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SKIBBEREEN
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JULY 22 - 31 2016
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Skibbereen, Co. Cork
028 22090
www.westcorkartscentre.com
Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 4.45pm
SUMMER MUSIC SEASON
A unique series of three concerts in the James O’Driscoll Gallery.
Experience the vibrancy and richness of 17th and 18th century music played
on authentic instruments by outstanding young musicians.
Enjoy a special pre-concert supper at Kalbos Café@ The Uillinn with with a
complimentary glass of wine.
Ensemble Dagda Tuesday 19 July at 7.15pm
Tickets €15. Concessions €10. Children free
Supper and Concert, complimentary glass of wine €27 / €22
Emma Power - soprano; Caitríona O’Mahony, Aingeala de Búrca - baroque
violins; Norah O’Leary - baroque cello; Tom Ó Drisceoil – harpsichord.
Eimear Reidy Thursday 28 July at 7.15pm
Tickets €10. Concessions €7. Children free
Supper and Concert, complimentary glass of wine €22 / €19
Eimear Reidy on solo baroque cello.
Barefoot Baroque Thursday 4 August at 1.15pm
Katy Salvidge on baroque recorder, Justin Grounds on baroque violin and Tess
Leak on cello.
Not to be missed - these concerts promise to enliven and inspire.
BOOKING NOW
Experience the arts
Art exhibitions, Family activities, Music
and Dance Performances, Kalbo’s café,
Summer Camps, Artists in studio
EXHIBITION
John Kelly: A Group Show 23 July to 31 August
Antarctic paintings, West Cork paintings, sculpture and prints.
And an Iceberg Installation in Glandore Harbour.
EVENTS FOR SKIBBEREEN ARTS FESTIVAL AT UILLINN
An exciting programme of music, film, workshops, performances, exhibitions,
artists-in-residence, special sound workshops for very young children, gallery resources for families and much more for Skibbereen Arts Festival.
For more information:-
www.westcorkartscentre.com and www.skibbereenartsfestival.com
Skibbereen
(estb. 1877)
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Traditional Irish Music
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Singers Club first Friday every Month
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37 BRIDGE ST SKIBBEREEN CO. CORK
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Hello and Welcome to
Skibbereen Arts Festival 2016
Art is everywhere in West Cork. In the scenery, in the people and in the atmosphere. No matter where
you go you are likely to bump into a practitioner or lover of the arts. The eighth Skibbereen Arts Festival
pays homage to this vital fabric of our community with a programme that we hope you agree is simply
astonishing!
There will be music, film, theatre and poetry. Literature, exhibitions, symposiums and installations. Walks,
talks and workshops. Family fun days and a spectacular 1960s street party. No matter your age, there truly
is something for everyone. We hope you enjoy.
Brendan McCarthy, Festival Chairman
Funders
Sponsors
Media Partner
Special Thanks to Brian Carmody
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Music
All You Need is Love
Canon Goodman Concert
Vieux Farka Touré
crOw
The Voice Squad
The Hydra Quintet
Instruments of Ice
Eddi Reader
DogTailSoup with Glen Hansard
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Workshops
Fantastic Mr. Fox (kids)
Family Acrobatics
Young Filmmakers
Songwriting (adults)
Art & Nature for kids
Scriptwriting (adults)
Children’s Art
Acting (adults)
Making Poems with Theo Dorgan
Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Kids
Timeleap with E.R. Murray (kids)
Filmmaking with Gerard Barrett
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Theatre
Stroll with Shakespeare
4 Plays in a Day
Marion
Mary and Me
Leper + Chip
From Eden
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Spoken Word
Beckett and The Wake
Book Reading by Maria Murphy
Poetry Reading by Theo Dorgan
Working Artists Studios’ Poetry Marathon
Weekend with the Writers, Liz Nugent
Afric McGlinchey
Martina Devlin
Claudia Carroll
An Audience with Gerard Barrett
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Outdoor
All You Need is Love
Historical Walk of Lough Hyne
Historical Walk of Skibbereen
The Ilen Feast
Down by the Riverside
Stroll with Shakespeare
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Film
Fis na Fuiseoige
REBEL ROSSA
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Heart of a Dog
Movie Under the Stars
The Great Wall
Marlon and Me
Atlantic
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
Hand Gestures
Pilgrim Hill
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Visual Art
Sculpture Garden
Angela Flowers Collection at Downeen
Paul Cialis
Vaunie Strahan
Catherine Hammond Gallery
John Kelly – A Group Show
Michael Holly and William Bock
Music at Uillinn
WAVE Inclusive Dance
Family events at Uillinn
Dark Matter
MÓR
The Souvenir Shop
Helen Walsh & Rohan Reilly
Working Artist Studios
Umha Aois
Fringe
88 Harriet Selke and LGBT+
89 Risteard Breathnach, Tuath
90 IRIS and the JB Gallery
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GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Skibbereen Arts Festival, Fearnóg. Poundlick, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
Tel: 086 8617605
Email: info@skibbereenartsfestival.com
VOLUNTEERS
From hanging bunting to handing out flyers, whether building stages or invigilating
exhibitions, this festival would not be happening without the amazing work done
by a small group of volunteers who have given a lot of time and effort throughout
the year. If you would like to join our team we are looking for enthusiastic, reliable
and friendly volunteers to help at festival events. Please contact us at info@
skibbereenartsfestival.com for more details.
MAILING LIST
We only use our mailing list to send you details of our events. We NEVER pass on
your details to other organisations. If you’d like to be added to our mailing list then
please email us at info@skibbereenartsfestival.com
FESTIVAL TEAM
Chairman: Brendan McCarthy
Festival Director: Declan McCarthy
Visual Art Co-Ordinator: Donagh Carey
Films programmed by Sharon Whooley
Box Office: Claire Murphy, Maeve O’Sullivan, Suzy McCarthy, Marian Young and
Helen Casey
Press, Publicity and Social Media: Claire Murphy and Helen Casey
Festival Photographer: Ger Murphy, mexicanger@googlemail.com
Production: Daragh Murphy
Festival Crew: Kieran Crowley, Niall Carey, Bryan Harris and Rory Cregan
Programme Compilation: Declan McCarthy
Programme and Website Design: Eoin Mahon, www.metric.ie
Cover Image by Eoin Mahon
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TICKETING AND BOX OFFICE INFORMATION
All tickets are now on sale at www.skibbereenartsfestival.com
FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE
Skibbereen Town Hall, The Square, Skibbereen
Email info@skibbereenartsfestival.com or telephone 087 1260327
Box Office open on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th July from 2-5pm
And then daily from Thursday 21st to Saturday 30th July, 10-5pm
SEATING AT LIVE EVENTS
All of our festival venues have unreserved seating so seats cannot be reserved in
advance.
Any seating is on a first come first served basis.
Door open 30 minutes before the start of each show.
REFUNDS
We can only offer refunds or exchange tickets in the case of a cancelled event.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
All of our venues are wheelchair accessible.
BOOKING FEE
There is a €1 booking fee per ticket purchased online for events that cost €10 or
more. This goes towards bank charges and card data protection charges.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES
www.skibbereenartsfestival.com
/SkibbereenArts
/skibbartsfest
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FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL 2016
There’s still time to become a ‘Friend’ for 2016, just pop into the box office at
Skibbereen Town Hall, or Tel: 087 1260327, Email: info@skibbereenartsfestival.com
•Ronnie Tanner - Ilenroy B&B
•Permanent TSB Skibbereen
•Skibbereen Heritage Centre
•Market Street Dental Surgery
•Karizma Hair Salon
•Padraig O’Driscoll Victuallers
•Maria O’Donovan & Co Solicitors
•Caitriona McSweeney Dental Surgery
•South Coast Motor Cycles
•Essential Beauty
•Trendy Hair Fashions
•John Collins Castletownshend
•Peggy Hayes Electrical
•Kenneally Opticians
•Catherine Hammond Gallery
•Sean Murray Fashions
•Charles McCarthy Estate Agents
•Nealons Career Services
•Rue De Siam Rosaleen O’Shea
•Inspire Design & Print
•Hamilton’s Pharmacy
•Apple Betty’s
•Charlie & Noreen McCarthy
•Michael McCarthy - Drinagh Pharmacy
•The Mobile Phone Shop
•Yin Yang Wholefoods
•Colin McCarthy Cahalane’s Bar
•The Eldon Hotel
•Fleur Angelique
•The Church Restaurant
•Brendan & Eithne McCarthy
•The Time Travellers Bookshop
•The West Cork Hotel
•Morgan O’Driscoll Fine Art Auctioneers
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•The Corner Bar
•Alma
•Walsh’s Butchers
•Barry Brothers Builders Providers
•Ger Carey - The Horse & Hound
•Good Things
•Cathal O’Donovan’s Bookshop
•Hourihane Sports
•Kalbo’s Café
•Wish
•The Paragon
•Riverside Skibbereen
•Cleary’s Pharmacy
•Horgan’s Pharmacy
•Fiona’s
•Jeff ’s Wood Fired Pizza
•Helen Dempsey - Abbey Furniture
•Noreen Daly - Daly’s Drapery
•Elaine O’Sullivan - The Beauty Spot
•Pat Maguire Properties
•Roycroft Cycles
•Hair Heaven
•Grainne Collins - The Favourite
•Mona Best - Bridge House
•South of Ireland Petroleum
•An Chistin Beag
•Designs
•Violette House
•The Party & Gift Shop
•Anne Minihane Photography
•La Femme Beauty Salon
•Skibbereen Chamber of Commerce/
Skibbereen Tourist Office
THANK YOU
Very Special Thanks to our main funders The Arts Council of Ireland and Cork
County Council and our local sponsors Skibbereen Credit Union, Field’s of Skibbereen
and Skibbereen Chamber of Commerce.
