Venue: Skibbereen Town Hall Time: 8.30pm Date: Thursday 28th July Ticket Price: €8 A trip down memory lane. The late ‘80s and ‘90s proved to be a golden era for West Cork football. In good times and bad, quality football has been a constant and life-long bonds are made and kept from lining out together for club and school. Following on from last year’s very successful archive screening night, this year we are concentrating on two classic football matches associated [...]
Venue: Skibbereen Town Hall Time: 1pm Date: Thursday 28th July Ticket Price: Free Admission The award-winning and critically acclaimed fanasy short film directed by Albert Lamorisse follows the relationship between a little boy and a red balloon with a mind of its own that he befriends on the Parisian streets. Widely recognised as one of the most important films in children’s cinema, this 1956 classic is the only dialogue-free fi lm to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Albert Lamorisse [...]
Venue 1: The West Cork Hotel, Ilen Street, Skibbereen Time: 5pm Date: July 24, 25, 26 Ticket Price: €10 Venue 2: Baby Hannah’s Bar, Bridge Street Time: 9pm Date: July 27, 28, 29 Ticket Price: €10 Anton Chekhov described his early comedies Marriage Proposal and The Brute as one act jokes. These short three handers are often played together and have at their farcical heart, disputes common to rural neighbours everywhere, about land, money and petty jealousy, which never fail [...]
Venue: West Cork Arts Centre Time: See below for time schedule Date: July 23rd – July 30th ABOUT BEAUTY Dir: Conor Horgan | 52 mins | Wildfire Films | 11am Daily A documentary on the sea-based works of conceptual artist Dorothy Cross, which follows her to a remote island off Papua New Guinea as she makes work inspired by the native tradition of shark-calling. JIMMY MURAKAMI : NON ALIEN Dir: Se Merry Doyle | 75 mins | Loopline Films | [...]
Venue: Old Credit Union, North Street, Skibbereen Time: 11am – 5pm Date: July 25th – 30th Sonophore is a site-specifi c interactive sound installation developed in 2011 by Signal to Noise. As visitors enter the installation space, they are invited to use a custom interface to interact with hundreds of strips of unspooled audio cassette tape. This tape is attached to the walls of the space, and laterally spans its interior. It surrounds the participant and audience, following the space’s [...]
Venue: The Time Traveller’s Bookshop, Bridge Street, Skibbereen Time: 11am – 5pm Date: July 23rd – 30th (Closed on Sunday) The Travelling Sounds Library is a collaborative project produced by Forest Fringe, bringing together a rich and diverse range of audio works by some of the most exciting artists in the UK into a touring interactive library. As recording and editing technology becomes more accessible, more and more artists are taking the opportunity to experiment with audio-based performances, and the [...]
Venue: 71 North Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork Time: 11am – 5pm Date: July 23-31 FORMATIONS SAIDHBHÍN GIBSON Formations is the result of a residency taken last year in the Working Artist Studios in Skibbereen. The exhibition is an aggregate of art-objects and drawings representing a period of time in a specific location, while the works also make visible the activity within the surrounds of Skibbereen. The interconnectedness between the works is gradually revealed to the viewer as they spend time [...]
Venue: The Old Quay (off Main Street), Skibbereen Time: 11am – 5pm Date: July 25th – 30th Master and Man is a three part narrative project about a fictional T-shaped building that is situated alongside a disused canal, in the Midlands. The story will be relayed with two video pieces and a text. Adrian Duncan studied and worked as a structural engineer in the UK and Ireland for over a decade before returning to study fine art and contemporary art [...]
Venue: 4 North Street, Skibbereen Time: 11am- 5pm Date: July 23rd – 30th Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania in 1970. He studied fi lm at the Tbilisi Film Academy Georgia from 1988 to 1992. He has works in the International Collections; Museum of Modern Art, New York / ‘My Motherland’, Anthology Film Archives/ Cinemateque Francaise, Paris / The Oesterreichiscies Film Museum, Vienna /Marcel Duchamp Estate, France. He now lives in County Clare, Ireland, and works internationally. The Window Shot [...]
Venue: 4 North Street, Skibbereen Time: 11am- 5pm Date: July 23rd – 30th Tory North Side | 40 mins This is a slow sound piece, a l’écoute (listening) to the natural elements. Guillaume Beauron returned to Tory Island to record sounds of wild animals living on the North side of the island and to try and capture the way the typography of the cliffs, rocks and caves reflects itself through sounds, phenomenes, echoes and reverbs. Jungle Heroes | 24 mins [...]
