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Monday, 26 June 2023
Cork Arts Theatre Upcoming Events
West Cork Literary Festival 7th to 14th July Bantry
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Cork International Film Festival Culinary Cinema Wednesday 12th July
Cork International Film Festival, in association with The Montenotte Hotel, is delighted to present a special screening of Rasmus Dinesen's Michelin Stars: Tales from the Kitchen followed by a specially crafted three-course dinner at The Montenotte Hotel, at 5.30pm, Wednesday 12th July.
Indulge yourself in this unique film and food experience, beginning with a Blackwater Distillery Gin & Tonic at the magnificent Sculpture Exhibition in the sunken Victorian Gardens from 5.30pm. Join us for the screening at 6pm in the luxury private Cameo Cinema followed by a sumptuous supper in The Gallery Suite, looking out over a spectacular backdrop of the Victorian Gardens and the Cork City skyline.
Tickets: €70 (€65 Festival Friends) and includes welcome drink, film, three-course dinner and a glass of wine.
Capacity very limited, tickets issued on a first-come, first-served basis - find more information and book your ticket here now.
Note: guests will be seated in a banquet-style setting with tables of eight and ten in The Gallery Suite.
Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Exhibition Anton Vidokle
Anton Vidokle and the Institute of the Cosmos 1 July - 28 October
Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland presents the exhibition Anton Vidokle and the Institute of the Cosmos. The exhibition features four films that look at Cosmism through themes of biopolitics, immortalism, interplanetarianism, revolution, nutrition, utopia, resurrection, and museology: Autotrofia (2020-23) and the trilogy This Is Cosmos (2014), The Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun (2015), and Immortality and Resurrection for All! (2017). It also features a specially designed Institute of the Cosmos gallery; part library, part archive, and part classroom, this includes a timeline of Cosmism and an extensive selection of historical and contemporary texts exploring Cosmism and related topics.
Cosmism is a constellation of theories and projects—philosophical, artistic, scientific—informed by the writings of the philosopher Nikolai Fedorov (1829–1903). It brings together discourses of Marxism, Orthodox Christianity, Enlightenment, and Eastern philosophy. Furthermore, it involves conceptions of technological immortality, resurrection, and space travel, and speculates on how these might be materialized through artistic, social, and scientific means.
Vidokle’s films are “tableaux vivants” operating between fact and fiction, reality and otherness, poetics, and ideology. They trace the history and current relevance of Cosmism and evolve into broader reflections about historical and more recent understandings of death and technological immortality. They elucidate how Cosmism aims to overcome time-space finitude through cooperative, creative endeavors toward a “more-than-human” universalism.
The films mix voice-over narration, soundtracks (original scores and ambient sound), dialogue, quotes from essays by Fedorov and other thinkers, and intellectual and aesthetic references ranging from Constructivism to speculative interactions between natural phenomena and societal transformations. They were shot in Altai in Siberia, Almaty and Karagandy in Kazakhstan, Moscow, Tokyo, Kyiv, Oliveto-Lucano in Italy, and beyond, and employed local amateur actors and extras, including artists, farmers, taxi drivers, dancers, and security guards.
This Is Cosmos introduces the cosmos as not only outer space but also something involving invisible cosmic energies moving through the currents of terrestrial-aquatic ecologies, both within our bodies and as part of our everyday lives. The Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun analyzes philosophical and political semblances between Cosmism and Communism, as well as the Sun’s impact on history. Immortality and Resurrection for All! focuses on the museum as a site of resurrection, looking at collection and conservation as means to the material restoration of life. Autotrofia considers the willingness and capacity for humans to become autotrophic beings, no longer controlled by the heterotrophic desire to kill and eat other living organisms.
The Institute of the Cosmos was initiated by Arseny Zhilyaev and Anton Vidokle in 2019 as “a space for a creative investigation of the materiality of the cosmos.” The gallery at Sirius Arts Centre dedicated to the Institute of the Cosmos is a site-specific manifestation of varying elements of the digital version of the Institute of the Cosmos, and serves as the setting for a series of events—screenings, reading group sessions, and panel discussions—that meditate on or prompt the emergence of, situated radical imaginaries and bodies of knowledge.
Anton Vidokle and the Institute of the Cosmos is produced by Sirius Arts Centre and curated by Miguel Amado, director, in dialogue with Vidokle.
