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1 Patrons 2 online www.corkmidsummer.com Friends 3 Introduction 5 by phone 021 4905004 At a glance 6–7 8–39 in person Events Festival Box Office Map 46–47 At Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin Street, Thanks 48 Mon – Sat, 12 – 6pm

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/ triskel christchurch half moon theatre South Main Street, Cork Emmet Place, Cork +353 85 241 6624 +353 21 427 0022 triskelart.com corkoperahouse.ie (Booking fee may apply) the theatre John Redmond Street, everyman Shandon, Cork palace theatre +353 21 4507487 MacCurtain Street, Cork firkincrane.ie +353 21 450 1673 everymanpalace.com murphy’s spiegeltent (Booking fee may apply) Beamish and Crawford Brewery, South Main Street, Cork

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C uSaC K PRoJeCTS L M D friends 2011 i iTe Anne Clarke Eleonor McCarthy Paul O’Connell Yossi Moore Jane- Anne Rothwell Tina Horgan Tim Harley Carrie Griffin Rosarii Harrington Stephaine Cooper Murieann Michelle Johnson Natasha Lynch Bob Crowley Margaret O’Sullivan Donnacha Crowley Ed & Marie Fitzgerald Donnacha Loftus Gareth Fleming Sara-Jane Power Ray Boland John Crowley Kathleen O’Donovan Christine Moore Gareth Fleming Peter Machale John McCarthy Sean Kearns Jennifer Whyte Fionn Woodhosue Justin O’Mahon Deirdre Mailin Loughlin Deegan Alan Cournane Trish Murphy Sue & Stan McAllister Nike Quaife Colm Roberts Catherine Kirwin Amy O’Connell Jonathan White Maria Buckley R. Stack Patrick Creedon Ann Riordan Noel Daly Mick O’Shea Siubhan McCarthy Jackie Butler Pat Ruane Allin Gray Hugh McCarthy Karen O’Driscoll Laura Harte Adam D’arcy Carla Manning Colette Kelleher Barbara O’Meara Sheila Cahalane

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The arts really matter to us in ; they are a big part of people’s lives, the country’s single most popular pursuit. Our artists interpret our past, Our theatre programme sees both midsummer nights at the spiegeltent. define who we are today, and imagine our future. We can all take pride hammergrin and corcadorca present In a new location, this beautiful mirrored in the enormous reputation our artists have earned around the world. intimate pieces and we’re delighted tent with bar and food facilities is to host the premiere of the corn guaranteed to give you and your friends The arts play a vital role in our economy, and smart investment of exchange’s man of valour at the a great night out with artists such as taxpayers’ money in the arts is repaid many times over. The dividends , whose hit camille o’sullivan, jape, cathy davey, come in the form of a high value, creative economy driven by a flexible, freefall wowed audiences at the the coal porters, kormac’s big band educated, innovative work force, and in a cultural tourism industry worth , winning several Irish and murphy’s little big nights out with a 2.4 billion directly a year. Times Theatre Awards. thisispopbaby mick flannery and the walls. collaborate with neil watkins on the The Arts Council is the Irish Government agency for funding and strictly-for-adults-only the year of We are proud to programme plenty developing the arts. Arts Council funding from the taxpayer, through the magical wanking, which electrified of free and family events including Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs, for 2011 is a65.2 audiences last year. the street performance world million, that’s around 80 cents a week for every household. championship, fast portraits by

This year’s festival is as international leading contemporary dance company So, at the end of your next great festival experience, don’t forget the as ever, with Guinean acrobats cirque rex levitates, street theatre (guerilla role you played and take a bow yourself! mandingue and the UK’s penguin style) by macnas and pop-up shop and café performing at Cork Opera House. participation event home is where the Find out what’s on at Celebrating the final night of the festival art Is. Four of our young curators from www.events.artscouncil.ie is world renowned American artist 2010 have created solstice—transforming laurie anderson, making her first trip the old FÁS building for four days with 150 to Cork to play Triskel's amazing new artists, who will present everything from You can find out more about the arts here: Christchurch space—a must see gig. We works in progress to completed shows in www.artscouncil.ie couldn’t keep the spiegeltent away this a range of theatre, dance, music, visual year and, thanks to the generous support arts, talks and discussions as well as of Murphy’s, have a packed line up of events for families. music and cabaret events with murphy’s BOOK AT CORKMIDSUMMER.COM / 021 490500

street performance old father story heaven is under request latch tumble circus request programme latch the swingin’ bluecats sa11 world championship The Firkin Crane construction programme Secret Location mo20 Spiegeltent Secret Location Murphy’s Spiegeltent Fitzgerald’s Park 12 & 2.30pm / p.30 Sirius Arts Centre The Elysian 10pm / p.13 7pm / p.20 8.30pm / p.12 10pm / p.13 10.15pm / p.24 From 12pm / p.32–33 2 – 5pm / p.35 8.30pm / p.12

féasta tumble circus request programme man of valour latch cap pas cap Patrick Street tu21 Spiegeltent The Elysian Everyman Palace Secret Location Murphy’s Spiegeltent 12 – 5pm / p.38 7pm / p.20 8.30pm / p.12 Theatre 10pm / p.13 10.30pm / p.24