Thanks also to The West Cork Hotel, Morgan O’Driscoll Fine Art Auctioneers, The
Church Restaurant, Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre, The Corner Bar, our Media
Partner The Southern Star and all who subscribed to our ‘Friends of the Festival’.
Special Thanks to everyone who generously opened their premises to us for the
festival; Skibbereen Town Hall, The Select Vestry of Abbystrwery Parish, The Ludgate
Hub, Working Artist Studios, Liss Ard Estate, Richard Roycroft, Teddy & Kathleen
O’Regan, Christy O’Donovan, Claire Burns, Breffni O’Neill, Noel O’Driscoll, The
Southern Star, West Cork Kickboxing Club, Walsh’s Butchers, Good Things, Catherine
Hammond Gallery, The Riverside Café, Skibbereen Courthouse, Skibbereen Scout
Hall, Skibbereen Heritage Centre and O’Donovan Rossa GAA Club.
For ‘All You Need is Love’ thanks to Cian O’Mahony, Colin McCarthy, Mona Best,
Caragh Bell, Sgt. Tony McCarthy & Skibbereen Gardaí, Sacha Puttnam, Brian
Hennessy, Liz Clark, Saint Fachtna’s Silver Band, Katy Salvidge, Roseanne Kidney, Dan
Connolly, Dave Barry, Mike O’Brien at Drinagh Co-op, Alan Holmes, Teddy Leahy and
his crew plus all of the stewards and volunteers.
For guidance, support and services rendered thanks to Peter Murray, Ian McDonagh,
Reverend John Ardis, Justin England, Philip O’Regan, Terri Kearney, Ann Davoren,
Justine Foster, Mary McGrath, Karl Shiels, Rory Cregan, Kieran Crowley, Bryan Harris,
Niall Carey, Skibbereen Theatre Society, Gerard Hurley, Maurice Seezer, Schull Tourist
Office, Kay Quinn, Mary McCarthy, Cliodhna and Sandrine McCarthy and especially
Eoin Mahon at Metric.
Extra Special Thanks to Brian Carmody
Very special thank you to all of our volunteers and anyone who helped to make this
festival happen. And finally a heartfelt thanks to you our audience for your continued
support and goodwill.
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OUTDOOR / SPECIAL EVENT
All You Need Is Love
1960s Street Party
Following the spectacular success of 2015’s ‘March Back in Time’, Skibbereen Arts
Festival opens this year with something ‘similar but completely different’.
The whole town will reverberate to the sounds of the 60s for the day with shops
displaying posters and artefacts from the period and staff dressed in period costume.
Then at 7pm Bridge street will be closed to traffic and there’ll be music, street theatre,
puppet shows, children’s games, arts and crafts stalls, a flower power wall, graffiti artists
creating a mural, food stalls, and then at 9pm a very special performance of some
Beatles songs by a Skibbereen Arts Festival version of ‘Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club
Band’ put together especially for the occasion.
Please dress up in costume if you can – All You Need is Love!
Generously sponsored by
Skibbereen Credit Union
 Bridge St
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 Fri 22nd 19-22:00
 FREE
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WORKSHOP
Children’s events at
Skibbereen Library
 11:00
Jabberwocky Presents Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl - a performance for 4 to 11
year olds. Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of Roald Dahl’s best-loved tales and certainly one
of his most dramatic. Our hero, the ingenious outlaw, Mr Fox, is pitted against three
of the most unsavoury farmers in literature. Lots of fun and audience participation
involved. Children will be encouraged to join in as actors, set manipulators, prop
wielders, creators of sound and music.... Admission is free but young children must be
accompanied. Further information, phone 028 22400
 14:00
Creative Writing and Illustration Workshop for 7 to 11 year olds. Following on
from the morning performance of Fantastic Mr Fox, and inspired by the work of
Roald Dahl. Admission is free but places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Phone 028 22400
 Skibbereen Library
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 Sat 23rd 11:00 &14:00
 FREE
WORKSHOP
Family Acrobatics
Workshop with Meshubash
Meshubash is an all female acrobatic trio. They mix dance and hand-balancing with
duo and trio acrobatics to create their own unique style of movement. No experience
required, just a desire to try and have fun!
* For both workshops wear comfortable clothes you can move in.
 11:00
 €10
Family Acrobatics Workshop for kids and adults
*ages 5 and up *Duration 1 hour : *€10 per family (2 kids & 1parent)
We will find different acrobatic positions that require balance,communication and lots
of fun and laughs. Come along and you’ll be surprised what you can do!
 13:00
 €5
Teens and adults Acrobatic Workshop
*ages 15 and up *Duration1 hour : €5
We will introduce you to the discipline of partner and trio acrobatics from the world
of circus.
 West Cork Martial Arts Centre, off Market St.
 Sat 23rd 11:00 & 13:00  €10 & €5
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OUTDOOR
Guided Walk at Lough Hyne
with Terri Kearney
Author of ‘Lough Hyne: The Marine Researchers’
and ‘Lough Hyne: From Pre-history to the Present’
A different perspective of Lough Hyne will be given by Terri as she takes
walkers on her daily trail around the lough. Peeling off the layers of history, she
will share some of what she has learnt about the landscape and people of the
lough over the years.
 Base of Knockomagh Hill
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 Sat 23rd 14:00 (90 minutes)
 FREE
FILM
Fis na Fuiseoige
Dir: Aodh Ó Coileáin | 60mins | Counterpoint Films, Ireland | 2015
Fis na Fuiseoige is a visual and poetic spectacle that explores our cultural DNA, a
celebration of who we are and what makes us who we are. The film narrative explores
the pagan roots of the Irish connection with place, and the Dinnsheanchas tradition,
the Christian conversion, the breakdown of the Gaelic society, the Irish-to-English
language changeover of the 19th century, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the renewed
poetic expression of the sense of place, as expressed in the writings of recent and
contemporary Irish language poets, including Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Biddy Jenkinson,
Jackie Mac Donnchadha, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, and Louis de Paor, among others.
The film explores the work of these poets celebrating the natural and spiritual wealth
of the local places in Ireland, and looks at the roots of their love for the land and their
need to write about the ancestral place.
The film explores each place from a birds-eye-perspective with stunning aerial images
creating a new visual topography across the four provinces.
 Town Hall
 Sat 23rd 16:00
 €6.00
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Rebel Rossa
Dir: Williams Rossa Cole | 90 mins | Ireland | 2016
Exclusive Screening of new film about West Cork patriot Jeremiah O’Donovan
Rossa!
“A personal investigation into the life and legacy of the famous – and infamous
– Irish rebel Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa by his American great-grandson.”
Fresh from its world première at the Galway Film Fleadh we are delighted to present an
exclusive ‘one-off ’ screening of this exciting new film on Rossa’s life. Shot by his great
grandsons in West Cork and other parts of Ireland in 1915, this is your only chance to
see this film this year.
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was one of the most controversial figures in Irish history.
A committed Republican, he created the concept of bombing campaigns against
England in the 1800s. Banished as an exile to the United States, he continued to
relentlessly campaign for Irish independence. His funeral in 1915 lit the fuse for the
rebellion of Easter 1916.
