May - West Cork Arts Centre
May - West Cork Arts Centre
May - West Cork Arts Centre
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WEST CORK ARTS CENTRE EVENTS<br />
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE<br />
Visualising the Unspeakable; An Unresolved Dilemma for Irish Artists.<br />
Presented by Catherine Marshall.<br />
Monday 11 <strong>May</strong> at 8.30pm, <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong><br />
As part of the National Famine Memorial Event to be held in Skibbereen (10 – 17 <strong>May</strong><br />
2009), art historian Catherine Marshall will present an illustrated lecture dealing with<br />
images of the Famine in Ireland. Drawing on contemporary paintings, images from<br />
the Illustrated London News, comparative material from France and Britain and some<br />
recent attempts to find closure for the Irish in a world where Famine is still prevalent,<br />
Catherine will look at the shortcomings of visual representation and issues around<br />
patronage, as well as inherited feelings of guilt, repression, outrage and sorrow.<br />
Catherine Marshall is an art historian. Currently Joint-Editor of Volume V of the Royal<br />
Irish Academy’s Irish Art and Architecture Project, she is on a three-year secondment<br />
from the Irish Museum of Modern Art where she has been Head of Collections since<br />
1995. She has lectured in the History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin, University College<br />
Dublin and the National College of Art and Design and was recently responsible<br />
for the Visual Art and Architecture projects within the <strong>Arts</strong> Council’s Touring Experiment.<br />
This event is free of charge. To book, please contact <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> at<br />
028-22090 or email info@westcorkartscentre.com<br />
WCAC Film Club<br />
Special Screening<br />
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day<br />
Monday 25 <strong>May</strong> at 7.00pm<br />
Director: Bharat Nalluri / USA / 2008 / 92<br />
minutes<br />
Cast: Francis McDormand, Ciaran Hinds,<br />
Amy Adams<br />
Selected for the Bealtaine 2009 Film<br />
Tour organised by access Cinema and<br />
the Irish Film Institute as their contribution<br />
to the annual Age and Opportunity<br />
event, this delightful screwball comedy is<br />
based on Winifred Watson’s best-selling<br />
novel set in 1939 London. It introduces<br />
Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, a middleaged<br />
governess who finds herself once<br />
again unfairly dismissed from her job.<br />
first time in two decades - seize the day.<br />
This she does, by intercepting an<br />
employment assignment outside of her<br />
comfort level - as “social secretary.”<br />
“This story of a dowdy governess who<br />
finds adventure and love when she works<br />
as a starlet’s personal assistant for 24<br />
hours is just the tonic for filmgoers eager<br />
for a film that celebrates the bearable<br />
lightness of being.” - The Washington<br />
Post.<br />
Without so much as severance pay, Miss<br />
Pettigrew realizes that she must - for the
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