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End of year news from Sirius Arts Centre
Many thanks to all of you for your interest and support in 2018, it has been an extraor-
dinary year, and it’s hard to believe we are almost at the end of it already. This year we
celebrated thirty years as an arts centre in The Old Yacht Club with The Brian O’Doherty
/ Patrick Ireland Project; which saw the restoration of Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland’s
1996 One Here Now murals in the centre gallery; supported by the Department of Culture
Heritage & the Gaeltacht and Cork County Council.

Alongside this has been a year-long series of new partnerships, commissioned artworks,
compositions, performances, and talks to honour, re-interrogate, and, most importantly,
preserve these important Irish works for future generations. We were so pleased to have
President Michael D. Higgins as the Project Patron, and to be nominated with our sponsor
Colourtrend, for Best Midsize Sponsorship in the 2018 Business to Arts Awards. We were
also successful with the Arts Council’s Open Call Award which allowed us to undertake an
exceptionally ambitious artistic programme this year. Special thanks to all of the phenom-
enal artists that we have worked with and met over the year. Also to all of our supporters
and partners in Cork and beyond, in particular to Crawford Art Gallery who partnered with
us on a successful series of talks around the work of Brian O’Doherty.
Coming up in 2019...

The associated programme will continue into 2019 with an exhibition of new work by Mary-
Ruth Walsh, a selection of older works of Brian O’Doherty’s from various private collections,
alongside new work made specifically for the East Gallery, and finally the launch of a book
that Sirius Arts Centre is co-publishing with Paper Visual Art; comprising essays on each of
the projects and discussions on O’Doherty’s work. It reflects on this important year at Sirius
Arts Centre and serves as a legacy of the murals that will be covered up again in 2019.
Throughout the rest of 2019 there will be a variety of exhibitions and new work by emerg-
ing and established artists and our annual Cobh-based project, This Must Be The Place |
The Great Island; now in it’s fourth year. For this project we are delighted to be working
with Australian artists Elizabeth Woods and Kevin Leong, who will produce the outcomes
of See You Tomorrow; an ambitious, large-scale project in and around the community of
Cobh. Expect conversation, debate, the pop-up Sirius Café, music and art; possibly dis-
guised as freshly baked bread!
As always there’ll be plenty of gigs, workshops, learning opportunities, an international
residency programme and our newly launched, bi-monthly Sirius Suppers. Families, visitors
and local community alike, we hope to see you here in 2019!
On behalf of everyone at Sirius Arts Centre I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
All the best, Miranda Driscoll, Director Sirius Arts Centre
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Christmas Wildlife Walk with Jim Wilson - Thursday 27th December

Cobh Tidy Towns is delighted to announce the date for the Christmas Wildlife Walk which is
becoming a tradition in Cobh. On Thursday 27th December, wildlife expert Jim Wilson will
lead a Free Family Wildlife Walk at the BWI Cuskinny Marsh Nature Reserve . The meeting
point will be the car park at 11 am and no equipment is necessary.
This is another wonderful opportunity to learn about the fantastic wildlife living on our
doorsteps. Put the date in your diary and look forward to getting out in the fresh air after
the festive celebrations. All welcome.