Skibbereen Arts Festival 2012

Venue:  Eldon Hotel, Bridge Street, Skibbereen Time: 10.30pm Date: Friday 29th July Ticket Price: €10 Friday 29th July at the Eldon Hotel is Rockabilly Night!!! From Kilkenny, TV Jones and The Tomahawks have  gained a die-hard following  for their wild, red hot brand of rockabilly. The band play a roaring mixture of classic and modern rockabilly tunes, mixed with some rockin’ originals. Their high octane sets contain some golden classics, mixed with some of the more hopped-up modern gems, with [...]

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 [...]

Venue: Fierce Creatures Pet Shop | Castlelands/Hourihane Veterinary Clinic (Details below) Time:  10am – 5pm/6pm (Details Below) Date:  July 23rd – 30th FIERCE CREATURES PET SHOP | TOWNSHEND STREET, SKIBBEREEN | 10AM-6PM CASTLELANDS/HOURIHANE VETERINARY CLINIC, SKIBBEREEN | 10AM-5PM Maria Kerin. Nervous around Horses by trans-disciplinary artist Maria Kerin outlines the process of learning to horse ride and getting over the fear of being nervous around horses.