The Friday View 29/04
The city is filled with the sound of song and music this weekend.
Cork will be on song this weekend as the Cork International Choral Festival returns bringing with it choirs from across Ireland and Europe to churches, bandstands, pubs and concert halls. Tonight is also the last night of Ed Sheeran’s short residency at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. He’s back filling stadiums, a sure sign that we’re back to “normal”. The best sounds though are the dawn chorus which you can catch from your bedroom window each morning from 5am onwards. And last, but not least, Tripe + Drisheen regularly brings out a podcast and you can listen in on any of the episodes here. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the long weekend.
-JJ
News in brief
Cork Chosen for EU Cities Mission
Cork has been included in a list of 100 European cities selected by the European Commission to “lead the way on climate action,” Cork City Council’s press office announced this week.
The program is part of the EU Cities Mission, which aims to deliver 100 “climate-neutral and smart” cities by 2030.
The designation comes with funding that cities can tap into, so we await Cork City Council’s action plan to reduce emissions en route to becoming carbon neutral.
Funds of up to €10,000 available for city groups
In other funding news, community groups can apply for up to €10,000 in capital funding for greening and urban biodiversity projects or other improvements to their area under the City Centre Placemaking Fund 2022 announced today.
The deadline for applications to the fund is May 31 and the form is available to download here
Nano Nagle Centre recognised
Congratulations to all the staff and management at Nano Nagle Place as this week the centre was a Council of Europe Museum Prize. A delegation from the Nano Nagle and Cork City Council were in Strasbourg, France to accept the award for the Douglas Street institution which houses a museum as well as the Cork Migrant Centre and The Lantern Community Project.
Tweet of the week:
You might well have seen this scene in real life, or more likely online, but the layers and levels to this shot by Jerome B. Murphy are a sight to behold. The tractor, trailer, truck, truck, van combination did not get through the Jack Lynch Tunnel on Thursday morning. The tunnel has been hitting the headlines for the past few weeks as new sensors have been added to the entrances and there has been some “teething problems” leading to delays. The issue has been resolved now according to Transport Infrastructure Ireland.
Photo of the week
Out + About
Land and longing in Dublin: Cork painter Tom Climent’s highly coloured abstracted landscapes have been growing in popularity in recent years, most notably since the Crawford bought one of his canvases for the National Collection last April. But he’s actually been working away in Cork city for over 25 years. Tom is holding a solo exhibition of new paintings in Dublin, opening next Thursday.
Time, date, place: Land and Longing by Tom Climent is at Solomon Fine Art on Balfe St, off Grafton St, from Thursday May 5 until Saturday June 4.
Dance graduates showcase their talent at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa: CSN dance students perform their annual graduate show in a variety of styles including jazz, tap and contemporary. Also expect special guests: CSN alumna and well-known figure on the Cork dance scene Inma Pavon will perform her new interpretation of the famous dying swan scene from Swan Lake.
Time, date, place: Tonight, Friday 29, at 7pm at CSN’s Tramore Road campus. Free but ticketed. Tickets here.
Zurich portrait prize returns to the Crawford
What do us human beings like as much as permission to look at other humans? Indulge your bio-evolutionary yearnings with a trip to the Zurich Portrait Prize and the accompanying Zurich Young Portrait Prize: the exhibitions return in the flesh to the Crawford Art Gallery this year. The winner of the main prize is Salvatore of Lucan, whose work seems to ingeniously combine the mythic distortions of religious painters like El Greco with the mundanity of modern settings…as his name may suggest.
Time, date, place: Zurich Portrait Prize 2021 and Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2021 can be visited daily at Crawford Art Gallery from April 23 until July 17.
Sing out: Cork Choral Festival returns. There is, as always, a wide range of events and competitions, and you can find the full details online.
If you’re in Cobh on Sunday, watch out for the Cobh Choral Trail which takes place in the Heritage Centre, the Band Stand and The Rob Roy Bar and features choirs from Slovenia, Estonia, Norway and Ireland. More details here.
Time, date, place: 1pm, Sunday May 1, various locations Cobh.
The Goldie Chapel in Nano Nagle Place will be filled with song from two visiting choirs from Scandinavia this afternoon. The small chapel on the ground of the centre was designed by George Goldie in 1865. The event is free. More information here.
Time, date, place: 1:10 pm, Friday 29, Goldie Chapel, Nano Nagle Place, Douglas St.
This week on T +D
Our news piece this Thursday was on An Bórd Pleanála: even as Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien announced that an investigation would take place into potential conflicts of interest for the current Deputy Chair, Cork environmental group CHASE had a ruling last year that a board member had exhibited bias in voting in favour of the third application by Indaver Ireland for an incinerator in Ringskiddy. Yet the application may find itself back before An Bórd Pleanála:
That’s it for this week’s Friday View. Any tips, news or events you’d like to share with Tripe+Drisheen, you can contact either of us at jj.odonoghue@gmail.com or emailellieobyrne@gmail.com. We are always happy to speak to people off the record in the first instance, and we will treat your information with confidence and sensitivity. Get in touch.