Skibbereen Arts Festival

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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Canon Goodman

Children's Festival

Cork X Southwest

Sound & Vision

Special Events

Field Notes
From Monday 26th to Saturday 31st July 2010 - 10am-5pm
Field Notes

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 …

Mixtape
From Monday 26th to Saturday 31st July 2010 - 11.00am
Mixtape

An installation-version of the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, Mixtape, interweaving radio archive material and ambient music.

Short Films
From Monday 26th to Saturday 31st July 2010 - 2pm-5pm
Short Films

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 …

Local Hero – Outdoor Screening
Monday 26th July 2010 - 10pm
Local Hero – Outdoor Screening

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

An Seanfhear Beag le Marc Mac Lochlainn
Tuesday 27th July 2010 - 1pm and 7pm
An Seanfhear Beag le Marc Mac Lochlainn

Based on “The Story of Little Old Man” by famous Swedish author Barbro Lindgren. It has been adapted and translated by Marc Mac Lochlainn

The Science of Flann O’Brien – Theatre
Tuesday 27th July 2010 - 8pm
The Science of Flann O’Brien – Theatre

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

Sounding Sacred Spaces
Wednesday 28th July 2010 - 4-6pm
Sounding Sacred Spaces

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

At The Ends of The Earth – Chris Watson in Conversation
Wednesday 28th July 2010 - 8:30pm
At The Ends of The Earth – Chris Watson in Conversation

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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.

2 Day Sound Course
Thursday 29th and Friday 30th July 2010 - 10am-5pm
2 Day Sound Course

Skibbereen Arts Festival is delighted to welcome back sound recordist par excellence Chris Watson to present a special two-day sound recording course

Traditional Gaelic Choirs
Thursday 29th July 2010 - 8pm
Traditional Gaelic Choirs

Cór Cúil Aodha was founded by Seán Ó’Riada in the musical heartland of the West Cork Gaeltacht of Baile Mhuirne in 1964 …