Cork Midsummer Festival
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An arts festival of bold, vibrant performances, art & events- the city is the stage. We support new work & participation projects year round ☀️
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THANK YOU!
After 12 incredible days + nights, Cork Midsummer Festival 2024 has come to a close. We'd like to say a huge 'thank you' to our inspiring artists, brilliant audiences, and supportive funders, partners, sponsors & patrons - all of whom come together to make the
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Cork Midsummer Festival is thrilled to announced the the full programme for 2022 - our first fully-live festival since 2019.
Check out our full lineup, now live on our website, here:
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We're delighted to announce
#MidsummerMoments
10-21 June, an exciting programme of events including travelling theatre, billboard walks & online events, experienced outdoors, at home, with artists in residence & through online discussions. Full details:
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☀️ Cork Midsummer Festival 2022 kicks off in just a few days, running 15 to 26 June - our first fully-live festival since 2019.
🎟 Check out our full lineup, now live on our website, here:
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#Midsummer21
is live!
☀️ CMF Online
☀️ City Rising
☀️ City Gallery
☀️ City Stage - On Your Doorstep
☀️ City Stage - From the Port to the Fort
Online events available to book now!
City Stage tickets available 24 May, subject to government guidelines.
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In light of the current Covid-19 situation, we are sad to announce the cancellation of the 2020 edition of Cork Midsummer Festival.
Read more here:
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THANK YOU!
After 12 incredible days, Cork Midsummer Festival 2022 has come to a close. We want to take this moment to say a huge thank you to our brilliant audiences, amazing artists, and supportive funders, partners, sponsors & patrons.
We hope you enjoyed it, see you in 2023!
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The final countdown is on for
#Midsummer17
! Our friends at
@RTE
asked some of our festival artists & audiences what Midsummer means to them:
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THANK YOU!
After 12 incredible days, Cork Midsummer Festival 2023 has come to a close. We'd like to say a huge 'thank you' to our brilliant audiences, amazing artists, and supportive funders, partners, sponsors & patrons.
We hope you enjoyed it - see you in 2024!
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Cork Midsummer Festival is thrilled to announce its full programme for 2023! Discover 12 days of exhilarating theatre, dance and music, trailblazing ideas, joyful spectacle and so much more.
Check out the full lineup now live at !
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Cork Midsummer Festival, The Everyman, National Sculpture Factory supported by Cork City Council present
SUN & SEA
An award-winning opera performance watched from above, performed on an indoor beach at Cork’s City Hall
Tickets on sale now:
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That's a wrap on
#Midsummer21
! Two weeks of digital events and in-person experiences featuring 40 world and Irish premieres; created and presented by over 160 artists - online and across Cork city...
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A city rising: 11 days of theatre, music, dance, outdoor events, Midsummer magic and more - 13 to 23 June 2019!
Full programme now online at !
#Midsummer19
#CorkLike
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Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for Midsummer Moments over the past two weeks. Your support and participation is appreciated now more than ever. From billboard walks to traveling theatre, online performances from home to illuminated artworks...
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We are proud to be working with our partners to launch
#GenderEqualityInIrishTheatre
with Minister Madigan
@TheLirAcademy
this morning
@RoughMagicIRL
@AbbeyTheatre
@thecornexchange
@EverymanCork
@Fishamble
@TheLirAcademy
@GateTheatreDub
@DubTheatreFest
@DruidTheatre
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Martin McDonagh's
#TheLonesomeWest
opens next week at
@EverymanCork
and we are *very* excited! To celebrate, we have a fantastic prize of tickets (plus a bottle of bubbly!) to give away - just like and retweet to enter and one lucky winner will be announced soon!
#CorkLike
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It is with great sadness that the Board, staff and friends of Cork Midsummer Festival learned of the passing of the Chair of the Board, Jane Anne Rothwell:
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The wait is over - Cork Midsummer Festival 2018 starts **today** and we are *very* excited! Some shows are already sold out and others will sell out soon - keep an eye on our website for the latest updates:
#Midsummer18
#CorkLike
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Brochures are here which means we are oh so close to going live - all will be revealed tomorrow at 7pm...!
