Events

Lunchtime Film Screenings at West Cork Arts Centre

May 14, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

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...]

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Opportunities for artists this May at West Cork Arts Centre

May 14, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

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.

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Kinsale Arts Festival puts call out for local talent

May 10, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

Pic: John Allen

“Now Wakes The Sea”, the open submission exhibition and award for Irish And UK artists has been announced by the Kinsale Arts Festival For 2013.

The initiative aims to support outstanding emerging talent in the visual arts.

Terry O’Neill exhibition in Castletownbere

May 10, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

Anne O`Leary and Sylvia Krieg with a portrait of Paul Newman that forms part of the exhibition of photos by Terry O’Neill which runs until May 19^th at the Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere. Pic: Niall Duffy

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Big plans for the Ballydehob Jazz Festival 2014

May 8, 2013 By Brian Moore Leave a Comment

REPORTS of the ‘best festival yet’ have been flooding in from Ballydehob as the organizers relax after the Ballybehob Jazz festival last weekend.

Headliners including The Neil Cowley Trio and the Swingin’ Blue Cats were just two of the musical treats on show in Ballydehob. ‘This was the best festival yet with great music and plenty of free gigs for the many hundreds of people who arrived in Ballydehob for the bank holiday weekend,’ festival PRO Susan Coughlan told the West Cork Times.

As well as great music the weekend in Ballydehob had poetry slams, swing dress class, fantastic buskers, a street market and a pub trail. ‘We’ve had people from the UK this year and of course our regulars from Cork city. The festival is getting bigger and better every year and I want to thank all the volunteers who have worked so hard to get the village ready and to ensure that everybody enjoys the music and the fun. I would also like to thank all our sponsors and our local Gardá Jonathan McCarthy for all the support. Also Dave Walsh from the Woodford pub in Cork and thanks to Swing out Cork for their wonderful swing dance workshop, which everybody really enjoyed,’ Susan concluded.

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Stout Fest 2013 Murphy’s getting all the heads together in Cork

May 1, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

Murphy’s and Beamish are set to host the greatest gathering of Irish stouts, musicians and Cork artisan food providers at the first ever Cork Stout Fest 2013 at the Beamish & Crawford site on the June Bank Holiday Weekend.

In keeping with previous Murphy’s events in Cork, this will be a three-day festival all about celebrating the best of who we are.

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Gawky & Awkward

May 1, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

‘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.

Details announced for Fastnet Maritime and Folk Festival 2013

April 19, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

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.

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‘Damhsa’ at Riverstick Community Centre

April 17, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

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.

See for Yourself: West Cork Arts Centre’s annual Youth Event

April 9, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

OPENING this Friday 12^th April, West Cork Arts Centre’s annual Youth Event includes See for Yourself, an exhibition of artwork by young people from West Cork; film screenings for schools; poetry workshops with award-winning performance poet Dave Lordan and a pop-up outdoor performance somewhere in Skibbereen by WCAC’s Youth Theatre.