Looking for plans for the weekend? Here’s a list of what’s on and where.

Jack Lukeman headlines a gig at Everyman Cork tomorrow, writes Ed Power

FILM TIPS: There’s no doubt which film will be filling the cinemas this weekend, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 already attracting huge crowds since its opening yesterday. Away from the big cinemas, Triskel Christchurch in Cork has Nightcrawler from Sunday, and Irish film Out of Here.

MUSIC NEWS:

CANCEL all other engagements. It’s Culture Night 2013, and it’s countrywide. Tonight, art and culture centres and organisations will open their doors until late, for free access to collections, workshops and events. Open your senses to new experiences, sounds, and ideas, and enlarge your awareness of our rich heritage.

Tens of thousands of music fans are already salivating at the prospect of the line up for the forthcoming Cork Guinness Jazz Festival, which will include top acts like English saxophone legend Courtney Pine and the show-stopping Chic.

Patrick Moy in the title role of Richard II.

Writer and director, John Breen, has no problem being known as the guy who wrote Alone It Stands.

What I do: Performance/film/drawing/installation.

Jedward take to the stage at the Olympia from Wednesday December 19 2012 to Monday December 31 2012 for Jedward and the Magic Lamp.

They call it a weekend, but this year, Cork’s annual festival of jazz could be its longest ever.

Keith Duffy, the actor and ex-Boyzone star, has opened a small memorial garden in West Cork to honour a young woman who worked tirelessly for autistic children even though she was terminally ill with leukaemia.

Aidan Dooley

Conor Dwane

One of Cork’s longest-running independent schools is celebrating its 60th year, but also the involvement of one of its founders who still plays an active role as she approaches her 88th birthday.

RAIN and jazz – the two usually go together like rhythm and blues at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

IT got off to a soggy start, but no amount of moisture could have killed the carnival in Cork last night where jazz junkies got down and dirty to swinging big band music and lashings of Latin groove.

ICONIC Irish actor Mick Lally, who is to be cremated later today, has made one last memorable gesture by asking mourners to donate to the Pakistan flood relief fund.

A SHY man of passion, sensitivity, grit, honesty and immense talent who should never be forgotten.

CORK people will get the chance to step back in time tomorrow as many landmark and buildings around the city throw open their doors to show off their heritage – and it’s all free.

THE latest Cork Operatic Society production comes with a health warning — the show is definitely not suitable for under 16s.

BEAUTIFUL young things boogie-woogied.

ROARING ticket sales, record visitor numbers and a bigger-than-ever programme of events have conspired to make this year’s Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork the biggest in its 30-year-history.

MORE than 1,000 musicians helped drive the blues away as a rain-drenched Cork had another bumper weekend of jazz and razzmatazz.

SONGWRITERS/composers are invited to write a song of peace for submission to the ninth international song contest for peace.

A NIGHT to remember is how one would describe the opening night of Don’t Dress for Dinner at the Everyman Palace in Cork.