#Midsummer18
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☀️ Cork Midsummer Festival is thrilled to announce its full programme for 2024. Experience five star theatre, award-winning dance performances, sensational street spectacle and exhilarating music.
Plan your festival adventure from 12-23 June at
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Cork Midsummer Festival is delighted to announce Doireann Ní Ghríofa as Artist-in-Residence for the 2018 Festival! (Image:
@brid_ad_lib
)
#Cork
#CorkLike
#CMF18
#Midsummer18
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#MidsummerMoments
is here!
Starting now,
@tomlanecomposer
's audio walks are live on our website until 21 June, while
#NewLight
from
@glucksman
also kicks off today, with 8 artworks on billboards across the city.
Full details on these, and more, at
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Today's the day! Our full programme for this year's Cork Midsummer Festival will go live online at 4.30pm - make sure to visit to check out what's in store from 13 - 23 June 2019!
#Midsummer19
#CorkLike
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“A real celebration of where we are right now.”
CMF director
@LorraineMaye
speaks to
@DeirdreFalveyIT
about
#Midsummer21
in today’s
@IrishTimes
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Have you had a chance to check out our 2018 programme yet? 10 days of Midsummer magic and more, 15 - 24 June!
#Midsummer18
#CorkLike
Now live online at !
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Cork Midsummer Festival is delighted to announce the recipients of the Midsummer Commission and the Jane Anne Rothwell Award following an Open Call process in December 2020.
Find out more about Tobi Omoteso and Lesley Conroy:
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Our full programme for 2017 is now live at ! 10 days of dance, music, theatre and so much more from 16 - 25 June!
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We have news! Announcing the call out for exciting opportunities for artists - create a new Midsummer Moment in our Midsummer Commission; become the next recipient of the Jane Anne Rothwell Award; or engage in a Creative Enquiry with young Travellers & their families:
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At 8pm 21 June, Midsummer's Day, Camille O'Sullivan invites you in to her home for a special set of songs - performed from kitchen to garden to broom cupboard and everywhere in between.
"An artist at the top of her game ... thrilling to watch"
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - The Scotsman
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The countdown is on - full programme announcement coming tomorrow for this year's Cork Midsummer Festival, running 13 - 23 June 2019!
#Midsummer19
#CorkLike
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Farewell and Thank You Kath Gorman! After six successful years, our Head of Participation and Engagement will be stepping down this July.
Applications now open for the role:
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We are delighted to welcome Rose-Anne Kidney as Project Manager! We're thrilled to have Rose-Anne join the team where she will play a key role in the delivery of the Festival programme.
#CorkLike
#Midsummer18
#CMF18
#Cork
#CorkYeah
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☀️ Watch this space - full Cork Midsummer Festival 2024 programme announcement coming Thursday 2 May!
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#Midsummer18
has wrapped! But before we sign off and start looking towards
#Midsummer19
, we'd like to say a big Thank You to all our fantastic artists, crews, venues, supporters, sponsors - and especially to you, our wonderful audiences. We'll see you in 2019!
#CorkLike
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Cork Midsummer Festival announce the Jane Anne Rothwell Award for Female Artists - open call
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*Join the team!*
Cork Midsummer Festival is inviting applications to fill the position of Festival Manager. Full details on the role, and how to apply, available on our website at the link below!
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Brought to you by the team behind the iconic
@CorksLongTable
, celebrate Midsummer's Day by enjoying a selection of delights from the locality, celebrating all that is amazing about Cork produce for the most luxurious of picnics at home on 21 June.
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Cork Midsummer Festival 2022 is finally here - and we've got 12 days of theatre, music, dance, visual art, circus, and street performance on the way. Our first fully-live festival since 2019, we can't wait for you to join us.