6 street performance old father story heaven is under latch 8pm / p.16 7 su12 world championship The Firkin Crane construction Secret Location heaven is under man of valour latch Fitzgerald’s Park 12 & 2.30pm / p.30 Sirius Arts Centre 10pm / p.13 we22 construction lunchtimes Everyman Palace Secret Location From 12pm/p.32–33 2 – 5pm / p.35 Sirius Arts Centre Murphy’s Spiegeltent Theatre 10pm / p.13 féasta 11am – 5pm / p.35 1pm / p.36 8pm / p.16 cathy davey Patrick Street breathe owl breathe request programme Murphy’s Spiegeltent 12 – 5pm / p.38 Murphy’s Spiegeltent The Elysian 10.30pm / p.24 tosca movement request programme west cork 7.30pm / p.21 8.30pm / p.12 mo13 Fitzgerald’s Park tu14 of sound The Elysian ukulele orchestra 7pm / p.27 Triskel Christchurch 8.30pm / p.12 Murphy’s Spiegeltent heaven is under summer afternoon man of valour the year of 1.10pm / p.14 10.30pm / p.22 th23 construction tea dance Everyman Palace magical wanking request latch Sirius Arts Centre Murphy’s Spiegeltent Theatre 8pm / p.16 Half Moon Theatre programme camille o’ sullivan Secret Location 11am – 5pm / p.35 12.30pm / p.26 10pm / p.17 The Elysian Murphy’s Spiegeltent 10pm / p.13 request programme 8.30pm / p.12 7.15pm / p. 19 home is where breathe owl breathe The Elysian little big nights out the art is Murphy’s Spiegeltent 8.30pm / p.12 Murphy’s Spiegeltent old father story irish examiner request programme jape Venue TBC 7.30pm / p.21 10.30pm / p.25 latch we15 The Firkin Crane lunchtimes The Elysian Murphy’s Spiegeltent 12 – 6pm / p.37 Secret Location 11am / p.30 Murphy’s Spiegeltent 8.30pm / p.12 10.30pm / p.22 10pm / p.13 1pm / p.36 heaven is under latch construction camille o’ sullivan Secret Location fr24 heaven is under the blue boy tomorrow, in a year latch Sirius Arts Centre Murphy’s Spiegeltent 10pm / p.13 construction Granary Theatre Cork Opera House Secret Location 11am – 5pm / p.35 7.15pm / p.19 Sirius Arts Centre 3pm & 6pm / p.17 8pm / p.9 10pm / p.13 11am – 5pm / p.35 request programme man of valour the year of magical th16 heaven is under solstice camille o’ sullivan request programme céilí sa spiegeltent home is where The Elysian Everyman Palace wanking construction Old FAS Building Murphy’s Spiegeltent The Elysian Murphy’s Spiegeltent the art is 6.30pm / p.12 Theatre Half Moon Theatre Sirius Arts Centre From 11.30am / p.28–29 7.15pm / p.19 8.30pm / p.12 10.30pm / p.22 Venue TBC 8pm / p.16 10pm / p.17 lodho performs 11am – 5pm / p.35 12 – 6pm / p.37 summer afternoon foté foré latch request programme delicious fast portraits tea dance Cork Opera House Secret Location Murphy’s Spiegeltent The Elysian Murphy’s Spiegeltent Murphy’s Spiegeltent 8pm / p.15 10pm / p.13 7.30pm / p.21 8.30pm / p.12 11pm / p.25 1.15pm & 6.15pm / p.14 12.30pm / p.26 heaven is under request programme the fold latch sa25 silver tree heaven is under tomorrow, in a year latch fr17 construction The Elysian Triskel Christchurch Secret Location Spiegeltent construction Cork Opera House Secret Location Sirius Arts Centre 6.30pm / p.12 8pm / p.10 10pm / p.13 10.30am, 12pm & Sirius Arts Centre 8pm / p.9 10pm / p.13 11am – 5pm / p.35 1.30pm / p.26 2-5pm / p.35 camille o’ sullivan request programme kormac’s big band man of valour the year of magical solstice Murphy’s Spiegeltent The Elysian Murphy’s Spiegeltent home is where request programme Everyman Palace wanking Old FAS Building 7.15pm / p.19 8.30pm / p.12 11pm / p.23 the art is The Elysian Theatre Half Moon Theatre From 11.30am / p.28–29 Venue TBC 6.30pm / p.12 8pm / p.16 10pm / p.17 foté foré 12 – 6pm / p.37 Cork Opera House lodho performs request programme delicious

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Murphy’s Spiegeltent 8.30pm / p.12 11pm / p.25

voices from shandon féasta request programme request programme rumpus! 7.30pm / p.21 sa18 Shandon Patrick Street The Elysian The Elysian Cork City Centre p.38 12 – 5pm / p.38 6.30pm / p.12 8.30pm / p.12 After Dark / p.31 silver tree home is where man of valour laurie anderson clann lir heaven is under the coal porters latch little big nights out su26 Spiegeltent the art is Everyman Palace Triskel Christchurch Spiegeltent construction Murphy’s Spiegeltent Secret Location Murphy’s Spiegeltent 10.30am, 12pm & Venue TBC Theatre 8pm / p.11 11am & 1pm / p.26 Sirius Arts Centre 7.30pm / p.20 10pm / p.13 10.30pm / p.23 2.30pm / p.26 12 – 6pm / p.37 3pm / p.16 playing for change 2 – 5pm / p.35 solstice penguin café feasta heaven is under lodho performs Cork Opera House

Old FAS Building Cork Opera House Patrick Street construction tom waits 8pm / p.10

From 11.30am / p.28 – 29 8pm / p.8 12 – 5pm / p.38 Sirius Arts Centre Murphy’s Spiegeltent delicious 2 – 5pm / p.35 7.30pm / p.21 clann lir féasta enerjazz Murphy’s Spiegeltent su19 Spiegeltent Patrick Street Murphy’s Spiegeltent 11pm / p.25 11am & 1pm / p.26 12 – 5pm / p.38 7.30pm / p.20 solstice heaven is under human sacrifice Old FAS Building construction Murphy’s Spiegeltent From 11.30am / p.28–29 Sirius Arts Centre 11pm / p.23 2 – 5pm / p.35 music music

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SERIOUS (UK) The ten-piece band Penguin Café are carrying on the work HOTEL PRO FORMA (DENMARK) The Irish premiere of this acclaimed work blends Hotel Pro of Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Café Orchestra, which created Forma’s striking visuals with a score by The Knife, creating a penguin influential, quirky global melodies from harmoniums found tomorrow, new species of “electro-opera.” The world seen through the in the street. Penguin Café’s music has infiltrated daily life eyes of Charles Darwin forms the basis for the performance. café from films like Napoleon Dynamite to countless theme in a year Darwin, time and nature are represented by an opera singer, Saturday 18 June @ 8pm tunes and their sound is at once familiar and new, combining Friday 24 and Saturday a pop singer and an actor. Six dancers form the raw material venue Cork Opera House acoustic power and a beguiling, feisty charm. 25 June @ 8pm of life. The opera reminds us that the world is a place of remarkable similarities and amazing diversity, that over tickets €25 / €20 Concession venue Cork Opera House Led by Jeffes’ son, Arthur, the younger man has maintained time—tomorrow, in a year, or in a million years—change is duration 90 mins approx tickets €31, €33, €38* the orchestra's eccentric charm: penguin heads nestle on the inevitable. duration 80 mins speaker stacks and top hats, fezzes and idiosyncratic tailoring make the band look as if they have stepped in from a Victorian Featuring original music Sound compositions by Swedish avant-garde group, The fairground. The music, however is much more worldly: Knife, blended with the newest in light and sound technology by The Knife. a fusion of a peculiar sense of Englishness with magpie from the innovative Danish performance collective Hotel

