Tripe+Drisheen: The Friday View 27/08
Our weekly round-up of news and events across Cork
Make music
Live music happens more often that you’d expect on the streets, parks and beaches of Cork. This is a good thing, especially as the music and hospitality industry, and above all musicians, are still in the dark as to what is happening with their livelihoods and being able to get back to work. Ellie wrote about their plight earlier in the year here.
If you’re down by Rocky Bay beyond Carrigaline, The Fresh Air Collective will be performing on the beach - which is apt given their name - at 3 p.m. (Friday 27). The Collective are Edel Sullivan, Ruti Lachs, Eileen Healy and Fintan Lucy all well-known musicians around Cork. Eileen was one of our guest contributors on the Our Cork 2040 series, which you can read here.
Fresh Air will also be playing this weekend Fermoy Town Park at 10 a.m. on Saturday August 28 and then heading on to Ballygarvan at The Workshop, Lios Cross for an afternoon session which starts at 2 p.m. More details here.
Sticking with outdoor music, Flutes in the Park will be in Carrigaline Community Park at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 29. It’s another free event and you can bring a picnic and the whole shebang along with you. Details here.
Last call
Over at The Crawford it’s the last weekend for photographer Dara McGrath’s show For Those Tell No Tales which documents the lives lost in the War of Independence in Cork city and county.
Dara’s photographs draw on the work of Dr. Andy Bielenberg of the department of history at University College Cork, and give context, colour and a sense of place and history to the forgotten victims of a war that claimed 1,400 lives. Free entry. Exhibition ends Sunday, August 29.
It’s also the last weekend for Doug Fishbone’s bleak and comical look at Ireland’s (ongoing) housing crisis. Fishbone brings some of the despair of housing, profiteering and waste into the gallery setting with his first exhibition in Ireland: Please Gamble Responsibly.
The Blackwater Valley Makers - a collective of more than a dozen artists and crafters based in north Cork - have been exhibiting their wares all summer long at the Old Mill in Castletownroche. More details of opening times here.
In Douglas Village Shopping Centre, From the Earth an exhibition by Cork Craft and Design runs until the end of August showcasing some of its members wares in wood, clay, class, metal and stone.
The Paralympians
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics are well underway in Japan, and best of luck to all the athletes competing. Included in the Irish team of 29 athletes are four from Cork: Niamh McCarthy (discus), Patrick O'Leary (canoe), Mary Fitzgerald (shotput) and Michael Murphy (dressage). Sports reporter James Clancy has a full breakdown of the schedule and the sports here.
This week on T+D:
We had two long reads this week with Ellie’s piece on a (not) lost cat poster and an interview with Steve Chapman, the U.K.-based artist who created the posters. It’s well worth a read, and watch out to see if more of them pop up around Cork.
Also, JJ talked with Mick O’Sullivan who together with a small army of volunteers surveyed all of Cork city’s parks and green spaces. It was a mammoth task - and nobody asked them to do it - but what Mick found, which is all publicly available here, is a great resource.
That’s it for this week’s round-up. We’re back Sunday with instalment ten of Our Cork 2040 where the pages of Tripe+Drisheen are turned over to someone in the community.
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