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corkcitylibraries.ie Events Edition May 2019 17 Photo Jed Niezgoda Contents Cork City Libraries The City Library ..............................................1 Children’s Library .........................................2 Music Library ..................................................3 supporting Bishopstown ....................................................3 Blackpool ..........................................................3 LGBT+ Awareness week Exhibitions ......................................................4 Exhibitions ......................................................5 Douglas .............................................................6 Holyhill ..............................................................7 May 12 – 18, 2019 Mayfield ............................................................8 Tory Top ............................................................8 • Visit the Stonewall Exhibition at the City Library, Grand Parade, • The Out-Lit Book club as part of the The City Library Grand Parade Rainbow Picnic in The People’s Park May | Wednesday 1 | 1.00 pm | Launch of The Unfinished Book • Pick up a list of must read This year’s edition showcases 43 young voices, representing five schools which were LGBT+ related novels! identified as ‘Sanctuary’ schools, to support Cork city’s bid for City of Sanctuary status. Featuring works from students attending Gaelcholáiste Mhuire, Coláiste Chríost Rí, Christ • Get your copy of the LGBTI+Awareness King Girls’ Secondary School, North Monastery Secondary School and Cork Educate Together Secondary School. Week Programme of events at the The City Library or your May | Thursday 2 | 6.30 pm | Mario Badagliacca, a photographer & photojournalist in conversation at Cork City Library on the subject of his exhibition local branch. ‘Frammenti’ (Fragments), followed by a reception. All welcome. The exhibition will be in the foyer of Cork City Library from April 23 to May 10. May | Thursday 9 and 23| 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm |Non Fiction writers This vibrant writing group is celebrating its 11th year! New members welcome. May |Thursday 9| 6.30 pm | Secret Animals: A Doire Press Cross Border Poetry Tour | As part of a national tour, poets Moyra Donaldson, Glen Wilson and Breda wall Ryan will read from their collections. May | Friday 10 | 11.00 am | 3D Printing at your library. Take the opportunity to see our 3D printer in action and find out how you can print something in 3D. May | Saturday 11 | 10.00 am to 11.30 pm | Peann agus Pár Ceardlann scríobhneoracht le Colm Ó Cealláchain. Fáite roimh cách. New members welcome. May | Saturday 11 | 11.30 am to 1.00 pm | Second Saturday Book Club Come and share your love of reading with others. New members welcome May | Monday 13 | 10.00 am to 11.30 am | Conversation Café A new social space for people from all communities to come and chat. Drop in and check THE it out! Hosted by Joanna Dukkipati and Eilís Dillon, ThinkSpeakDo REVOLUTION: 50 years of LGBT liberation May | Tuesday 14 | 6.30 pm | Launch of Stonewell Exhibition Launch of the exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots with Orla Egan, author of The Queer Republic of Cork and curator of the Cork LGBT Archive and Enjoy the week! 28th June 2019 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a pivotal event in LGBT history. The riots at the gay pub, the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Pádraig Rice, Coordinator Gay Project Cork. New York, were sparked by one too many instances of harassment by the police, who were a relentless presence of persecution towards the LGBT community. This was a significant event in the struggle for equality for LGBT people both in the USA and the whole world, because it ultimately led to the inclusion of sexual orientation as a protected category in the civil and human rights movements. It marked the beginning of the reversal of millennia of oppression against the lesbian and gay population. 2 3 3 Music Library May | Thursday 2 | 2.00 pm | The European School of Brussels Secondary Choir | Part of the Choral Festival | Free and all welcome May | Friday 3 | 3.00 pm | Sing for your Life (Australian Choir) Part of the Choral Festival| Free and all welcome May | Friday 10 | 11.00 am | Country Music Circle May | Friday 31 | 11.00 am | Gramophone Circle with Jim Ahern Bishopstown Wilton May | Friday 10, 17, 24 | 11.00 am to 12 noon | Storytime for preschoolers and toddlers with Barbara | All Welcome | Admission Free May | Wednesday 22 | 11.30 am to 12.30 pm | Bishopstown Historical Society Talk: ‘The Art of John McCormack.’ | Presented by Jeremy Meehan (Local Historian) | All Welcome | Admission Free May | May | Thursday 23 | 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm | Gramophone Recital | All Welcome | Admission Free May | All Month | Bishopstown Library supporting Cork City’s LGBT+ Awareness week Check out the book display, both fiction and non-fiction, suggested reading list and the DVD selection May | Wednesday 15 | 10.00 am – 11.00 am | Download our digital magazines. | Discover how to access hundreds of free eMagazines and download to your own Blackpool Bowler House, Redforge Road, Blackpool device. Keep up with the latest news on travel, sport, cookery, fashion, health and fitness, and current affairs. May | Thursday 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & 31 May | Thursday 16 | 11.30 am | How to get a good night’s sleep! 