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John W. Sexton
by Stephen Johnson
THE Carnegie Arts Centre in Kenmare hosted the launch of poet John W. Sexton’s new collection, The Offspring of the Moon, recently.
The poems in Sexton’s new collection speak to a tradition deeply rooted in the Irish literary imagination: from the oral tales and myths of pre-Christian times, through the gothic horrors of Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, to the early science-fictiona romances of Fitz James O’Brien and M.P. Shiel.
On Friday the 24th May Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí will showcase some of it’s finest entertainers in the form of an eagerly anticipated talent show.
Monday 20 May at 1.00pm
Free, no booking required
As part of the Bealtaine Festival, West Cork Arts Centre will screen The Last Statue Maker in Cork. This short film tells of one man’s life and work. Maurice O’Donnell’s lifelong fascination with statues, grew from modelling figures from turf as a small child, to an apprenticeship at Bernardi’s Statue Shop in Cork, to time spent in Italy studying with the great masters. His work has been exhibited all over the world and he continued to make statues right up to his eighties. The documentary also tells the stories of some of the statues themselves, including the famous ‘moving’ statue of Ballinspittle, which was one of Maurice’s creations. [Read more...]
National Drawing Day on Saturday 18 May
Life Drawing
Artists and students are invited to take part in a life drawing session at West Cork Arts Centre as part of National Drawing Day on Saturday 18 May. Drawing Day was started in 2004 by the National Gallery of Ireland’s Education Department and has developed into a nationwide event, held in partnership with national and local museums, galleries and cultural centres.
‘Whether you see dyslexia as a disability or not, it so affects your daily life, and you have to get to a place of excepting it for its foibles, and what it gives you, and what it takes away, the way it interrupts your life… In that way it is so like Love.’ Caroline Bowditch
Tara Brandel’s new solo work Gawky & Awkward is a very personal piece, revealing the things we struggle with and a dancer’s creative journey through dyslexia. The work is directed by Caroline Bowditch (previously Scottish Dance Theatre’s Dance Agent for Change) and incorporates an original score by disabled composer Charlotte White.
Dancers from Scoil Rince Carney practising on Castletownbere Pier as they get ready to participate at the Irish Nationals Dancing Championship to be held in Dublin next month. Pic: Niall Duffy
SKIBBEREEN has got talent! Mercy Heights transition Year students are putting on a production of The Sound of Music.
Under the guidance of Ms Brennan, Ms Lieber, Ms Hennessy and Ms Griffin, the girls have been busy rehearsing and perfecting their adaptation of the classic musical.
THE winners of this year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival / Cork County Council Young Composers Bursary Scheme 2013 have been announced, as follows: Seán Doherty,Retreat; Solfa Carlile, Fables; Timothy Cape, Collectors Item and Patrick Egan, Then Til Now.
THE 2013 Fastnet Maritime and Folk Festival takes place in Ballydehob from June14-16 this year with a huge range of performers already confirmed to take part.
Among those appearing this year will be Jimmy Crowley, Matt Cranitch and Jackie Daly, Baggyrinkle Swansea Shantymen, Jim Mageaan, Dick Miles, Jim Bainbridge Andrew Mackay and Carole Etherton, Rubicon,Lands End Bluegrass band, the Cork Singers’ Club and many many more.
Ella Griffin from the Lucy French School of Dance in Kinsale rehearses for ‘Damhsa’. Pic: John Allen
THE Lucy French School of Dance proudly presents ‘Damhsa’, a full length dance production performed on a purpose built stage at Riverstick Community Centre.
The hall in the centre will be transformed into a theatre with a big stage and professional sound and lighting for the duration of the run.
THE U16 footballers were on top from the start against Drimoleague in an away league game last Thursday evening. Despite squandering an amount of chances, Skibb ran out winners 4-9 to 2-7 … [Read More...]
by Striker Now that the relegation battle is finally over, it makes interesting reading to work out just what it means, in financial terms of course, to the three teams that finally bit … [Read More...]
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has offically launched a new walking trail which has been described as Ireland's answer to the famed “Camino de Santiago” in Spain. The Beara Breifne Way is a … [Read More...]
WEST Cork's Gougane Barra, Beara Peninsula and Kinsale have all made it on to the longlist in The Irish Times competition The Best Place to Holiday in Ireland. They are among 25 holiday … [Read More...]