plundering of rhythmic detail from other musical cultures, Booking * ONLY available from Cork Pro Forma, challenge conventional concepts of opera. The be they South American, West African, Celtic or Americana. Opera House. Booking fee may apply. music is thrillingly experimental, with much of it recorded in Ticket prices based on seat location. the Amazon jungle and in Iceland. Embracing concepts from “Arthur, is reviving the music and adding a little of his own visual art, theatre, concert and architecture, Tomorrow, in a with a nine-piece band featuring the unique mix of ukuleles, Year is sure to leave you amazed and enthralled.

strings, percussion, electric bass and piano, and the unlikely Shifts “ the position of operatic art in a single leap with its blend of African rhythm, folk fiddle and classical cadences exquisite scenic narrative technique and boldly exploratory works its whimsical magic.” music…an Einstein on the Beach for a new age.” the times dagens nyheter (sweden) Accommodation kindly sponsored by the Clarion Hotel Presented by Cork Opera House. music music

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(USA) (IRELAND) playing for change the fold: Sunday 26 June @ 8pm solo series live venue Cork Opera House Friday 17 June @ 8pm (Doors 7.30pm) tickets €28.50* venue Triskel Christchurch What began as a PBS documentary with the tickets €12 / €10 Concession lofty goal of fostering hope and inspiration The Fold is an occasional weekend event through music has now become a worldwide A Retrospective—Songs and Stories phenomenon. Grammy award-winning producer that offers a space for new, improvised and cork Mark Johnson travelled the world, recording experimental music. From noise and drones to jazz and traditional idioms, The Fold is a midsummer Celebrate the final evening of Cork Midsummer Festival in and filming street musicians of different faiths, the intimate surroundings of the new Triskel Christchurch backgrounds, and ethnicities, then blended platform for emergent artists and new practice. festival presents space, with the first appearance in Cork City of American their contributions into one unified and moving experimental composer and performer Laurie Anderson. performance. The final product aired as a The first Fold concert Solo Series Live is an incredible journey into the world laurie Using stories, songs and music, Laurie spins offbeat documentary on PBS called Playing for Change: adventure stories with her characteristic wit and poignancy. Peace Through Music and went completely viral of contemporary music with four internationally renowned chamber musicians anderson on YouTube, with PFC’s “Stand By Me” video “This is a great chance for me to put together a couple of performing new work by Irish, Japanese and transitory life reaching well over 31 million views. A collection (USA) decades of my favourite stories and songs. It’s wild to see European composers. Isabelle O’Connell of musicians from the documentary came them next to each other. They tell a whole different story.” (piano), Paul Roe (clarinet), Simon Jermyn (bass together for a live performance in 2009—and Sunday 26 June @ 8pm guitar) and Izumi Kimura (piano) will perform a laurie anderson Cork Opera House is thrilled to have these (Doors 7.30pm) solo recital and a series of group improvisations. incredible performers on stage for the Cork venue Triskel Christchurch One of the major artists of our time, Laurie Anderson’s Midsummer Festival. tickets €35 Solo Series Live is presented with Contemporary genre-defying work encompasses performance, film, music, duration 90 mins A “ fine collective of vocalists and musicians Music Centre and with funding from the Music installation, writing, photography, and sculpture. Over her assembled by Grammy winning producer Mark Network Performance and Touring Award. long career, Anderson has examined contemporary culture: Johnson to promote musical connectedness its dualities and conflicts, its absurdities and moments of and cross-cultural understanding". beauty. the la times To “ devotees, Laurie Anderson is the most stimulating female artist on the planet... pushing the barriers but Presented by always supremely musical, Anderson is manna for the Cork Opera House. heart, soul AND mind.” mojo *Booking ONLY available from Cork Opera House. Booking fee may apply. theatre theatre

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CORCADORCA THEATRE Celebrating 20 years of creating innovative theatre for HAMMERGRIN IN ASSOCIATION There are pavements and driveways and curbs. And a line COMPANY (IRELAND) audiences in Cork, Corcadorca presents an intimate site- WITH CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL of old trees on the hill where the killers live. And if you don’t PRESENTS request specific show, Request Programme by Franz Xaver Kroetz. burn them out before darkness falls they’ll get you, just like latch they got all the others. programme Request Programme is a non-verbal production that allows by franz the audience into the private world of its lone character Tuesday 14 to Saturday 25 June Latch is an original, site-specific theatre show by played by IFTA winning actress, Eileen Walsh. An audience of (excluding Sunday 19 June) Hammergrin. A haunting vision of suburbia seen through xaver kroetz 20 wait in Apt. No. 109 at the Elysian Tower. There they get to Previews 11 & 12 June the eyes of a child, Latch is the story of a boy who believes translated by witness at close quarters her everyday existence, her rituals Arrive at 9.45pm for a 10pm show in everything he’s told, until the day things start to fall katharina hehn and routine. venue Secret Location apart. Latch is Hammergrin’s most ambitious show to date, Monday 13 June to Thursday (will be revealed at the following their highly praised Hollander (2009) nominated for 7 July (excluding Sundays) This is the Irish premiere of Request Programme. Festival Box Office and Website) Best Production at Theatre Awards. @ 8.30pm tickets €15 / €12 Concession / Extra Performances @ 6.30pm ...a “ play that microscopically shines a spotlight on €12 Previews …fresh, “ innovative and irreverent... Hammergrin – a young Fridays and Saturdays human behaviour in its extreme form...a well thought duration 90 mins approx company – has learned how to create theatre that is both Previews Friday 10 and Saturday out production.” experience and sensation…” 11 June @ 8.30pm irish examiner (on medEia 2009) Limited capacity: book early to irish theatre magazine venue Apt. No. 109, The Elysian avoid disappointment. tickets €20 / €15 Concession / “A tribute to Corcadorca’s intellectual as well as Hammergrin is an Associate Company €12.50 Previews theatrical vision.” of Cork Midsummer Festival. duration 60 mins approx irish times (on the hairy ape 2008) Suitable for over 16s Generously supported by the Arts Council, Limited capacity: book early Cork County Council, Cork City Council to avoid disappointment. and O'Brien O'Flynn Construction. dance circus

