he Nelken Line at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
Dance! The Nelken-Line
with Uillinn Dancer in Residence Helga Deasy
Tuesday 14 February
Re-creation of Pina Bausch's 'Nelken Line', which is part of a global project by the Pina Bausch Foundation and ARTE, the European culture channel with special partner Dublin Dance Festival. One of the most famous choreographies, with just a few distinct gestures, the line tells about alternation of the four seasons with dancers proceeding in a long line.
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Uillinn - West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen. [4k UHD]
4k aerial footage of the new West Cork Arts Centre building in Skibbereen, County Cork.
CUTTER West Cork Art Centre, Skibbereen
James Gallagher's art has been shown in galleries around the world. He curated the Cutters series of exhibitions showcasing contemporary collage for Brooklyn, New York in 2009; Berlin, Germany in 2010, and now Cork, Ireland. Gallagher's art has been featured in magazines such as Arkitip, Juxtapoz, Elephant, Cent, NYArts, Twill and Lines & Shapes. His images have also appeared in numerous books.
James Gallagher has also edited a book on collage, Cutting Edges -- Contemporary Collage just published in January by Gestalten. This full colour, hardback book features works from over half the artists featured in Cutters/Cork and copies are available to purchase at West Cork Arts Centre.
Cutters/Cork will also link to a series of lens-based exhibitions and events taking place in Cork city and county over the same period. Cutters/Cork opens this Saturday 5 February at 7.00pm at West Cork Arts Centre. James Gallagher will give a Gallery Talk at the opening.
Exhibiting artists: Rubén B, Michael Bartalos, Melinda Beck, Brian Belott, Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Stephen Brandes, Paul Burgess, Dennis Busch, Hollie Chastain, Alejandro Chavetta, Cless, Barrett Cook, Liam Crockard, Valero Doval, Jesse Draxler, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Erik Foss, James Gallagher, April Gertler, Jason Glasser, Eva Han, Sean Hillen, Ashkan Honarvar, Jordin Isip, Eva Lake, Greg Lamarche, Dani Leventhal, Leif Low-Beer, Max o Matic, Jeffrey Meyer, Vincent Pacheco, Melissa Paget, David Plunkert, Garrett Pruter, Kareem Rizk, Javier Rodriguez, Jenni Rope, Jason Rosenberg, Valerie Roybal, Joe Ryckebosch, Cay Schroder, Baby Smith, Kerstin Stephan, Katherine Streeter, Sergei Sviatchenko, Alejandra Villasmil, David Wallace, Jessica Williams, Oliver Wiegner, Lulu Wolf, Bill Zindel and Anthony Zinonos.
CUTTER West Cork Art Centre, Sibbereen II (just before the opening)
James Gallagher's art has been shown in galleries around the world. He curated the Cutters series of exhibitions showcasing contemporary collage for Brooklyn, New York in 2009; Berlin, Germany in 2010, and now Cork, Ireland. Gallagher's art has been featured in magazines such as Arkitip, Juxtapoz, Elephant, Cent, NYArts, Twill and Lines & Shapes. His images have also appeared in numerous books.
James Gallagher has also edited a book on collage, Cutting Edges -- Contemporary Collage just published in January by Gestalten. This full colour, hardback book features works from over half the artists featured in Cutters/Cork and copies are available to purchase at West Cork Arts Centre.
Cutters/Cork will also link to a series of lens-based exhibitions and events taking place in Cork city and county over the same period. Cutters/Cork opens this Saturday 5 February at 7.00pm at West Cork Arts Centre. James Gallagher will give a Gallery Talk at the opening.
Exhibiting artists: Rubén B, Michael Bartalos, Melinda Beck, Brian Belott, Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Stephen Brandes, Paul Burgess, Dennis Busch, Hollie Chastain, Alejandro Chavetta, Cless, Barrett Cook, Liam Crockard, Valero Doval, Jesse Draxler, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Erik Foss, James Gallagher, April Gertler, Jason Glasser, Eva Han, Sean Hillen, Ashkan Honarvar, Jordin Isip, Eva Lake, Greg Lamarche, Dani Leventhal, Leif Low-Beer, Max o Matic, Jeffrey Meyer, Vincent Pacheco, Melissa Paget, David Plunkert, Garrett Pruter, Kareem Rizk, Javier Rodriguez, Jenni Rope, Jason Rosenberg, Valerie Roybal, Joe Ryckebosch, Cay Schroder, Baby Smith, Kerstin Stephan, Katherine Streeter, Sergei Sviatchenko, Alejandra Villasmil, David Wallace, Jessica Williams, Oliver Wiegner, Lulu Wolf, Bill Zindel and Anthony Zinonos.
