Cork City Ballet’s upcoming production of ‘The Nutcracker’.

With music by Tchaikovsky and dancers from all over the world, Cork City Ballet will be performing this seasonal production in Cork Opera House at 8pm on 3,4 &5 November, with a matinee on Saturday 5th November.

Cork City Ballet, in association with the Cork Opera House and Benchmark International, presents The Nutcracker directed by Alan Foley, which will run at the Cork Opera House on 3rd, 4th and 5th of November, for four performances only - including a matinee at 2.30 pm on Saturday 5th. 

For this festive production, Cork City Ballet will lead the audience on an enchanting journey through the Land of Snow to the magical Kingdom of the Sweets. Enhanced by magnificent costumes, together with the glorious music of Tchaikovsky, CCB’s Nutcracker promises to be a thrilling spectacle of sumptuous dance delights.

This production by Cork City Ballet will feature the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince along with principals, soloists, and a full corps de ballet in this seasonal classic for the entire family.

See Cork Opera House for more details 

Concert in St Brendan's Church Bantry

Longing

Featuring pianist Finghin Collins, who will be performing with John Finucane and Sharon Carty. 
https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2022/longing/


Feelings of nostalgia and longing pervade the music for this attractive programme for clarinet, voice and piano which draws together three of Ireland’s most versatile and acclaimed musicians: Sharon Carty, mezzo-soprano, John Finucane, clarinet and Finghin Collins, piano. From the rhapsodic opening bars of Brahms’ late clarinet sonata to Mozart’s operatic fireworks, the programme also includes deeply passionate German songs by Brahms and Spohr and miraculous settings of Yeats and Joyce poems by Muriel Herbert and Rebecca Clarke. At the centre of the programme is “Music of the Hours”, a new work for clarinet and piano by Irish composer Anne-Marie O’Farrell which reflects on the experience of praying the monastic hours.

Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Winter Lecture Series 2022-23

Wednesday 9 November 2022 @8pm in UCC West Wing Room 6 and online: ‘The Skellig Lists: A Cork Perspective’ by Shane Lehane.

Wednesday 14 December 2022 @7pm in Dora Allman Room, Student Hub, UCC: the Society’s Christmas Event. This event is a social reception, with finger food and wine, followed by a short talk entitled ‘Yuletide at Her Majesty’s Pleasure?’ by Dr Ciarán Dawson, Ionad na Gaeilge Labhartha, UCC. The cost per person is €15. Attendance needs to be booked by registering in advance on the Society’s website. Please note this event is for CHAS members only.

Wednesday 18 January 2023 @8pm in UCC West Wing Room 6 and online: ‘Ringforts and Cork’s 18th Century Estate Maps’ by Dr Edward Riordan.

Wednesday 8 February 2023 @8pm in UCC West Wing Room 6 and online: ‘Twenty Years Collecting: some interesting archaeological finds from county Cork in the National Museum of Ireland’ by Maeve Sikora.

Wednesday 8 March 2023 @8pm in UCC West Wing Room 6 and online: ‘The Cork Historic Towns Atlas fascicle: old and new findings’ by Prof. Howard B. Clarke.

Wednesday 5 April 2023 @8pm in St George’s Arts and Heritage Centre, George Street, Mitchelstown: ‘Liam Lynch: Life of an Irish Revolutionary, 1892-1923’ by Gerard Shannon. This event, co-hosted with the Mitchelstown Heritage Society, is the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society’s annual County Lecture. Mitchelstown has been selected for his year’s county lecture given its proximity to the location of the death of Liam Lynch in April 1923. The event will also mark the association of Canon Courtney Moore, a founding member of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, with the lecture’s venue, St George’s Arts and Heritage Centre.

See https://corkhist.ie/winter-lecture-series-2022-23/ for more

Events for Fermoy Friendship Week 2022 11th and 12th November

 

Cork One Act Theatre Festival 2022 9th to 11th November

 

Cork One Act Theatre Festival 2022

Wednesday 9th to Friday 11th November 2022 @ 8pm

The annual Cork One Act Theatre Festival takes place once again at the Cork Arts Theatre from Wednesday 9th to Friday 11th November 2022 at 8pm each night.

Theatre groups from around the country will gather over the three nights to compete for the all-important points in their bid to reach the All-Ireland One Act Final. Seven groups will stage a wide variety of plays showcasing the very best acting and directing talent. The competitive element makes for an electric atmosphere during the performances as the groups are evaluated by the adjudicator.