One hundred years after his death, his great grandsons investigate Rossa’s legacy and
their relationship to their infamous relative. Filmed in the centenary year of his death,
the grandsons find themselves not only observers of their relative’s commemorations,
but actual participants.
 Town Hall
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 Sat 23rd 20:00
 €8.00
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WORKSHOP
with Cork Young Filmmakers.
Two-Day Workshop on Filmmaking
This intensive practical two-day workshop is geared towards aspiring young people,
aged from 13 to 21, with a strong interest in enhancing their film making skills.
Young filmmakers working as a group will script your own drama, shoot the scenes,
act, direct, crew and edit a short film under the guidance of professional filmmakers
from Cork Film Centre.
DAY 1: Hands-on workshops in using equipment and in film theory + preparation of
the story for the short film.
DAY 2: All action, a full day devoted to the shooting of a short digital film.
The short film will be screened at 6pm on Monday 25th at Skibbereen Town Hall.
12 places only. For more information, or to book, please phone Cork Young
Filmmakers 086-8139019
or email corkyoungfilmmakers@gmail.com or contact the Festival Office for
information.
The Cork Young Filmmakers Programme is supported by Cork County Council.
 GAA Pavilion
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 Sun 24th + Mon 25th 10:30-16:00
 €20.00
OUTDOOR
Historical Walking
Tour of Skibbereen
With Local Historian Philip O’Regan
Join our amazing local historian Philip O’Regan on this fascinating and eye-opening
historical walking tour of our town. Discover the hidden Skibbereen where the streets,
buildings and lanes have direct links with the Great Famine.
 Assemble at Skibbereen Court House.
 Sun 24th 12:00
 €3.00
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The Ilen Feast
The Ilen Feast is a celebration of multicultural life in Skibbereen. Come with your
family and bring a dish from your native country to an outdoor Sunday lunch on the
banks of the river Ilen. Sharing food, stories and music. The Ilen Feast is organised
by artist William Bock as part of his residency at Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre. The
Feast will be captured by William in a big pinhole photograph, created by transforming
part of the historic old Mill on Ilen Street into a Camera Obscura. The resulting image
will remain exhibited in the building after the event as a trace of this celebration.
Email or call William to reserve a place at the table and receive more information
before you join us. contact@williambock.com 0879741064
Ilen Feast Sunday 24th July 12 – 3pm
The Old Steam Mill, Ilen Street
Ilen Feast Photograph Installation 29th July – 6th August
The Old Steam Mill, Ilen Street
Residency Exhibition 29th July – 6th August
Studio 2 Uillin West Cork Arts Centre
 Old Steam Mill, Ilen St
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 Sun 24th 12-15:00
 FREE
FAMILY / OUTDOOR
Family Fun Day
‘Down by the Riverside’
A Free Family Fun Day on the banks of the Ilen river.
Organised by Skibbereen Chamber of Commerce this will be a day of fun activities
on and next to our beautiful river. There’ll be kayaking, a rowing display, children’s
boat building, pig’n’pole, face painting, a bbq, live music and lots more fun and games.
 Ilen St
 Sun 24th 14-18:00
 FREE
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MUSIC
Canon Goodman Concert
In honour of the remarkable 19th century music-collector James Goodman, who was
rector in Skibbereen from 1867 and who built this beautiful church that opened in
1890, we are delighted to present a very special double bill of traditional Irish music
and song.
The Casey Sisters
Three renowned sisters from West Cork; Nollaig, Máire and Mairéad Casey have
remarkably only just released their debut CD together entitled Sibling Revelry.
Having carved very different careers, they have come together for this special project
to mine the musical riches of their family, neighbourhood, county and country, while
at the same time creating new melodies from the same deep source and a unique and
heartfelt sound. “Intimacy and intuition are at the heart of this radiant collection, a
treat”, The Irish Times
Brendan Begley & Mike Hanrahan
Brendan Begley and Mike Hanrahan perform songs and music from the Irish
tradition and their creative contemporary catalogue. Brendan Begley is bursting with
the wild and beautiful music and songs of West Kerry. Born into a famous musical
family, the youngest of nine children, Slides, polkas, songs and slow airs all run
through his veins. Mike Hanrahan, from Ennis, spent 15 years as singer, songwriter
and guitarist with legendary Irish music group Stocktons Wing. Now they tour to
promote their first collaboration with an album simply titled “One” featuring their
favourite songs and tunes.
 Abbeystrewry Church
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 Sun 24th 20:00
 €20.00
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WORKSHOP
Songwriting Workshop
with Liz Clark
Singer/songwriter Liz Clark will be hosting a songwriting workshop for adults, from
beginners with an interest in learning basic structure to seasoned songwriters looking
to develop and streamline their skills.
Liz has released 4 CDs of original songs and had her songs featured on US TV
shows such as The Hills and Real World Manhattan. In 2010 she won the Lillith
Fair songwriting contest resulting in her performing alongside Sarah Maclachlan and
Emmylou Harris. This workshop will cover songwriting structure, melody, rhyme and
rhythm. Bring your current songs in progress or just an open heart to learn in a relaxed
atmosphere.
 Skibbereen Courthouse
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 Mon 25th 11:00
 €10.00
FILM
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs
Dir: William Cottrell, David Hand | 83mins | USA | 1937
The beautiful and kind-hearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the
kingdom except one - her jealous stepmother, the Queen. When the Magic Mirror
proclaims Snow White the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest, where she
befriends the lovable seven dwarfs - Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy
and Dopey. But when the Queen tricks Snow White with an enchanted apple, only the
magic of true love’s kiss can save her!
€1 per child – Adults €5
* Booking Essential
 Town Hall
 Mon 25th 13:00
 €1.00/€5.00
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THEATRE / OUTDOOR
Stroll with Shakespeare
5 scenes from 5 plays in 5 locations
‘All The Town’s a Stage’ this afternoon as we pay tribute to the greatest playwright of
them all. Savage Cabbage Productions will take you on a stroll around the town and
present scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night,
Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet.
Beginning at the O’Donovan Rossa Memorial Park and moving to site-specific
locations around the town, the show will also include original music arranged and
performed by the ensemble as we move from site to site.
* Booking Essential
 Assemble at O’Donovan Rossa Memorial Park
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 Mon 25th 14:00
 €10.00
FILM
Heart of a Dog
Dir: Laurie Anderson | 76 mins | USA | 2015
“Starting as a lament to her deceased rat terrier, Laurie Anderson’s eccentric, erudite
essay-film flits and meanders to some unexpected places, from an eerily transporting
explanation of the Buddhist view of death to some astonishing childhood anecdotes
to an absurd scene of her blind dog playing the piano. If there’s a common thread,
it’s storytelling and memory – “Every time we tell a story, we forget it more,”
is one nugget of wisdom – but it’s an aural experience as much as a visual one.
Anderson’s hushed, mellifluous voice and shifting electronic compositions merge
with the treated stream-of-consciousness imagery to powerful, often poignant
effect. It’s less like a lecture than a waking dream, perhaps even a form of hypnosis.”
Steve Rose, ‘The Guardian’
 Town Hall
 Mon 25th 16:00
 €6.00
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FILM
Movie Under the Stars
Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx
Dir: Waris Hussein | 90 mins | 1970
When this classic film screened recently in the Irish Film Institute in Dublin, it was
described as “one of the best loved and most bizarre films in its collection.” ‘Quackser
Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx’ is a 1970 Irish American romantic comedy about an
a poor Irish manure collector, played by Gene Wilder who falls in love with a swinging
young American exchange student (Margot Kidder) after she almost runs him over.
But the days of horse-drawn buggies are numbered, and his old-fashioned career is
threatened.. When the girl returns home, Quackser decides to follow her, headed for
the Bronx. This cult classic works on a number of different levels – as an offbeat
romantic comedy and as a quirky portrait of a man that defiantly ploughs his own
furrow. The cinematography captures some wonderful images of late 1960s Dublin
with a terrific local cast includes May Ollis, Eileen Colgan and David Kelly.
Summer evenings can be chilly so bring a warm coat, blanket or flask. Screening
will be relocated to the Town Hall in the event of poor weather.
