May - West Cork Arts Centre

WEST CORK ARTS NEWS
St. Barrahane’s Church Festival of
Music 2009
Castletownshend, Co. Cork,
E: barrahanemusic@eircom.net
W: http://homepage.eircom.net/~barrahane
Thursdays: 23 & 29 July and 6, 13 & 20 August
Thursday 23 July
Festival Opening by Chuck Kruger
The Syrius Trio: Elizabeth Cooney - violin, Jane
Cords-O’Hara - cello, Domenico Codispoti - piano
This is a Music Wide Concert
Thursday 30 July
Anúna, Conductor Michael McGlynn
Admission €20
Thursday 6 August
Elizabeth Cooney - violin, Redmond O’Toole -
guitar. This is a Music Wide Concert
Thursday 13 August
Triocca, Ríona Ó Duinnin - flute, Geraldine
O’Doherty - harp, Nancy Johnson - viola.
This is a Music Wide Concert
Thursday 20 August
The Kelly Wind Quintet - to be confirmed.
Admission to concerts: €15, (under 13 free)
except Thursday 20th July: Admission €20,
(under 13 €10)
All concerts begin at 8.30 p.m.
Reservations and Ticket Sales:
Mrs. Angela Eborall, Tel: +353 (0)28 - 36193
Mrs. Jacqueline Weij, Tel: +353 (0)28 - 33752
Ticket Sales Only: The Coffee Shop, Union Hall
(028-34444) and O’Leary’s Jewellers, Bridge
Street, Skibbereen (028-21038)
Cheques made payable to: St. Barrahane’s Music
Festival. No Credit Cards. In aid of The Church
Fund.
The Festival is supported by Cork County Council
The Ewe Gallery & Sculpture Garden
Kenmare Road, Glengarriff.
T: 027-63840 (call if travelling far)
E: info@theewe.com info@theewe.com
W: www.theewe.com www.theewe.com
Ireland’s only interactive sculpture garden
consists of three inter-linked gardens, including
the Environmental garden. A whole new series of
sculptures are unveiled for the 2009 season, as
well as an exciting bead making workshop and a
river side café. Spectacular setting in a beautiful
mountain forest by a tranquil waterfall. Sculptures,
mixed mediaand paintings for sale by Sheena
Wood.
Open summer daily 10.00am - 6.00pm or by appointment.
Sherkin Island Summer art workshop
T: 087 8319929
E: Cora_Collins@eircom.net
W: www.sherkinart.com
Workshops will run for five weeks Monday to
Friday from 29th June to 31st July.
Sherkin Island Summer Art Workshop brings
together, for a five-day period, beginner, emerging
and experienced artists who have a common
interest in art.
The Workshop will be run by Majella O Neill Collins,
a resident of Sherkin Island and a successful
working artist and Cora Collins, a resident of
Castleconnell County Limerick, a mural artist and
colour consultant.
The Fee of €750 includes all tuition, materials,
meals and accommodation. This promises to be
a marvellous opportunity for fun and adventure in
a beautiful offshore Island and in a comfortable
relaxed atmosphere.
The timetable for the workshop offers plenty of
variety - drawing, painting, land-art, exploration
of different techniques and materials, artists’ talks
and a field trip by boat to Heir Island.
Numbers are limited so book early.
National Famine Memorial Day
17 May 2009
In honour of Skibbereen being selected as the
site for the inaugural provincial National Famine
Memorial Day in collaboration with an international
commemorative ceremony held at Grosse Ile
Quarantine Station, Canada on 10 May, local people
have come together to programme Faminethemed
events (10 – 17 May).
A flavour of the events include Sunday Miscellany
(RTE Radio One); talks by the Famine author
William Henry, art historian Catherine Marshall, Dr.
David Butler, UCC, Dr. Larry Geary, UCC, Professor
Mark McGowen, Toronto University, author
Marita Conlon-McKenna and Bridget O’Donnell;
performances by the choir Chairde, Comhaltas
Ceoltoiri Skibbereen, the Skibbereen Theatre
Society of The Boldest Fenian Man and the awardwinning
Flight to Grosse Ile; and a Gaelscoil
presentation of Cleas Mhic Gearalt.
On Sunday 17 May the National Commemorative
Event commences at the O’Donovan Rossa
Park at 11.15am followed by a solemn procession
to Abbeystrewery Graveyard, then formal state
flag and wreath-laying ceremonies involving the
military band and full state protocol.
Full programme details on
www.skibbheritage.com.