Midsummer Parade
Spectacle / Family & Young People / Participation
Street ‘Art’-itude and community engagement at its best and wackiest, encompassing utmost energy, passion and imagination.
Free
Get your dancing shoes on and celebrate the summer solstice as a time-traveling band of traditional musicians and dancers explore the history of our island’s social dancing from 2024 BC to 2024 AD.
Re-inventing the fading art of the céilí, come dance your way through 4000 years from the bronze and stone ages to the puritanical waltz of the 1940s and finishing by raving to reels in the polka mosh pit – this is so much more than your average céilí!
Solstice Céilí will be overseen by improvised trad band Damhsa Liomsa and Fear an Spraoi Martin O’Donoghue - acting as your guide through these dances created for Cork Midsummer Festival and this celebration of the Solstice. Come celebrate and join in the mayhem as we dance, laugh and sing our way forward from the sounds of past to present.
Spectacle / Family & Young People / Participation
Street ‘Art’-itude and community engagement at its best and wackiest, encompassing utmost energy, passion and imagination.
Free
Theatre / Dance / Spoken Word
An award-winning re-telling of the creation of everything inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost told through words, music and movement - "an enchanting and very funny show" (The Independent).
€22/€18
Theatre / Music
New theatre from Deirdre Kinahan, one of Ireland’s best loved contemporary playwrights, with a score composed and performed live by Steve Wickham (The Waterboys).
€20/€18
Visual Art
A new performance and outdoor exhibition by artist Isadora Epstein about weather lore and classical mythology, presented as a weather report with a surprising forecast...
Free, booking required via glucksman.org
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