 Abbeystrewry Church
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 Mon 25th 21:30
 €8.00
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WORKSHOP / CHILDREN
Art & Nature Walk
Workshop with Sonia Caldwell
Sonia will come back to Liss Ard again this year to explore with the young and not so
young the many ways we can use what is around us to create and to play. It will be a
walk around the grounds (suitable for buggies) where we will stop at various points to
make wonderful creations using weaving, twisting and various other techniques. The
aim is to learn, make and have fun. Come along whatever the weather !!
Meet at the lower Car Park at 11am or 2pm . Please text before hand with number of
participants to 087 0667871 { or call with any questions }
Duration approximately 2 hours. This event is aimed at children and families but others
are welcome also.
 Liss Ard Estate
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 Tue 26th 11:00 . 14:00
 €4 per child (with guardian)
WORKSHOP
Scriptwriting with
Michael Kinirons
Limited to 10 places, Booking Essential
This 3 hour workshop will appeal to anyone with an idea for a film but without
the know-how to write it. Covering the basics of 3 Act Structure and Character
Development, it will equip participants with the basic tools to begin writing wellcrafted cinematic stories.
Michael Kinirons is an award winning Irish screenwriter and director currently based in
Baltimore, West Cork. He studied directing at the National Film and Television School
in London and is an award winning director of five short films. His feature script,
STRANGERLAND, had it’s world première at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and
stars Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving.
 The Ludgate Hub
 Tue 26th 11:00
 €15.00
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FILM
The Great Wall
Dir: Tadhg O’Sullivan | 74mins | 2015
“The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.” So begins Kafka’s
‘The Building of the Great Wall of China’ - so, at Europe’s south-eastern frontier,
begins this film.
Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its Chinese precursor, this
wall has been piecemeal in construction and dubious in utility.
‘The Great Wall’ moves across fortified landscapes, pausing with those whose lives are
framed by walls. Moving inward toward the seat of power, the film holds the European
project up to a dazzling cinematic light, refracted through Kafka’s mysterious text,
questioning the nature of power. The film was shot in 11 countries over a year, and
journeys from a Spanish enclave in North Africa where the border with Europe is
marked by a three-metre barbed fence, to London and Brussels, seats of power and
exclusion.
 Town Hall
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 Tue 26th 14:00
 €6.00
SPOKEN WORD
Beckett and the Wake
John Minihan’s encounters with Samuel Beckett.
To celebrate his 70th birthday we are delighted to welcome acclaimed photographer
John Minihan. Born in Dublin in 1946 and raised in Athy Co. Kildare, John spent 30
years working as a photographer on Fleet Street in London whilst returning every year
to Athy to document the people and their daily lives.
Over the years Minihan developed a close relationship with many writers and his
photographs of Samuel Beckett show a particular affinity between the two men. This
friendship produced some of the most remarkable photographs ever taken of the
writer.
For ‘Beckett and the Wake’ John will speak about his encounters with one of the
greatest writers of the 20th century. ”Meeting him through my photographs of Athy
...Photo sessions with Sam in London in 1980 and 1984...and then being invited by
Beckett to Paris in 1985 where I would photograph again in the City of Light.”
 The Ludgate Hub
 Tue 26th 16:00
 €8.00
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MUSIC
Vieux Farka Touré
Tonight we’re thrilled to present our first ever African musician at Skibbereen Arts
Festival and we really couldn’t have chosen a better one.
Often referred to as “The Hendrix of the Sahara”, Vieux Farka Touré was born in
Niafunké, Mali in 1981. He is the son of legendary Malian guitar player Ali Farka
Touré, who died in 2006. Ali Farka Touré came from a historical tribe of soldiers, and
defied his parents in becoming a musician. When Vieux was in his teens, he declared
that he also wanted to be a musician. His father disapproved due to the pressures he
had experienced being a musician. Rather, he wanted Vieux to become a soldier. But
with help from family friend the kora maestro Toumani Diabaté, Vieux eventually
convinced his father to give him his blessing to become a musician shortly before Ali
passed.
His live performances are highly energised and Vieux is known for dazzling crowds
with his speed and dexterity on the guitar, as well as his palpable charisma and
luminous smile, both of which captivate audiences from all over the world in spite of
any language barriers (though Vieux does speak 8 languages).
“Every now and then, if you’re very lucky, you get to witness a live performance that blows everything
else away.” Live review: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London – The Independent
 Town Hall
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 Tue 26th 20:00
 €20.00
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WORKSHOP / CHILDREN
Children’s Art Workshop
with Sonia Caldwell
We plan to rediscover some flower power and make some cool flowery fabric using
some nice and easy block printing . We will start by looking for inspiration in some cool
flowers and then use our ideas to make a printing block - { no sharp tools used !! } and
then we will go flower printing mad!
11am - 1pm : Ages 7 to 9
2pm-4pm : Ages 9 and up
Advance Booking essential. Phone Sonia on 087 0667871 or Festival Box Office on
087 1260327
 Scout Hall
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 Wed 27th 11:00 . 14:00
 €8.00
FILM
Listen to me Marlon
Dir: Stevan Riley | 103 mins | 2015
We begin our day dedicated to theatre with a film about one of the greatest actors
of all time. Listen to Me Marlon is a creative odyssey into the mind and motivation of
an enigma. Like an arch hypnotist, Brando’s own voice leads the storytelling - there
are no interviewees, no talking heads, just Marlon guiding us into the padlocked
recesses of his own memory, and through the story of his life. In homage to the
corkscrew personality of its subject, previously unheard audio tapes reveal witty and
unexpected turns of Marlon’s thinking; dipping between light and dark, humour and
self-psychoanalysis.
What emerges is Brando’s intellectual introspection, humour and sensitivity; a man in
perpetual search for moral clarity.
 Town Hall
 Wed 27th 12:00
 €6.00
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Generously sponsored by Fields of Skibbereen
THEATRE
4 Plays in a Day
We are delighted to present our third instalment of ‘4 Plays in a Day’.
Skibbereen itself becomes a stage for the day with four excellent new plays by four
different companies in different venues around the town.
From the 12 pubs of Christmas to a grotto, from Dublin at 100 mph to a bathroom
on New Years Eve – poignant, hilarious, moving and hysterical. These plays are a
testament to the wealth of new talent in Irish Theatre.
Tickets are available for each individual performance but why not become a theatre
buff for the day and go to all four! To paraphrase Mr. Shakespeare himself, “All The
Town’s A Stage”.
 Venues around town
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 Tue 27th 14:00
 €25.00
THEATRE
4 PLAYS IN A DAY
Marion
Written and directed by Katie Holly
Starring Laura O’Mahony
Attending 12 pubs of Christmas... Starring in her own private (imaginary) music video
set on board a Bus Eireann vehicle...Getting comfortable with cursing...Just some of
the obstacles facing Marion. Along with the constant stream of other peoples’ voices
in her head. A character study of a girl in the throws of realising she’s a grown up, all
of a sudden.
The poignantly funny ‘Marion’ stars Laura O’Mahony as seen in RTE’s Republic of
Telly, Comedy Bites, Ronanism and Sketch!
 The Corner Bar
 Wed 27th 14:00
 €6.00
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THEATRE
4 PLAYS IN A DAY
Mary and Me
By Wild Productions
Directed by Belinda Wild
Written & Performed by Irene Kelleher
World Premiere
A 15 year old girl dies giving birth at a grotto. But before then there’s pending maths
exams, an important art project to finish and what to do about Peter?
An imagining of a young woman’s search for understanding in conversation with a
statue of the Virgin Mary.
 The Ludgate Hub
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 Wed 27th 16:30
 €6.00
THEATRE
4 PLAYS IN A DAY
Leper + Chip
Written by Lee Coffey
Directed by Karl Shiels
Starring Conall Keating and Amilia Clarke Stewart
Leper + Chip is the story of two young Dubliners. The boy, Leper meets the girl, Chip.
Boy meets girl... in the middle of a battering, boy wrecks bus full of pensioners, girl
gets chased by machete wielding maniac and love without madness isn’t love at all...!
Fast, frantic, funny… Dublin at 100mph with leopard coated cougars, Pringle-eating
whales and your almost-midget mate chained inside a fridge.
“Hilarious, fast-paced and deeply heartfelt. A hugely promising first play.”
Mark O’Rowe
 Town Hall
 Wed 27th 20:00
 €10.00
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THEATRE
4 PLAYS IN A DAY
From Eden
A new play by Stephen Jones
Directed by Karl Shiels
Starring Stephen Jones and Seána Kerslake
Winner of the Stewart Parker Trust/BBC Radio Drama Award
From Eden is a dark comedic drama about two lost individuals, Alan and Eva, who find
themselves locked in a bathroom together on New Years Eve while the party continues
outside the door. It’s an ideal meeting..once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly.
