Skibbereen once again pays homage to the vibrant fabric of our community that is the arts and once again we have managed to produce an excellent programme of events with many world-class national and international acts coming to town.
Highlights include the 4th Cork X Southwest Music Festival, a gala concert commemorating Canon James Goodman, an excellent Sound & Vision programme of films and drama and the very special Skibbereen Children’s Festival.
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STORYTELLING NIGHT WITH TOMMY TIERNAN
Shakespeare once wrote “All the world’s a stage and all its men and women are merely players.” Tonight the Town Hall in Skibbereen will be the stage for a storytelling night with the peerless Tommy Tiernan. The multi award winning comic will be telling slightly more laid back stories than usual, folktales, parables and myth mixed in with his own flights of fancy, all pondering, in a roundabout way, the big question, why are we here? Having recently broken the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous solo show by a comedian (36 hours 15 mins) and sell out World Tours of every other county he’s hit on his current World Tours jaunt around the country (including Galway, Limerick, Cork, Mayo, Donegal, Tipperary and many more), Tiernan is currently in irresistible form.
More info on www.tommytiernan.com
Skibbereen Arts Festival moves down river to the Baltimore Community Hall for this stunning stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s great American novel, Moby Dick
Written by Belfast playwright Marie Jones, ‘A Night In November’ stars award-winning actor William Lyons as Kenneth McAlister, a working-class Protestant, during a fateful night in November, 1993 in Belfast when the Republic of Ireland soccer team plays against Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifier
Tom French is one of the most interesting poets to emerge in Ireland in the last few years. He was born in Kilkenny in 1966 and raised across the border in Tipperary …
A photographic project by 12 young people from Cape Clear Island exploring different aspects of their daily lives on the Island …
Protestant Minister, piper, Gaelic scholar and Trinity College professor; James Goodman, straddled two very different cultures in 19th century Ireland but it is the vast collection of tunes he transcribed from piper, Thomas Kennedy which James Goodman will be remembered for
This diverse programme of videos by emerging Irish artists workingwith the moving image draws on and refl ects Cork Film Centre’s long established commitment to supporting exciting new video work. From documentary intimacy to baroque …
CILLIAN GIBBONS graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design in 1999 with an honours ceramics degree. She works from her ceramics studio in West Cork. The work is mainly in bone china using slip casting and hand building techniques …
Wexford artist Michael Fortune presents three collections of folklore which he recorded in Mayo, Tipperary, Offaly and Wexford over the past five years
Guillaume Beauron’s electroacoustic pieces and horspiels are based on soundscapes, voices and sound objects (objets sonores).