Arts & Events Cork St. Patrick’s Festival 2021
The festival was launched on March 3rd and took place from Saturday 13th to Wednesday 17th March. Due to COVID restrictions, the program was primarily online and featured the following: Greening of Buildings as part of an initiative with Fáilte Ireland. More than 50 buildings went green. Drone footage of many of the greened buildings was taken and made into the video shown online. The Irish proverb Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine” and in English “In the shelter of each other, we live” was projected onto R&H Hall. A pre-recorded video including the Lord Mayor and a compilation of past parades in recognition of our community parade participants was aired. A series of online instructional videos on how to make a St. Patrick’s puppet with Cork Puppetry Company, face painting with Cork Circus and costume making with Graffiti Theatre were broadcast in the lead-in to St. Patrick’s Day. From the Hearth: The White Horse, Ballincollig & Coughlan’s Live presented a bespoke Fireside Session for St. Patrick ’s Day. Performances included John Spillane, Caoimhín Ó Fearghail & Paddy Tutty, The Céilí Allstars, Johnny McCarthy & Eoin O Riabhaigh, Conor O’Sullivan & Barry Tierney, Tommie & Bláithín Cunniffe, Emerald On Ivory and Oisín Morrison & Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin. The performance was also broadcast in Cologne in Germany as well as in Boston in the US. Cork International Film Festival presented a special St. Patrick’s Festival program of Irish film shorts to watch online from 13th to 17th March. Creative Tradition, in partnership with Music Generation Cork City and Cork Academy of Music, invited young traditional musicians to perform or otherwise respond to the Liz Carroll tune, The Island of Woods, through guided listening. This was compiled into one big video/audio recording released on St Patrick's Day. Cork Community Art Link reflected on the legends around the goddess Clíodhna and her 3 brightly-coloured birds whose sweet songs soothe and heal the sick. An installation in Bishop Lucey Park was postponed until late in the year due to COVID. H owever, for St. Patrick’s Day, the CCAL hosted a gallery of images online documenting the creation of the installation, as well as an accompanying soundtrack which blended natural birdsong with voices reciting poetry relevant to these in these testing times.
‘Little Bird Babble’ artist Rachel Doolin created a video on how to make your own EARTHBIRD from garden materials.
Words on Windows vinyl series with the Cork City Libraries continues, with a series o f Irish Poetry displayed in the city’s libraries.
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