Offering the best of professional dramatic performance, this year’s Fit-Up Theatre Festival runs from July 8 to August 3, in towns, villages and islands all over West Cork. With a nod to the tradition of Fit-Up theatre of the 1950s, the West Cork Fit-Up Theatre Festival has been providing rural […]
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The increasingly popular Skibbereen Arts Festival returns this summer (July 25-August 3) with an incredible programme of world-class local, national and international acts. A major coup for the festival this year is the debut West Cork appearance by the legendary English musician Richard Thompson, described by the LA Times as “the […]
As always in Summer, the art galleries and arts centres of West Cork are blooming: there are wonderful exhibitions to be seen in Cnoc Bui (Union Hall), Working Artist Studios (Ballydehob), Uillin (Skibbereen), Blue House Gallery (Schull), and Gallery Asna | Clonakilty Community Arts Centre (Clonakilty). This will be the […]
‘Come West The Road With Me’, a whistle-stop reading tour around West Cork during June, is a homecoming of sorts for writer and documentary filmmaker Cónal Creedon. The 2024/25 season marks an especially meaningful period for the writer. After receiving multiple invitations to give readings across West Cork, he chose […]
Spring in West Cork means many things, not least the beginning of the exhibition season for many galleries. In Clonakilty, on March 27, 28 and 29, three exhibitions opened, either coinciding with or programmed for the Clonakilty Arts and Minds pop-up festival. The opening of ‘The Secret Country’ by TP […]
Craig Cox reviews ‘All At Once Collapsing Together’, an exhibition of new work by Caoimhín Gaffney showing at The West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. Using multi-screen film, photography, text and neon sculptures, shifting personifications of nature voice Gaffney’s concerns about the balance of influence between humans and the environment. […]