Libraries & Arts

Cork County Council in collaboration with our Arts and Library Services is hosting activities at the Mallow, Youghal and Bandon Libraries to celebrate the Chinese New Year (Chinese Spring Festival). 

Activities including helping visitors to identify their Chinese Animal Zodiac, traditional Chinese gift making and reading Chinese tales will be held on the 24th and 25th January, 2020.  Children will receive gifts of Hóngbāo (红包) while stocks last.

Cork County Library & Arts Service is pleased to announce an Open Call for its LHQ exhibition space 2020/2021.

For further information please click the below link:

LHQ Gallery

Audio drama and colouring  competition

Two part children’s radio drama, (15min x 2) broadcast on RTE Jnr Radio, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland

Target age group: 6 to 10 yrs

Synopsis

Denyse Woods has accepted the post of Cork County Council’s Writer in Residence for Libraries for 2019.  The Writer in Residence programme aims to support creative writing activity in local areas, by providing engagement and interaction with people interested in writing, with the local library service as the centre for the programme.

Denyse will provide a group workshop and one-to-one sessions with adult writers in five library locations namely Ballyvourney, Dunmanway, Kanturk, Millstreet and Passage West Libraries.

Cork County Library and Arts Service invites applications for the role of Writer in Residence 2019 for Cork County.

For details and particulars of the position please click below or contact 021- 4285000 Extn. 6970 or arts@corkcoco.ie

An interactive, exhibition featuring the filmed testimonies of 30 political activists, historians and civilians who experienced a pivotal year in Northern Ireland in 1968, when the civil rights movement and political tensions came to the fore across the province, will be hosted at Cork County Council’s Library Headquarters, Carrigrohane Road, throughout the month of January 2019.