Some of the best and exciting events this Culture Night has to offer in Cork and further afield
With so much to choose from, selects some of the best events in this evening’s smorgasbord of offerings in Cork and other centres.
CORK
Motorbikes may not be the most obvious objets d’art but anyone with an interest in design will swoon at the smooth and sleek speed machines created by Don Cronin.
The award-winning designer and sculptor brings an aesthetic eye and an incredible level of craftsmanship to the one-off handmade custom motorbikes, which he produces with friends Michael O’Shea and Chris Harte at the Cork-based Medaza Cycles. Enough to get you donning the motorcycle leathers.
Only 3 days to go until the Free #OícheChultúir screening of documentary 'Idir Dhá Shruth' about O'Connor's significant contribution to Irish-language literature at Gate Cork.
— The Arc Cinema (@arccinemacork) September 18, 2018
All info and booking links below 👇 https://t.co/jj7ykj32ua
Cork Film Festival celebrates one of Cork’s most famous native sons, writer Frank O’Connor (pictured below), with a free screening of Idir Dhá Shruth (Between Two Streams), introduced by Don O’Mahony.
While O’Connor was internationally recognised for his mastery of the short story form, he was also an important translator of classical Irish poetry. In this film, another celebrated Cork writer, the late Liam Ó Muirthile, explores this forgotten element of O’Connor’s work and shows how his distinctive voice owed a great deal to his native language.
Tickets free but booking advised.
#Pitchd18 Only 6 Days to go..Join us on Coal Quay / North Main St for #CorkCultureNight2018 from 6pm where we will kick off Pitch'd Circus Arts Festival in style! #Cork #Circus #Festival #circusfactory https://t.co/bdZujFS72p pic.twitter.com/FyrkwhNQdD
— Circusfactorycork (@circusfactoryc) September 15, 2018
Pitch’d Circus Arts’ japes brought much joy and fun to the city centre streets last year with their Culture Night launch.
The crew are back this year, with an extravaganza of circus and cabaret-themed events.
Sure to be a big draw will be the Clown Selfie Station, Skiddy’s Plaza (North Main St), 6pm to 8pm, where anyone who ever wanted to run away with the circus can live the dream by getting a clown makeover.
Setting the night skies ablaze will be Firestorm, from Passe Partout Circus, taking place at the Cornmarket at 10pm.
Two nights to go! @roundybar/@plugdrecords, free, 8.30.
— #CorkLovesMusic (@corklovesmusic) September 19, 2018
Talks: @aisooooo, @_declan_s and @shanejhoran
Music: @lighghtmusic, Mueseum and Jake O'Riordan#corkculturenight #purecork #weareco pic.twitter.com/LOeaXwmtHx
The first in the group’s new season of talks about various issues in the city is based around the theme of ‘What Happens Next?
Music In A Changing City’. Speakers include Aisling O’Riordan of Quarter Block Party, and Declan Synnott of community bookshop Rebel Reads.
There will also be performances from a number of Leeside’s electronic producers.
‘Mother Jones and her Children’ by Frameworks Films in Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork 7pm, Friday 21st September for Culture Night pic.twitter.com/yp9VBKsYWP
— Emma Bowell (@emma_bowell) September 19, 2018
For anyone who has yet to visit, Culture Night is the perfect opportunity to experience the delights of this gorgeous city oasis.
The venue hosts a variety of events thoughout the evening, kicking off at 4pm with the child-friendly ‘Horrible Histories and Harmonies’ which depicts some fun and gruesome parts of history through music, dancing and stories.
There will also be creative workshops from An Taisce around the theme of climate action, while East Cork Early Music Festival will be performing ‘Baroque Classics’ in the suitably serene surroundings of the Goldie Chapel.
Joseph Walsh’s acclaimed woodcraft is a fascinating blend of form and function and features in museums and collections around the world.
The furniture designer has eschewed the cosmopolitan centres of design for a farm in Riverstick, and a studio and workshop housed in a beautifully restored thatched cottage once owned by his grand-aunts.
Now visitors can check out for themselves this hub of creative activity where the self-taught furniture designer, aided by an international team, produces one-off works which can fetch six-figure prices.
