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Welcome to the 10th Cork Midsummer Festival.
Click here for 2005 programme |
Click here for 2004 programme
The 2006 festival will take place from June 20th - July 1st. To get advance notice of program details and other news, please enter your e-mail below.
The Cork Midsummer Festival is Cork’s only multi-disciplinary arts festival. It provides an annual platform for Cork artists and arts organisations in the fields of theatre, film, music, visual art, community art, literature, dance and family entertainment and provides Cork audiences with the chance to see a broad range of the best of local, national and international art of all kinds.
We celebrate the new and the innovative alongside conventional work. We offer artists an opportunity to experiment with form, style and practice, while remaining true to the tenets of quality and accessibility.
We believe that there is great creative talent within Cork, that there is an openness to new experiences among Cork audiences and that the variety of the city’s arts venues, other buildings and outdoor spaces offers a rich palette for artistic expression.
The 2005 Cork Midsummer Festival took place from June 14 – 25 and featured over 80 theatre, music, dance and children’s performances that ranged from Corcadorca's The Merchant of Venice - the largest streetshow Cork has ever witnessed - to the world premiere of Enda Walsh's Pondlife Angels, from the beauty of The Tallis Scholars in St Fin Barre's to the vibrancy of The Spiegeltent.
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAID ABOUT THE CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL JUNE 2005
Just a quick note of thanks from a punter who totally enjoyed this year’s festival. Words cannot express how wonderful it was.
Andrew Desmond
I’m writing to congratulate you on a wonderful festival. There was a real sense of a major event happening in the city and the programme was great.
Liz Meaney
A huge congratulations on making this year's festival one that surpasses all the rest and will stay in people's memories for a long time.
Laura Kennedy
What a Day Yesterday!!!
We have always enjoyed the Picnic in the Park, but yesterday was superb. The puppet making, the juggler, the tumbling down circus all the entertainment was great, music and of course the great big Statue game.
My kids had a ball in one of the most magical day Cork city has seen in a long time. Thanks to all who made this happen and to all the entertainers THANK YOU!!! Looking forward to next year already.
Liam and Kaye Maher
Thank you for the best 12 days Cork has seen in a long time.
Mary Shields
At last there is something happening in Cork. Well done on an amazing programme.
Sally Murphy
WHAT THE PAPERS SAID ABOUT THE CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL JUNE 2005
Seen by many as the definitive highlight of Cork’s tenure as European Capital of Culture, the Cork Midsummer Festival looks set to eclipse past efforts with a truly diverse programme of immense quality.
Inside Cork
The Cork Midsummer Festival has a cracking line up for culture-starved punters.
Hot Press
From the Tallis Scholars to the Spiegeltent, from Picnic in the Park to Danger Museum, this Cork Midsummer Festival had something for everyone in the audience.
Irish Times
The Cork Midsummer Festival has a programme to satisfy the most avant-garde among you as well as the die-hard reactionaries.
Evening Echo
Cork Midsummer Festival boasts an epic scale this year.
RTE Guide
This year’s enormously successful Cork Midsummer Festival has provided some of the strongest theatre programming in the Festival’s history.
Irish Examiner
The Cork Midsummer Festival provides a welcome boost in the arm to Cork 2005.
Irish Times
An incredible line up.
Evening Echo
Click here for 2005 programme
Click here for 2004 programme
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