May
Exhibition
Little Pieces of No Value: Alfred Graf, Edith Hofer, Hannes Ludescher, Alois Galehr & Monika Boldrin
In partnership with allerArt, Bludenz Austria
A group exhibition developed through an initital residency at Sirius Arts Centre with Viennese Artist, Alfred Graf in 2009 - has developed into a vibrant creative exchange between Cork and Austrian artists, with the continued support of Sirius Arts Centre and allerArts.
Considering the subject of landscape on a microscopic level, Little Pieces of No Value is the third stage of this exchange between Ireland and Austria.
Exhibition runs until Sunday 19 May 2013
For more information on the Artists please see the following links:
Exhibition
Highlight Your Habitat - Cork County Council Arts and Education Initiative
A Cobh Primary Schools Project wtih Cork Printmakers - made possible by Cork County Council Arts Office, Dork County Council Dept of the Enviornment, The Irish Peatland Conservation Council and Fota Wildlife Park.
Sirius Arts Centre presents the results of print workshops held in six National Schools in Cobh since October 2012. The exhibition includes original prints by 5th & 6th year Students of St. Mary's National School, Rushbrook Convent of Mercy National School, Cobh Mixed National School, Gaelscoil Ui Éigeartaigh, Walterstown National School and Scoil Iósaef Naofa
Running until Sunday 9 June 2013
Concert
MARTIN HAYES AND DENNIS CAHILL IN CHRISTCHURCH, Rushbrooke Cobh County Cork
Sirius Arts Centre is thrilled to announce this fundraser concert with all proceeds going to support the Sirius Arts Centre!
To book tickets contact Sirius at:021 481 3790 or email us at: cobharts@iol.ie or drop in during gallery hours.
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Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary talents to emerge in the world of Irish traditional music. His unique sound, his mastery of his chosen instrument – the violin – his acknowledgement of the past and his shaping of the future of the music, combine to create an astonishing and formidable artistic intelligence.
Dennis Cahill is a master guitarist, a native of Chicago born to parents from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. He studied at the city’s prestigious Music College before becoming an active member of the local music scene. Cahill’s spare, essential accompaniment to Martin Hayes’ fiddle is acknowledged as a major breakthrough for guitar in the Irish tradition
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill met in Chicago in the 1980s. They formed the jazz/rock/fusion band, Midnight Court, which allowed them to experiment with a variety of new music styles. When Martin reclaimed his traditional roots, reinvigorated, and after recording two solo albums, he began a new musical relationship with Cahill, beginning with the lyrical music of East Clare. Its a night you won't want to miss!
June
Exhibition
Cruel and Unusual
Presented in partnership with Cork County Council, the Arts Council, Noorderlicht Photography & The Cork Midsummer Festival
Photographs by: Alyse Emdur, Amy Elkins, Araminta de Clermont, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Christiane Feser, Jane Lindsay, Natalie Mohadjer, Deborah Luster, Lizzie Sadin, Yana Payusova and Lori Waselchuk
Image from the series 'Life After' by Araminta de Clermont
Worldwide, prisons are ‘home’ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades. But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by locking up such massive numbers of offenders? From 13 June – 7 July Sirius Arts Centre, in partnership with Noorderlicht Photo Gallery and Cork County Council presents Cruel and Unusual, a collection of revealing, and quite unexpected photography illustrating life behind bars. Eleven women photographers has been brought together by curators, Hester Keijser and Pete Brook , exhibited only once before in Europe at Nooderlicht’s premiere of this exhibition in 2012.
Running until 7 July
SPECIAL GUEST TALK WITH EXHIBITION CURATOR, HESTER KEIJSER - Saturday 22 June @ 2:00pm
Concert
An evening wtih Juliet Turner
Northern Irish singer/songwriter Juliet Turner returns to the Sirius Arts Centre in June with her unique folk-inflected music. Turner is currently working on a new collection of songs due for release in 2013. This is a show not to be missed!