Find out more:
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We are thrilled to welcome
@DoireannNiG
as our inaugural festival artist in residence
#Midsummer18
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Happy Midwinter to you and yours from all of us at
@CorkMidsummer
, on this the shortest day of the year. Here’s to warmer, brighter days ahead!
Thanks to our friends at
@NotestoCork
for helping us spread the Midwinter message around Cork.
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The full programme for this year's festival is now live - come join us in June!
#Midsummer16
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We share the concerns of the arts community following government announcements last week. Investment in artists and arts workers is a conversation we want to be a part of. You can be too at this online meeting tomorrow hosted by
@Campaign4Arts
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Aaaaand that's shutters down on our festival box office for
#Midsummer17
! Big thanks to
@corkcitycouncil
and
@english_market
for having us!
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We were thrilled to be joined by An Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
at
@ElizabethFort_
where he experienced
#ArtGifts
by
@majellacullagh
&
@JohnSpillane_
Performed on doorsteps across the city 18-19 June, book your
#ArtGift
at !
@brightening_air
@theeveryman
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Artistic Director of
@CorcadorcaCork
Pat Kiernan discusses
#Contact
- a travelling theatre performance coming to communities across the city, as part of our
#MidsummerMoments
programme of events - in today’s
@IEArtsShowbiz
@irishexaminer
!
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Our series of events curated by festival artist-in-residence Doireann Ní Ghríofa got off to a fantastic start today with 'Nine Silences', a collaboration between Doireann and acclaimed visual artist Alice Maher, at the Crypt in St. Luke's!
#Midsummer18
#CorkLike
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Put on hold in March 2020 due to the initial circumstances surrounding Covid-19, we are now re-opening the recruitment process for the position of Festival Manager.
Full details on the role, and how to apply, available on our website:
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#Midsummer21
is here! Ringing in the festival are the bells at the
@griffithcollege
, as part of
#ToFindABellToRing
- listen for them tonight again at 6.30pm!
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Watch this space - full programme announcement coming Thursday 4 May!
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In memory of Jane Anne Rothwell BL, chairperson of Cork Midsummer Festival, and other loved ones lost to cancer, the Cork Bar will hold a coffee morning next Tuesday 19th March at Cork Courthouse, Washington Street. Donations can also be made online using the details below.
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Composer John O’Brien has written a lullaby for Cork city to bring comfort to people of all ages in this time of pandemic. John & an orchestra will travel to green & open spaces in Cork communities to perform the lullaby live.
14 - 15 June | More info 👇
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Hatch Theatre Co. and
@EverymanCork
in association with
@PavilionTheatre
&
@CorkMidsummer
announce the launch of Virginia Woolf’s
#ToTheLighthouse
Adapted by Marina Carr
Directed by Annabelle Comyn
Streaming On-Demand
25 June – 27 June 2021👇
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Cork Midsummer Festival announces the appointment of Allyson O’Sullivan as Festival Manager:
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We are incredibly excited to today announce some early programme highlights from our 2022 edition! First up:
@foggynotions
x
@CorkMidsummer
present
SHARON VAN ETTEN
23 June
@CorkOperaHouse
Tickets on sale now:
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June is here and the sun is shining which means Cork Midsummer Festival 2018 is just a couple short weeks away! Have you booked your
#MidsummerMagic
just yet for
#Midsummer18
?
#CorkLike
Full details:
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A very well deserved
@BAFTA
for
@siobhni
last night, congratulations! Catch Siobhán in Beckett's Happy Days at
@CorkOperaHouse
this June during Cork Midsummer Festival
Our first award of the night for Female Performance in a Comedy Programme goes to Siobhán McSweeney for Derry Girls 🌟
#BAFTATVAwards
with
@pandocruises
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Don't miss 'Cork Conversations: Towards a New Culture of Urbanism' - 6.30pm on Wednesday, April 4th at St. Peter's Cork! Presented by
@NsfIreland
with
@corkcitycouncil
don't miss this presentation by Stephen Willacy, chief city architect of Aarhus, Denmark!
