Looking for Participants from county Cork: Creating a Radio Drama with writer Katie Holly

 

SIRIUS DIGITAL - COMMISSION LAUNCH Samuel Levack The Earth Like Tea, 2020

 

SIRIUS DIGITAL - COMMISSION LAUNCH  Samuel Levack The Earth Like Tea   Samuel Levack is a London-based artist who often collaborates with Jennifer Lewandowski. Their practice spans film, performance, photography, text, and music, and explores themes of utopia and spiritualism. They use image making and storytelling techniques to create dreamlike visions of territories, whether rural or urban, that operate as poetic meditations on nature and social life. Specifically, Levack deals with forms of community building, and his work often depicts urban scenarios.

Samuel Levack, The Earth Like Tea (still), 2020. HD video, color, sound, 6:05 min. Courtesy the artist

The Earth Like Tea, 2020   This film emerged from a residency at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, in 2019. During his time in Brussels, Levak captured footage of the urban scenario while walking around the city. Specifically, he addressed the architecture and ambiance of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, creating documentation that includes striking colors and collage techniques.   The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken resonate with places such as Kew Gardens in London, and the colonialist foundations to these structures are addressed through the ghostly and haunting lexicon of poetic readings and music soundings. The title addresses how the tea trade relates to the British colonial enterprise and its extremely damaging impact in the Global South.   At one point in the film, an overlaid image depicts a greenhouse with what appears to be a diagonal strike through its middle. This produces a rupture in the familiarity that we perceive in these scenes, pointing to traces in the territory of the relationship between colonialism and botany.   The work is a critical inquiry into seeing and being seen in spaces of multispecies voyeurism. It also displays wealth and power through the different depicted architectural styles, ranging from the nineteenth century to modernism, all of which are haunted by the ghosts of colonial domination.

Samuel Levack, The Earth Like Tea (2020)

Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski have had solo shows at French Riviera, London (2019); Evelyn Yard, London (2015); and Grey Area, Paris (2010), and their work has been widely featured in exhibitions, festivals, and events in England and overseas. They also play together as the band Das Hund, whose albums include For Freedom (2018); and cofounded and run French Riviera, a gallery in London, and the record label French Riviera Records.   SIRIUS Digital   SIRIUS Digital features work commissioned by SIRIUS that is permanently accessible for free viewing on the SIRIUS Vimeo channel. Artists who have contributed to, or are currently participating in, SIRIUS Digital include Natasha Bourke, Ofri Cnaani, Aikaterini Gegisian, Yurika Higahshikawa, Salomé Lamas, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Gina Peyran Tan and Softday. SIRIUS Digital is initiated and produced by SIRIUS.

Sirius Arts Centre The Old Yacht Club Westbourne Place Cobh, Co. Cork P24 F209 Ireland siriusartscentre.ie Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11:00 - 16:00

West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2022

 

Johannes Moser performs Mendelssohn at the 2022 West Cork Chamber Music Festival Musical history reminds us that music comes in families. The Mendelssohn family are a particularly remarkable story, one sister and two brothers, united in music from an earliest age. Youngest brother Paul was a superb amateur cellist for whom both brother Felix and sister Fanny composed sonatas and occasional pieces to be played at her famous musical salons in Berlin with Felix on the piano. Though few salons could compare with this one it was just such family musical gatherings that were the foundations of the outpourings of the nineteenth century chamber music that we all love. Johannes Moser and Alasdair Beatson perform this much-loved music in the main evening concert in St Brendan's Church on Saturday 25 June. For more details, click here. Festival Programme Download Festival Brochure  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌

West Cork Music | 13 Glengarriff Road, Bantry, Co. Cork Ireland

West Cork Literary Festival

 

Hello, We are delighted to be able to announce that booking will open for the 2022 West Cork Literary Festival tomorrow ( Friday 20 May) at 10am. This year, the Festival runs  from 8 - 15 July 2022.  You can book online here or by ringing +353 (0) 27 52788. Laureate na nÓg Áine Ní Ghlinn, Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird, Sara Baume, Ruth Padel, Niamh Campbell, Paul Muldoon, Martina Devlin and Louise O’Neill are just some of the high profile writers making the trip to West Cork for the Festival.  There is so much going on in Bantry for those eight special days - you'll find our main Programme online here.    Best Wishes, The West Cork Literary Festival team

Zadie Smith

Colm Tóibín

Áine Ní Ghlinn

Louise O'Neill

Paul Muldoon

Sara Baume

The 2022 Festival line-up includes: Áine Ní Ghlinn: Laureate na nÓg, Colm Tóibín: Laureate for Irish Fiction, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird, Sara Baume, Ruth Padel, Niamh Campbell, Paul Muldoon, Martina Devlin, Louise O’Neill, Lucy Caldwell, Shane Hegarty, Seán Hewitt, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Caroline O’Donoghue, Fiona Mozley, Lisa McInerney, Danny Denton, Geoff Dyer, Maeve Higgins, New Dutch Writing, Rosaleen McDonagh, Mary Lawson, Marijke Schermer, Tramp Press, J.R. Thorp, Marianne Lee, Cristín Leach, Jane Casey, Jessica Traynor, Catherine Kirwan, Wayne Miller, Stephen Sexton, Tice Cin, Mícheál Ó hAodha, Rita Kelly, Lynn Buckle, Nina Mingya Powles, Tadhg Coakley, Tina Pisco, Sarah Byrne, Jennifer deBie, Mícheál McCann, Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Deirdre Sullivan, Yan Ge, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Michele Hutchison, Madeleine D’Arcy, Nithy Kasa, Mary Watson, Kathy Fisher, Suad Aldarra, Alex Barclay and more.

The 2022 Festival takes place in venues throughout Bantry including Bantry House, The Maritime Hotel, Whiddy Island, Bantry Library, Ma Murphy's & Future Forests.

In a week packed with readings, workshops, interviews, seminars and children's events, the programme also includes: Laureate na nÓg and Laureate for Irish Fiction events Critical Voices 2022 The Lighthouse Project at Sheep’s Head People’s Republic of Pork Young Writers Delegate Showcase Play It Forward Showcase Properbook: Writing & Publishing a Children’s Book Festival Swim in Bantry Bay Multilingual Poetry Translation Launch of the 2022 Fish Anthology Focus on Cork’s New Literary Journals Launch of Swerve Magazine Coffee and Chats in Bantry House Tearoom Tramp Press clinics New Dutch Writing and much more

West Cork Literary Festival programme

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