“One of the most acidly funny, needle-sharp short plays I’ve seen in a while”
Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent
 Town Hall
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 Wed 27th 21:30
 €10.00
WORKSHOP
Acting Workshop
With the cast of ‘Leper + Chip’ and ‘From Eden’
Aimed at members of the thriving amateur drama scene in West Cork, this 2-hour
workshop will explore the idea of creating your own work as well as improvisation and
performance techniques.
Then you’ll workshop some scenes from the two plays performed in the Town Hall as
part of ‘4 Plays in A Day’
 Town Hall
 Thu 28th 11:00
 €10.00
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MUSIC
crOw
crOw is a unique Irish improvising duo comprising of Cathal Roche, saxophones
and Ian Wilson, live electronics and sound objects. The duo draws upon a broad
range of influences and sound sources to create a distinct improvisational voice
which incorporates both music and noise/sound and which references variously
jazz, world music, drone and death metal, ambient, techno, medieval, renaissance and
contemporary classical music.
crOw also seeks to respond to its performative environment by adjusting its sound
parameters in real time in order to engage the acoustic and architectural properties of
the auditorium itself in performance.
 Abbeystrewry Church
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 Thu 28th 13:00
 €7.00
FILM
Atlantic
Dir: Risteard O’Domhnaill | 80mins | Ireland | 2016
From the maker of The Pipe, Risteard Ó Domhnaill’s new film Atlantic takes on the
powerful interests carving up Ireland’s ocean resources. As the oil majors drive deeper
into their fragile seas, and the world’s largest fishing companies push fish stocks to the
brink, coastal people and the species they rely on may be reaching a point of no return.
In Norway, where the fishing industry has been aggressively protected by national
authorities, the maritime eco-system is now threatened by the search for new oil fields.
In Newfoundland an oil boom has hit, sounding a death knell for the work of the
fisherman who lost their livelihoods with the 1990s cod-fishing ban. On Arranmore,
local fishermen watch foreign super-trawlers hoover up fish stocks offshore while
they fight to regain their fishing rights, forfeited by a short- sighted, EU-focused
government.
Atlantic tells three very personal stories of those who face the devastating prospect
of having their livelihoods taken from them, and their communities destroyed both
environmentally and economically.
 Town Hall
 Thu 28th 15:00
 €6.00
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SPOKEN WORD
Maria Murphy
Maria Murphy will be reading from her second novel Rescued, set in 1889 on the
Mizen Peninsula, Bantry and Skibbereen.
Maria is originally from Cork and is now living in Co Kildare. She writes poetry and
historical fiction. Rescued is her second novel, published by Poolbeg Press. The main
character, Ellen, is a healer with a heart and spirit as wild and free as the Atlantic she
lives beside. A stranger is washed up on the strand in front of her cottage and she helps
him despite being warned by her grandmother not to, because he will bring trouble.
Maria’s first novel is For the Love of Martha.
 Skibbereen Heritage Centre
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 Thu 28th 18:00
 FREE
MUSIC
A Candlelit Evening of Traditional
Song with The Voice Squad
The Voice Squad are Phil Callery, Gerry Cullen and Fran Mc Phail - a trio of traditional
acapella close harmony singers from Drogheda and Dublin. Their unique sound comes
from the mix of two tenor voices with one underlying bass. There is a careful respect
between the three voices and a uniformed focus on the songs - the intention always
is to sing as one voice. They have carefully brought a unique harmony sound to the
tradition which is known for its solo unaccompanied singing.
After a long hiatus they reformed in 2012 and continue to attract large audiences
wherever they go. We are thrilled that to bring them to Skibbereen for what should be
a very special night of songs and stories.
“All three singers merge miraculously into a single, enchanting confluence.”
The Irish Times
 Abbeystrewry Church
 Thu 28th 20:00
 €15.00
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MUSIC
The Hydra Quintet
The Hydra Quintet is made up of five of Ireland’s most promising young musicians.
They are all awarding-winning students and have achieved considerable success in their
chosen instruments. Collectively known as the Hydra Quintet, this group comprises
Sophie Creaner (clarinet), Brendan Garde (violin), Eoin Ducrot (violin), Ed Creedon
(viola) and Aoife Burke (cello).
Today they perform Shostakovich : String Quartet No. 10 in A Flat Major Op 118
and Mozart : Clarinet Quintet in A Major K.581
Kindly supported by Cork County Council
 Abbeystrewry Church
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 Fri 29th 13:00
 €8.00
FILM
Troublemakers:
The Story of Land Art
Dir: James Crump | 72 mins | USA | 2015
Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early
1970s. The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend
the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental
scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest. Iconoclasts who changed
the landscape of art forever, these revolutionary, antagonistic creatives risked their
careers on radical artistic change and experimentation, and took on the establishment
to produce art on their own terms.
The film includes rare footage and interviews which unveil the enigmatic lives and
careers of storied artists Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria (The Lightning
Field) and Michael Heizer (Double Negative); a headstrong troika that established the
genre. As the film makes clear, in making works that can never be possessed as an object
in a gallery, these troublemakers stand in marked contrast to the hyper-speculative
contemporary art world of today.
 Town Hall
 Fri 29th 14:00
 €6.00
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ART / SOUND / MUSIC
Instruments of Ice
Karen Power and Quiet Music Ensemble
Experimental music group Quiet Music Ensemble will perform Karen Power’s
Instruments of Ice in Gallery II amongst John Kelly’s Antarctic paintings.
Instruments of Ice explores real and imaginary soundscapes through a seamless
blending of field recordings and live musicians. The recordings are of the rich and
fascinating sounds of Arctic ice - from inside it, above it, and deep under the water in
which it floats.
The work was created for Quiet Music Ensemble, a group skilled at improvisation
and interacting with natural sound. The combination of live and recorded sound
creates evocative and immersive soundscapes that will transport the listener through
astonishing real and imaginary sound worlds.
 Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre
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 Fri 29th 15:00
 €8.00
SPOKEN WORD / WORKSHOP
Poetry Reading by Theo Dorgan
We are delighted to welcome Theo Dorgan as Skibbereen Arts Festival’s ‘Poet in
Residence’ this year. Theo Dorgan is a poet, novelist, prose writer, editor, essayist and
translator. He has written libretti and documentary film scripts, and is a broadcaster on
radio and television. He is a member of Aosdána.
On Friday evening Theo will be reading from his work in the beautiful surrounds of
the Catherine Hammond Gallery, then on Saturday he will both launch and close the
4th annual Poetry Marathon at Worling Artist Studios.
Poetry Workshop with Theo Dorgan. Sunday 31st . Riverside Café . 11:00 . €10
Whether you have written 1 poem or 100 poems this is a unique opportunity to learn
from one of Ireland’s leading poets. Bring along a poem that you are working on (not
already completed) and a pen and some paper.
 Catherine Hammond Gallery
 Fri 29th 18:30
 €6.00
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MUSIC
Eddi Reader
with Marybeth O’Mahony and Eve Clague
With a career spanning over 3 decades, Eddi Reader has effortlessly developed into
one of popular music’s most thrilling and affecting performers. Though first brought
into the limelight as front woman for Fairground Attraction, who’s #1 single, Perfect
topped the British charts, it is Eddi’s subsequent albums that signalled her ability to
assimilate different musical styles and make them her own. 2016 welcomes the release
of her first career spanning The Best Of compilation including thirty of her most
consistently beautiful, often deeply personal and intimate songs.
“A definitive musical portrait of one of the finest voices this country has produced”
Folk Radio UK.
To open tonight’s concert we’re thrilled to introduce two young soul singers from West
Cork. Marybeth O’Mahony and Eve Clague have been singing together for just over a
year and are also the lead singers of the Cork city soul/funk band ‘She Said’. The duet
are well known for their stylistic harmonies and soulful voices.
 Town Hall
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 Fri 29th 20:00
 €20.00
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WORKSHOP / CHILDREN
Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp For Kids
with Liz Clark
Liz Clark, a professional singer/songwriter from the US and founder of “All Girl
Band - Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp For Girls” will be hosting a fun-filled, 2 hour workshop
for kids ages 8-14.
The programme, designed for all boys and girls with an interest in music or just a
curiosity for sharing music, aims to boost self-esteem and collaboration. The workshop
will encompass performance, singing, percussion, guitar, and piano with popular music.