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REX LEVITATES DANCE COMPANY (IRELAND) (IRELAND) fast portraits movement Thursday 16 June @ 1.15pm & 6.15pm of sound venue Crawford Art Gallery, Upper Gallery Tuesday 14 June @ 1.10pm admission free venue Triskel Christchurch duration 35 mins tickets €10 Seated / €8 Standing Most suitable for over 12s. duration 60 mins CIRQUE MANDINGUE (GUINEA) Flip-Flack-Fly! Don’t blink or you’ll miss these Guinean Fast Portraits…a singular moment captured The performance will be followed by an afternoon workshop. artists soaring through the air with their dizzying cartwheels, from diverse dancing perspectives. foté foré multiple back-flips and vaulting stunts in all directions.

Movement of Sound combines a new Inspired by the images of Carravaggio and Bill Thursday 16 & Friday 17 Foté Foré (Black White) is life told in acrobatics, dance and Viola, Rex Levitates Dance Company takes these collaborative work between Mary Nunan and June @ 8pm Karen Power with exciting Irish premieres by music-a life ingeniously paved together mixing the traditional artists’ observations of the human condition venue Cork Opera House international composers—Saariaho, Tiensuu beat of the African djembe drum, lithe acrobatic skill and a step further to bring them to life through tickets €18 / €12 Child modern day hip-hop with sweet street moves thrown in. On movement. Fast Portraits peels back the layers and Hyla. Movement of Sound seeks to combine €50 Family Ticket movement and sound in a way that will speak stage, nine amazing performers-circus artists, dancers, and a of emotion and memory existing in us all to (2 Adults, 2 Children/ contortionist - reinvent, with a fiery energy, their friendship explore what it is to be human and how this can across a number of artistic platforms, creating 1 Adult, 3 Children) new and more complete experiences of and their street games. Among them, a stranger in the mix connect us in ways previously unimagined. duration 60 mins movement, sound, movement through sound with a hip-hop attitude brings new moves and breakdances which mix with traditional African dance creating a high octane and sound through movement. Suitable for children 5 years and over. Established in 1999, Rex Levitates is one show with an infectious rhythm that you won’t forget. of Ireland’s leading contemporary dance companies, with a world class dance ensemble, This project involves four artists: Karen Power (Composer / Live Electronics), Mary Nunan Cirque Mandingue was formed in 2009 following a meeting led by choreographer Liz Roche. Not to be at the Second Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers missed! (Dancer and Choreographer), Deirdre O’Leary (Clarinettist) and Kate Ellis (Cellist). between French artistic director Luc Richard and a dozen Guinean artists. All circus lovers, they had a common dream: “Superb, haunting and addictive…” This project is funded by to put together a circus school in Guinea and create shows the irish times the Arts Council of Ireland. together. From this Foté Foré, their first circus show, was born, launching the new company into the international Tour kindly supported by circus scene. the Arts Council of Ireland. In association with Crying Out Loud. theatre theatre

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THISISPOPBABY (IRELAND) BROKENTALKERS (IRELAND) the year of the blue boy Friday 24 June @ 3pm and 6pm magical wanking venue Granary Theatre Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 June @ 10pm tickets ADMISSION FREE but ticketed

Photo: Gilligan Photo: Richard venue Half Moon Theatre duration 60 mins approx tickets €15 / €12 Concession duration 60 mins Suitable for over 16s. THE CORN EXCHANGE (IRELAND) Farrell Blinks is an office drone with an overactive fantasy The performance will be followed by a Q&A. gland. His imagined, heroic adventures offer violent release Explicit adult themes and language. man of from the pressures and boredom of his ordinary life—until Brokentalkers latest project is a work in progress the border between fantasy and reality begins to blur…. Neil Watkins has wanked more than is healthy, that deals with the experiences of men and valour allegedly. As one of Ireland’s most exciting women who were incarcerated as children in artists and incendiary performers, Neil is a force Catholic residential care institutions. Using Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 June Inspired by the improvisational skill of Paul Reid (star of nature, a maverick, a 33-year old homosexual recorded interviews, live performance, music @ 8pm / Matinee Sunday 26 of RTÉ drama Raw) in the company’s trademark style of with a Jesus complex. On orders from Heaven, and film, The Blue Boy attempts to give fresh @ 3pm / Previews 21 & 22 June / Commedia dell’Arte (improvised comedy), writer Michael this is Neil’s story through the wilderness theatrical voice to recently revealed stories of Opening Night 23 June West and director Annie Ryan of The Corn Exchange Theatre of queerness—from Catholic Ireland to the childhood abuse in Ireland. venue Everyman Palace Theatre Company have collaborated with Paul Reid to create this cruising bars of the world, from suburban ‘Head tickets €25 / Concession €20 action adventure story. His astonishing talent as a performer Shops’ to Native American ceremonies. As associate artists of the Festival, Brokentalkers Opening Night €20 transforms the empty space into numerous locations, are continuing the development of The Blue Boy Previews €15 / Student €7 travelling back into memory and forward into fantasy. Named as Queer Notions 2010 festival highlight with the support from the Cork Midsummer duration 90 mins On Freefall by Michael West in collaboration with The Corn by The Irish Times, The Year of Magical Wanking Festival’s New Works Department. Brokentalkers A World Premiere created Exchange: WINNER Best New Play, Best Director—The Irish is a brave and heartbreaking exploration of porn hope to premier the finished piece at the Ulster by performer Paul Reid, Times Irish Theatre Awards 2009 addiction, destructive sexual behaviour, Catholic Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2011. writer Michael West and guilt and family heartbreak. Written in hypnotic director Annie Ryan “Freefall shows the future of great theatre. Fast on its way to verse, it is both a profound personal journey Supported by Festival Firsts – Electrifying Irish becoming part of the Irish literary canon. Deeply moving and and a furious state of the nation address. Arts and Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