The much-loved city venue gets things off to an explosive start as the Cork Textiles Network facilitate a Swan Lake-themed textile bomb outside the gallery.
A host of family-friendly events includes an opportunity to spin your own tall-tales in an event hosted by Alan Corbett, author and illustrator of the graphic novel Ghost of Shandon.
Choral connoisseurs can enjoy performances from amateur ensembles including the Leeside Serotones Choral Group, Choral Confusion and Hill Harmonics.
RT @pure_cork: RT @corkcityarts: Limited tickets for events taking place at Cork City Hall for Culture Night tomorrow are also available at the City Hall Reception desk.
— Cork Community (@BestofCork) September 20, 2018
For any queries, contact 021 492 4119.
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Dancing is enjoying a surge in popularity thanks to the phenomenal success of shows such as Strictly and Dancing with the Stars.
Now it’s time for non-celebs to step up to the floor and test their skills with Evelyn Grant of Lyric FM and the Cork Pops Orchestra, who will be getting the crowd waltzing, tangoing and disco-dancing to music ranging from Strauss to Abba. Booking required.
Nightingale rehearsals are well underway! Just under 4 weeks to go until the curtain rises on the world premiere at @EverymanCork, then @civictheatre and @LimeTreeTheatre. We can't wait to share this with you https://t.co/Yt3GEwZhle #rtesupportingthearts #opera #worldpremiere pic.twitter.com/HGICEMD9NU
— The Nightingale and the Rose (@NightingaleOper) September 18, 2018
Get a glimpse of what it takes to stage an opera, with this sneak peek at a rehearsal of the much-anticipated The Nightingale and The Rose by the multi-tasking maestro John O’Brien. Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s story, the homegrown opera will receive its world premiere at The Everyman theatre next month.
Cellist Kevin Murphy and cellist/pianist Mary Barnecutt are known for pushing the boundaries of their instruments, so a collaboration between the two musicians is something to look forward to.
Murphy, who also performs as part of Seti the First and Slow Moving Clouds, has collaborated with top rock and traditional musicians and worked on compositions for film and theatre.
Barnecutt makes music across a number of genres and is also founding co-director of Spike, Dublin’s annual alternative cello festival.
Since it was founded by Roddy Doyle and Sean Love in 2009, thousands of young people nationwide have participated in the Fighting Words project, in which they have been mentored by hundreds of volunteers.
The initiative aims to help young people harness their creative talents to develop their self-esteem and boost their motivation.
At this interactive workshop, budding scribes aged 8 to 10 will collaborate on an original story.
KERRY
This giant audio-visual poetry installation is a taster of a project which will tour Ireland in and then internationally over the next two years.
Each version of the installation will be different, with new poets filmed specific to the locality and projected onto trees or historic buildings.
The Listowel installation features poetry by John McGrath, Mike Gallagher, Matt Mooney, Marie Eaton, Mary Lavery Carraig, Louis Mulcahy, Bríd Ní Mhoran, Eileen Sheehan, Eoin Ó Murchú, Noel King and Ciara Ní É.
It will also feature at the inaugural Féile an tSolais arts festival in Listowel in November.
Bernadette: Notes On A Political Journey. McCarthy's Bar, Dingle, this Friday. https://t.co/ouVnSXYwZP
— Aodh Ó Coileáin (@Possiewassie) September 19, 2018
Cork-born filmmaker and campaigner Lelia Doolan will be in attendance for this screening of her award-winning documentary on civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, originally screened in 2011.
Ten years in the making, Doolan funded much of the project –herself and said she made it because she saw Devlin’s role as a human rights campaigner and radical –feminist being wiped from Irish history.
WATERFORD
Waterford has a strong link to Viking lore in more ways than one, with Dungarvan-born actor Moe Dunford playing Aethelwulf in the hit television series Vikings, now into its sixth series.
Dunford, currently appearing in the Lance Daly famine epic Black 47, returns to his native town to launch this exhibition of ‘behind the scenes’ photos taken on the set of the television series by Jonathan Hession and Bernard Walsh, official still photographers on the first two series. Exhibition continues until Saturday, Nov 3.
