Stop by to plan your evening, get your brochure, ask a question. City Hall also consists of several venues - both formal an informal, with something for everyone. See this years exciting line up below.
Please note: Filming and Photography may be taking place at these events. Entering the event area will be taken as consent to your image being taken- including images of children / vulnerable persons under your care - and possibly appearing in Cork City Council publications, promotional material and social and print media, and shared with Culture Night partners for similar use. email the organisers or speak to staff on-site should you have any queries
Join us for a night of music on the Plaza at New Civic Offices to celebrate Culture Night.
City Hall Singers | 4.30 | |
Barony Choir | 5.15 | |
Summer Sing | 6.00 | |
Douglas Comhaltas | 6.45 | |
City of Cork Male Voice Choir | 7.30 | |
Ukranian Group "Kalyna" | 8.15 | |
Bolivian Community Group | 9.00 |
Join us for tours of The Lord Mayor’s Chambers and Council Chambers, situated at City Hall and built in 1936. On display are the artifacts, gifts and art works, both ancient and modern, which form part of the life and traditions of the First Citizen of Cork.
Tours from 16:00 - 20:30. Booking required - email corporateaffairs@corkcity.ie
Vanbrugh & Friends - An hour of Chamber Music Favourites
Featuring:
Programme:
Boccherini - String Quintet in E major G.402 [first movement]
Beethoven - String Quintet in E flat major Op.4 [first movement]
Schubert - String Quintet in C major D.956 [first movement]
Dvořák - String Quintet in E flat Op.97 [second movement]
Rimsky-Korsakov - String Sextet in A major [first movement]
Brahms - String sextet in G major Op.36 [fourth movement]
Please note: Filming and Photography may be taking place at this event. Entering the event area will be taken as consent to your image being taken- including images of children / vulnerable persons under your care - and possibly appearing in Cork City Council publications, promotional material and social and print media, and shared with Culture Night partners for similar use. email the organisers or speak to staff on-site should you have any queries
Elisa has moved 51 times in her life, across many continents, several time differences from Italy to Egypt, Mexico to England.
Now in Ireland, help her move into her Cork home, where boxes and characters created by everyday objects come to life, creating a playful and absurd world.
An engaging, moving, and comical theatre show about memories, departures and belonging. Suitable for 8 years upwards.
Two shows - at 4.30pm and 6.30 pm.
First-come-first-served, subject to capacity
6aside is a photography series which captures, in game, first person point of view action of Cork's community and street league football tournament.
"Play has always, by its very nature, set it self off from workaday life; yet it retains an organic connection with the life of the community, by virtue of its capacity to dramatise reality and to offer a convincing representation of the community's values" Christopher Lasch
Each week a different player, playing a different position on one of the participating team’s wears a mounted body camera to capture their in game experience of the action. The resulting series creates a coherent story of the often overlooked moments of a small sided football game while highlighting the power of football to bring varying communities together in a changing and dynamic Ireland.
The year round football event takes place in The Glen in Cork city.
It features players from varying social and marginalised groups; those in support accommodation; those at risk of homelessness or formerly homeless; former addicts; members of two direct provision centres; those formerly in direct provision who gained residency; Travellers; members of the Polish, Italians, Spanish communities; unemployed young men from the northside of Cork city; members of the LGBTI community; support workers; journalists and more.
The concept of giving away the camera to different players was inspired by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s “photography by feel”. Rather than look through the viewfinder to compose images he would point and shoot based on his feelings and emotion in environments and surroundings. Series curator and photographer Paul Carroll, took this concept and gave away his camera to a different player each week. Further to this he involved players in the editing and selection of the work.
The resultant work is a participant driven serendipitous amalgamation of sport and street photography offering a portrait of the struggle and joy of the game throughout the seasons. It highlights the dynamic, vibrant and changing nature Ireland while dramatising the power of community through play.
Exhibition Space: Visitor interaction is invited, and includes a fussball table, an Amiga ST computer and joy pads to play the video game 'Sensible Soccer'.
These perhaps classic elements of teenage experience from the relatively recent past illustrate the dynamic and vibrant social change within Ireland over the last 20 years. Creator Paul Carroll's education experience in Doon, Co. Limerick was all white with one non Irish national across nearly 300 students for my 5 years of secondary school.
Sport is often said to be ahead of society in reflecting social change. 6-a-side seeks to captures an open, multicultural and inclusive Ireland.