December at The Everyman Cork

 

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DECEMBER AT THE EVERYMAN OPENING THIS SATURDAY! The Everyman and CADA present RED RIDING HOOD SAT 30 NOV–SUN 12 JAN Cork’s favourite traditional family Panto is back. Oh, yes it is! Get ready to embark on a magical journey through an enchanted forest with Red Riding Hood! BOOK NOW CRACKING COMEDY ED BYRNE: TRAGEDY PLUS TIME SAT 1 DEC, 8PM ★★★★★ “Hilarious, extremely dark, profoundly touching and resolutely unsentimental. Ed Byrne has plumbed the very depths of his soul and found something verging on greatness” – Rolling Stone (2023) BOOK NOW A CHRISTMAS FAVOURITE SUNDAY SONGBOOK: THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW SUN 8 DEC, 7.30PM Join The Everyman Sunday Songbook for a feast of the greatest Christmas songs ever recorded: ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ (Band Aid), ‘White Christmas’ (Bing Crosby & Michael Bublé), ‘Last Christmas’ (Wham) and many more. BOOK NOW SOLD OUT – JOIN THE WAITING LIST JOHN SPILLANE AND FRIENDS SUN 22 DEC, 7.30PM Following a series of sold-out shows, John Spillane returns to The Everyman this December for his annual Christmas concert spectacular. BOOK NOW LOVE YOUR LOCAL THEATRE Sign up for a Friends membership and you'll receive a host of benefits, including 2 sets of complimentary tickets to selected shows. Plus, you'll be supporting a registered charity AND supporting the arts in Cork. FRIENDS MEMBERSHIP WHAT'S ON AT THE EVERYMAN

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National Sculpture Factory Cork Factory Fragments

 

Factory Fragments by Simon Kidd A new NSF commission Available now through our online shop Simon Kidd, Cog II, 2024, stoneware, local stone & factory brick inclusions, hybrid gas & wood fired, matt glaze Factory Fragments is a limited series of ceramics by artist Simon Kidd, created using casts taken from features and structures in the NSF workshop, and fired using a range of natural materials and stone gathered from Oileán Chléire and the Factory itself. Last year we had the pleasure of working with Simon as part of our CLAY: holding/transforming/performing festival, during which he demonstrated his casting process. Over the course of the weekend, Simon engaged in a collaboration with the Factory building itself, collecting red brick fragments to incorporate into clay, taking casts of various features in the workshop, and using those casts to produce this small collection of artworks.  Factory Fragments was commissioned to play between the gap of the physical and digital exhibitions. The collection will be showcased in an online exhibition, accessible through a newly developed online portal - the NSF shop. This innovative approach allows the NSF to showcase the extraordinary site-located work created by Simon Kidd but also allows the Factory Fragments collection to be purchased online, offering a unique opportunity to acquire a piece of work that inculcates the constant creative history of the Factory floor. This collection is a series of fifteen ceramics; five forms taken from features on the Factory floor, and three different styles of glazing. Each piece is unique and available to buy for a limited time only. View the full collection in our online shop Simon Kidd, Duct III, 2024, stoneware, local stone & factory brick inclusions, gas fired, shino glaze Belfast born Simon Kidd graduated with a degree in Ceramic Design from Central Saint Martins in London, and currently lives and works on Oileán Chléire off West Cork. Simon uses a variety of processes – including throwing, slip casting, press moulding, and hand-building – as well as wood, gas, and electric-fired kilns to create sculptural ceramic forms that are meditations on place. He often incorporates site-specific materials – such as granite, basalt, limestone, wood ashes, and turf ash – gathered from around the island of Ireland and used as inclusions in the clay body and in glazes. He is currently creating a body of work while on residency on Oileán Chléire, an offshore island Gaeltacht, where he is making through live land casting and firing pieces in a custom-built hybrid kiln while incorporating the use of materials collected from the island.

