Cork Art News 2012
New Visual Arts Events, Exhibitions & Festivals in Capital of Munster.

Cork Arts Events in 2012

See below for a list of cultural events in Cork City and County, in the area of visual and performing arts. Bookmark this page, as it changes regularly.

• For contact details, see Booking Information.
• For more information about festival events, see Cork Festivals.
• For a look-back at 2005, see Cork: European Capital of Culture.
• For a list of local art venues, see Cork Galleries.
• For more about the city's culture, see Cork Art.
• For a list of Cork painters and sculptors, see Cork Artists.
• For more about 3-D works, see: National Sculpture Factory.
• For information about the best local art-group, see Maclise Art Society.
• For news of crafts, see West Cork Craft & Design Guild.

2012 Visual Arts Program
More details coming soon

JANUARY

January 2
Cork Opera House: Abba Forever! One night of Abba songs to celbrate the 40th anniversary of the group.

Until January 14
Crawford Art Gallery: Barrie Cooke, abstract expressionist. Exhibition to celebrate the artist's 80th birthday.

FEBRUARY

February 1-3
Everyman Palace Theatre: Samuel Beckett x3: Three Short Plays by Beckett.

February 5
Cork Opera House: Rebecca Storm in concert playing her greatest hits.

February 12
Cork Opera House: Alabama 3 playing a mix of mixing rock, dance, blues, country and gospel.

CORK CITY ARTS
For reviews of the city's leading
art galleries, see the following:
Crawford Art Gallery
Emmet Place, Cork City
Cork City's No 1 art venue
Lewis Glucksman Gallery
Munster's most modern art space
Fenton Gallery
Cork's contemporary art venue
Lavit Gallery
One of the City's oldest art galleries
Cork Vision Centre
Heritage, artistic centre and gallery
Buckley Fine Arts
Leading private art gallery
Vangard Gallery
High quality Irish sculpture/prints

Sirius Arts Centre
Cobh
Doswell Gallery
Rosscarbery
Catherine Hammond Gallery
Glengarriff
Kinsale Art Gallery
Pier Head, Kinsale
Kinsale Pottery School
Gallery, Ceramic Courses and more!
Mill Cove Gallery
Castletownbere
West Cork Arts Centre
Skibbereen.

February 15-18
Spring Poetry Festival at Metropole Hotel, Cork.

February 17
Classical Music at Bantry House, West Cork: Danish Quartet playing works by Haydn, Nielsen and Mendelssohn.

February 18
Cork Opera House: Mary Black in concert, profits raised in aid of aid of Chernobyl Children International.

CORK PAINTERS & SCULPTORS
Atkinson, George Mounsey (1806-1884)
Marine Artist
Ballagh, Robert (b.1943)
Pop-Art pictures
Barry, James (1741-1806)
Neo-Classical History Painter
Barry, William Gerard (1864-1941)
Portraitist, Landscape painter
Beechey, Richard (1808–1895)
Marine Painter
Carver, Robert (c.1730–1791)
Landscape Painter
Cross, Dorothy (b.1956)
Contemporary Sculptor
Crozier, William (b.1930)
Abstract Landscapes
Fagan, Robert (c.1761–1816)
Portraiture
Grogan, Nathaniel (1740-1807)
Illustrator, Oil Painter

February 26
Everyman Palace Theatre: UCC Dance, annual dance classes now in its 6th year.

MARCH

March 4
Everyman Palace Theatre: Nanci Griffith in concert, folk music.

March 4-6
An Spailpín Fánach, Cork: Cork Singers Club Festival, weekend of unaccompanied song and story telling.

March 6-13
23rd Cork French Film Festival 2012.

Hennessy, Patrick (1915-1980)
Still Life, Landscape
Hussey, Philip (c.1713-83)
Portrait Artist, Genre Painter
Kingerlee, John (b.1936)
Contemporary Landscape Artist
Lane, Hugh Percy (1875-1915)
Art dealer/philanthropist
MacDonald, Daniel (1821-1853)
Sketches, Portraits
Maclise, Daniel (1806–1870)
Portraitist, History Painter
Mahoney, James (1810-1879)
Watercolours, Illustrations
Murphy, Seamus (1907-75)
Eminent stone sculptor
Thaddeus, Henry Jones (1859–1929)
Realist and Portrait Painter

March 16-19
St Patrick's Day Festival 2012: annual street festival Cork city.

March 21-22
Everyman Palace Theatre: Macbeth by Ireland's award winning company Second Age.

March Date TBC
Cork Lifelong Learning Festival.

APRIL

April 3
Cork Opera House: Opera, La Traviata by Verdi.

April 11
Cork Opera House: Sesame Street, the musical.

April 20-23
Cork World Book Festival.

April 29
Cork Opera House: Magnetic Fields, concert.

MAY

May 2-6
Cork International Choral Festival 2012: 58th Annual Festival.

May 4-7
2012 Ballydehob Jazz Festival, West Cork.

May 19
Cork Opera House: Fat Cat, Johann Johannsson, Hauschka, & Dustin O'Halloran.

May 24-27
Corona 2012 Fastnet Short Film Festival, West Cork.