The workshop will end with a performance for friends and family.
 The Scout Hall
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 Sat 30th 11:00
 €10.00
SPOKEN WORD
4th Annual Poetry Marathon
For all poetry lovers and lovers of poets! Come along and read or just listen. Featuring
Theo Dorgan, Kerrie O’Brien, Clara Rose Thornton, Seamus Hogan, Cormac Lally,
Michael McCarthy, Seamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin, Paul Casey, The Scene of the Rhyme,
Afric McGlinchey, Michael McCarthy, Michael Ray, Francesco Biondina, Annette
Skade, Brendan McCormack, Paul Ó Colmáin and many, many more to be announced!
 Working Artists Studio
 Sat 30th 12:00-24:00
 FREE
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SPOKEN WORD
Weekend with the Writers
Award winning author Liz Nugent in conversation with
some of her favourite writers
After her popular appearance at last years festival, we were delighted to invite Liz
Nugent back to her mum’s hometown of Skibbereen to present some of her favourite
writers. Over the weekend Liz will interview three different female writers who will talk
about their careers and read from their latest works. Then on Sunday evening there’s a
very special ‘Bookclub Dinner with the Writers’ at The Good Things Café.
Liz Nugent
Liz will read from her brand new novel, Lying in Wait and will sign copies for readers.
‘Taut, crisp, clear, a storm-warning of a book. It has the eeriness of The Turn of the
Screw; but as these screws turn, a mighty tension takes hold. Masterly’ - Sebastian
Barry
Liz Nugent is an award-winning writer of radio and TV drama and has written short
stories for children and adults. In early 2014 her first novel, Unravelling Oliver, went
straight to the top of the bestsellers list and has been translated into eight languages.
Unravelling Oliver won the Ireland AM Crime Novel of the Year at the Bord Gais
Energy Irish Book Awards. The screening rights to Unravelling Oliver have recently been
acquired by ITV Drama, the makers of Downton Abbey.
 The Ludgate Hub
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 Sat 30th 13-14:00
 FREE
SPOKEN WORD
WEEKEND WITH THE WRITERS
Afric McGlinchey
Poet and Critic
with Liz Nugent
Renowned poet Afric McGlinchey was born in Galway. She has lived in Zambia,
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Paris, London and Spain, and currently lives in West Cork.
Her first collection, The Lucky Star of Hidden Things was published in 2012, following
a Hennessy Poetry Award. She was selected to go to Italy for an Italo-Irish Literature
Exchange in 2014. This collection was published in Italian. She has since won several
awards, and her second book, Ghost of the Fisher Cat, has been nominated for the
Forward Prize for Best Collection. Afric appears as one of Ireland’s ‘Rising Poets’ in a
special issue (118) of Poetry Ireland Review.
Liz will interview Afric about her fascinating international childhood, her poetic
inspiration and her life in West Cork. Afric will read from her wonderful recent
collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat.
 The Ludgate Hub
 Sat 30th 14:00
 €6.00
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SPOKEN WORD
WEEKEND WITH THE WRITERS
Martina Devlin
Novelist and Journalist
Martina Devlin is an Omagh-born author and journalist. She has had nine books
published, ranging from The House Where It Happened about Ireland’s only mass
witchcraft trial, to About Sisterland, set in the near future where Big Sister is watching
you. Prizes include a Hennessy Literary Award and the Royal Society of Literature’s VS
Pritchett Prize. A current affairs commentator for the Irish Independent, she has been
named columnist of the year by the National Newspapers of Ireland. She is vice-chair
of the Irish Writers Centre.
Liz will interview Martina about her life and her work, including her recent novels, her
courageous journalism and her special interest in Roger Casement.
 The Ludgate Hub
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 Sat 30th 17:00
 €6.00
SPOKEN WORD / WORKSHOP
WEEKEND WITH THE WRITERS
Timeleap Children’s
Workshop with E.R. Murray
Go on a journey through Ireland’s history visiting the Viking, Middle Ages, Victorian,
& Georgian eras. Find out some gruesome & shocking facts and learn how these eras
shaped modern Ireland. Then, help the author create a time machine to return to
present day. Elizabeth will also read from her book and leave time for questions about
what it’s like to be a writer.
Elizabeth Rose Murray lives in West Cork, where she fishes, grows her own vegetables
and enjoys outdoor adventures. Her debut, The Book of Learning: Nine Lives Book 1
(Mercier Press) is the Dublin UNESCO Citywide Read for 2016. Her first young adult
book, Caramel Hearts (Alma Books) was published May 2016. Elizabeth loves travel,
and has taught creative writing in schools around the world.
 The Ludgate Hub
 Sun 31st 14:00
 €6.00
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SPOKEN WORD
WEEKEND WITH THE WRITERS
Claudia Carroll
Actress and Novelist
Easily identifiable as Paul Brennan’s first wife Nicola in RTE’s Fair City, Claudia
Carroll is also a most prolific and successful writer of romantic fiction. Claudia was
born in Dublin, where she still lives. She worked extensively as an actress on the Irish
stage, before joining the cast of Fair City in 1990. In September of 2004 Claudia
made her writing debut with ‘He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me’. Immediate success
followed, as did 12 more novels, the latest of which, All She Ever Wished For went
straight to number 1 in the bestsellers chart. Claudia still regularly turns up as Nicola
in Fair City and this summer has returned to theatre in Isobel Mahon’s hilarious stage
comedy, Boom!
Liz will interview Claudia about her dual acting and writing careers and her latest smash
hit novel All She Ever Wished For.
 The Ludgate Hub
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 Sun 31st 17:00
 €6.00
FILM
Hand Gestures
Dir: Francesco Clerici | 77mins | Italy | 2014
“Austere, meditative, inscrutable, fascinating – ‘Hand Gestures’ is the kind of
documentary that is made all too rarely in this age of spoon-fed soundbites and burbling
talking heads. This quiet, slow-burning film studies the process by which a bronze
sculpture is made, a meticulous series of steps that have barely changed since the sixth
century BC. The setting is the 100-year-old Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in Milan. It’s a
shrine to the highly specific skills of the artisans who work there, skills that are passed
down through the generations. The walls are stained with decades of splattered wax,
used to make the initial sculpture, and the terracotta-hued dust of the sand that makes the
carapace into which the molten bronze flows. There’s a timelessness to these workshops:
curled posters on the walls could have been hung there at any point in the last 70 years.
The peace and the measured pace of work are antidotes to an accelerated culture.”
Wendy Ide, The Guardian
 Town Hall
 Sat 30th 14:00
 €6.00
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FILM / SPOKEN WORD
An Audience with
Gerard Barrett
Gerard Barrett is a 28 year old filmmaker from County Kerry. His first film was
PILGRIM HILL, which was released to critical acclaim in 2013 and won him the
IFTA Rising Star Award. His second film GLASSLAND was released in 2015, again
to critical acclaim and won an award at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Gerard
recently completed his third film, BRAIN ON FIRE in New York starring Chloe
Grace Moretz and produced by Charlize Theron.
11am. Filmmaking Workshop . €20 (includes entry to film screening)
* booking essential
Aimed at aspiring filmakers this workshop offers a unique opportunity to learn some
techniques of the craft from one of Ireland’s rising stars.
5pm. Screening of PILGRIM HILL . €6
PILGRIM HILL tells the story of Jimmy Walsh (Joe Mullins), a middle-aged farmer
living in rural Ireland. Unmarried and ill-educated,Jimmy has unquestioningly assumed
responsibility for tending to the remote family land and its livestock, and has taken on
the care of his ageing father in the same manner. His social life amounts to a couple of
pints in the pub when he can get away, and Jimmy is clearly finding his life tough. He’s
not prepared for the turn it is about to take.
After the film Gerard will talk about his career to date.
 Town Hall
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 Sat 30th 11:00 . 17:00
 €20.00 / €6.00
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MUSIC
Sail On
Remembering Fergus O’Farrell and Colin Vearncombe
DogTailSoup with special guest
Glen Hansard
West Cork lost two of its most talented adopted sons this year when Fergus O’Farrell
and Colin Vearncombe tragically passed away. Tonight we pay tribute to these two
remarkable artists with a very special concert.
