In Residence at Sirius: Zorka Project

For the month of November Sirius Arts Centre is pleased to welcome ZORKA PROJECT from Poland to our Artist in Residency Programme. This residency is a cooperation between Sirius and the Month of Photography Festival in Krakow, Poland. While in residence the artists will be working on a new body of work that focuses on Polish people working and living in Ireland.

Zorka Project are Monika Bereżecka and Urzula Jablonska (Urzula is standing in for Monica Redzisz who is normally the other half of Zorka Project but is busy about to have a new baby).

Redzisz and Bereżecka met while studying at the department of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In 2000 they set up a photography group under the name of "Zorka Project". Since then, they have been working as a team, taking photographs and writing press articles together. In their cycles of portraits, so far, they have shown: Warsaw female tram drivers, nuns, bodybuilders, refugees, drag queens and homeless mothers with children.

Their works has been published in Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, Życie Warszawy, Polityka, Przekrój, Playboy, City Magazine, Aktivist and in photography magazines such as Pozytyw, Fototapeta, Foto, Biuletyn Fotograficzny, as well as in various womens' magazines.

In 2003, during "Month of Photography" in Cracow, they exhibited a cycle featuring female nudes titled "Laski" ("Babes"). The following year they displayed "Mocarze" ("Bodybuilders"), which is a cycle of portraits of Polish strongmen and women. In 2004 Zorka Project were granted an artistic scholarship for young artists by the Polish Ministry for Culture.

Zorka Project were also exhibited at Sirius Arts Centre and Cork Institute of Technology in 2007 as part of "Teraz Malopolska" a group exhibition of contemporary Polish photography. We hope that a future exhibition can be curated for exhibition at Sirius in 2010 from the work they are creating here.

Jablonska and Bereżecka live and work in Warsaw, Poland.

Jim Wilson Returns to Sirius to Promote His New Book

Sirius Arts Centre presents
popular natural historian
Jim Wilson

Thursday 4 December at 8pm
to promote his new book,
written with Oran O'Sullivan and published by Collins Press

"Ireland's Garden Birds
How to Attract Identify and Care for Garden Birds.

Tickets €6/€4 concession

After a short talk about the book Jim will be signing copies.

Whether you are an avid gardener, or just like feeding birds in your garden, this guide is an essential companion. An illustrated guide to Ireland's garden birds and wildlife gardening, the book provides information on the 60 birds most likely to be seen from the window, how to attract them into your garden and how to care for the. Part one features all the main gardening issues and highlights planting schemes to make your garden a haven for wildlife. In part two each species is described in a style designed to appeal to all, with detailed facts on identification, status and abundance, feeding habits, songs, call and breeding season facts. The descriptions are back up throughout the book with high quality photographs.

To book tickets for this event please contact Sirius at (021) 481 3790.

Christmas Cheer at Sirius Arts Centre!

Sirius presnts an evening of Christmas Cheer with

Cadenza

Featuring the singing talents of
Ryan Morgan, Eileen Plummer, Jim Quinlan and Brenda Murphy
Musical Direction by Alan Carney
Friday 12 December 8pmTickets €18 - on sale NOW!

Ticket includes complementary mulled wine and minced pie sponsored by Sirius Arts Centre and Ray Keating of Londis, New Town, Cobh

Following the outstanding success of last year’s Christmas concerts The Sirius Arts Centre is delighted to announce the return of CADENZA, under the musical direction of Alan Carney and featuring the singing talents of; Ryan Morgan, Eileen Plummer, Jim Quinlan and Brenda Murphy. Presenting a programme of festive favourites, popular pieces, and classical compositions, a winter’s evening with Cadenza in the beautiful surroundings of Sirius Arts Centre’s West Gallery will definitely get you in the spirit of Christmas. Tickets for this event last year sold out in a flash so advanced booking is recommended to avoid disappointment!
Complementary Minced pies sponsored by Ray Keating Londis, New Town, Cobh

SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH CATHY DAVEY!

Sirius Arts Centre is the backdrop for this special evening of Cathy Davey's BARE BONES TOUR!! This is a chance to see this celebrated artist to play intimate venues without being too noisy for sensitive ears. Rearranged songs to better suit candlelight. A total of three musicians playing as many instruments as they can fit in their suitcases. Definitely something you won't want to miss!

MONDAY 24 NOVEMBER 8pm (doors 7:45)
Tickets €22
Opening act: Sian Brown

Tickets are going extremely fast so you'd want to get on your bike if you hope to get a seat... (The West Gallery can only seat 80 people.....)

For more information on Cathy Davey you can visit her Website and My space sites at:

http://www.myspace.com/cathydavey

http://www.cathydavey.ie/

Sirius Arts Centre presents an evening with GUY BARKER

Sirius presents an evening with one of Britain's finest 'post-bob' and jazz trumpeters, Guy Barker, appearing for one night only - TUESDAY 18 November at 8pm. Tickets €15.

Guy's new CD release "The Amadeus Suite" is recieving rave reviews, he's definitely one of the hottest acts going and this fully acoustic performance in the Sirius is sure to be one you won't want to miss. For tickets contact Sirius at 021 481 3790 or via email at cobharts@iol.ie

Sileziany - On the Wind's Wings in the Gallery

Sileziany is a biannale international textile exhibition, developed in 1995 by Mlodziezowy Dom Kultury (Youth House of Culture) in Bytom, Poland and curated by Polish textile artist, Alexsandra Herisz.

An international contest for children and young people, the final exhibition includes selected works by the winners of the young people's contest and professional artists' from different countries. Each edition of Sileziany focuses on a specific theme. For the exhibition in Sirius the theme is "On the Wind's Wings". The works are combined in exhibition to illustrate a wide range of textile working methods and interpretations on the theme with the aim of exchanging and sharing ideas on European Heritage.

This year Sileziany includes the work of Artist, Marie Brett who is based in West Cork and two works by school children from Cobh, County Cork. These works were initially exhibited with the premiere of the exhibition in Poland last year. Also included are artworks from Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia and other contries.

Sileziany is part of an ongoing partnership between MDK and Sirius Arts Centre. To date the two organisations have completed a music project with young people from Cobh Youth Services and now are working as facilitators for Cork Textile Network to provide opportunities for Irish Textile Artists to meet with artists from Poland.

Five artists from MDK were in residence at Sirius for the first two weeks of the exhibition and during their time here they ran a series of workshops with Cobh YMCA Parents and Kids Together, St Raphaels Centre, a local woman's group, children from Norwood School, and an open workshop for adults.

During their visit Aleksadra Herisz and the other Polish artists met with Cork Textile Network for a workshop and discussion to continue building their connection and sharing skills. It is planned that the two groups will meet in Cobh again next year to participate in another skills exchange workshop and that some of the members of Cork Textile Network will then visit MDK in Poland for Sileziany in October 2009 with the aim of organising workshops for young people in Poland and another skills exchange workshop.

Through these skills exchanges the two groups will build a body of work that they hope will be an exhibition in 2010 in Cobh and Poland.
EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16 - SEE GALLERY HOURS TO THE LEFT OF THIS SITE......