Ellie meets…Karen Underwood
This weekend’s Arts + Culture newsletter is a full-length podcast interview with the fascinating Karen Underwood. Ahead of her weekend-long residency at the Guinness Jazz Festival, where she will be performing her Black American Songbook Volume 2, she tells Ellie about her journey to becoming a singer in an unmissable and candid conversation about her life, her loves and her losses.
If you haven’t already, sign up for T+D and you’ll get this podcast delivered to your inbox this Saturday, October 16. Press play above for a teaser of that interview.
Creepy in West Cork
The uniquely named Creepy Parade takes place this weekend in Skibbereen at the Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre. It’s the creation of artist-in-residence Seiko Hayase, and the 15 minute performance on the bridge outside the arts centre will feature a performance with music by Brian Leach, a guitar-maker who popped up in our profile of Benchspace.
At Uillinn at 1 p.m., Saturday October 16.
The air we breathe
As part of UCC’s community week, a panel of researchers and scientists will be discussing their ongoing work on monitoring the air in Cork. The online Q&A will also feature the Cork City Air Quality Dashboard which UCC developed in conjunction with Cork City Council. We mentioned that dashboard in our explainer piece on the “robo trees” which are identifiably not trees, but rather air sensors and purifiers. And benches.
It’s taking place from 1-2 p.m. today (Friday 15) and you can register here.
Street art and stuff
Ardú Street Art Project wraps up this weekend, with Conor Harrington the last man standing on a cherry picker on Grand Parade. There was a smaller crew of artists this year, but nonetheless the artists all left their mark!
Dublin artist Asbestos has a mural facing onto a derelict site on South Main Street that works the supporting girders into the piece. You can find Shane O’Malley’s work at Horgan’s Quay on the turn heading into the city. Finally, Friz’s mural of Clíodhna, a Celtic goddess, covers an entire gable end on St Fin Barre’s Road, near the cathedral.
No drinking here, or here
Cork City Council have a submission open around the bye-laws surrounding public drinking. In short, you can’t do it and if you are, well, you’re contravening bye-laws. Plenty of public drinking takes place on the street outside cafés, bars and restaurants, but that’s OK as it’s tied to commercial enterprises. Interestingly, the chief executive of the city council can use their discretion to allow public drinking for certain events and over certain time periods. You can review the full list of bye-laws here and make a submission between 13 October 2021 to 15 November 2021.
Japan in Cork
For a few nights next week the Gate Cinema and The Triskel will be hosting a small program of films from the The Japanese Film Festival Ireland which is touring nationwide at the moment and comes to Cork from October 17-20 . For fans of Haruki Murakami, Drive My Car, an adaptation of one of his short stories by director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, will be playing at The Gate and it features a very Murakami-esque motif, a red Saab 900. You can find the full list of films and times here.
In other news
Ellie is back to eating food from everywhere this month, but she was on with Ryan Tubridy on Wednesday morning discussing her long read from the end of September on being a “locavore” and trying to eat only food made and grown in Ireland. If you’ve subscribed to Tripe+Drisheen as a result of hearing about us through that interview, welcome and thanks. Feel free to peruse our long reads, news and contributions from local residents. And if you can, we’d really appreciate your support to fund independent, in-depth local journalism.
You can listen to that interview here.
The long read on T+D
This week’s long read is a profile of James Walsh who has been gathering signatures to ban glysophate, the active ingredient in Roundup, from being used in public places. James has so far collected 5,000 handwritten signatures and he’s planning on delivering them to the Dáil in December. Read on to learn more about his campaign.
That’s it for this week’s round-up. Don’t forget to look for out for weekend edition of Tripe+Drisheen with our new Arts+Culture newsletter.
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