Next weekend sees an event around Cork city which marries architecture and food, writes Joe McNamee.

The inaugural Cork Proms will be staged at Cork Opera House during the Midsummer Festival, in June, and will, hopefully, become an annual event, says Siobhan Howe.

Reggae royalty, Ireland’s most famous comedy actress and Cork’s first ever Proms concerts are just a few of the attractions at this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival.

Tributes have been paid following the death of a “tireless champion” of the arts in Cork, barrister Jane Anne Rothwell, who was chairwoman of Cork Midsummer Festival for the last five years.

It's the last night of the Midsummer Festival in Cork and we took a walk through the Long Table Dinner on the South Mall.

Just like something straight out of a Disney's movie.

CORK city’s ‘secret’ garden oasis is set to blossom, as the long-hidden horticultural treasure at the green centre of the new Nano Nagle Place €10.5m heritage, education, and community investment got an unofficial, soft opening yesterday.

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Futureproof may be set in a circus freak show, but its themes of bodily autonomy have obvious echoes in the wider world, writes Colette Sheridan

Marjorie Brennan meets first-time novelist and performance poet Carl Plover

A large-scale outdoor theatre production staged in a fort by award-winning Corcadorca Theatre Company will be among the highlights of Cork City’s 1916 centenary commemorations.

With impeccable timing, three new tenants are moving into Cork’s city’s gem-like boulevard, the Winthrop Arcade, via agents Lisney.

Choreographer Laura Murphy is planning something very new and different for this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival.

One of the highlight’s of this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival will see the Everyman Theatre transformed into a witches’ coven of "blood curdling intrigue".

A novel collaboration at the Midsummer Festival will see Amiina work with primary school students from Cork for a unique concert, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

Mick Flannery returns from the German capital to headline a homecoming gig, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Children are being invited to provide a commentary on some of Cork’s best known restaurants as part of this year’s Midsummer Festival.

Artists are invited to submit ideas for development, reports Colette Sheridan

A decade on from his first play, some of Tom Swift’s eclectic back catalogue has been collected for posterity, writes Alan O’Riordan

There’s lots to admire in the latest batch of albums released by a number of Cork-based music acts, writes Nikki fFrench Davis

A highlight of Midsummer Festival was a series of plays performed in unlikely locations about Cork city, says arts editor Marc O’Sullivan

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

For four days next week, the work of a bevy of young artists will be promoted at the Elysian, writes Colette Sheridan

Tom Creed promises an innovative but accessible programme for the 16th Cork Midsummer Festival, says Carl Dixon

NOTHING stands still: not time, not the ground we stand on, and certainly not a city.

NEW YORK’S Carnegie Hall, London’s Barbican, and the Cork Opera House are all celebrating the 75th birthday of Steve Reich, the great American composer.

The Crawford graduate exhibition will show the fruits of the college’s use of the old Fás building, says Carl Dixon

MAVERICK garden designer Diarmuid Gavin’s award-winning “flying garden” is expected to feature at this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival.

THEATRE student Sarah Louise McColgan from Cork city was last night awarded the 2010 Pat Murray Bursary.

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

The moon came out on cue at the height of the theatrical lunacy at the Naval base in Haulbowline last night.

The Cork Midsummer Festival launches today with more than 20,000 visitors due to attend over 55 events.

THE ‘city of festivals’ has just received a cash injection for two high-profile events in Cork’s cultural calendar.

THE Eurochild project will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2005 when thousands of children flock from all over Europe to the celebrations in Nantes.