DogTailSoup came together in early 2006 after a jam in Fergus’ home in Schull. He
introduced Maurice Seezer to Colin Vearncombe and Camilla Griehsel, who had
recently moved to West Cork. The line-up fluctuated but usually featured all of the
above + Paul Tiernan (Guitar), Marja Gaynor (Violin), Bertrand Galen (Cello) , Darren
McCarthy or John Fitzgerald (bass), James O’Leary or Gareth Carey (Guitars) and
Anto Noonan (Drums).
The band often looked for touring solo artists to join them onstage, and it is very much
in this spirit that they are delighted to welcome Glen Hansard to share the stage with
them tonight. Glen is an old friend and collaborator of Fergus right back to when
Interference used to rehearse in the Winstanley Shoe Factory in the 1980s. …and in
case you’re wondering, DogTailSoup, the name, comes from a Colin Vearncombe lyric
for his song ‘Cold Chicken Skin’.
“Fergus and Colin, we love you. You will always be missed.” - Maurice Seezer
All profits from tonights show are going to Bru Columbanus and West Cork
Rapid Response Team
 Town Hall
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 Wed 3rd Aug 20:00
 €20.00
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Visual Art
From old bottling plants to walled gardens, cafés to memorial parks, in buildings old
and new, Skibbereen becomes an Art Gallery for the next 10 days with the work of
over 100 artists on display. Featuring a diverse range of work by local, national and
international artists, with numerous exhibitions, installations and art films taking place
in permanent and pop-up galleries around the town. Enjoy!
Morgan O’Driscoll Fine Art Auctioneers
Morgan O’Driscoll Auctioneers are running an online art auction during the Skibbereen
Arts Festival as a fundraiser to support Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre. A selection of
the artworks for auction are displayed in shop windows throughout Skibbereen during
the festival week.
 Ilen St
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 July 22nd - 31st
 FREE
VISUAL ART
Sculpture Garden
We are delighted to present the first ever Skibbereen Arts Festival Sculpture Garden.
A selection of unusual wood and metal sculptures by local artists will be on display in
the tranquil surrounds of the Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa Memorial Park.
Artists include chainsaw artist Nathan Solomon, welder/pipe fitter Noel Molloy,
musician Andy Ra, artist Dubhaltach Ó Cólmáin and young sculpture group Nuclear
Monkeys.
This beautiful space will be transformed for the week with sculptures made from
scrap metal, tree stumps, ancient bog-wood, old cars and stoves that look like they
can fly. Come and be enchanted!
*Further info on all artists available on website!
 O’Donovan Rossa Memorial Park
 10-17:00 23rd-31st July
 FREE
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Works from the Angela Flowers
Collection at Downeen
In 1985, encouraged by the eminent collector Senator Gordon Lambert, who had
purchased an important painting from Angela Flowers in London, she brought some
of her artists’ works over to Rosscarbery, and hung them in what was then the back
garage of her cottage. Local friends and visitors from England visited, and from that
moment an annual exhibition took place, over the same weekend in August.
Angela Flowers’ idea was to bring the work of artists not so well known in Ireland
to exhibit, and also to give visitors from abroad a taste of West Cork, other galleries,
studios, restaurants, museums, beaches, fun and dancing. People came from France,
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Holland, Belfast and Dublin. By then, a real gallery
had been built to house works of art. This annual event lasted twelve years. The work
being exhibited here is a selection of Flowers’ personal collection, which is housed in
Ireland.
Angela Flowers is Chairman of Angela Flowers Gallery, which she founded in Soho,
London in 1970. She is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and Honorary
Doctor of the University of East London. Her daughter Francesca Flowers, Arts
administrator and coordinator has curated the exhibition.
 The Old Bottling Plant, Ilen St
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 22nd July - 1st August
‘Man and Boy’ by John Kirby
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VISUAL ART
Saints and Sinners
Paul Cialis
As Edward Dmytryk once said ‘In art, the obvious is a sin’…
West Cork-based artist Paul Cialis’ most recent series of ‘Fet’ painting/collages are
based on sojourns into the complex, multi-layered world of sexual social-media. Many
of the works are informed by mass media and specifically the new phenomenon of
sexual social media and its place in the sin spectrum.
“I bring no moral judgement into the works - they are simply the observations of
a voyeur pulling back the curtain to glimpse what will possibly become the future
of human sexuality and connectedness. This relatively new ‘virtual sexual-world’ can
represent an exhilarating liberation for the marginalised, or alternatively a dehumanising
and even dangerous place to venture into for the unwary or naive … it is however,
rarely dull.”
 The Old Bottling Plant, Ilen St
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 22nd July - 1st August
 FREE
VISUAL ART
New Work
Vauney Strahan
A new body of work that hinges on the idea of a space within a space to visually
represent aspects of human perception. Strahan is fascinated by the thin veil that
separates our internal and external spheres of existence, and the continuous reciprocal
exchange between the spaces we navigate and the perceptual architecture of the mind.
The dialogue between a small constructed space, and the larger space it inhabits,
provides the framework for Strahan’s interpretation of this exchange.
 45 Bridge St
 22nd July - 1st August
 FREE
73
VISUAL ART
Catherine Hammond Gallery
To 4th August : Contemporary Realism
Catherine Barron, John Doherty, Mollie Douthit, Martin Gale and Maeve McCarthy. A
group show featuring an interesting range of realist painters.
5th August : Shorelines
Semi-abstract landscape paintings exploring light and edges by Cork artist Carol
Hodder
 Catherine Hammond Gallery, Bridge St
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 FREE
VISUAL ART
UILLINN : WEST CORK ARTS CENTRE
John Kelly: A Group Show
This solo exhibition of painting, sculpture and print by Irish/English/Australian
artist, John Kelly, includes a large series of paintings produced in Antarctica and
on board the icebreaker Aurora Australis, as well as a series of new Irish landscape
paintings, focused on the land and sea around Reen in west Cork where John has lived
for almost fourteen years.
Exhibition, accompanied by a publication En Plein Air In Plain Sight by Peter
Fitzgerald includes:
• Virtual Iceberg Installation for Glandore Harbour curated by Seol Park, SPARK+
• John Kelly Discovery Box for Families by Susan Montgomery
• Bus tour to John Kelly’s Sculpture Park in Reen, Union Hall, Thursday 28th July. Depart
from Uillinn at 2.30pm. Places limited. Tickets €12 (includes bus + refreshments).
• Exhibition Preview on Friday 22nd July at 7.00pm with music from Fintan McKahey.
• Artist’s Gallery Talk on Tuesday 26th July at 1.15pm
• Booking and further information from Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre 028 22090.
 Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre  23rd July to 31st August
 FREE
75
VISUAL ART
UILLINN : WEST CORK ARTS CENTRE
Uillinn Artists in Residence
Michael Holly
Michael Holly is mapping the town of Skibbereen using ‘Deep Topography’, a
process of walking, wandering and drifting through an urban space, combining careful
observation, local knowledge and intuitive thought to build a kind of psychic map of
place that is both subjective and objective.
• Map available at Uillinn and Arts Festival Box Office
William Bock
William Bock is exploring ideas of home, identity and immigration. Brought up near
Skibbereen by parents with Swedish, German and Polish heritage, William is connected
to the wider story of immigration and the experience of living between cultures.
• Further details about both artists’ other projects during the festival are available on
our website and from Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre 028 22090
 Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre
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 FREE
MUSIC
UILLINN : WEST CORK ARTS CENTRE
Uillinn Concert Series
A series of three concerts in the James O’Driscoll Gallery at Uillinn
Enjoy a special supper or lunch at Kalbos @ Uillinn and experience the vibrancy and
richness of 17th and 18th century music including compositions by Bach, Gabrielli,
O’Carolan, Buxtehude, Purcell, Biber and Telemann played on authentic instruments
by outstanding young musicians.
• Tuesday 19th July 7.15pm : Ensemble Dagda
• Thursday 28th July 7.15pm : Eimear Reidy
• Thursday 4th August 1.15pm : Barefoot Baroque
Not to be missed - these concerts promise to enliven and inspire.
Booking for Supper and Concerts: Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre 028 22090
 Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre
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MUSIC / DANCE
UILLINN : WEST CORK ARTS CENTRE
Wave + Open Door
Tuesday 26th July. Bridge at Uillinn. 1pm (15 mins). Free
WAVE : Inclusive Dance Performance
A visually exciting site-specific dance performance accompanied by the Happiness
Ensemble.
West Cork Inclusive Dance is an exciting way for people of all physicalities and
abilities to explore and enjoy movement.