Secrets of Skibbereen, Co. Cork!
Did you know, that during the cold war, the government of Switzerland had a plan to bury all their gold under a country estate and mansion just outside Skibbereen in Co. Cork?
Skibereen is one of Ireland's most beautiful towns, and for the Today Show on RTÉ One, Colm Flynn explores the town to discover some of the people and places that make it so special.
Irelands Eden: Clonakilty District, West Cork [long version]
Sandy Cove Location at Toe Head , Skibbereen , West Cork , Ireland , January 2016
Drama Club at Uillinn
This short film documents the activities enjoyed at Drama Club. These workshops are facilitated by actor Alison Glennie.
Bookings: 028 22090
Founded in 1985, West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, provides a range of education and community programmes. #DramaClubatUillinn
Producer/Director: Alison Glennie
Composition/Sound Design: Fintan McKahey
Project supported by Arts Council Ireland, Cork County Council & Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
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Knockomagh Wood Skibbereen County Cork Ireland
Knockomagh Wood Nature Reserve near Skibbereen County Cork Ireland.
Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger - 20 July to 13 October 2018 in West Cork Arts Centre
Coming Home; Art and the Great Hunger is a stark but important reminder of our past and is a must-visit for both young and old. We are proud to be among the main sponsors of the exhibition.
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West Cork Arts Centre - Young Makers international exhibition
THE West Cork Arts Centre presents Young Makers an international exhibition of work by young contemporary artists.
The exhibition opens on Friday, February 24th at 4.30pm.
Young Makers is West Cork Arts Centre's annual youth event for this year, the exhibition will tour Ireland through 2012.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, February 25th to Friday, March 16th.
Further information at youngmakers.net and westcorkartscentre.com.
E.gress - artists talking about making the film at West Cork Arts Centre
Skibbereen Comhaltas seisun, West Cork Hotel
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann seisun August 6, 2014 at the West Cork Hotel in Skibbereen. Features some outstanding young musicians,singers and dancers , including All Ireland finalists.
CUTTER 2011 West Cork Art CenterSkibbereen
James Gallagher's art has been shown in galleries around the world. He curated the Cutters series of exhibitions showcasing contemporary collage for Brooklyn, New York in 2009; Berlin, Germany in 2010, and now Cork, Ireland. Gallagher's art has been featured in magazines such as Arkitip, Juxtapoz, Elephant, Cent, NYArts, Twill and Lines & Shapes. His images have also appeared in numerous books.
James Gallagher has also edited a book on collage, Cutting Edges -- Contemporary Collage just published in January by Gestalten. This full colour, hardback book features works from over half the artists featured in Cutters/Cork and copies are available to purchase at West Cork Arts Centre.
Exhibiting artists: Rubén B, Michael Bartalos, Melinda Beck, Brian Belott, Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Stephen Brandes, Paul Burgess, Dennis Busch, Hollie Chastain, Alejandro Chavetta, Cless, Barrett Cook, Liam Crockard, Valero Doval, Jesse Draxler, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Erik Foss, James Gallagher, April Gertler, Jason Glasser, Eva Han, Sean Hillen, Ashkan Honarvar, Jordin Isip, Eva Lake, Greg Lamarche, Dani Leventhal, Leif Low-Beer, Max o Matic, Jeffrey Meyer, Vincent Pacheco, Melissa Paget, David Plunkert, Garrett Pruter, Kareem Rizk, Javier Rodriguez, Jenni Rope, Jason Rosenberg, Valerie Roybal, Joe Ryckebosch, Cay Schroder, Baby Smith, Kerstin Stephan, Katherine Streeter, Sergei Sviatchenko, Alejandra Villasmil, David Wallace, Jessica Williams, Oliver Wiegner, Lulu Wolf, Bill Zindel and Anthony Zinonos.
WCAC acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council in making this exhibition possible.
The Museum of Making and Mending
Museum of Making and Mending
some of the things we make:
bread, butter, babies and a perfectly dug furrow
some of the things we mend:
broken tools, broken hearts and heavy boots
This exhibition shares poetry, visual art and objects collated by participants at Skibbereen Day Care Centre working over eight weeks with artists Tess Leak and Sarah Ruttle.
Together they created artwork inspired by objects made or mended. At the heart of this collaborative project was conversation, softly nurtured and clearly curated by the two artists with all twenty five participants and supported by the inspiring staff in the healthcare setting.