superbly acted.” “Truthful, heartfelt and immediately sunday business post identifiable…astonishingly brave” Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland the irish times and Festival Firsts – Electrifying Irish Arts. Supported by Cork Midsummer Festival. Brokentalkers and THISISPOPBABY are part of PROJECT CATALYST, an initiative of early evening MUSIC CAMILLE O’ SULLIVAN (IRELAND) tuesday 14 to friday 17 june 18 doors 6.45, show 7.15 19 tickets €25 Most suitable for those aged 16+ Camille O’Sullivan enjoys a formidable inter- national reputation for her intensely dramatic THIS YEAR, interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits, THE SPIEGELTENT Bowie and more. The multi-award-winning singer IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER! has stunned audiences around the world with her 5-star sell-out performances, including Sydney Opera House, London’s Royal Festival Hall and As part of their proud commitment to celebrate And now to the entertainment: The Murphy’s appearance on Later… with Jools Holland (BBC all that is great about Cork, MURPHY’S have Spiegeltent at Cork Midsummer Festival offers TV). Dark, sexy, fierce, amusing and mesmerizing, stepped up on behalf of the Festival to ensure a great festival vibe perfect for a summer’s night Camille transforms each song she performs into that the amazing Spiegeltent is an integral part of out. We've got some of Ireland’s biggest music an intense emotional and theatrical experience. this year's programme. The Murphy’s Spiegeltent names such as Camille O’Sullivan, Cathy Davey, With a new selection of songs, and backed by her will be situated in a brand new location, on the Jape, Mick Flannery and The Walls as well as talented band, expect fire, ice, darkness, joy and old Beamish and Crawford Brewery site on South international acts Breathe Owl Breathe, The Coal pure passion. Main Street. For those new to the Spiegeltent Porters and LODHO perform Tom Waits. If you experience: it’s a fabulous ‘tent of mirrors’ and feel like full on partying then we have something “When she sings it’s as though her there are only a handful of these legendary tents for all tastes including a Ceili, Kormac’s Big Band, breath is soaked in paraffin; one spark, left in the world today, the ‘Idolize’ tent will and swing dance with the Swingin’ Blue Cats. and the whole room would ignite” overlook­ the and comes complete with DAILY TELEGRAPH outdoor bar and food village. SUBJECT TO LICENSE AND PERMISSIONS Murphy’s Spiegeltent is a licensed premises. Children (anyone under the age of 18) are only allowed in licensed premises if they are with a parent or guardian. If accompanied by a parent or guardian, the child may remain on the premises between the hours of 10:30am - 10pm (May to September).

early evening early evening MUSIC CIRCUS / CABERET MUSIC THE COAL PORTERS TUMBLE CIRCUS BREATHE (UK) Feat. THE LORDS OF STRUT OWL BREATHE saturday 18 june (USA) doors 7.00, show 7.30 AND THE GREAT DAVIDO tickets €15/ €12 concession (IRELAND) wednesday 22 & thursday 23 june with interval 20 doors 7pm, show 7.30pm 21 tickets €15/ €12 concession The Coal Porters are internationally recognised A NIGHT OUT for their exuberant live shows which show them Breathe Owl Breathe’s sound has been described at their best. They are now firmly established WITH GAY BONO as ‘a wild rumpus of harmony and rhythm’ and as on the UK touring circuit as the best acoustic monday 20 & tuesday 21 june ‘reinvigorating the old, weird side of Americana’. bluegrass act around—the “Clash of Bluegrass” doors 6.30pm, show 7pm Three friends from Michigan: Micah, Andréa is an acoustic act with attitude! tickets €12/ child €8 (under 16s) and Trevor, create a musical experience that is family ticket €32 (2 adults, 2 children L’ORCHESTRE uniquely their own by blending minimalist and “Swift yet surefooted, banjos, mandolins or 1 adult, 3 children) clever arrangements with elements of story- and fiddles gallop along...while harmonies with interval D’ HOMMES— telling, humour, and composition. glow like, well, coals. Brilliant.” Contains Adult Humour. ORCHESTRES Q MAGAZINE Suitable for children 10 years and older. SUPPORTED BY PeRforms TOM WAITS folk-blues performer MARC O’ REILLY (CANADA) A cabaret of absurd circus, comedy and (WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE) clowning, Tumble Circus (Belfast), The Lords friday 24 to sunday 26 june MICHAEL BUCKLEY folk/alt-country group LOWmountain doors 7pm, show 7.30pm of Strut and The Great Davido (Cork) present a (THURSDAY 23 JUNE) tickets €15/ €12 concession & NIWEL TSUMBU carney comedy cabaret from the WITH PAUL O’ dark side of feel good. Armed with the colourful repertoire of American music icon Tom Waits, Quebec City’s L’Orchestre DONNELL'S ENERJAZZ With their high skill circus and comedy theatre, d’Hommes-Orchestres offer an event that is (IRELAND) Tumble Circus turn the circus tradition upside more of a carnival show or musical circus than down. MC’d by Cork’s own The Lords of Strut just a concert. This bustling orchestra performs sunday 19 june who will also present their show Sell Out Tour. doors 7.00, show 7.30 the music of Tom Waits using nearly 100 objects tickets €10 Described as an absurdity of celebrity culture and invented instruments on stage, which with interval the show brings acrobatic skills, clowning, and they hammer and caress in madcap scenes of the engaging experience of street theatre to the unbridled energy. Enerjazz is a new ensemble that brings together stage for a very physical comedy. a diverse range of musical genres to produce “A fabulous frenzy worthy of this giant.” sophisticated compositions and arrangements. Also feat. The Great Davido—master clown, LA PRESSE (MONTREAL) A fusion of jazz and world music, Enerjazz world record plate-spinner, one man circus, This presentation is made possible with produces one of the freshest sounds in Ireland modest genius who is assisted by Tricksy Belle la the support of Conseil des arts today. Michael Buckley, one of the most influ- Boulevard his almost glamorous assistant et des lettres du Québec. ential musicians on the Irish jazz scene will join and leading light. Enerjazz for this performance.

