Tripe+Drisheen: The Friday View 18/06
Our weekly round-up of news and events in the city and county
Sachiko makes
Sachiko Kobayasahi is a craft maker originally from Nagano, in the Alpine region of Japan. She’s been living in Cork since 2013 and since then she’s been making origami and a range of paper based products.
“Origami is a part of Japanese culture and we grew up with lots of folding paper,” Sachiko told Tripe+Drisheen.
“I used to bring my paper works to some Cork craft markets and also I was invited to do some Origami workshops in Cork city and I really enjoyed interacting with many people. Since all the events are cancelled last year I have been selling some of my works on Etsy Shop and Shop in Ireland.”
To see more of Sachiko’s work check out her Instagram page.
Rebel Reads needs you
We’ve flagged the crew over at Rebel Reads Cork before on the Friday View. They recently moved to a new location down at the Marina and they’re looking for volunteers. Currently it’s just a weekend operation, and they’re “very flexible” with working around the time volunteers can offer. There’s a Google docs here where you can contact them, and if you are down that way drop by for some book hunting. They’re also taking book donations.
Tweet of the week 1: Siobhán is from Cork.
Cape Clear Ferries in Cork Harbour
Tom MacSweeney was quick off the mark on Twitter this week with the news that the West Cork ferry operator is bringing their services to Cork harbour, starting this weekend. A Crosshaven-based cruise will start on Sunday, June 20, and one from the city centre on June 23. Cape Clear Ferries manager Karen Cottrell told The Echo the idea stemmed from a cruise in 2019 when they took the Dutch royal family on a tour of the harbour.
“It dawned on us at that time that there was no tour boat operating out of Cork Harbour. It was a no-brainer to start them.” Indeed. If it’s good enough for Dutch royalty, then…
Nomadland at the Triskel. A movie IRL on a big screen.
Triskel opens its doors today with an evening screening of Nomadland. La Haine screens tomorrow. Movies in real life. Enjoy.
Go hiontach at fád
Comhghairdeachas le daltaí agus le foireann Ghaelcholáiste Mhic Shuibhne i gCnoc an Chuilinn, as an stádas úr a bronnadh ar an scoil. Beidh Aonad Lán-Ghaeilge oifigiúil ag an scoil feasta, a ligfidh do dhaltaí a gcuid meánscolaíochta go léir a dhéanamh as Gaeilge más mian leo é sin. Scéal mór é seo d'fhoghlaimeoirí na Gaeilge agus don teanga féin. Dhírigh ceann dár sleachta fada léitheoireachta i mbliana ar chuid den dream atá ag cur spásanna agus deiseanna ar fáil i gCorcaigh chun an Ghaeilge a labhairt sa chathair.
Congratulations to the students and staff at Gaelcholaiste Mhic Shuibhne, Terence MacSwiney Community College in Hollyhill on its new Irish language status. Officially, the secondary school now has an Aonad Lán Ghaeilge (Irish Unit) where students who choose to will be schooled entirely in Irish. It's a great boost for Irish language learners and the language also. Earlier this year one of our long reads focused on some of the people in Cork making spaces for people to speak Irish in the city.
Tweet of the week 2: Cork’s demilitarized zone
Live Performance Support Scheme for Cork city and county venues
€2.6 million of a €25 million support scheme for Irish festivals, venues and events organisers went to Cork this week.
All the money must be spent by the end of September, so expect gig options to go from famine to feast in the coming months.
One of the recipients is Cork Pops Orchestra which played its inaugural concert way back when the Tall Ships came to Cork in 1991.
Cellist Gerry Kelly from Cork Pops writes:
“We are delighted to receive funding from the department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media towards the cost of Live music performances curated for schools and older audiences with online educational resources, including the employment of musicians and others from the Creative Industries.
We will be working closely with Chris Hurley and the Cork Film Centre to document and create online content for schools in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Covid has prevented us from performing for 18 months. We have delivered orchestral concerts for schools for over 30 years and really miss interacting with our live audience.”
