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Sixteen finalists will perform at the Laya Healthcare Street Performance World Championship.
They arrived in Dublin today ahead of the festival which takes place in on July 14th-15th in Fitzgerald Park in Cork and July 19th-22nd in Merrion Square Dublin.
For more information go to spwc.ie. Photos: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland.
Get naked in Cork and help break a Guinness World Record.
Cork Body Painting in association with Camden Palace Hotel plan to beat the Guinness World Record™ for ‘The Most People Body Painted’.
Cork Body Painting is a non-profit organisation that runs quarterly body painting events, where artists and models meet to create art on a moving canvas. Body painting is a form of body art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, it’s temporary art, painted onto the human skin that lasts for only several hours.
The record currently stands at 264 people and was set by the American Body Arts Festival at Brushwood Folklore Centre in Sherman, New York, USA, on 21 July 2007.
The event will start at 9.30am on Saturday the 28th of July in the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork where all are welcome to come along and take part. A donation is appreciated, as both Cork Body Painting and Camden Palace Hotel are non-profit organisations. Ireland’s best body painters will be on hand to decorate you!
Photographers will be there throughout the day to capture this amazing event and everyone will be sent a photograph after the event.
To register to take part in the event as an artist or model contact the Cork Body Painting Team at corkbodypaintingguinnessrecord@gmail.com
Join our group on Facebook. Find “Cork Body Painting Guinness World Record” for more information or to help us prepare for the day.
Coming back this year! http://www.facebook.com/thespwc
Every year the Street Performance World Championship brings the best jugglers, acrobats, contortionists and magicians in world to Ireland to compete for the title of Street Performance World Champion.
This year’s 7th annual Street Performance World Championship is returning to Cork for its 4th year in a row.
On the weekend of June 9th and 10th 2012, the SPWC will be held in Cork’s Fitzgerald Park.
Dublin’s Merrion Square will then host the festival from June 14th – 17th.
Street Performance World Championship 2011 (by K2Creations)
I wish I had been to this gig.
As Above So Below [Trailer] (by mylesoreilly)
COMPETITION: Win tickets to the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 2010
Delighted to be able to offer you tickets to the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival opening night - I have 10 tickets for the Festival Club opening in the Gresham Metropole on Friday night.
Just comment below with how many tickets you’d like.
The weekend is jam packed with great jazz - if you’re going, you’ve probably already got your tickets so know what’s on - you can download the PDF here - but a special shout out goes to Mr Dennis Rollins who is appearing with Maceo Parker on Sunday 24th at 8pm in the Savoy Theatre.
I caught up with Dennis - http://www.dennisrollins.com - when he was over here to talk jazz, trombones, what’s on his iPod and to get a live performance.
The full interview is slightly too long for YouTube so below is kind of a best-of and a longer chat is is here. For just the performance, click here.
From the press release:
1,000 musicians from 37 countries perform in over 80 venues across the city over the October Bank Holiday Weekend. Over 90% of performances will be free of entrance charges, on the Guinness Music Trail.
This year’s line headed by the legendary Herbie Hancock is one of the strongest ever mounted by Guinness in the festival’s 32 year history.
As well as an exciting line up of Jazz musicians over the weekend including legendary Maceo Parker, The Brand New Heavies and a number of double bills in venues across the city including the Tom Rainey and Bill Carrothers trios in Triskel at The River Lee Hotel.
The famous Guinness Festival Club, popularly known as the heart of the festival, will provide jazz, funk and soul music on seven stages, day and night. The brilliant Jives Aces Band, best known as John Travolta’s House Band of parties in his L.A home will kick off the weekend action at this premier venue.
The 2010 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival also sees the launch of the Cork Jazz Stages, a series of outdoor performance venues developed by Guinness in association with Cork City Council to celebrate the completion of the revamp of Cork city centre. The stages will feature bands from all over Munster as well as overseas.
There will be plenty of action on the streets over Cork over the Bank Holiday weekend with the return of the hugely successful Jazz Choir, fans can join choir sessions free of charge with South American Jazz choral master Guillermo Rozenthuler.
In addition to the ticketed venues, pubs all across the city are offering free live music with some fantastic names playing in an intimate pub setting for the Guinness Music Trail. Artists performing in the pubs include Paddy Cole and The Cork City Jazz Band, Honor Heffernan, The Swingin’ Bluecats and Mitch Winehouse and Band.