late night late night man show with a difference –playing a variety of MUSIC instruments, acoustic and electric accompanied KORMAC’S by an audio-visual feast of images and video WEST CORK BIG BAND footage to give audiences a completely new UKULELE (IRELAND) experience to the usual live gig format. friday 17 june Cork’s own Brian Deady’s sound has been de- ORCHESTRA doors 10.30pm, show 11pm scribed by The Irish Times as ‘raw deep soul that (IRELAND) tickets €15/ €12 concession 22 never goes out of fashion’. Prepare yourselves 23 to want to sing, gyrate and jump up and down tuesday 14 june An 11-piece orchestra with a mix of live turnta- doors 10pm, show 10.30pm as this rising star braves new waters with a new bles, samplers, drums, double bass, barbershop tickets €10 solo show. Expect to hear his trademark blend- quartet, trumpet, clarinet, and banjo playing ing of styles - west coast funk mixed up with Dublin’s DJ Kormac’s tracks. They’ve recently The West Cork Ukulele Orchestra is com- New York disco, doo-wop and early 90s trance MUSIC played peak time slots at Glastonbury, Bestival, prised of ten disparate musical talents brought – in short, expect to want to dance. together for one purpose: to rock the planet, Womad, Shambala, the & Body & Soul festivals and toured with Beardyman. ukulele-style! Plundering the last 60 years of JAPE musical awesomeness to put on a rip roaring (IRELAND) show full of lush harmonies and death-defying Followed by an AV set by DJ Kormac. Armed MUSIC ukulele playing, expect to hear classic and wednesday 15 june with new DJ technology, he will scratch and contemporary pop songs from Lady Gaga to the doors 10.00pm, show 10.30pm manipulate audio and video using turntables for tickets €17 (in advance)/ Beach Boys put through the blender, emerging a genre-bending, dance-floor orientated set. SOLSTICE €20 (on the door) sparkling with ukulele magic. CLOSING PARTY Jape is an electronic music act from Dublin. SEE PGS 28 & 29 MUSIC / PARTICIPATION In 2008 they won the Choice Music Award for THE SPIEGELTENT their album, ‘Ritual’. They have recently finished In Association With recording the follow up and will release it this HUMAN SACRIFICE CÉILÍ SA year. The Jape live show is a dynamic one, which with COME AS SOON SPIEGELTENT ranges from upbeat electronic pop and rock to AS YOU HEAR stripped back songs. The band doesn’t use lap- (IRELAND) (IRELAND) tops on stage and instead operates an innovative thursday 16 june mixture of samplers and synths with live instru- friday 19 june doors 10pm, show 10.30pm ments to create an organic and rhythmic sound. doors 10.30pm, show 11pm tickets €10 THE WALLS tickets €10 “You’ll reference quirky bits of Stereolab, Kraft- A huge hit in 2009, ‘Céilí sa Spiegeltent’ returns werk and Yo La Tengo and if you have any sense & BRIAN DEADY Reap what you have sown at the midnight har- for a fun-filled night of energetic Irish danc- you’ll recognise this for what it is: a fully formed (IRELAND) vest, dance your clothes off to pagan electro- ing. This is an event for everybody, for experts class act… “ pop. Come As Soon As You Hear DJs, alongside and beginners—just bring your dancing shoes. saturday 18 june IRISH TIMES some of Cork’s finest will work you into a trance Featuring Munster Buttermilk with William doors 10pm, show 10.30pm tickets €15 as the chosen one is led to their demise. Who Hammond as Fear an Tí for the night calling and will die? You decide. The Solstice closing party teaching dances like the Siege of Ennis, Walls of SUPPORTED BY Celebrated Irish rock band The Walls were to end all closing parties. Limerick, polka sets, reel sets, waltzes, two- Cork Electro Trip-Hop Band ALTEROSA. formed by two ex-members of The Stunning, hand dances and more. brothers Steve and Joe Wall. For the past two years the brothers have been working on a two- late night late night “… they sound like the best bits of CSS and “Her third album establishes her as one Katie Kim released her critically acclaimed MUSIC / PARTICIPATION New Young Pony Club but all the while of our finest musicians…. An album debut album ‘Twelve’ in 2009 – a beautifully

there is something altogether more to hum along with for the rest of the intimate collection of songs centered around THE SWINGIN’ mysterious going on.” year and beyond” Katie’s hushed, mood-drenched vocals. The SUNDAY TRIBUNE IRISH TIMES album has a similar kind of intimacy to the likes BLUECATS of Mazzy Star, with hints of the early aggression With Swing Dance Cork SUPPORTED BY SUPPORTED BY of PJ Harvey and the more folk-based late night feel of Cat Power. This performance will also (IRELAND) Energetic Cork Rock Band Cork Electro-pop Trio TOY SOLDIER feature new material from a forthcoming dou- 24 TRUMPETS OF JERICHO 25 monday 20 june ble album set to be released later this year. doors 10pm, show 10.15pm MUSIC tickets €10 The Swingin’ Bluecats are a six-piece Jump, Jive & Swing band suited and booted in 1940s retro- THE SPIEGELTENT style royal blue Zoot Suits. You can expect to In Association With hear classic jump, jive, jazz & swing numbers made famous by such legends as Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Jackie Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Bill Haley, Brian Setzer Orchestra

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CABERET The night will kick off with a swing dance class MICK FLANNERY for all levels (beginners welcome) with Elaine CATHY DAVEY from Swing Dance Cork. Dress up in your best (IRELAND) & KATIE KIM ‘30s/’40s vintage wear for our Best Dressed DELICIOUS wednesday 22 june (IRELAND) Contest to win a swell prize! (IRELAND) doors 10pm, show 10.30pm friday 24 to sun 26 june tickets €22 (in advance)/ thursday 23 june MUSIC doors 10.30pm, show 11pm €25 (on the door) doors 10pm, show 10.30pm tickets €15/ €12 concession tickets €15 Cathy is a Number One selling Irish artist, a CAP PAS CAP Delicious is a WILD night out; a mash up between Meteor Ireland Music Award winner and has Mick Flannery can best be described as a folk- (IRELAND) theatre, performance, music and clubbing…it’s been twice nominated for the Choice Music rock singer/songwriter. He’s an experienced the moment where performance and clubbing tuesday 21 june Prize, in 2007 for Tales of Silversleeve and most performer, having toured extensively in Ireland, come together in a head on collision. It’s a frenzy doors 10pm, show 10.30pm recently for the 2010 Awards for The Nameless. parts of the US, Israel and beyond. Currently, tickets €15/ €12 concession of ecstatic delight and deep down n’ dirty party She delivered a triple-crown result when she re- he continues to perform in and around Ireland mania - it’s the festival partyshowdown. Each leased her album The Nameless in May of 2010, before sold-out crowds. Cap Pas Cap make music laced with tension and night will celebrate delicious acts of joy, ranging debuting in poll position on the Irish Album unease, driven by propulsive motorik rhythms, from the sublime to the heart-warming, to the Charts, the Independent Release Charts and “Astute and sophisticated lyrics, strong skittering guitar, cascading synth sounds and get up on your feet and just dance. Delicious will the iTunes Charts on its first week of release. imaginative melodies, consummate insouciant vocals. Yet amidst the maelstrom be jam packed with short performances, music Taking the Number One spot is a huge achieve- musicianship on both piano and guitar, and a of this dark-wave sonic assault they retain an and live DJs. There will be something for every- ment for any artist, but a particularly inspiring voice that somehow manages to sound long uncanny pop sensibility at their core. While one – a lock down of delicious fun! accomplishment for a young, independent Irish experienced in the ways of the world.” influences can be traced back to a post punk musician, creating and releasing a self-funded EVENING ECHO milieu Cap Pas Cap have arrived at a sound that Feature artist is Dickie Beau with extracts from body of work. is unmistakably their own. his show Blackout – The Twilight Idols, each night

