Cork Midsummer Festival: Beach opera and Shandon St foam event among the highlights

 Cork Midsummer Festival (June 14 to 25) will take place at numerous venues and locations around the city 

One of the highlights of the 2023 Cork Midsummer Festival will be German artist Stephanie Lüning's 'Island of Foam', when thousands of litres of suds surge down John Redmond St in Shandon, Cork. 

Foam is where the art is at this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival when — in a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle — a sea of multicoloured suds will submerge one of the city’s most iconic streets.

The Island of Foam is just one of the eye-catching elements of another impressive and varied programme from the city’s eagerly-anticipated annual summer arts festival, which will be launched at the River Lee hotel on Thursday evening.