Vantastic news for Cork’s Vantastival organisers
Annual boutique festival Vantastival scooped up €74,000 of LPSS funding, but not to host their regular event. The festival is held at Beaulieu House in Co Louth, but organisers Louise Tangney and Benny Taaffe live in Cork.
They are opting to stage two stand-alone evenings of music instead of their usual three-day summer bash.
“One of the worst emails I ever had to send was the mail I sent musicians on our line-up when we cancelled last year,” Louise said. “So we’re really excited to be able to be putting this together, for the musicians and the crew, but also for our own morale.”
Quite what the conditions at the LPSS-funded events will be remain to be seen: the gigs must be designed so that they can fit in with whatever the public health advice is at the time they take place, Louise explained.
“We’ll have massively increased cleaning, we’ll have a Covid officer and extra stewards, but we don’t know what extra measures we’ll be taking. I can’t see us asking for vaccine passports, but we might need to do temperature checks. Because all bookings are online, there’s contact tracing ability there.”
Ellie’s long read this week is all about how musicians have been struggling through covid ahead of a nationwide silent protest next week.
Last weekend for…
Cork Printmakers 30 closes this weekend at the Lavvitt Gallery. As the title of the exhibition suggests it’s a celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the printmakers collective in Cork. It’s a 100 member strong collective and includes a broad church of printmakers working in lithography, etching, screenprint, relief print, as well as expanded print practice to incorporate video, installation and performance.
Also finishing up this weekend is A City + A Garden which brings colour, sounds and stories to the city centre. Theres’s two routes, two great stories, and some great music. Finishes Sunday, June 20.
Walking and talking tour
This Saturday, June 19, Brendan O’Sullivan, from @Planning UCC will lead a one hour walk through the city paying close attention to the streets, the buildings, what remains, what’s falling down and what’s fallen down.
Brendan writes:
“ Even though the modernist style of architecture was never particularly popular here (remember the old Tax office on Sullivan’s Quay?) some people are becoming uneasy with the idea that the brightly coloured glazed brick and quirky concrete canopies of the former bottling plant on the North Mall is currently proposed for demolition. Probably because there are so few examples of this style in Ireland (after all, not many architectural gems were built in the early 1960s) there is a sense that we will miss these modernist buildings when they are gone.
And this is quite ironic because the philosophy of modernism itself had little room for nostalgia about building conservation: for modernists, style was all about functionality and efficiency in pursuit of a better society and a brighter future. It is clear that people value things in different ways and, whichever side of the fence we are on, we tend to expect the authorities to agree with us when we speak with conviction. In any event, the drama of this clash of ideas will play out over the coming months within the planning system (a planning application followed, perhaps, by an appeal to An Bord Pleanála).
Because the planning process is one where people have many formal opportunities to engage with all sorts of issues about places, it may be worth exploring our true expectations about the future of the city. Among the questions posed on this walk are: do we expect our streets to behave like roads (or vice versa)? what is the real cost (to the city) of free parking in out of town shopping centres? is dereliction in the city an issue in itself (or is it really a symptom of a bigger set of issues)? Can environmental regulations really create a better environment (or do they just help it from getting too much worse)?; when we take part in public participation events, are we really listened to (or have the big decisions already been taken)?; in political and cultural terms why doesn’t the phrase ‘urban Ireland’ resonate as powerfully as ‘Rural Ireland’ does? Are we serious about having a balanced and socially equitable city (or at the end of the day is it all about responding to property trends and globalisation)?
If this is what it means to live in a postmodern age, hopefully it is a good thing that our conversations about the city are becoming more serious, well-informed, inclusive and meaningful…”
Meeting point is at TEST SITE (organisers of the event), Kyrl's Quay. Gates are opposite the Bridewell Garda Station.
You can get tickets for the free event here.
And to see us out Neil Brocky with some of his street art down in Passage West. Good man Neil.
That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend and drop us a line with any community news or events you would like featured in Friday View.
Really interesting, but very much Cork city news. I'll try to hold my fire for a day or two and see whether you manage to climb outside the city walls and review the rest of us! Lots going on DOWN in the country.... (or up?)