The adjudicator for the event this year is Paul Brenan (ADA). Paul is a highly respected adjudicator on the festival circuit and he will have the onerous task of deciding the winning play and selecting the best actor, best actress and best director.

James Horgan, the Festival Director, said, “The Cork One Act Theatre Festival is one of the highlights of the theatre calendar. The event always guarantees a great night out for theatre-goers as the groups that perform are of a high standard and, with ten plays to choose from, there is always plenty of variety.”

Tickets: €14

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Free Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Writers available from West Cork Literary Festival

 

 

Would you like to write for children or teenagers but don’t know where to start? Have you written a children’s book and are wondering what to do next? This practical, focused event is for you – part of the #ProperBook series of events and workshops for new and emerging children’s writers and illustrators..

Last July, West Cork Literary Festival hosted a Proper Book session in association with Children’s Book Ireland and Sarah Webb. In this 90-minute session Sarah Webb, Aoife Murray from CBI, Gráinne Clear from Walkers Books and authors Deirdre Sullivan and Mary Watson discussed everything you’ve ever wanted to know about writing for children and teens. A podcast of this event is now available until Monday 21 November.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

Making Friends and Enjoying Our Culture Ballyphehane Community Centre

 

Kilkenny Arts Festival and Rough Magic present Solar Bones at The Everyman

SOLAR BONES

Written by Mike McCormack
Adapted by Michael West
WED 2–FRI 4 NOV, 8PM 
TICKETS €31 | Concession €28 | Student €16
Marcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh Co. Mayo. Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that nothing is quite right. Poring obsessively over the details of his relationships, his world and his work as an engineer brings him closer to an understanding of how the things and people he loves have come together, and how they have and must inevitably come apart. 
Mike McCormack’s multi-award-winning novel is brought to life by Stanley Townsend (Best Actor, Irish Times Theatre Awards) in a performance directed by Lynne Parker (Best Director, Irish Times Theatre Awards) in an adaption by Michael West.

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The 67th Cork International Film Festival

 

As Ireland's first and largest film festival, Cork Film Fest take great pride in premiering new Irish fiction and documentary films, both features and shorts. In addition to an Opening Gala screening of Frank Berry's Aisha on Thursday 10th November, this year's selection demonstrates the broad range and creativity of Irish filmmaking talent. .

Festival tickets and passes available on corkfilmfest.org and the myCIFF app.

The 10th Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Poetry Festival in Cork

Early Bird Tickets €7.50 till 7th November
General Admission tickets after 7th November are €10.00

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Carrigaline Musical Society Presents 'The Sound of Music'

Venue: Carrigaline Community Complex, Church Road, Carrigaline, Co. Cork.

Thursday 03/11/2022 to Sunday 06/11/2022

Carrigaline Musical Society is delighted to be back after a 3 year absence due to Covid. Following on from our hugely successful productions of Cinderella and Oliver! Carrigaline Musical Society is delighted to present everyone’s favourite musical, ‘The Sound of Music’.

Times:

Thurs - Sat 3rd- 5th November, Doors 7pm , Show 7.30pm

Sat  5th November Matinee Doors  1.30pm,  Show 2pm

Sun 6th November Matinee Doors  2.30pm , Show 3pm

Standard Ticket €18

Family Ticket €68 (2 adults & 2 children or 1 adult & 3 children)

Director: Jacinta McBride Musical Director: Jimmy Brockie Choreographer: Chloe O’Leary

Cast:

Maria:  Maeve Murphy

Captain Von Trapp: Robert J. Cogan

Mother Abbess: Angela Tanner

Max Detweiler: Glen Barton

Elsa Schraeder: Aisling Kelly/Lorna Hughes

Gretyl: Lauren Murphy/Orla Noonan

Marta: Emma McBride/Lexi Costin

Brigitta: Katie McGrath/Roisin Noonan

Kurt: Killian Corcoran/Andrei Leo Macanovic

Louisa: Kate Wynman/Ella Hughes Curtin

Fredrich: Shay Gilley/Aidan Crowley

Liesl: Laura Webb/Clodagh Tanner

Tickets are non- refundable and a non - refundable booking fee of €2 per ticket is included in all online bookings

For tickets click HERE

Supported by Cork County Council