Join us as we celebrate #CultureNight on Fri Sep 21st!#Free #events:
— Garter Lane Arts Centre (@garterlane) September 18, 2018
Family Printmaking workshop,
Open Studio and Speed painting
The King of Spain's Daughter by Teresa Deevy: A Multilingual Rehearsed Reading
Design Challenge Information Desk
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Teresa Deevy has emerged from the shadows in recent years, with her plays being rediscovered and appreciated by a new audience, at home and abroad.
The Waterford playwright, who became deaf in early adulthood, had six plays produced in the Abbey Theatre in the 1930s and her work shines a light on the challenges faced by Irish women at that time.
WIT lecturers and students present this reading of her one-act play The King of Spain’s Daughter.
LIMERICK
This city centre street will be thrumming with cultural activity with hip-hop performances, caricature drawing, arts and crafts, all-ages dance classes, and performances by Limerick Music Generation and the Mary Immaculate Community Choir.
The night will finish with an LED performance.
DUBLIN
Still trying to decide what to do for #CultureNight?
— Love Temple Bar (@LoveTempleBar) September 17, 2018
We are running 2 wonderful Lalala Pop-up Choirs singing sessions with @Samitones in Crampton Court and would love to see you there!!
No previous experience needed!! 😀😀 pic.twitter.com/bLdizanzSI
The therapeutic benefits of singing have been well-documented.
Take your talents out of the shower with these pop-up choir classes in a Temple Bar laneway, probably not the first or last singalong to reverberate around those famously rambunctious cobblestones.
The pop-up tutorials are courtesy of Sam Kavanagh, founder of the Lalala choir, who was inspired by the community square singing he experienced while studying in Budapest.
#CultureNight is coming to Collins Barracks!
— National Museum of Ireland (@NMIreland) September 13, 2018
Join us on Fri 21 Sep, 3pm - 10pm
Full event listings here: https://t.co/v9HvBUPKck@rte @RTE_Culture @CultureNight @rte_co @MangoDassle @YoMathMan @artscouncil_ie pic.twitter.com/uyUifSC4oq
RTÉ’s flagship event will be broadcast live on RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena and streamed on rte.ie/culture.
It brings together a range of musical, artistic and literary talent, including performances by the band Villagers (pictured below); Cór Linn, RTÉ’s new youth choir; and by Horslips and poet Paul Muldoon, in a specially written piece. In addition to the free open-air concert, there will be a wide range of free ticketed live radio recordings, talks and performances throughout the Collins Barracks venue.
The new museum @14HenriettaSt is open for #CultureNight - A really great opportunity to get an insight into life in north Dublin City from the 1720's onward. https://t.co/QHiLW36tqz
— RCSI Rotunda Research Department (@RCSIRotundaRes) September 19, 2018
Take a trip into the past and discover what tenement life was like in this taster tour of the newly opened museum.
Built as a townhouse for the members of Dublin’s ruling elite, 14 Henrietta Street was divided into 19 tenement flats in 1877, with some 100 people living under its roof by 1911.
It remained a tenement house until the last families left in the late 1970s. Booking advisable at 14henriettastreet.ie
Culture Night rehearsal! Who’s joining us on Friday night at Cornmarket?! We’ll be singing and shimmying to all our fave songs from The Greatest Showman! #iheartcnb #CNBX ❤️🎶 pic.twitter.com/f8CHDRSXm0
— AliveCommunityChoir (@AliveChoir) September 19, 2018
The Greatest Showman has defied the critics to become one of the biggest box office hits of all time, the tale of PT Barnum drawing a devoted following, young and old, with the soundtrack a mainstay in the charts.
For Culture Night, this showing comes with lyrics on screen so fans can sing along to their favourite songs, including ‘This is Me’ and ‘The Greatest Show’.
Free but ticketed, www.lighthousecinema.ie.
Put away your phone, pick up some knitting needles or a crochet hook instead and witness the benefits to your mental health.
The Constant Knitter in the heart of the historic Liberties district provides classes in knitting, embroidery, lacing, and crochet. For Culture Night, members of the Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers will be on hand for demonstrations.
Also, there will be Revived Yarn, a charitable community of knitters and crocheters whose creations help to warm the homeless of Dublin.
