Cork Heritage Open Day Brochure

Lots to Explore for all the Family Open the door to Cork’s past, present and future and discover intimate details of this great city

Backwater Studios,

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Cork Printmakers, Lavit Gallery Wandesford Quay Guided tour at 1pm and 2pm Partial wheelchair access

The tour is divided into three parts and you will be guided through the building by its current occupiers, learning the heritage as well as the way the building has been adapted to become a home to Lavit Gallery, Cork Printmakers and Backwater Artists Group. Each segment of the tour delves into the history of the building as part of Cork’s heritage story. You will be led by representatives from each of the organisations that now share the spaces to continue Cork’s cultural journey. Visitors will also have the chance to experience the art exhibitions on display across the building; At Lavit Gallery see their Summer Exhibition & Mary Bowen Galvin | Ad pondus omnium in the historic vaults. Backwater Artists Group have Drawn Works, A group exhibition with artists Sean Hanrahan, Orla O’Byrne, Joseph Heffernan, Anna Barden, Óisín Burke, Deirdre Frost, Ciara Rodgers & Stephen Doyle; The Power of Suffering in Silence, solo exhibition by Mary O’Leary. Guided tours of the Backwater Artists Group, Cork Printmakers and Lavit Gallery at 1pm and 2pm. Booking essential on Cork Printmakers Eventbrite.

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