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"Lullaby for the City (in a Time of a Pandemic)" by John O'Brien was performed in four locations over two evenings this week - White Street, Red Abbey Square, Allen Square and Broad Lane.
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We're so excited for
#MidsummerMoments
which begins tomorrow - thanks so much to our media partners
@RTE
#RTESupportingTheArts
for their support!
.
@CorkMidsummer
#MidsummerMoments
starts tomorrow, 10-21 June, an exciting programme of events including travelling theatre, billboard walks & online events, experienced outdoors, at home,
Full details:
#RTESupportingTheArts
|
#VirtualArts
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In light of recent government updates regarding capacities for outdoor events, we are delighted to announce that additional tickets are now available for the following events:
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Launch day is here! Watch this space - we'll be announcing our full programme for our 2018 festival at 7pm this evening!
#Midsummer18
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🎉 A Midsummer Celebration is now live! 🎉
Experience the vibrancy of Ireland's street art, hip hop, dance and music scene through this special Midsummer Celebration cruated by the recipient of the 2020 Midsummer Commission, Tobi Omoteso.
Watch now:
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"Shelter & Place" is live!
@CorkMidsummer
&
@CarlowArts
invite you to share your Lockdown Environments, as artists
@de_paor
and
@leonbutler
build a digital monument to our unseen stories and quarantine spaces.
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We are delighted to announce that support for
@sharonvanetten
at
@CorkOperaHouse
on 23 June as part of
#Midsummer22
will come from the brilliant
@maija_sofia
!
Tickets on sale now:
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The countdown is on - we'll be revealing our 2018 programme in just seven days! But if you can't wait until then, flash back to 2017 by checking out some
#MidsummerMemories
and let the excitement start building all over again!
#Midsummer18
is just around the corner...
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Great to see our posters out and about around Cork city - with more to come! Thanks to
@NotestoCork
for their brilliant support as always.
If you spot one, grab a snap let us know!
#Midsummer21
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Have you seen the gorgeous works from
#NewLight
, a
@glucksman
project for
@corkmidsummer
, across the city yet? 8 artists made new work to be displayed on billboard sites across Cork city - installed on Wednesday, runs until 24 June!
(📸: Clare Keogh)
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Excited for the reopening of another Cork icon,
@glucksman
, on 13 July!
We will be re-opening our doors on July 13th at 11am! 😍 That's only 6 days days away - wow! We can't wait to welcome you back to the Glucksman!
#PureCorkWelcomes
Our NEW opening times are 11am-5pm Monday-Saturday - see you soon
#Cork
! 💕
#WelcomeBackCork
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Thanks to
@desodr1
and all at our brilliant media partners
@irishexaminer
for their ongoing support, helping us to spread the word about our
#MidsummerMoments
!
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Great to see our festival brochures popping up around town! If you see them, grab a pic and let us know how far they’re wandering...!
#Midsummer18
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From all the
#Midsummer16
team to the incredible artists, crews, venues, volunteers & audiences - thank you! ❤️
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And we're off! Cork Midsummer Festival has officially started. Plan your first week of the Festival here!
🎟️ Our Box Office is open in Merchants Quay Shopping Centre from 11.30am-6pm daily, or you can get your tickets online at
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Applications now open for next
#Tessellate
@CorcadorcaCork
@CorkMidsummer
&
@EverymanCork
- deadline July 17th!
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Cork Midsummer Festival and
@SampleStudios
are delighted to announce an open call for their Emerging Artist Award. This call is open to emerging visual artists who are from or based in Cork and identify as being in the early stages of their career.
📸:
@bridodphoto
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Ferry departing from Cobh for opening night of
@CorcadorcaCork
's
#FarAway
- exciting!
