'Lights of Love Remembrance Tree' Fermoy Dec 4th

 'Lights of Love Remembrance Tree' - The Christmas season is a time to celebrate our blessings with family and friends, and also serves as a time to join together with them in remembering friends and loved ones who are sadly no longer with us.  

Fermoy Community Health Project & Fermoy Community Resource Centre in association with the Fermoy Committee of Cork Mental Health cordially invite you to attend the 'Lights of Love - Remembrance Tree' event, at which you may, if you wish, sponsor a light to remember your loved one by making a €5 donation.  For your donation, you will receive a Lights of Love pack which has our Lights of Love Remembrance card – this card can be posted to a family member to let them know a light is shining on the tree, also included is a Christmas keepsake and a Little Bag of Hope.  

On the night, you can also write the name of your loved ones name into the 2022 memory frame.

This community event takes place on Sunday 4st December from 5 - 6pm in the Fermoy Resource Centre, 42 McCurtain Street.  Refreshments will be served.  All are welcome to attend.

Behind the Scenes at the Crawford Art Gallery

 BEHIND THE SCENES: Collection at Work

26 November 2022 – 19 March 2023

  

Experience the Collection… with a twist!

Crawford Art Gallery is home to part of the National Collection, but how well do you know the stories behind it? BEHIND THE SCENES takes visitors on an unexpected journey through the Collection as it unfolds across two floors and several thematic chapters. Delve into a rich array of artworks from across the centuries and get to know your National Collection.

Events, Podcasts & more at Cork County Library Service

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Visit https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/libraries

Cork City Libraries Winter Events Guide

There is always so much going on in your local library. The Winter edition of our Cork City Libraries Events Guide is now available. Packed full of a wide array of events and groups, there is something for everyone at Cork City Libraries.

Find the event for you this festive season!

Check out the Full Guide HERE

John Spillane and Friends Christmas Concert at the Everyman

John Spillane returns to The Everyman for the 25th year to play his Christmas concert. As always, he will be joined by friends for what promises to be a very special evening.

"Hi everybody, Can you believe it? This is now my 25th year in a row playing on the Sunday before Christmas in my hometown of Cork in the gorgeous auditorium of The Everyman. That's a quarter of a century like – so many good years of playing music, writing songs and singing my heart out. It feels like a milestone of an anniversary to celebrate with friends, so come join me and plenty of special guests this December at The Everyman to continue this great tradition".

John Spillane is a musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet and dreamer.

Visit https://everymancork.com/ for more info

Art at the Triskel

Exhibition from Róisín O'Sullivan: I See Skies at Triskel Gallery Space

Runs from Thu 1 Dec 2022 - Sun 26 March 2023

Róisín O'Sullivan's practice stems from her experience of nature. O'Sullivan makes paintings and objects that reflect the natural world around her, taking a deep interest in collecting and responding to materials such as wood and leaves. Her work slips into abstraction through intuition within the studio process, creating curious painted, carved, and burned marks.

The exhibition I See Skies features a new series of paintings that began at the Tony O'Malley residency in Callan, County Kilkenny. There, the artist spent over a year immersed in nature, embracing each intimate surface in the studio as an emotional response to the complexities of life.

Christmas at the Cathedral

After a two-year pause, Cork International Choral Festival is thrilled to announce the return of this popular evening with acclaimed soprano Fiona O'Reilly and tenor Ryan Morgan for an evening of festive carols, song and poetry in the stunning surrounds of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral on Saturday 17th December 2022 at 7:30 pm.

Fiona and Ryan will be joined on the evening by actors and singers from CADA Performing Arts (principal Catherine Mahon Buckley), The Carrigtwohill Gospel Choir (conductor Aoibheann Carey-Philpott), The Voices (conductor Mary Pedder Daly), Choral Con Fusion (conductor Keith Dwyer Greene) and Cór Scoil Mhuire J.S. (conductor Maeve Ann O'Brien).

Join us for this evening of beautiful singing and entertainment, great raffle prizes and mince pies… and a chance to sing along too!

The evening is directed by Catherine Mahon Buckley, aided musically by Michael Young and guarantees to deliver an evening of festive fuzziness.

Visit https://www.corkchoral.ie/

Cork Arts Centre Presents

 ALSA Productions presents At the Moment, Everything is Missing

December 14 - 18 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday @ 8pm;Saturday @ 3pm and 8pm; Sunday@ 6pm

The performer stands on a dark stage.

The child walks to the edge of the water.

The body of water moves.

What do you do when the Sea follows you home?

Sea water can be relentless. Unforgiving. If you have any small gaps or cracks, it will find them immediately. But what if everything about your reality is broken, fractured, missing?

A new production by Cork theatre company ALSA Productions. Directed by Katrina Foley and written and performed by Al Dalton.

At the Moment, Everything is Missing is a moving story about a performer trying to “move on”.

A heartfelt meditation on loss, life and living. A deep dive into the ripples left by grief on our minds, our lives and our work.

Supported by The Arts Council, Cork Arts Theatre and Once Off Productions

Visit Cork Arts Theatre for more INFO

2023 West Cork Chamber Music Festival

 

Four great violinists, four international Quartets, four tales of mistreated women from famed monarchs to neglected and rejected young mothers, stories told by composers from Ireland, Australia, USA and the Netherlands Violinists from Cork, London, Berlin and Bremen, favourite string virtuosi Mairead Hickey, Alina Ibragimova, Viviane Hagner and Nurit Stark; Quartets from USA, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Once again West Cork's premier international festival brings you over 50 concerts in ten days and nights, Baroque Coffee Concerts, midday experiments, afternoon recitals, powerful evening concerts and finishing up with candle-lit late nights. For more Info visit  www.westcorkmusic.ie

Ó Bhéal News - Guest Poets and Events - December & January

Events & Readings from Ó Bheal

End-Of-Year event with Michael Longley   (via zoom) - 12th December

First Fortnight Festival with Luke Morgan & Molly Twomey - 9th January 

Winter Warmer poetry festival videos are now available to view online.

Monthly Events are Hybrid, hosted in-person (at the Long Valley, Winthrop, St Cork) and on Zoom

For more info visit Ó Bheal HERE

Christmas Panto at The Everyman

Cork’s favourite traditional family Panto is back! And it's opening this Saturday! Oh, yes it is! 

The Everyman and CADA present

CINDERELLA

SAT 3 DEC–SUN 15 JAN 

THU 29 DEC, 1.30PM: Audio-described performance and touch tour (Touch tour begins at 12.30PM)

SAT 7 JAN, 1.30PM: ISL interpreted performance

TICKETS €31 | Family of four €114 | Wonderful Wednesdays €26

Join the usual zany gang for an incredible night of Panto fun!

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December at Triskel

There are just two concerts left in 2022 at Triskel and both are happening at lunchtime on Saturdays in December. The Ficino Quartet have been with us many times and are always a delight. Fiachra Garvey performed here during our Triskel Courtyard festival back in 2021 and will be joined by Anna Devin for the second concert in the Spotlight Chamber Music Series. They will treat us to some Christmas songs so definitely one to catch! 

SAT 10 DEC 2022
1:00pm | €16/13 

VISIT TRISKEL ARTS FOR MORE INFO