The Friday View 28/01
Rachmaninoff in the Aula Maxima, art exhibitions abound, parking fines increase from February 1, and Ballyhooly Road residents are pitching in to clean up.
News in brief
No parking here or here
From February 1, the penalty for parking on footpaths and in bus and cycle lanes will be increased from €40 to €80. The legislation was passed earlier this month and comes in to effect from next Tuesday. However, the legislation will only be effective if it’s enforced. And that will be a work in progress.
Round one to SOBO
As Ellie reported on Monday night, the State has conceded that it did not do enough when it came to the public consultation about the proposed developments for the Blackpool Flood Relief Scheme. Save Our Bride Otters crowd funded a judicial appeal, and as Chris Moody told T+D hopefully it’s back to the drawing board with the scheme. Ellie has written extensively on the flood relief scheme on T+D.
The trial of Orla Murphy
We profiled Orla the east Cork climate activist last year. You might recall she was arrested after vandalising the Department of Foreign Affairs building in Dublin. (She spray painted the words “No More Empty Promises” on the front of the building). In travelling to Dublin she contravened bail conditions after a previous direct action on the Department of Agriculture, and spent 34 days behind bars.
Her trial opens on February 9 at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.
Ask not what your community can do for…
The Ballyhooly Road Garden Community will meet up on the morning of Sunday February 6 for their inaugural clean-up. Fair play to all involved in these local initiatives. T+D hope to get out and meet some of the people pitching in, in the near future.
Image of the week
This photo of three men and a boat taken in the early 1960s on Bachelor’s Quay is just one of the many, many photographs in the wonderful Anthony Barry collection. You could spend half the day looking at the archive while not working. Highly recommended, both perusing it and not working!
Out and about
🎹 Rachmaninoff in the university
UCC’s concert-lecture series kicks off next week, beginning with Rachmaninoff and Piano Concerto No 2. The concerto will be performed by David Syme, the university’s Ritmüller classical artist in residence and Keith Pascoe of The Vanburgh. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 2 has been widely used in film and pop music, and featured in Brief Encounter (1945), The Seven Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe (1955) and Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter (2010). It’s also been repurposed for the power ballad All By Myself. Here it is by pianist Anna Fedorova.
Each of the concerts will feature a different (powerhouse) composer who you’ll get to know a little more through their work, as Syme talks about the composer and their work. No prior experience of classical music is needed. Tickets €7 for students and €15 full price.
Time and date: Thursday, 3 February, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Aula Maxima, UCC
🎨 Student of the Year Award
Ongoing at the Lavit Gallery is the annual Student of the Year Award exhibition, which is awarded to Crawford College of Art and Design. The award dates back to 1967 and is awraded to emerging artists, and some of the recipients have inlcluded well-known artists such as Maud Cotter, Eilis O Connell, Vivienne Roche, Eileen Healy, and Stephen Doyle. The recipients of The Student of the Year Award 2022 are Fionn Van der Noll, Lorraine Parker, Lorraine Poulter and Luna Torresel Rave. More information here.
Time and date: January 27 - February 12 (open daily)
Venue: Lavit Gallery
🖼 Art in the pav
Cork it would seem has a thing for its pavilions (the word pavilion comes to us from Middle English, Old French and Latin. The Romans used papilio for ‘butterfly or tent’If you haven’t seen it yet, there’s two more left to catch Sian Costello’s exhibition at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Fitzgerald’s Park. We saw some of the beautiful paintings through the window. From next week, Emma O’Hara, a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, will bring her a series of her paintings to the pavilion for her exhibition The Sun Casts a Shadow. It runs throughout February. More information here.
Time and date: February 3 - March 9 (opens Wed - Sat, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
Venue: The Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park
🖼 Damo???
Last week we wrote about artist Anne-May Tabb who has her first ever solo show Can You Hear Me Damo? which opens at St. Peter’s on North Main Street on Tuesday, February 1. Anne-May works discarded or found items into her work. You can read more about the exhibition and her background in our Arts +Culture newsletter profile here:
This week’s long read on T+D
Ellie’s long read this week looked at what it’s like for people with disabilities to navigate Cork city with a car. The city centre has undergone considerable transformations and Ellie spoke with Mark Lahive and Carol Rice for the piece as to what those changes mean for them and for accessing the city.
That’s it for this week’s round-up. Don’t forget to look for out for the weekend edition of Tripe+Drisheen with our Arts+Culture newsletter.
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