has a character and charm all its own. Just two hours … David McLoughlin : Wexford Festival Opera, 21 Oct – 1 Nov
Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents Visual Arts The Peshmerga are Iraqi Kurdistan’s military forces. Unit 70, based in Sulaimaniyah, has a detachment of female Peshmerga who train to be combat ready and in theory may face ISIS on the frontline. The unit also performs an important political … Beyond Borders : WOMEN AT WAR
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Introduced by Dorian Branea, the Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and forming part of Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh Festival 2015. Featuring some of the most internationally recognizable Romanian artists, directors, writers and musicians in tandem with … Dorian Branea : Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh 2015
Festivals Theatre Wexford Fringe is an annual open-access arts festival which will run in parallel to Wexford Opera Festival from Friday, 16th October to Sunday, 1st November 2015. Now in its 63rd year, Wexford Fringe offers an eclectic mix of over 300 … Madeleine Quirke : Wexford Festival Fringe 2015
Draíocht is a multi-purpose venue used for a broad range of activities, including drama (both professional and community), dance, contemporary visual arts and crafts, classical and traditional music, a programme of activities for families, children and older people, comedy, artists … Draíocht : Sarah Beirne, Children & Youth Arts Officer
Music Taking place in various venues in Cork City, the renowned, the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival features over 1,000 musicians in dozens of performances at 70 venues citywide with over 95% of music sessions free of entry charges – and is … The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival : 23 – 25 October 2015
Visual Arts David O’Brien, the Programme Manager at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork talks to us about the importance of the National Sculpture Factory, the way it supports artists and their upcoming exhibitions. The National Sculpture Factory (NSF) is an organisation … Dobz O’Brian : National Sculpture Factory
Visual Arts Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. This year, it will take place on Friday 18th September 2015. On Culture Night, arts and cultural organisations and venues of all shapes and sizes, … Cork County : Culture Night
Theatre Michael Twomey, the lead actor in The Outgoing Tide talks to us about his upcoming performance in this exciting play presented by Everyman Theatre Company. The Outgoing Tide is an engrossing and powerful drama about a typical American family. Written with a … Michael Twomey : The Outgoing Tide
Visual Arts On the approach of the centenary of Ireland’s Easter Rising and the subsequent establishment of the new Republic, IMMA is pleased to announce the exhibition, El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State. This exhibition reflects on the artistic and cultural … Rachael Gilbourne : El Lissitzky
Visual Arts ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. We also feature short arts news clips made in the north of Ireland as these become … Culturefox : ArtsIreland II
Ciara O’Connell of Central Arts in Waterford introduces the weekly Arts Beat. This festival includes all forms of Ireland’s traditional music and runs throughout the summer months in the Waterford’s city centre. Ciara O’Connell : Art Beat
July’s twelve minute arts-news compilation for NvTv in Belfast and Cork Community Television. Culturefox : ArtsIreland
Summerhall Sessions Drawing inspiration from Summerhall and its current place within the arts in 2013, owner Robert McDowell disentangles arts and cultural policy. Robert McDowell : What is our arts context? Culturally, Economically?