The Happiness Ensemble is an eclectic group of musicians whose aim is to create
exciting new music, while also offering a welcoming creative space for those who may
be recovering from mental health difficulties.
Tuesday 26 1:30pm (duration 1hour)
OPEN DOOR : Workshop event with Music Alive
Inspired by the West Cork tradition of scoraíochting, the Open Door sessions
celebrate music making by all, and for all in the community. All ages are welcome to
join in, listen or sing.
 Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre
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 FREE
VISUAL ART / CHILDREN
UILLINN : WEST CORK ARTS CENTRE
Uillinn Children and Families
Events at Uillinn for Children and Families
• Monday 25th July, 10 & 11.15am: Suan : musical exploration for babies & young
children with Fiona Kelleher.
• Monday 25th, 2pm: Behind Every Hero : Children’s book launch and storytime.
Based on the ancient Irish folk tale of Fionn MacCumhail, written by Paul Ó Colmáin
and illustrated by Dubhaltach Ó Colmáin.
• Tuesday 26th, 10am & 1pm: Drawing workshops with Alison Cronin
• Thursday 28th, 10am: Paint the Town: outdoor painting workshops with Marie
Cullen and Tomasz Madajczak
• Further information on all events available on our website.
• Booking: Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre 028 22090
 Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre
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UILLINN : WEST CORK ARTS CENTRE
Dark Matter
What’s missing in art and politics in an enterprise culture.
Greg Sholette in conversation with Katherine Waugh.
Artist, academic, author and activist Gregory Sholette in conversation with curator,
writer and filmmaker Katherine Waugh. A key event for artists and curators, this public
talk is presented as part of the durational Skibbereen based Urban Explorer project
led by artist Sheelagh Broderick and supported by CREATE, the National Agency for
the Development of the Creative Arts through the Artist in the Community Scheme.
Free event with live broadcast.
Booking essential. Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre 028 22090
 Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre
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VISUAL ART
An exhibition of large paintings
It is very seldom that a Pop-Up gallery has the space needed to put on an exhibition
of large canvasses. Skibbereen Arts Festival are delighted to be able to bring together a
selection of paintings of such scale.
MÓR brings together works by Charles Tyrrell, Billy Foley, Ian Humphreys, John
Simpson, Karen Hendy, Michael McSwiney, Donagh Carey and Janet Murran.
 The Old Quay
 FREE
81
VISUAL ART
The Souvenir Shop
by Rita Duffy
The Souvenir Shop is artist Rita Duffy’s unique take on 1916, a Belfast woman from the
Nationalist tradition; Duffy’s subversive perspective is uncompromising in confronting
the complications of what was unleashed at Easter 1916. Comprising specially
designed and commissioned products, some for sale, some part of the display, all
have specific references that are connected to the Rebellion, its legacies and questions
arising. Also accompanying this installation will be an exhibition of the references,
art works and influences that are at work in the project. Set in O’Neill’s, a traditional
shop in Townshend Street, Skibbereen, The Souvenir Shop is provocative, unsettling and
enquiring…do not miss it…
The Souvenir Shop by Rita Duffy curated by Helen Carey is one of the major projects
commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Art 1916-2016, marking the
centenary of the 1916 Rebellion with the support of Cavan Arts Office and the Irish
Countrywomen’s Association.
-Exhibition Opening on Friday 22 July at 8.00pm. Free Event
-Rita Duffy will present an Illustrated Talk at Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre on
Saturday 23rd July at 12 noon. Free Event
-To mark the launch of Uillinn Film Club, filmmaker Art O’Briain’s Siopa Cuimhneachán
about Rita Duffy’s Souvenir Shop will be screened as part of a double bill with Mr. Turner
(Dir. Mike Leigh, 2014) at Uillinn on Tuesday 2nd August at 8.00pm.
Tickets for double bill €8/€6. Booking Uillinn : West Cork Arts Centre 028 22090.
 O’Neill’s Shop, Townshend Street
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 Saturday 23rd July to 1st August
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VISUAL ART
Dialogues
A Collaborative Project by Helen Walsh (Sculptor) and Rohan
Reilly (Photographer)
A series of amazing copper sculptures and intriguing photographs utilising long
exposures and minimal compositions along with the use of natural light. Rohan and
Helen have created portraits of Helen’s sculptures in a landscape format. Though their
work may be very different, they are both hugely influenced by their surroundings
and the unique rugged West Cork Coastal environment, a once copper rich area.
These copper sculptures were taken out of their safe environment and juxtaposed
into carefully selected locations, that hold a particular interest to both. The pieces were
then explored using the medium of photography.
The result is a dialogue between their joint work, the viewer and the locations.
 The Riverside, North St
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 July 22nd - 6th August
 FREE
VISUAL ART
Working Artist Studio
Still
An exhibition of painting, print and sculpture by members of the Working Artist
Studios.
Cloaks, Eggs, Gestures
‘Probing past & present perceptions’
An exhibition of paintings & sculpture by Caoimhe Pendred & Dubhaltach Ó Colmáin.
 Working Artist Studio
 11-16:00
 FREE
85
VISUAL ART
Umha Aois
Archaeology and Sculpture
Symposium in Liss Ard Estate
We are delighted to welcome back Ireland-based experimental archaeology project
Umha Aois this year for their second visit to the festival.
The dedicated group of sculptors and crafts people will be joined by international
artists, archaeologists and researchers to produce small and medium-size bronze
sculpture inspired by and in response to the Early Bronze Age copper mines in
West Cork and the medieval Irish tradition of producing hand bells in iron and
bronze. Through hands-on research, the group aims to gain insight into the complex
fabrication techniques that were required to make the over 120 bells found in Ireland
to date. Alongside this archaeological research, the artists will produce new artwork
inspired by the original artefacts and experiment with smelting local copper ore. The
use of the stone moulds, lost-wax process, clay moulds and charcoal pit-furnaces will
give spectators and participants a fascinating insight in how ancient metalworking carried out in Ireland for more than 4,000 years - can result in both innovative and
contemporary art objects as well as high-quality historic replicas.
The event is free, everyone is welcome; daily 10am to 6pm and public night casting
sessions until 10pm on Thursday and Friday. For more information visit www.umhaaois.com
 Liss Ard Estate
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 Sunday 24th – Saturday 30th July
 FREE
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VISUAL ART
Portraits and Still Lives
Harriet Selka
A collection of recent portraits and still lives. Harriet recently undertook a six week
artist residency in New York and these painting were either painted during, or inspired
by the trip.
 Good Things Café, Bridge St.
 FREE
FRINGE
VISUAL ART
LGBT+ Graphic Novel
The LGBT+ Group was set up this year, as an offspring of the 2015 Yes Equality
Campaign, and is aimed at increasing visibility of the LGBT+ community in West
Cork. Through fortnightly workshops, with Ludgate-based designer, Orlagh O’Brien,
the group have created a fun booklet highlighting issues, concerns and a general “day
in the life” for young people who identify as LGBT+.
An exhibition of posters and Graphic Novel, reveals their remarkable creative voices
and shares their honest everyday experiences in explosive style! For opening times,
phone: 028 23572
 Skibbereen Community & Family Resource Centre
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 FREE
FRINGE
VISUAL ART
Tuath
Risteard Breathnach
Risteard was born in Cork City and emigrated to the wilds of West Cork some twenty
six years ago. He has a lifelong passionate interest in photography, that was expressed
initially through film and more recently through the digital medium with works
mainly in monochrome. Each finished print is photographed, developed, printed and
framed by Risteard. The printing process uses pigment inks on archival matte paper
with fade resistance of over one hundred years, which with any luck should last a
lifetime or more.
 Walsh’s Butchers, Bridge St
 22nd July - 6th August
 FREE
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VISUAL ART
Iris
Marika O’Sullivan, Joey Davis & Marta Swierad
Monochromes and Prints
Pop-up gallery showing multi media work including prints, photographs and drawings
that explore the natural.
 44 North St
 23rd July - 1st August
 FREE
FRINGE
VISUAL ART
The JB Gallery
The JB Gallery and artist studio opened in 2015 and is run by Jennifer Baumeister,
a German artist who studied Fine Arts in Philadelphia and Berlin and now uses the
space to work on and exhibit her art. She also offers art classes and hosts the pop-up
exhibition ArtShot featuring various artists on the last Saturday of every month.
www.jenniferbaumeister.com
 The JB Gallery
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 FREE
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Friday 29th July - Tuesday 2nd August 12noon - 5pm daily
Cork
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