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Arts & Events Cork St. Patrick’s Festival 2021 The Cork St. Patrick’s Festival took place from Saturday 13 th to Wednesday 17 th March. Due to COVID restrictions, the program was primarily online and included the following: • From the Hearth: The White Horse, Ballincollig & Coughlan’s Live presented a bespoke Fireside Session for St. Patrick’s Day that was also broadcast in Cologne, Germany as well as in Boston in the US. • O nline instructional videos on how to make a St. Patrick’s puppet with Cork Puppetry Company, face painting with Cork Circus, costume making with Graffiti Theatre and how to make your own EARTHBIRD from garden materials with artist Rachel Doolin. • Creative Tradition, in partnership with Music Generation Cork City and Cork Academy of Music, invited young traditional musicians to perform to the Liz Carroll tune, The Island of Woods, through guided listening. • Cork International Film Festival presented a special St. Patrick’s Festival program of Irish film shorts to watch online. • Cork Community Art Link created an installation base on the legends around the goddess Clíodhna and her 3 brightly coloured birds whose sweet songs soothe and heal the sick. An installation 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 with an accompanying soundtrack. Over fifty buildings went Green for St. Patrick’s weekend as part of a large-scale initiative with Fáilte Ireland. In addition, the Irish proverb “ Ar scá th a chéile a mhaireann na daoine” and in English “In the shelter of each other, we live” was projected onto R&H Hall, based on the festival theme Meitheal.
Cork St. Patrick’s Festival, credit Darragh Kane
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