Simon Kidd, Brick III, 2024, stoneware, local stone & factory brick inclusions, hybrid gas & wood fired, matt glaze "Objects, sculptures, vessels, artefacts. They always begin with a place, with its stories and feelings it evokes. My pieces respond directly to a place, they are embedded and coated with materials gathered from there. The forms informed by what is found there, or what once was there. I want these pieces to become artefacts of their place – to be physical connections to the land they’re born out of. Working with ceramics, I utilise different processes: throwing, slip casting, press moulding, hand-building. I allow the project I work on to inform the processes used. The constant thread throughout my work is the use of local materials, which are used as inclusions in the clay body or else as glazes – granite, basalt, limestone, wood and plant ashes. Endless possibilities for what can be used as well as how. This constant experimentation and learning it creates is an important part of my practice." You can read more about the Factory Fragments commission on our website          The National Sculpture Factory is funded by the Arts Council and Cork City Council.

10 x 10 minute plays at Cork Arts Theatre

 

10x10 Minute Play Event Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 7th December @8pm Our very popular, annual 10 x 10 Minute Play Event is back with ten brand new short plays for you to enjoy. This fundraising event has proved a great hit with audiences and performers alike over the years and, once again, we will have ten mini-plays each evening with something to suit all tastes. Audiences will also get to vote for their favourite play of the evening which adds to the sense of occasion. The 10 plays to be performed are: ACT 1 ‘Carma’ by Jessica Walsh and Patrick O’Mahony ‘Casualty 462’ by Noel King ‘Selkie’ by Áine King ‘Welcome to your upgrade’ by Miriam Needham ‘Stealing a Kiss’ by Alan McCormick ACT 2 ‘Step Five’ by Theresa Ryder ‘Prose and Cons’ by Barry Wood ‘Life’s A Beach’ by Dominic Cogan ‘Sh!t’ by Jennifer Lipinski ‘9mm Pizza’ by Fintan Ógie Harmon *Please note that some of the plays deal with adult themes so are only suitable for ages 16+ Tickets: €15

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West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2025 Programme Announcement

 

2025 Programme to be announced in December We look forward to announcing the 2025 festival programme in December. If you would like to receive a printed copy of the brochure, please email sara@westcorkmusic.ie. If you are currently on our mailing list and you would like to opt out of receiving a copy, please let us know.  2025 Festival Image This year we have been given permission to use Tom Climent's Sundew for the festival brochure, programme and poster. We would like to thank Tom for allowing us to use his lovely painting. 30th West Cork Chamber Music Festival Among those musicians appearing at the 2025 Festival are: Ardeo Quartet, Chiaroscuro Quartet, Doric Quartet, Marmen Quartet, Tchalik Quartet, Pacific Quintet, Anna Besson, Rachel Podger, Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet, Lotte Betts-Dean, Brett Dean, Barry Douglas, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Mairéad Hickey, Henning Kraggerud, Alma Kraggerud, Nathalia Milstein, Ella van Poucke, Paula Meehan, Paddington Trio and many more. Clockwise from top left: Tchalik Quartet, Chiaroscuro Quartet, Henning Kraggerud, Marmen Quartet, Barry Douglas, Lotte Betts-Dean. Ardeo Quartet to appear at 2025 Festival Ardeo Quartet will be returning to Bantry for the 2025 Festival. The quartet, made up of women from France, Japan and South Korea, made its Bantry debut in 2023 to great acclaim with standout performances of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's String Quartet No.9 in C major. They return to perform Janáček's Intimate Letters in its original version with viola d’amore as well as Bach's Art of Fugue ( specially learnt for this Festival); Beethoven's Quartet in E minor; Kaija Kaariaho's Terra Memoria; Mendelssohn's String Quintet No.2 in B flat with Brett Dean and more.   Listen back to the Quartet's 2023 performance of Beethoven's Quartet No. 16 in F major. Click here Ardeo Quartet performing second movement of Janáček's String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters Become a Friend of West Cork Music and book your tickets early By becoming a Friend of West Cork Music, you can avail of Priority Booking as well as a range of other benefits including invitations to Friends and Artist receptions. Priority Booking for Platinum and Gold Friends of West Cork Music opens on Tuesday January 21st 2025. Silver Friends can book from Thursday February 13th 2025. General Booking opens Wednesday March 12th 2025 Find out more

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