daytime outdoor / special event Dickie will bring you queer vaudevillian vignettes A father’s love for his children is at the heart of titled the inner child, life cycle of a love addict this beautiful re-telling of the ancient tale of The and rock bottom of a dying swan. Dickie Beau is a Children of Lir. This vivid production focuses UK based Drag Fabulist, a self described cultural on the fairytale elements of the story: a father’s pickpocket, maverick theatre maker, who stands search for his children, magical transformations, at the edges and lies in between conventions. three chances to break a spell and more. This magi- cal tale is told with puppetry, vivid imagery and MUSIC / PARTICIPATION enchanting newly-composed traditional music.

26 27 SUMMER This project was developed with help of Deis funding. AFTERNOON FAMILY FRIENDLY TEA DANCES ACTING UP! PRESENTS thursday 16 june with host pj coogan (96fm & ) thursday 23 june with evelyn grant (rte lyric fm) SILVER TREE time 12.30 – 2pm (IRELAND) tickets €5 saturday 25 & sunday 26 june PJ Coogan will act as compére, playing a selec- performances at 10.30am and 12pm (for under 3s) tion of big band, showband and country & tickets €8 for 1 parent/carer plus child western favourites from the great days of the duration 25 mins viva europa 2011 presents Join us in the beautiful surroundings of Fitzgerald’s Park for a Irish dancehall era. performances at 1.30pm (for 3 to 5 year olds) giacomo puccini’s live transmission of Puccini’s Tosca, direct from the stage of tickets €12 for 1 parent/carer plus child, €6 per the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, in Valencia. One of Puccini’s Anyone for a waltz? Join Evelyn Grant and her additional child tosca best-known operas, Tosca is a tale of love, lust, deceit and duration 50 mins LIVE OPEN AIR BROADCAST trio for the second tea dance. Well-known murder. Set in 19th century Rome, Mario Cavaradossi is in love musical director of the Cork Pops Orchestra, with the singer Floria Tosca. But Baron Scarpia, ruthless chief Silver Tree is an early arts storytelling perfor- Monday 13 June Evelyn has put together a programme to get of secret police also desires Tosca, a woman of character mance in three stages for very young children Transmission starts 6.15pm the toes tapping. Dancers will enjoy a range of famous for her voice and her terrible jealousy… and their carers based on the legend of the Ro- Performance starts 7.00pm music from Johann Strauss to Abba and dem- manian fate fairy. Performer Cliodhna Noonan venue Fitzgerald’s Park With a stellar international cast led by Oksana Dyka, Jorge de onstrate their dancing skills in waltzes, tangoes, has been training in early years arts with various free outdoor event León and Bryn Terfel. Together with the magnificent Orques- two-steps and a bit of rock ‘n’ roll. members of the Small Size network for the past duration 3 hours approx tra de la Comunitat Valenciana and the Cor de la Generalitat Cream Teas will be served. three years. Silver Tree is a captivatingly gentle with interval Valenciana, conducted by maestro Zubin Mehta. first-time performance experience that stimu- FAMILY FRIENDLY Co-production: Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía de Valencia, lates the children’s senses and encourages the Suitable for all ages! Opèra de Monte-Carlo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Festival Puc- adults to dream a little dream for their future. Dress for all weather conditions. cini Torre del Lago BRANAR PRESENTS Bring a Picnic Blanket. TALKS VIVA EUROPA 2011 JUNE 13TH is a transmission, free for the CLANN LIR Live transmission by big screen general public, of a live performance of Giacomo Puccini’s (IRELAND) Direct from the Palau de les Arts opera TOSCA via large screens in public places in over 40 IRISH EXAMINER Reina Sofía, Valencia, Spain cities across Europe. VIVA EUROPA 2011 is integrated in the ac- saturday 18 & sunday 19 june @ 11am & 1pm tivities of the European Union within the 2011 European Year tickets €8 LUNCHTIMES of Volunteering, becoming its cultural event with the most significant visibility, under the patronage of Ms Viviane Red- Performed in Irish. Suitable for all ages! wednesday 15 and wednesday 22 june @ 1pm see page 36 for more details ing, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship.

