April at the Triskel

  

Hi Cork Cultural Companions   Welcome to the Triskel Newsletter for April. The days are getting longer, which means there are just a few short weeks left to see Elinor O’Donovan’s Winter Sun projected onto the façade of Triskel Christchurch. Inside the building, there’s so much happening! In Visual Arts: Dr Matthew Whyte’s Art History Reframed lecture series continues; Fiona Boniwell’s residency in Triskel Sample Project Space will come to an end this weekend, just after she delivers a Gesture Drawing Workshop as part of Cork’s Lifelong Learning Festival; Kate McElroy will then move into the Project Space. Her residency and exhibition will coincide with Ireland’s Overshoot Day, a day that marks when the Earth’s biological resources – if everyone lived as we do in Ireland – would be exhausted for the year. In 2024, this day fell on 2 May, and in 2023, it was 21 April; and on 9 April, Matthew Whyte will be joined by former Project Space resident Viktoria Kondratieva for a Ukrainian language guided tour of Island City: Cork’s Urban Sculpture Trail. In Live Music: The students of the Music and Sound Management Course at Tramore Road Campus, formerly known as CSN, have their end-of-year showcase, Live ’n’ Gigging, on Thursday. Ably guided by our wonderful sound engineer Chloé Nagle, the students work on all aspects of the event, from promotion to performance, and we look forward to this event every year; and the ConTempo Quartet perform the final concert in the Spring String Quartet Series in association with the National String Quartet Foundation on Saturday 5 April. In Cinema: We have a number of festivals and seasons coming your way this month: the Baltic Film Festival returns for its second year; the Japanese Film Festival is back; and we’re showing a trio of Barbet Schroeder films; as well as our usual programme of Irish and international arthouse films. There will be a music and cinema crossover this month with screenings of Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII, the iconic 1972 film, now re-mastered with enhanced audio, and One to One, a unique take on a seminal time in the lives of one of music’s most famous couples, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In Literature: Cork World Book Fest is back for its 21st year! The festival, which is co-programmed with Triskel and Cork City Library, is on from Tuesday 22 – Sunday 27 April, with events happening in Triskel Friday 25 and Saturday 26 April. You can hear Spoken Stories, Tales of Resilience, a multi-media performance of spoken word, visual and live music in association with IMRAM and Poetry Ireland, and be Beautiful, Wilful & Adrift. In a literature and cinema crossover, we’re showing Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story twice in the month, bringing it back for a full run 6-9 April and just one matinee screening during the festival. So sit back with a cuppa and scroll through everything that’s coming up at Triskel this month! See you soon Gillian and the team at Triskel

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Cork World Book Fest 2025

Cork World Book Fest is back in 2025 for its twenty-first anniversary! The fest started back in 2005 when Cork was European Capital of Culture. Former City Librarian Liam Ronayne and Ann Luttrell, former Literature Officer at Triskel Arts Centre, decided to mark UNESCO World Book Day (which takes place every year on 23 April, the date on which both Cervantes and Shakespeare died) with Cork’s first ever World Book Day. The Library opened at 10am on Friday 22 April and stayed open through the night and into the following day, 23 April. There were readings, music interludes, and exhibitions. Despite some concerns about the wisdom of staying open through the night, all went well.

As the following spring rolled around, those involved – both Library and Triskel staff – agreed that the experiment should be repeated. From 2006 on, this celebration of books and reading has been called Cork World Book Fest. It has grown in terms of the range of events included – sessions for wannabe writers, translation workshops, and full children’s programme – and in the languages and cultures featured, from Basque to Kurdish to Galician, as well, of course, as better-known languages such as Italian, French, Spanish and Catalan, not forgetting Irish. Writers in the English language have come from this country, United States, Canada, Australia, and well as Britain. Writers who attended Publishing Day events have gone on to become published authors.

The Fest will welcome Irish and international writers to Cork for an extravaganza of books and writing Tuesday 22 – Sunday 27 April April. For the full programme, visit www.corkworldbookfest.com