VISUAL EVENTS
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Thursday September 29th / 9.30pm / St Peter's Church / €18
The opening event of the Festival is the screening of this 1928 film by Carl Dreyer with a live score composed for soprano, organ and electronics.
Composer: Irene Buckley Soprano: Emma Nash Organist: James Mc Vinnie
cork printmakers
Friday September 30th, Saturday October 1st / 9am to 6pm / Skylight Gallery / Free
25 Artists, 25 Prints, 25" x 25", 25 Exhibition
For ENGAGE-16 Cork Printmakers are delighted to present 25, an exhibition of new fine art prints by artist members of Cork Printmakers celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the organisation.
Johnny Bugler, Taxi, Photopolymer Print, 56 x 56 cm, 2016
ALEX CONWAY
Saturday October 1st / 12 noon to 1pm / South Main Street / Free
"My visual art practice involves performing, which allows me to do actions over a variety of periods of time. I have done such performances both national and internationally in gallery and street settings."
richard gorman
Saturday October 1st / 12 noon to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
Sunday October 2nd / 2pm to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
Kin-Kan 2015, oil on linen, 150 x 150 cm, image courtesy of Kerlin Gallery
Richard Gorman (b. 1946) was educated in Ireland, and has lived and worked in Milan since the 1980s. Gorman has exhibited widely and regularly, especially in Dublin at Kerlin Gallery and also in London, Milan and Tokyo.
angela fulcher
Saturday October 1st / 12 noon to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
Sunday October 2nd / 2 pm to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
detail from Allin Institute
"For the ENGAGE Arts Festival I have made a new site-specific installation that responds to the patterning in the rendered surface of the Allin Institute’s exterior walls."
michael canning
Saturday October 1st / 12 noon to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
Sunday October 2nd / 2pm to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
Lights Leaving X, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 35 cm, 2008
"The titles of my works often make reference to the histories of science, music, mathematics, warfare and politics.The whole world and human discourse exists on a hillside in County Limerick."
mark clare
Saturday October 1st / 12 noon to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
Sunday October 2nd / 2pm to 5pm / Main Hall, Allin Institute / Free
Anthropocene Marker - Installation/Multiple 35mm slide projection, 2014
IF NOT YOU
The work presented is a meditation on the ethical and aesthetic parameters of coping with our ecological future.
damian drohan
Saturday October 1st / 12 noon to 5pm / The Town Hall / Free
Sunday October 2nd / 2pm to 5pm / The Town Hall / Free
from The Mart
THE MART
The Mart is a multifaceted documentary/storytelling project, which looks at the Mart in Bandon, Co. Cork. Produced over a period of a month, the project uses a variety of approaches to tell an engaging art/documentary story of that venue.
eileen
Saturday October 1st / 12 noon to 5pm / The Town Hall / Free
Sunday October 2nd / 2pm to 5pm / The Town Hall / Free
Written by and starring Karen Minihan, and directed by Helen Selka, the film Eileen shines a light on West Cork-born Eileen O’Brien’s inner life as she negotiates a painful divorce whilst holding down her job at Cork County Council and developing a side line as a Tupperware saleswoman.
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