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28 venue An ambitious new event has arrived to the mix of 29 Cerina/den Dulk Tom Campbell Cerina/den Dulk Cerina/den Dulk 3rd Floor, Old FÁS Building, the Cork Midsummer Festival. Solstice is taking over 10am for the kids Hello Clayhead Hello Hello Sullivan’s Quay, Cork the 3rd floor of the old FÁS Building on Sullivan’s tickets Quay for four days to create a new space that is for 11am Hats Off Ensemble Cork Songs Wildebeest Theatre Magik one day passes € 10 everybody. Come see some of the 33 shows taking morning theatre Busk Adventures Of Company Fantasmagoria (11.30am – 11pm) place. Come hang out, grab something to eat, have a A Music Nerd: A Different Animal 1 Guy, 3 World Cups ‘For the Kids’ events are chat, enjoy some art and watch the 150 artists being sold separately inspired by Cork and one another. Solstice is alcohol 1.15pm Dan Canham Laura Murphy Laura Dannequin Team Patty Passes are available at the free, cheap and has something for everyone. lunchtime dance 30 Cecil Street Grounds In the Making Aftermath Midsummer Box Office or online Claire Keating Claire Keating Claire Keating Claire Keating Traction Traction Traction Traction at www.corkmidsummer.com for the kids morning performances for the littlest audiences 2yrs+. individual shows morning theatre roll out of bed and into the theatre. Start your day Spilt Gin Duggan/Logue €3, available on the door only with a difference. 3pm Newfangled Newfangled rough & ready Taste Stop/Over and subject to capacity. lunchtime dance enjoy watching some contemporary dance with your lunchables. 4.30pm Rampant Conflicted A Stint In Xnthony Kiegher For exact running times, newfangled the freshest theatre of the country, still in the making. risqué afternoon Productions Theatre Co. Your Spotlight Idiotica recommended age ratings Amy, I want to Red Shoes A Middle Distance rough & ready Newfangled on weekdays, exciting Cork premieres at Isabella Oberländer make you hard and further information on the weekend. Solstice Isabella Oberländer Art Bitch individual events, please see Solstice Surprise Art Bitch risqué afternoon for our more daring productions to keep www.solsticecork.com Surprise you talking. Devious Theatre Eat My Noise F.E.L.C.H Eat My Noise Curated and produced by four musical interlude music with a dash of the theatrics, and theatre 6pm with a dash of music. musical interlude Smitten b(R)ass Symestesia emerging artists, Dawn Mac Allister, Eszter Némethi, Ruairi late night lights theatre and music by the brave and young. An epic way to start the night. 10pm Feel Good Lost Makeshift Ensemble Come As Soon Talking Shop Donovan and Shirley Somers late night lights ft. Daithí O Dronaí Osteoporosis As You Hear Ensemble visual art come in at any time free of charge to hang out and see the Four Seasons Spurt I am a Home Bird Solstice exhibition. (It’s Very Hard) solstice closing party Human Sacrifice by Come As Soon As You Hear at Murphy’s Midsummer Nights at the Spiegeltent (details p. 23)

Visual Art Inklude Collective Eimhin Hawes Maurice Caplice Serge Vandenberghe Alan Nagle Evelyn O’ Connor Mary-Louise Mc Carthy Exhibition Damien O’ Reilly Gillian Fitzpatrick Oonagh Hurley David Flood Katie Kavanagh Pamela Myers family friendly outdoor / special events

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MIRJAM SIEFERT (GERMANY) “We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it’s towards ourselves that we tend, heaven is as towards a centre around which, like planets we trace absurd and distant Ellipses”. under fernando pessoa—the book of disquiet construction Heaven is Under Construction reflects the artist’s daily Thursday 9 June to Sunday 3 July life through captivating black and white imagery. Siefert Gallery hours are transforms mundane moments into poetic impressions of Wednesday to Friday: 11am to 5pm the places and people she passes. A collection of enigmatic Saturday & Sunday: 2pm to 5pm photographs which hold within them a visual language Monday and Tuesday closed evoking a plethora of emotions; sometimes captured as if venue Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh from the periphery of her vision, quite by accident. At other admission free points the works convey very direct confrontations of her intimate surroundings, through a mixture of portraiture and Artist Talk see pg 36 landscape, which resonate with a strong inner soundtrack of empathy and intensity. This exhibition is made possible with the support of Cork County Council and the Arts Council. Photographer Mirjam Siefert was born in Southern Germany in 1978 and presently lives and works in Berlin. She is a founding member of Pavlov’s Dog Gallery and also of the photographic collective “neunplus”, both of which are located in Berlin. Her works have been exhibited internationally in Tokyo, Krakow, Paris, Moscow, Dublin, Denmark, Brussels and Istanbul just to name a few locations. talks special events

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in Cork. special events voices from féasta: the cork midsummer cork midsummer shandon festival market festival new festival Saturday 18 June Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 June / works department professionals Processional Youth Choral Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 June venue Shandon 12 – 5pm daily in collaboration with symposium mobility free outdoor event venue Patrick’s Street live collision of performing arts 38 free outdoor event 39 23 to 26 june This public arts project involves a collaboration At this year’s FÉASTA expect local street food and between Didier Gallot Lavallée, member of plenty of local artisan produce lining the pavements. internationally renowned street company Royale de Delicious artisan foods will be on offer along with Luxe, and Cork Community Artlink. Together with the the usual favourite street food options you find at all This is a one year pilot The Professionals Symposium local community they will create a temporary public Goldiefish Festival Markets. FÉASTA is produced by programme funded by the in 2011 will aim to investigate art installation and performance at St Annes’ Church Goldiefish. They gather some of the finest food and Theatre Resource Sharing and address the ‘notion’ of and St Anne’s Park, Shandon in 2012. The first phase craft producers together to showcase exactly what Award from the Arts Council mobility in the arts and culture of Voices from Shandon launches this summer with this part of the country is renowned for. For more to provide producing support sector both nationally and information about the event find our special event a series of workshops facilitated by Gallot Lavallée for artists during the festival internationally. Mobility will be as Artist in Residence in local schools resulting in a page Goldiefish Markets on Facebook or email processional youth choral. [email protected]. and throughout the year. the considered in terms of the art, new works department aims artists and cultural professionals. To find out how to get involved and for more to provide creative producing Professionals attending the information on the project visit www.whatif.ie/voices/. support by provoking and symposium will engage in a stimulating the long-term programme of conversations and creative gestation of individual events with both national and artists and companies through international keynote speakers. the development of new work, collaborations and festival For more information about programmes/events. the Professionals Symposium The Perfect Riverside Setting and the programme of events for Corporate & Private Barbeques The artists and shows involved please contact Associate in the department include Producer, Lynnette Moran at Menu’s Starting from €15 – Brokentalkers – Blue Boy, [email protected] Hammergrin – Latch, Solstice, Neil Watkins (THISISPOPBABY) – Year of Magical Wanking, THEATREclub – Shane Byrne in For all enquiries Cabaret (Delicious), Dickie Beau call now on 021 4937715 – Blackout / The Twilight Idols (Delicious). The River Lee Hotel, Western Road, Cork www.doylecollection.com/riverlee CITY CENTRE SELF-CATERING ACCOMMODATION short term stay DeansHall

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