#Midsummer17
#CorkLike
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*Programme announcement!*
Performance poet, rapper, actor, novelist and playwright
@KateTempest
comes to
@EverymanCork
on Monday 15 June as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2020!
Tickets, €26 plus booking fee, are on sale now:
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Did you join us for
#Midsummer22
? We'd love to know what you thought - complete our short survey and you'll be in with a chance to win a Festival Pass for next year's festival!
📝:
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“Cork’s Midsummer extravaganza leads to a joyous finale”
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ SUN & SEA
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ODE TO JOY
Great reviews in today’s
@IrishTimes
for more
#Midsummer23
event! Check out just a taste in the image below - and pick up a copy of today’s paper for the full selection!
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CMF Director Lorraine Maye spoke about reimagining our festival for 2020 at this morning’s
@TheatreForumIE
event focusing on collaborations in new contexts.
Great hearing from
@LorraineMaye
of
@CorkMidsummer
talking about reimagining their 2020 festival & in particular Contact with
@CorcadorcaCork
which I was lucky enough to see.
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Announcing "Tales of Two Cities" - a new artist development programme for very early career theatre artists, in an international partnership between
@CorkMidsummer
&
@EverymanCork
in Cork and
@maykithappen
&
@BristolOldVic
in Bristol.
Find out more:
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#MidsummerMoments
continues! Get involved today:
EXPLORE digital/VR spaces in
#ShelterAndPlace
;
WALK the city in
@glucksman
project
#NewLight
;
LISTEN to audio walks by composer
@tomlanecomposer
;
WATCH a traveling theatre from
@CorcadorcaCork
;
LIVE DJ set from
@StevieGrainger
!
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As part of
#Midsummer21
Doireann Ní Ghríofa will present a live reading drawing on her award-winning book 'A Ghost In The Throat', broadcast online from
@EverymanCork
Read her interview with
@parisreview
here:
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The iconic
@majellacullagh
delivering
#ArtGifts
to new faces and old friends in Cork today! Thanks to
@Brightening_Air
and
@artscouncil_ie
for helping us to make these magic moments happen.
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Mike Ryan & Timmy Creed announced as next participants of
#Tessellate
mentorship programme from
@CorcadorcaCork
@CorkMidsummer
&
@EverymanCork
!
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Look at us there on the wall of
@CorkOperaHouse
- can't wait to share our plans for
#CorkMidsummerFestival
2016!
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#Midsummer23
has come and gone - and now you can take a look back at some of the brilliant moments from Cork Midsummer Festival 2023!
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‘I roared laughing, I balled’
‘The audience was in the palm of her hand throughout’
Amazing feedback from Limerick audiences following Freefalling's preview last week at
@BelltableLimk
.
See Freefalling 21-24 June
@EverymanCork
. Tickets from .
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On this
#WorldTheatreDay
, we want to take a moment to say thank you - to all of the inspiring artists, the dedicated producers, directors, designers and creative crews behind the scenes, the amazing volunteers, and wonderful audiences!
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What an incredible line-up of actors, just announced for
@TheatreForOne
, alongside fantastic writers and directors! Taking place as part of
#Midsummer19
on Emmet Place - come join the queue...!
#CorkLike
Six brilliant actors in six brilliant plays ...
@TheatreForOne
is coming to
@CorkMidsummer
&
@CorkOperaHouse
from 18 - 23 June. Directed by Eoghan Carrick & Srđa Vasiljević, designed by Christine Jones, co-produced with
@OTheatricals
#ComeToCork
#CorkLike
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#MidsummerMoments
is live! Get involved today:
EXPLORE digital / VR spaces in
#ShelterAndPlace
;
WALK the city in
#NewLights
from
@glucksman
;
LISTEN to audio walks from composer
@tomlanecomposer
;
WATCH a traveling theatre from
@CorcadorcaCork
;
LIVE DJ sets from
@StevieGrainger
!
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