Bealtaine Festival, an Age & Opportunity event, is a celebration of the arts and creativity as we age. Although festival organisers had to cancel their live and in-person events this May, they are bringing a taste of the festival to you online for the entire month of May – Bealtaine […]
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Jean Dunne, a Sherkin Island artist, is working with other artists and friends of the Sherkin Island community to help raise funds for Cork Penny Dinners. Jean has created a dedicated page https://thewoolshop.ie/?s=cork&post_type=product on her online wool shop where images of artwork can be bought, with 100 per cent of the profits […]
by Nick Smith Maria Gillen of Cork Yarn Spinners, well known raconteur and winner of the Sean McCarthy 25th Anniversary Story Telling Competition in Finuge, will host a storytelling session for adults tomorrow, Wednesday, May 6, at 4PM. This will take place on Zoom. This makes it possible for people to interact, albeit […]
Poetry Day Ireland 2020 this Thursday, April 30 will take place as a digital/virtual festival due to the ongoing fight against Covid-19, allowing everyone to take part from the safety of their own home and collectively experience the joy of poetry. Be part of it and let us know how […]
A novel new art initiative launched today – ‘Draw Our Heroes’ is asking budding young artists across the country to immortalise the everyday heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic by submitting their original portraits to a national competition. Every day during COVID-19, ordinary citizens are doing extraordinary things and working tirelessly to keep […]
The National Gallery of Ireland and Crawford Art Gallery are delighted to announce a continuation of their partnership for the Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize exhibitions. Earlier this year, the portraiture exhibitions travelled to a second venue outside of Dublin when the 2019 shortlists were displayed in […]