Best of luck to everyone involved and thanks to the gorgeous Julie in WHPR for arranging the competition prizes!
Galway, Cork and Dublin - win tickets to an evening of Flamenco performance
When I was offered media tickets to an evening of Flamenco performance with two of Spain’s most highly regarded artists, my first thought was “Deadly” and my second was “Can I have some to give away please?” The answer was Yes :)
In Galway tomorrow, September 1st, in Cork on the 2nd and Dublin on the 3rd and 4th, “Six Strings for Two Heels” / “Seis cuerdas para dos tacones” is a show which…
… sees the welcome return to Ireland of virtuoso composer and guitarist Juan Antonio Suárez “Cano” and award-winning dancer and choreographer Concha Jareño.
Proudly presented by Peña Flamenca El Indalo, with the support of the Arts Council, the Instituto Cervantes Dublin and the Agencia Andaluza para el Desarrollo del Flamenco, this tour offers Irish audiences “a unique opportunity to enjoy a level of flamenco artistry normally reserved for the stages of Spain and the more established international flamenco festivals.”
The Spanish artists, who performed separately in Dublin in 2009, are returning to tour Ireland with a new production called “Seis cuerdas para dos tacones” (“Six strings for two heels”), which they premiered in June 2010 at the annual Flamenco Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delighting the audience and earning great critical acclaim.
You can view details of Guitar workshops here and Dance Workshops here.
— GALWAY PROGRAMME —
» Tuesday 31 August (today!)
DANCE WORKSHOP WITH CONCHA JAREÑO
Venue: Áras na nGael, 45 Dominick St, Galway
Beginners/Improvers: 7:30pm–9:00pm, €25 (concs €23). Enrollment via http://www.flamencoindalo.com
» Wednesday 1 September
GUITAR & DANCE PERFORMANCE: “SEIS CUERDAS PARA DOS TACONES” (SIX STRINGS FOR TWO HEELS)
Venue: The Live Lounge at The Radisson Blu Hotel, Galway
Time: 8:30pm
Price: €25 (concs €22)Tickets available online from: http://www.tickets.ie
— CORK PROGRAMME —
» Thursday 2 September
DANCE WORKSHOP WITH CONCHA JAREÑO
Venue: The Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork
Beginners/Improvers: 4:30pm–6:00pm, €25 (concs €23). Enrollment via http://www.flamencoindalo.com/
GUITAR & DANCE PERFORMANCE: “SEIS CUERDAS PARA DOS TACONES” (SIX STRINGS FOR TWO HEELS)
Venue: The Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork
Time: 8:30pm
Price: €25 (concs €22)Box office: +353 21 4507487 or info@firkincrane.ie
— DUBLIN PROGRAMME —
» Friday 3 September
GUITAR & DANCE PERFORMANCE: “SEIS CUERDAS PARA DOS TACONES” (SIX STRINGS FOR TWO HEELS)
Venue: The Space at The Helix, Glasnevin, Dublin
Time: 8:30pm
Price: €25 (concs €22)Box office: +353 1 7007000 and http://www.thehelix.ie
» Saturday 4 September
DANCE WORKSHOP WITH CONCHA JAREÑO
Venue: DanceHouse, Foley St, Dublin 1
Beginners/Improvers: 11:00am - 12:30pm, €25 (concs €23)
Intermediate/Advanced: 12:30pm - 3:00pm, €40 (concs €38)Enrollment via http://www.flamencoindalo.com/
GUITAR & DANCE PERFORMANCE: “SEIS CUERDAS PARA DOS TACONES” (SIX STRINGS FOR TWO HEELS)
Venue: The Space at The Helix, Glasnevin, Dublin
Time: 8:30pm
Price: €25 (concs €22)Box office: +353 1 7007000 and http://www.thehelix.ie/
To learn more about the artists and the tour, and to enrol in the dance and guitar workshops, visit the Peña Flamenca El Indalo website at http://www.flamencoindalo.com
So, thanks to Peña Flamenca El Indalo, a Dublin-based not-for-profit organisation, founded in 2009 by aficionados and artists to promote and enrich the culture of flamenco in Ireland through education and entertainment, I have tickets to the GUITAR & DANCE PERFORMANCE: “SEIS CUERDAS PARA DOS TACONES” (SIX STRINGS FOR TWO HEELS) to give away.
