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.
Read the full story »Field Notes’ is an installation in disused building by Tess Leak of drawings inspired by the environment around her. Using humble materials such as found cardboard, recycled wallpaper, office index cards and a corner of a room …
An installation-version of the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, Mixtape, interweaving radio archive material and ambient music.
Bow Street – A narrow Dublin street of bustling barristers, bowed street-drinkers, box-ticking tourists, broke or broken seekers-of-a-free-lunch. An urban fi lm-portrait that hurries and slows to the criss-crossing paces of a hundred passers-by …
Join us again this year in the atmospheric grounds of Abbeystrewery Church for our outdoor movie night! This year we are delighted to have David Puttnam to introduce his classic 1983 movie, Local Hero
Based on “The Story of Little Old Man” by famous Swedish author Barbro Lindgren. It has been adapted and translated by Marc Mac Lochlainn
In his writings, and particularly, in ‘The Third Policeman’, Flann O’Brien took scientific principles, extrapolated them to fantastic proportions, and set the outcomes in a bizarre context that is at once both logical and illogical
The Quiet Club’ are Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy. Formed in Feb 2006 they have met with considerable success and have become recognised as one of Ireland’s leading sound art improvisation groups
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Skibbereen Arts Festival is delighted to see the return of sound recordist and artist Chris Watson to present a selection of audio recordings in the atmospheric Abbeystrewry Church.
Skibbereen Arts Festival is delighted to welcome back sound recordist par excellence Chris Watson to present a special two-day sound recording course
Cór Cúil Aodha was founded by Seán Ó’Riada in the musical heartland of the West Cork Gaeltacht of Baile Mhuirne in 1964 …