Upcoming Events in Cork City Libraries

For all events happening in Cork City libraries visit https://cork-city-libraries-events-calendar.loxi.io/ 

Down Memory Lane music café is back! Feb 1st

Join Linda Kenny, Alf McCarthy and David O’Sullivan for another morning of music and magical memories here in Douglas Library. 

Drop in on Wednesday the 1 February at 11.00 am. 

This programme is funded by the Dormant Accounts Fund and all are very welcome but get here early as seating is limited. 

Creative Art at Holyhill Library every Friday at 11 am for these informal creative art sessions for adults. 

 Musical Neighbourhoods Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: The Reflections playing popular music from the 50’s, 60’s and more.  On Friday February 3,  from 1-2pm in Hollyhill Library. Admission free, all welcome. 

  

Writers Group at Clonakilty Library

Clonakilty Library is looking for expressions of interest from people looking to join a writers group facilitated by Writer-in-Residence Matthew Geden.

Individual sessions with Matthew will also be available to members of the group by prior arrangement.

The first meeting of the group will take place on Thursday January 12th from 11am - 12.30pm and will then take place on the second Thursday of every month.

For more information or to secure your place in the group, please enquire at the desk in Clonakilty Library, phone 023-8834275, or email clonakilty.library@corkcoco.ie

Clonakilty Library | Cork County (corkcoco.ie)

Birds and Beasts Exhibition Opens in Cork County Library

Cork County Council’s first exhibition of 2023 ‘The Museum of Birds and Beasts’ will open on Thursday January 26th in the LHQ Gallery at Cork County Hall. The exhibition has been co-created by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley with the residents of five community hospitals in West Cork.

The artists collaborated with the Museum of Country Life in Mayo and the National Folklore Collection in Dublin, exploring the artefacts from these collections to draw on participants' experiences of the natural world. The exhibition will be launched by Clodagh Doyle, curator of the Museum of Country Life, Castlebar, Mayo and will include objects from these collections along with exquisite handmade nests by master basket maker Joe Hogan; all of these items inspired the resulting collection of stories which form the heart of ‘The Museum of Birds and Beasts’. 

Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Danny Collins welcomed the announcement saying, “This exhibition, drawn from The Museum of Birds and Beasts project, is a celebration of the innovative arts and health work by Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley and also the ongoing Arts for Health programme in West Cork. The stories, museum artefacts and artworks will resonate with many and I would encourage all those with an interest in this area to visit the exhibition at LHQ Gallery.”

The project began in early spring 2022 with the artists’ research trip to the Museum of Country Life in Mayo. The artists were invited to choose eighteen objects from the museums “handling collection” to bring into West Cork hospitals and share with the staff and residents. This collection included a horse blanket and donkey harness both woven out of straw and a lobster pot made out of heather. These beautifully crafted objects sparked many lively conversations between the participants, staff and artists and a collection of stories grew throughout the year.

One of the participants, Sheila Nagle, reminisced, “My father worked in Biggs’ in Bantry. The donkey would walk through the back door into the shop and up to the counter where my dad would give it sugar lumps before it walked out the front door. This would happen at the end of every working day, after the donkey had finished its deliveries.”  

As part of the project master basket maker Joe Hogan from Mayo visited Dunmanway Community Hospital and St. Joseph’s Unit Bantry in May 2022 and created small panniers for donkeys.  These panniers will be presented to the healthcare settings as part of ‘The Museum of Birds and Beasts’ project.

‘The Museum of Birds and Beasts’ project is delivered through the Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork at Castletownbere, Dunmanway, Schull and Skibbereen Community Hospitals and St. Joseph’s Unit in Bantry General Hospital. The project is funded through an Arts Council of Ireland Project Award. The exhibition is supported by Cork County Council.

The exhibition opens at 6.00pm on Thursday 26th January and continues until 23rd February 2023. LHQ is open from 9.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays. 

 

Hubcap Theatre Presents The Parish at Cork Arts Theatre

Hubcap Theatre Presents The Parish

Written and performed by Michael Ryan and Sean Kelleher 

Wednesday 8th to Saturday 11th February @8pm

The Parish is back!

The popular comedy returns to Cork Arts Theatre for four nights only.

The Parish is a hilarious light comedy where two actors bring to life a range of characters that can be found in every rural community. It has performed nationwide including the Blackwater Fit-Up Festival, Kinsale Arts Weekend and West Cork Fit-up Festival.

Audience reactions: “The Parish is absolutely hilarious and makes for a great night out!”

“These two are an amazing combination, a night of fun & laughter. Don’t miss it!”

“Absolutely hilarious and clever, clever, clever!”

Running time: 1 hr 15 min, no Interval. 

Recommended age 12+  TICKETS: €15

See https://corkartstheatre.com/

Older Adults Community Health Conference in Midleton March 8th

The HSE Cork North Community Work Department, CKCH, is hosting an Older Adults Community Health Conference in Midleton GAA hall On Wednesday the 8^th of March from 10am to 3pm.

 

The conference aims to provide older adults living across East Cork and beyond the opportunity to find out about health, community and voluntary services available to them and how such services can benefit their physical, emotional, social and cognitive health and wellbeing. 

Date for the diary - more info to follow

Saturday Lecture Series at Cork Public Museum Free Events

These series of lectures will serve to bookend our Decade of Centenaries programme of events and exhibitions that have dealt with the Great War and its impact on Cork, its people, society and politics. Since 2013, the museum has created a replica First World War Trench (2014-2018), opened an exhibition on the end of the war and its impact on Cork during 1918 entitled Virus, Victory and Votes (2018) and opened the museum’s first ever exhibition on the Royal Munster Fusiliers entitled The Forgotten Regiment (runs until May 2023). We are committed to expanding our Royal Munster Fusiliers Archive at the museum, which was started last year. Cork Public Museum will continue to acquire and research objects and documents related to the Great War and the experiences of the Cork people involved.

Therefore, we are delighted to bring you a great series of talks between January and May 2023. They will be held on Saturdays at Cork Public Museum at 1pm.

All are welcome but booking is essential. Please contact us at museum@corkcity.ie or 021-4270679 to book your place.

Ó Bhéal Events & Readings in association with UCC

Each February, Ó Bhéal presents poets and short fiction writers engaged in UCC’s MA Creative Writing programme, who read from their new work. This event will be held both in-person, hosted in the Hayloft bar, upstairs in Long Valley, Winthrop St Cork, as well as on Zoom.

New Creative Writing featuring:

Hannah Myers, Rob Worrall, Gabbi Dufrene, John McLeod, Alice Barry and Kemi George Simpson 13th February

Jodie Hollander and Adam Wyeth - 13th March

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

Streamed via www.obheal.ie/live, Vimeo, FB Live and YouTube

Poetry-Films from Ó Bhéal's competition archives begin from 7.30pm, followed by the Five Word poetry challenge at 8.30pm. 

Guest poets start at around 9.30pm. The evening ends with the usual open-mic session.