Exhibition by:
Brian Lawson
Tommy McVitty
Ethel McCarthy
Eugene Leonard
Kathleen O’Driscoll
Kitty Fitzgerald
Evelyn Copithorne
Lucille Cusack
Sheila O’Donovan
Mick Hayes
Michael Sheehy
Mary McCarthy
Nancy O’Driscoll
Margaret Cahalane
With special thanks to Skibbereen Day Care’s dedicated team
Mary Willis,
Mary Cahalane,
Gretta Finn,
Caramel O'Callaghan
About the artists
Tess is an artist and musician who graduated from the B.A. in Visual Art (Dublin Institute of Technology), Sherkin Island in 2009 and also holds a B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Wales, Swansea. Her solo show at Uillinn, the new West Cork Art Centre, in 2015 included large drawings, sound collaborations and a newly commissioned piece of music performed by The Vespertine Quintet, in which Tess plays the cello. She is co-founder of the participatory book-making project Haiku Island Press and co-curator of The Museum of Miniature with artist Marie Brett.
Tyrone born visual artist Sarah Ruttle graduated in Textiles from DJCAD, University of Dundee in Scotland. Since completing an Arts and Health research project 2014 supported by the Arts Council, Sarah has been developing her collaborative practice in this context. In 2015 Sarah completed a residency in Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre exploring scale and context, while also undertaking a collaborative commission with artist Rebecca Keyser, participants with West Cork Mental Health Services, supported by Cork County Council. Currently Sarah is working on the Ireland 1916 centenary project supported by Cork County Council working collaboratively with staff and residents of two West Cork Community Hospitals to imagine Ireland of the future as was imagined 100 years ago.
About Arts for Health Partnership Programme
Arts for Health Partnership Programme is based in West Cork and provides a managed and integrated arts programme for older people in healthcare settings. Managed by West Cork Arts Centre, Arts for Health runs all year round and is delivered by team of professional artists from different disciplines. It takes place in five Community Hospitals, Bantry General Hospital Care of the Elderly Unit and five Day Care Centres throughout West Cork. The partners comprise West Cork Arts Centre, Cork County Council, Cork Education & Training Board and the HSE. The HSE is represented through the Cork Arts + Health Programme, the Communications Department, Health Promotion Department, the Nursing Directors of Community Hospitals and the Day Care Centres, West Cork.
Filmed by Justine Foster and Edited by Clodagh Redden
Representing the Unrepresentable: Dorothy Cross
Representing the Unrepresentable: Dorothy Cross
Representing the Unrepresentable: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Atrocity
Saturday 13 October 2018 | 6.00pm
Skibbereen Town Hall
Record Numbers visited Coming Home: Art and The Great Hunger in Skibbereen
Bob Geldof, Katharine Crouan, Dorothy Cross, Mick Foley and Peter Murray closed the exhibition with special event in Skibbereen Town Hall on October 13th.
The world’s largest collection of famine related art, showed at Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, attracted unprecedented numbers to Skibbereen. Coming Home: Art and The Great Hunger, on loan from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, constitutes a direct link to the past of almost 6.5 million Irish, and 40 million Irish-American, people. The exhibition, which was seen by more than 58,000 in Dublin Castle, opened in Uillinn in late July 2018 and continued there until Saturday, October 13th, before moving to The Glassworks in Derry where it will opened in early 2019.
Ryan Mahoney, Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac said that they were “honoured to have brought Coming Home: Art and The Great Hunger to Skibbereen. It has always been the goal of Quinnipiac University to bring the collection back to Ireland. To include Skibbereen on the tour, an area that is synonymous with the Great Hunger, was important to all involved with this project.”
Tractor run through Skibbereen Co Cork
Tractors take to the road in Skibbereen Co Cork for charity Sunday 1st May 2016
The Great Irish Famine: Remember Skibbereen
Released: 2009
Producer/Director: Pat Collins
Editor: Gordon Bruic
Made with the support of West Cork Development Partnership, Skibbereen Business Association, Skibbereen Credit Union
A Harvest Films Production for Skibbereen Heritage Centre
© Skibbereen Heritage Centre 2009
This small town in west Cork will soon be home to Ireland’s first ‘rural digital hub’
AN OLD BAKERY building in west Cork will be converted into Ireland’s first “rural digital hub” for tech startups.
When open for business in November, the 10,000 sq ft complex in Skibbereen will be able to house up to 75 technology and scientific outfits.
It was named after Skibbereen-born accountant Percy Ludgate, who in the early 1900s designed an analytical engine in his spare time.
While Ludgate died in 1922 and the prototype was never built, it was a blueprint for what would have been the world’s first portable computer.