Offbeat locations: from Blackpool to Sherkin Island

Hungry Tea is just one of the exciting arts projects under way in unusual venues around Cork, writes Tina O’Sullivan

APART from the major productions at Cork Midsummer Festival — shows such as Pagliacci at the Everyman and The Sinking of the Titanic at City Hall — there is a wealth of more intimate projects getting underway this week and next.

One such is Hungry Tea, which runs at 22 Watercourse Road in Blackpool from next Tuesday. The project is a collaboration between Birmingham artist Mark Storor and Creative Connections, a group of local and immigrant women led by Áine Crowley, who brought Home Is Where the Art Is to last year’s festival.