Exhibition Launch http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/visual-art/anton-vidokle-institute-of-the-cosmos
Kinsale Arts Weekend from July 6th – 9th
The celebrated Kinsale Arts Weekend is back this year from July 6th – 9th and we can not wait!
2023 will feature some wonderful artists including Singer and Song writer Lisa Hannigan, Author and Poet, Francesca Bell, Actor and Comedian, Maureen Lipman, world renowned designer Joseph Walsh, writer Manchán Magan and dance, comedy and circus group, Swarm.
This year the festival committee has adopted an inspiring theme. The selkie in Irish folklore is often regarded as a mermaid or a seal woman. We will take this idea of shape shifting and skin shedding and explore themes from a female experience, from the perspective of women’s ever-changing roles in society and how it relates to creativity and the arts.
A secondary but related theme concerns fruits from the sea and reflects Kinsale’s long standing place as an historic port and fishing town and culinary capital of Ireland.
As always the Kinsale Arts Weekend will bring colour and creativity to Kinsale, it is an unmissable weekend in the town that combines performance, exhibition and interaction from all forms of art be it music, painting, theatre, poetry or installation work.
Keep your eyes peeled for more information on this incredible event on their website – https://www.kinsaleartsweekend.com/
and make sure to follow the Arts Weekend on their social media platforms:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/kinsaleartsweekend
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Mallow Arts Festival Writers Workshop with author Mary Bradford July 27th
Mary Bradford will facilitate a writer’s workshop on Thursday July 27th in Mallow Library as part of Mallow Arts Festival Literary Programme.
Mary is the Irish published author of four novels and four novellas. Living now in her native county Cork, she previously lived in Dublin. Her short stories continue to appear in newspapers, magazines and anthologies.
Her trilogy includes, My Husband’s Sin, Don’t Call Me Mum and No More Secrets.
Her fourth novel, To Live with a Stranger, is based on her grandmother’s cottage, which she wanted to use in a story.
To book your place on the workshop email artsfestivalmallow@gmail.com
Back to the Castle Retro Music Festival Sunday August 20th
Brought to you by Songs from the Blackwater in association with Cork County Council
1 day Retro festival in beautiful Mallow Castle on the banks of the river Blackwater featuring THE CLASSIC BEATLES 4 Piece Beatles tribute, GLORY DAYS 6 piece Bruce Springsteen tribute and STRICTLY CASH 6 piece Johnny Cash tribute. A fantastic day of top notch music by some of Europe's greatest tribute band with music ranging from 60s to 80s.
THE CLASSIC BEATLES 4 Piece Beatles tribute playing all the Beatles number ones. All their gigs this year for The Number Ones tour have SOLD OUT across Ireland and Europe so this is your only chance to see them. The only Beatles Tribute in the world to be endorsed by Beatles record producer Sir George Martin who said "their vocal resemblance is uncanny".
GLORY DAYS 6 piece Bruce Springsteen tribute singing all the hits "Born in the USA" "Dancing in the dark" "The River". Glory Days have sold out gigs in The Olympia, The Helix, Dolans Warehouse and all the big Uk theatres. A show not to be missed.
STRICTLY CASH 5 piece Johnny Cash tribute
In 2008, STRICTLY CASH played in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Johnny Cash’s famous Folsom Prison concert, and for which lead singer Barry penned the song “Mountjoy”, in the style of the Man in Black.
Ten years later, they marked the 50th anniversary of Folsom by playing 3 sell-out shows on Ireland’s Alcatraz, Spike Prison Island, in Cork Harbour. Another highlight for STRICTLY CASH was headlining Europe’s first Johnny Cash Festival, in Austria.
Barry has met and chatted with Johnny Cash & June Carter on numerous occasions. A regular performer in Austria and Germany, Barry has also performed at the Carter Family Fold in Virginia, and performed with Tommy Cash, (Johnny’s brother), at the Storytellers Museum, Bon Aqua, Tennessee.
This event is ran by Keith Woodgate and he has been working on this event since January with support from Cork County Council. A fantastic day of top notch music by some of Europe's greatest tribute bands with music ranging from 60s to 80s.
Sunday August 20th 1pm to 7pm.
Tickets from Eventbrite €15
Sunday August 20th 1pm to 7pm.Concert Rain or shine
