Drawing on the award-winning book A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa presents a live reading with accompanying visuals by filmmaker Tadhg O'Sullivan and a soundscape by composer Linda Buckley. The reading will be broadcast from The Everyman stage.

Landmark Productions presents the world premiere of Deirdre Kinahan’s blistering new play. Louise Lowe directs Marie Mullen and Brian Gleeson in three performances which will be broadcast live, using the beautiful The Everyman auditorium as a backdrop.

Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman in association with Pavilion Theatre and Cork Midsummer Festival present he world premiere of a major new adaptation by Marina Carr directed for the stage by Annabelle Comyn and digitally captured for a unique broadcast event.

An intimate and compelling solo performance from Lynda Radley about long-distance swimming, celebrity, storytelling and time, directed by Tom Creed.

An art installation by visual artist Marie Brett incorporating live elements, exploring issues of trafficking, modern-day-slavery and drug farming. A guided online walk-through of the installation creatively explores these issues, combining video, sculpture, sound and plant-life, live music and performance.

New work by choreographer Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín featuring her father, traditional boat-builder Pádraig Ó Duinnín, in a subtle reconfiguring of life experiences they share - the culture and tradition of boats and boat-building.

Threshold present an interactive, online audio-adventure for families, experienced entirely from your own home.

The Electric Kazoo is a family music show presented by Paul, Sam and Aislinn Noonan.

TM is a new digital experience created by acclaimed Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed. Made in collaboration with theatres from across the world, this is a live interactive one-to-one experience exploring media manipulation, populist ideology and conspiracy theories.

This darkly comedic, dizzying show co-created by Javaad Alipoor & Kirsty Housley about entitlement, consumption and digital technology invites you to use Instagram to explore what is happening in the world.

MALAPROP will send you a text a day. Don’t write back...

Over the last year, through the restrictive nature of the climate, people have sought out and identified places of comfort close to their homes to reflect in. Curator Leagues O'Toole will collaborate with three musicians to create individual artistic responses to their places of comfort in the weeks leading up to the Festival.

Through a series of visual diaries, audio works, conversations, playlists, walks, links, books, zooms and voice notes, artist-in-residence Peter Power will spend time with fellow makers reflecting on value and meaning in the digital urgency of our age.

From the writer of Crowman and Sharon and the writer of Gone Full Havisham and Mary and Me, Katie Holly and Irene Kelleher bring you three new comic radio dramas.

Gaitkrash, in collaboration with pianist Gabriela Mayer, invoke the figure of Prometheus to re-ignite the spark of hope & renewal. This unique & compelling online performance features an exciting blend of cross-disciplinary art forms: classical piano, theatre, sound art & videography. Together the creative has created a haunting fusion of image, sound & text against the dramatic backdrop of a melancholic warehouse on the Marina in Cork.

Cork Dance Initiative launch with their debut event featuring bite-size dance events both in person and virtual to celebrate dance in Cork and connect with the dance community. (Gaeilge agus Fáilte!)

The Kabin Studio in Knocknaheeny is the community hub for young rappers, writers, singers and musicians in Cork’s northside. This diverse group have joined together to create a powerful and moving collection of music and spoken word, adapted for film for release during the festival.

Cork Arts Theatre present three short films set in Cork that explore the often devastating, always life-changing, impact of abuse, whether at the hands of an individual or that of an institution.

A voice meditation series especially for Cork Midsummer Festival from composer and soprano Kim Sheehan, inspired by her online voice meditation class Good Vibrations.

Celebrate the best of Beethoven with Triskel and the National String Quartet Foundation

A showcase of new work from musician, film-maker and activist based in Cork City, Abreain (Abbey) Blake - a live performance from Art-Punk band Pretty Happy, and a snippet of Abbey’s latest film project, Mumblecore series Jag.

Olive Plunkett channels her lockdown break-up in a city full of other lonely thinkers in this series of monologues and music videos from writer and director Jessica Courtney Leen.

A new approach to the art of the music video, crafting music and visuals as one unified process, from Cork producer and videographer Cristian Cruceru - featuring a series of three compositions that merge his interests in both fields.

A love song to Cork in the early nineties, when every day felt like an endless weekend, and a modern-day Shirley Valentine, in a story of one woman’s self-discovery from the comfort of her own driveway, written and performed by Lesley Conroy.

Initiated by Crawford Art Gallery, an exhibition of new work from Laura Fitzgerald combining a series of drawings, video, audio installation, and large-scale ‘sculptural drawings’; and wander around Doug Fishbone’s ‘ghost estate’ for his free-wheeling, fast-talking request to please gamble responsibly. Come on inside!

A new series of installations from Jessica Akerman, David Mathúna & Andrew McSweeney, Anne Ffrench, Vicki Davis, and Pádraig Spillane - curated by visual arts curators in residence Pluck Projects.

A new exhibition by Bassam Al-Sabah combining digital animation, sculpture and textiles, to be displayed on Finn's Corner, Washington Street.

The National Sculpture Factory has commissioned artist Eimear Walshe for this year's Neon Public Art Commission, comprising of a new neon sculpture and an interactive publication.

A new public artwork by Irish artist Fatti Burke developed in collaboration with the Glucksman and children from diverse communities across Cork city.

A unique short live performance of music, theatre, poetry, opera, circus or dance just for you and your loved ones delivered to your door! Order a surprise Art Gift for yourself, a friend or a family member performed safely on your doorstep.

Composer John O’Brien has written a lullaby for Cork city to bring comfort to people of all ages in this time of pandemic, and Midsummer, when the long days mean that sleep may not come so easily. John and an orchestra made up of some of Cork's finest musicians will travel to communities, green and open spaces to perform the lullaby live.

To mark the opening day of the festival, Cork artist Jack Healy will ring the bell from the chapel at Griffith College - previously St. Patrick's Hospital - which has not been rung in an official capacity in many years.

Come and meet intelligent life forms from beyond our world who will be visiting Gerry O'Sullivan Park, Churchfield this summer - as a series of art installations made by local school children and Cork Puppetry Company.

Film artist Oonagh Kearney and composer Ellen King invite you to re-imagine the Port of Cork via a silent disco on a socially-distanced spot, with a shifting composition of sound, spoken word, beats and music.

Experience the vibrancy of Ireland’s street art, hip hop, dance and music scene through this special Midsummer Celebration curated by the recipient of the 2020 Midsummer Commission, Tobi Omoteso.

Come join The Shake, a new participatory performance event directed by Laura Murphy in collaboration with Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín and Rhona Byrne. Five performers will guide you through The Shake at your own pace. We'll even provide you with a personal dance floor! The perfect way to shake off lockdown. “Just think of hot tin roofs and cats, now lift your feet up off those mats...”

A live, outdoor percussion performance from the Bangers and Crash Percussion Group, surrounding the audience at Cork's beautiful Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street.

FitzHenry, a theatrical Anglo-Irish horse, will visit this year’s festival taking in the city and its environs - part of Corcadorca's development of a large-scale adaptation of Frank O'Connor's Guests of the Nation in 2022.

An aerial dance theatre show from Croí Glan Integrated Dance, with live music and featuring an international cast of 5 diverse performers who integrate circus, contemporary dance and song in an insightful and surprising show that offers both humour and pathos.

Crosstown Drift returns with two outdoor events for an intimate audience, with writers Lisa McInerney and Eimear Ryan.

A state-of-the-art sonic experience, combining story and song with the world around us, featuring Gavin Corbett, Louise Hegarty, Lisa McInerney and Melatu-Uche Okorie, commissioned by Sounds from a Safe Harbour in association with Body & Soul