May Date TBC
10th Annual Cork Gay Pride Parade & Festival.

JUNE

June 1-3
Bandon Music Festival 2012.

June 4
Cork City Marathon.

June 7
Live at the Marquee: Justice.

June 8
Live at the Marquee: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

June 9
Live at the Marquee: Imelda May.

June 9-10
Street Performance World Championship: Annual event, Fitzgerald Park, Cork.

June 10
Clonakilty Agricultural Show 2012.

June 11
Live at the Marquee: The Specials.

June 21-July 1
Midsummer Arts Festival 2012.

June 23
Live at the Marquee: Christy Moore.

June 24
Live at the Marquee: Jedward.

June 28
Live at the Marquee: Dara O Briain - Craic Dealer.

June 29-July 7
West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2012.

JULY

July 1
Steam Rally Vintage and Threshing Festival, Castletownroche.

July 8-14
West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry.

July 7-15
Kinsale Art Week.

July 29 - August 6th
10th Annual Cork Gay Pride Parade & Festival

AUGUST

August 15-19
Masters of Tradition Festival, Bantry: celebrating traditional music in its purest form.

August Date TBC
Cork Decades Festival, fancy dress across various venues, Cork.

SEPT

August 31 to September 2
Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival.

September Date TBC
Midleton Food & Drink Festival, Midleton, Co. Cork.

September 10-16
Taste of West Cork Food Festival, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.

September Date TBC
Bartlemy Horse Fair and Show: Includes gymkhana & dog show.

OCTOBER

October 4-7
Beamish Cork Folk Festival: Annual program of folk music throughout city, with pipe bands, fiddlers and mandolin players.

October 7
Cork Opera House: Crossing Over With John Edward.

October 26-29
Cork Jazz Festival 2012.

Date TBC
Cork Art Trail.

October Date TBC
East Cork Early Music Festival, Midleton: Focuses on baroque and medieval music in historic locations with international performers.

NOVEMBER

November 9-10
Cork Opera House: The Overtones, in concert.

November 4-11
Cork International Film Festival 2012.

Contact & Booking Details

Art Trail
YMCA Building
11-12 Marlboro Street
Cork City
Website: arttrail.ie
Phone: 021-427-0409
Email: arttrail.cork@gmail.com

Ballydehob Jazz Festival
West Cork
Website: ballydehobjazzfestival.org

Castletownroche Steam Rally Vintage and Threshing Festival
Mallow Road
Castletownroche
Cork
Phone: 022-26422

Celtfest
University College Cork
The Student Centre
Cork
Website: studentcentre.ucc.ie
Tel: 021-490-3790

Cork International Film Festival
Emmet House
Emmet Place
Cork
Website: corkfilmfest.org
Tel: 021-427-1711
Email: info@corkfilmfest.org

Cork Folk Festival
Website: corkfolkfestival.com

Cork International Choral Festival
Civic Trust House
50 Pope's Quay
Cork
Website: corkchoral.ie
Tel: 021-421-5125
Email: info@corkchoral.ie

Cork Midsummer Festival
Civic Trust House
50 Pope's Quay
Cork
Website: corkmidsummer.com
Tel: 021-421-5131
Email: info@corkmidsummer.com

Cork Opera House
Emmet Place
Cork City
Website: corkoperahouse.ie
Tel: 021-427-0022

Cork Singers Club Festival
An Spailpín Fánach
South Main Street
Cork
Tel: 021-427-7949

Cork Spring Poetry Festival
Metropole Hotel, Cork
Website: corkpoetryfest.net
Email: info@munsterlit.ie

Cork Vision Centre
St. Peter's
North Main Street
Cork
Website: corkvisioncentre.com
Tel: 021-427-9925
Email: visioncentre@eircom.net

East Cork Early Music Festival
15 Brookville
Riverstown
Glanmire
Co. Cork
Website: eastcorkearlymusic.ie
Tel: 021-482-3950

Everyman Palace Theatre
15 MacCurtain Street
Cork
Website: everymanpalace.com
Tel: 021-450-1673
Email: info@everymanpalace.com

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
80 Haddington Road
Ballsbridge
Dublin
Website: guinnessjazzfestival.com
Tel: 01-637-5221
Email: jazz@questcom.iol.ie

Kinsale Art Week
Friars Lodge,
Kinsale
Co Cork
Website: kinsaleartsweek.com
Tel: 021-470-0010 or 086-822-7588
Email: info@kinsaleartsweek.com

Kinsale Pottery & Arts School/Centre
Website: kinsaleceramics.com
Tel: 021-477-7758

Midleton Food Festival
Website: midletonfoodfestival.ie
Email: info@midletonfoodfestival.ie
Tel: 021-461-3483

St Patrick's Day Festival
Website: corkstpatricksfestival.ie
Tel: 021-492-4780
Email: stpatricksfestival@corkcity.ie

A Taste Of West Cork
Website: atasteofwestcork.com
Email: chair@atasteofwestcork.com

West Cork Music Festival
13 Glengarriff Road
Bantry
Co. Cork
Website: westcorkmusic.ie
Tel: 027 52788
Email: info@westcorkmusic.ie

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