10.00 am – 12.30 pm | “In Stitches” crochet group. Learn more about sleep and ideas on how to tackle sleep problems. A talk for adults by Dr. New members welcome. Rosarie Crowley, Clinical Psychologist, HSE May | Friday 3 | 2.15 pm | Kamarikuoro Nasi , Finland | in conjunction with May | Saturday 18 | 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm | Out-Lit Book Club in The Peoples Cork Choral Festival 2019. Admission free. All welcome. Park | Celebrating LGBT+ Awareness week the book club goes to the park! New members welcome. May | Friday 3, 10, 17 & 24 | 10.00 am – 12.30pm Adult Art Group. New members welcome. May | Saturday 25 | 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm | Out-Lit Book Club Our book this month is: The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, selected using a FB Poll. May | Tuesday 7 | 10.30 am – 12.00 noon | Blackpool Adult Writing Circle Facilitated by writer Kevin Doyle Creative writing workshops for budding writers facilitated by experienced adult education tutor. Admission free. All welcome. May | Wednesday 8 | 11.00 am – 12 noon | Cúinne na Gaeilge Children’s Library Fáilte roimh cách. Saor chead isteach. May | Thursday 9 | 2.30 pm| Retrace your family tree May | Thursday 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 | 10.00 am | Story, Rhythm Tony McCarthy of The Cork Genealogical Society. Admission free. All welcome. and Rhyme with Deidre Ryan | A fun morning for children under 5, their parents, | 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm | Blackpool Adult Book Club. grandparents and carers! May | Tuesday 14 New members always welcome. May | Saturday 25 | 2.30 pm | Book Launch | | 2.30 pm | Tadhg McCarthy Join us to help author Trev Burke celebrate the launch of his fourth Purple and Reggie May | Thursday 23 picture book presents The Music of Andre Rieu. Admission free. All welcome. 4 5 Exhibitions | May Exhibitions | May Grand Parade Bishopstown Blackpool A Journey called Home Poetry George Frost Cork and Exhibition Beyond Art Exhibition; Poems and a selection of Oils and translations from A Acrylics Journey called Home; All Welcome | Admission Poems and stories of Free the new Corkonians May Thursday 2 Launch Frammenti [Fragments] by Mario Badagliacca 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm The Italian photographer Mario Badagliacca’s exhibition focuses May | Thursday 16 |10.00am- 1.00pm & 2.00 on objects taken Landscape Photography from asylum seekers Photography is an inclusive and creative medium that pm -5.30pm | An exhibition of work by the and migrants as allows us to slow down and take notice of the natural “In Stitches” crochet group | Admission free | they arrive on the world that surrounds us. Our aim is to find beauty All welcome island of Lampedusa. Mobile phone parts, battered and wonder in the everyday by connecting to nature guidebooks, broken compasses and cigarette in the urban setting of Cork City. Our Horticulture When Cork drove Fords packets were all taken, and later disposed of, by Local Training Initiative at Ardfoyle aims to provide a Exploring the establishment of the Ford the police. In documenting this collection of lost Douglas holistic adult learning experience and a vital part of manufacturing plant in Cork and its role in the life belongings, Badagliacca encourages us to reflect on this is our use of landscape photography to connect of the city. The Cork roots of the family, the Detroit the value of objects and the value of human life. His us to place connection and the construction of the plant features photographers tell stories of migration, displacement along with images form the final days before its and hope, as they help us to trace the different May 13 to 31. Launch Friday 24th May at 3 pm. closure in 1984. subjectivities of their owners; their faces, voices, May 21 to 31 stories and journeys. Held in collaboration with the Memory research group of the Centre for Advanced The Stonewall THE An exhibition of work by the Adult Art Study in Languages and Cultures, University College revolution: 50 Group. Cork. Mario Badagliacca will be in conversation in years of LGBT the City Library on May 2 at 6.30 pm. REVOLUTION: liberation 50 years of LGBT liberation May 1 to 31 Exhibition May 1 to 10 June 2019 will be the 50th anniversary Celebrating 50 years of of the Stonewall 28th June 2019 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a pivotal event in LGBT Tory Top Library history. The riots at the gay pub, the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Pfizer in Ireland: Inn riots. This was a New York, were sparked by one too many instances of harassment by the police, who were a relentless presence of persecution towards the LGBT community.