Hi Cork Cultural Companions
Welcome to the Triskel Newsletter for May.
Riki Matsuda - the first artist to take up residence in Triskel Sample Project Space - is here until Sunday 5 May. Riki’s multidisciplinary practice centres around communication and how language serves and deserts us. Call in and see her work!
Riki will host two Happy Hour workshops this Friday 3 May and Saturday 4 May! These special workshops - which offer a chance to make correspondence art with Riki, and enjoy group drawing, letter writing and learn envelope construction - are now sold out.
You can still catch critically acclaimed refugee drama Io Capitano and exhilarating American satire The Sweet East on our screen (these films play from Sunday 28 April to Wednesday 1 May).
The rest of our May film programme kicks off with a deeply moving Irish documentary (The Days of Trees) and a gripping German school drama (The Teachers’ Lounge), both screening from Sunday 5 May.
“I coulda been a contender.”
Don’t miss the electrifying 1954 drama On the Waterfront, recipient of eleven Oscars and featuring a dazzling performance from Marlon Brando as a longshoreman battling a corrupt union.
Back by popular demand, we screen Wim Wenders’ wondrous slice-of-life drama Perfect Days - a gorgeously contemplative film following a Japanese toilet cleaner who finds moments of beauty in the mundane.
As part of Cork LGBTI+ Awareness Week, we host a screening of the stunning queer drama All of Us Strangers - a story of connection, parents and children, and the transformative power of love, with an exceptional turn from Andrew Scott. A free wine reception for ticket holders will take place before the screening on Wednesday 15 May. Tickets for this free screening will be available on our website from 10am on Monday 13 May.
A captivating historical drama exploring the brutal control of the Catholic church in 1800s Italy, pervasive European antisemitism and mid-19th century political unrest: Kidnapped begins its run on Sunday 19 May.
We are delighted to host a season celebrating the great West Cork director Pat Collins. From Sunday 19 May to Wednesday 22 May, we screen four of Collins’ wonderful films - poetic drama Silence; Song of Granite, a lyrical ode to sean nós legend Joe Heaney; enthralling folklorist documentary Henry Glassie: Fieldwork; spellbinding, immersive dance/theatre documentary The Dance. From Saturday 25 May, Pat Collins Film Season comes to a close with That They May Face the Rising Sun, Collins’ acclaimed adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel.
You can enjoy another fine pick from the EAFFI Discoveries strand on Saturday 25 May, with a screening of lovely Chinese intergenerational drama The Shadowless Tower.
May at Triskel Cinema comes to a close with two very different but equally fantastic films. Love Lies Bleeding, starring Kristen Stewart and Ed Harris, is a propulsive, stylish and electrifying romantic crime thriller - a blood-soaked American fable, replete with lesbian love, bodybuilding spectacle, and neo-noir thrills.
On Thursday 30 May, we screen The Horgan Brothers: Princes of the Picture Theatre, an enchanting documentary delving into the story of the Horgan brothers, the first ever native Irish filmmakers and animators.
The STAMP Festival of Creativity 2024 is at Triskel from Thursday 16 May to Saturday 18 May, organised by benchspace, Cork Craft & Design, Sample-Studios and Shandon Art Studios. This festival features over fifty art, design and craft events, exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations, screenings, and markets: from panel discussions to lampshade making workshops, to ceramic tile making, notebook construction, wheel-throwing and introduction to DJing/music production. All events are free and open to the public.
We have a jam-packed line-up of live music this May at Triskel, ranging from barbershop quartet to trad to Irish contemporary music supergroups to classical piano.
Join us on Saturday 4 May for a lunchtime concert with the great Guys and Dolls quartet, part of Cork International Choral Festival. On Thursday 9 May, the fabulous Flook take to the Triskel stage at 8pm, joined by special guest Patsy Reid. Performing original music celebrating poetry and improvisation, acclaimed contemporary music group Roamer are at Triskel on Friday 10 May. And don’t miss Stone Drawn Circles, who perform on Saturday 11 May.
We’re delighted to host the Cork PianoFest Recital Series, with a lunchtime concert each Friday from 24 May to 7 June. This series, in association with MTU Cork School of Music, features performances from some of MTU Keyboard Department’s most talented young student pianists on 24 May (Afternoon in Paris) and 31 May (Variations and Rhapsodies), as well a staff showcase concert on 7 June (The Great Romantics, featuring pianist Michael McHale).
See you soon
Gillian and the team at Triskel
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