Wednesday 1 September:
Galway - two tickets for The Live Lounge at The Radisson Blu Hotel, Galway at 8:30pm
Thursday 2 September:
Cork - two tickets for The Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork at 8:30pm
Saturday 4 September:
Dublin - two tickets for The Space at The Helix, Glasnevin, Dublin at 8:30pm
If you’d like the tickets, just comment below! There’s more details over here.
Images courtesy of Pat Berrett. My thanks to Stephanie in Kate Bowe PR for her help.
Thank you for blogging say the Cork International Choral Festival
Lovely letter - one of the first letters we’ve gotten about it? - thanking Steph and me for our blogging involvement in the Cork International Choral Festival this year.
Steph and I attended events, took videos, updated Twitter, Facebook and created and updated the YouTube channel and blog - still a lot of work to do, but it was a lot of fun.
It reads:
Dear Darragh & Stephanie,
On behalf of the Executive Board of the Cork International Choral Festival I would like to extend our sincere thanks for being our Festival Bloggers this year. The online updates, videos and photos were superb and play a vital role in being able to promote the festival nationally and internationally. In addition, photos and videos are a very valuable source of archive for us.
2010 marked a high point for Cork International Choral Festival. The 56th Festival was a tremendous success, and between April 28th and May 2nd few corners of Cork were left untouched, as the city and county resonated to the voices of 22 different counties lifted in song.
Choirs and audiences alike, from Mallow to Moscow, flocked to the festival to be a part. Over five days, 85 magical performances and concerts touched the hearts of thousands of people. Even Eyjafjallajokull could not cast a cloud over Cork’s celebrations! The festival’s strength lies in the very many organisations and individuals who contribute so much to the event in so many different ways. Your own involvement as Festival Bloggers played a vital part in ensuring that the 56th Festival was a tremendous success.
We are grateful for your support and very much hope to continue this relationship into the future.
Kind regards
John Fitzpatrick
Festival Director
Big thanks to John, Lucy and Joya who made the experience interesting and a lot of fun. It’s nice to hear someone say “Thanks, you helped make a difference.”
The Lord Mayor of Cork asks people not to use the word “RECESSION”
It’s a project called “Today we don’t use the word ‘Recession’”. This is the Lord Mayor of Cork Counsellor Dara Murphy:
He’s holding a decree that states the following:
DECREE
THE CITY OF CORK REFRAINS FROM USING THE WORD RECESSION
Through the power of positive thought and collective action, Lord Mayor Cllr. Dara Murphy decrees that for one day, to lift ourselves out of the doom and gloom the citizens of Cork should refrain from using the word:
‘RECESSION’
The citizens of Cork are invited to join with the Lord Mayor in the collective ambition to help drive Cork out of recession and into recovery from this day forward. To kickstart this recovery the Lord Mayor requests:
ON THURSDAY 17th JUNE 2010
that the people of Cork shall in all public utterances, statements and communications replace the word ‘recession’ with alternative words or phrases. Citizens are asked to create their own alternatives, thus contributing to re-imagining the future of the city of Cork.
You can see a photo of it right here. From the press release:
To bring some positivity back into our everyday lives by banishing the use of the word “recession” for a day, Cllr Murphy suggests that Ireland’s economic recovery may be stimulated by the power of positive thought and collective activity.
The Mayor has elected to use the term ‘pre-boom’ for the date Thursday 17th June.
Cork residents are being asked to invent their own words or phrases as replacements and to drop them into the ‘Register of Words’ at the Atrium Foyer in City Hall, Anglesea Street on Thursday where they can get a copy of the decree. They can also post them online.
It’s an interesting idea - I’m not sure how they can get the word out about it - I hadn’t heard anything in the media about it - but I was told about it and thought it worth the blog post at least. Would something like this actually work, especially if people in authority really got behind it?
Here’s a video from the launch of the project:
This is part of a project by SUPERFLEX - a Danish art collective, well known for interventionsit practises with legal contracts, challenging public and provate copyright laws and self-organisation and environmentalism. They’re asking questions like the following:
Would you like respite from the doom and gloom?
Does ART allow us to dream of a DIFFERENT WORLD?
Can ART inspire a new ECONOMIC STRATEGY?What would happen if we took one day off from the recession?
‘Today we don’t use the word Recesssion’ is commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory and Cork Midsummer Festival and is supported by Lord Mayor Cllr. Dara Murphy and Cork City Council.
(Information from Jenny Sharif in Kate Bowe PR - jenny@katebowepr.ie)
