Cobh is Sirius about the arts

RUNNING an arts centre in these difficult economic times is a challenge, and it’s more challenging in a regional location.

But Miranda Driscoll, the recently appointed artistic director of the Sirius Arts Centre, in Cobh, plans to use her background in “community engagement” to attract audiences.

Driscoll co- founded and ran The Joinery, a multi-disciplinary space in Dublin, for seven years, but closed it for lack of consistent funding. “It was difficult to keep it going. I had gone as far as I wanted to with The Joinery, which was a grassroots organisation. I was looking around for other opportunities. The Sirius is a place I’d been keeping an eye on over the last few years. When the opportunity came, I went for it. It was perfect timing for me.”