To book tickets contact Sirius at:021 481 3790 or email us at: cobharts@iol.ie or drop in during gallery hours.
We accept Credit Card and Laser Purchases (please note there is an additional fee for this service).
Off Site Performance
From Another Room - Special Sound Performance with Stephen Vitiello & Carillonneur, Adrian Gebruers
Presented in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork County Council and the Arts Council
A sound and visual performance by American sound artist, Stephen Vitiello, joined byCobh's own, Adrian Gebruers Carillonneur and Organist of Cobh's St Colman's Cathedral From Another Room A multi-media mix of experimental sound and video, featuring electric guitar, field recordings generated in and around Cobh with church organ and carillon.
Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. His sound installations have been presented internationally. Vitiello's audio recordings of the World Trade Center have been included in numerous exhibitions as written about in publications by Paul Virilio, Arthur Danto and David Toop. In August, his installation, A Bell For Every Minute will be installed in New York's Museum of Modern Art as part of the exhibition, Soundings: A Contemporary Score. Vitiello has collaborated with such artists and musicians as Nam June Paik, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Irish sound and visual arts collective, Strange Attractor. His work is the subject of a 27- minute documentary produced by Australian TV. Vitiello has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts, Creative Capital funding in the category of Emerging Fields, and an Alpert/Ucross Award for Music. Originally from New York, Vitiello is now based in Richmond, VA where he is an Associate Professor in the department of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Performance will last approximately 45 minutes
For more information on Stephen Vitiello please visit his website: www.stephenvitiello.com
PLEASE book your FREE tickets at www.corkmisummer.com
July
Concert
Mundy - One night only!
The Offaly singer/songwriter makes a magical July appearance at the Sirius this summer following his International tour and is not to be missed.
Mundy released his 5th studio album Shuffle (on 29th April 2011). Recorded over a year at various bunkers, this is Mundy’s love song to his favourite American songwriters. Mundy’s first record of covers perfectly compliments a catalogue that already includes a live album& DVD where he had a massive hit with Steve Earle’s Galway Girl which is part of the journey which started with Jellylegs and Mundy’s hit To You I Bestow from the Romeo & Juliet soundtrack. Along the way he’s notched up other huge hits in Ireland like Mexico & July, a number 1 album in Raining Down Arrows and shows in the UK & Ireland with Oasis, White Stripes, Manic Street Preachers etc.
To book tickets contact Sirius at:021 481 3790 or email us at: cobharts@iol.ie or drop in during gallery hours.
We accept Credit Card and Laser Purchases (please note there is an additional fee for this service).
Exhibition
Seams - a multimedia installation by US artist, Carolyn Shadid Lewis
Questioning previous notions of “enemy” by focusing on the memories and lives of elderly women from Ireland and Northern Ireland who participated in the Second World War as factory workers, soldiers, and medical professionals, this installation is a physical interpretation of an expansive oral history project developed through Sirius’ Artist in Residency program over the last three years. The opening coincides with our remembrance of the handing over of the treaty ports back to the Irish Nation on July 11, 1938. The exhibition highlights our residency programme and illustrates the wide range of contemporary artists from abroad that Sirius invites to Cobh to make new work.
Running until 11 August
Concert
ACES WILD
Sirus Arts Centre presents the return of Aces Wild for one night only. An all ages gig - One of the first of 6 bands to get into the second round of the Red Bull Bedroom Jam competition (see them here: http://www.redbullbedroomjam.ie/2013-band/aces-wild/) Voting for round three is at the end of May -- come and see them LIVE at Sirius Arts Centre!
Concert
West Cork Ukulele Orchestra
Composed of 10 disparate musical talents brought together for one purpose: to rock the planet, ukulele-style! They will plunder the last 60 years musical awesomeness to put a rip-roaring show full of lush harmonies and death-defying ukulele-playing. Expect to hear classic and contemporary pop songs put through the blender, emerging turbo-charged and sparkling with ukulele magic. From A-Ha to Lady Gaga, from the Beach Boys to The Cure, things will never sound the same again! A Must See!
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