This month's picks focus in on the second city, thanks to a ream of recommendations from Cork's own Chapter. Chapter submitted work to the 100 Archive for the first time last year and have already managed two selections in the 2017 Archive! They also seem to have their finger on the pulse in terms of what's happening way down south, so without further ado...
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Cork Midsummer Festival returns from 15—25 June! Highlights include Union Black at Neptune Stadium (a vibrant mix of dance-theatre and circus from critically-acclaimed hip hop collective Far From The Norm and a selection of Europe and Ireland's best hip hop dancers and circus artists), In Clouds at Triskel Arts Centre, Stampa Ora / Print Now: Selected works from Italian & Irish Printmakers in the Watercolour Room, Crawford Art Gallery and the Blindboy Podcast Live @ St Lukes.
Spike Island Cinema Club screens horror movie The Conjuring
Home, Pop Coffee Inspiration, 15 June
Constuct and Knock Knock, Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, until 19 June
A Midnight Supper by Banana Melon Kitchen/OHK Cate on Friday 22 June
CIT Art and Design graduate shows
Cork Centre Architectural Education graduate show (all graduate show details here)
One Here Now, The Brian O'Doherty Patrick Ireland Project, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh
Double Take, Glucksman Gallery, until 8 July
GIGS
Two Lions Band, Connolly's of Leap, 8 June
Le Gout Francais, Nano Nagle Place, 8 June
Magic Numbers, Cypress Avenue, 8 June
CHIC, The Marquee, 17 June
Guilty Pleasure, A Live Tribute to Nu Metal, Cypress Avenue, 7 July (ok, not June, but we're hardly going to leave this one out...)
Kraftwerk, The Marquee, 11 July (again, not leaving this out out)
READ - BEDTIMES
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011
Skin Deep, Liz Nugent
The Heart's Invisible Furies, John Boyne
Bad Feminist, Roxanne Gray
12 Rules for Life, Jordan B Peterson
CREATIVES/ARTISTS
Deirdre Breen
Shane O'Driscoll
Sophie Smallhorn – visual artist
Kate Gibb - printmaker
Laura Callaghan - Illustration
Sophie Southgate - ceramics
Kari Cahill – painter
INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS
shane.odriscoll
deirdrebreen
TOWN AND CONCRETE
FEAT.DOTS
STORIGROUP
Bang Bang Nails
Miraduma
LISTEN
Khruanghbin - The universe smiles upon you
Darondo - listen to my song
Cymnade - Cymande
David Kitt - Yous
Darkside - pitchfork set
Talos
Shookrah - Don’t Wanna Doubt You
Saint Sister- Twin Peaks
Kanye West- ye
PODCASTS
Ear Hustle
Stories of life inside prison, shared and produced by those living it.
Jordan B Peterson Podcast
West Cork
Reply All
RESTAURANTS
Ichigo Ichie / Miyazaki
Dockland
The Bookshelf, South Mall
Iberian way Douglas Street ,Cork
Earth, South Mall, Cork
America Village Apothecary, 31 Dominick Street, Galway
Pilgrims, 6 South Square, Townlands, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork WEST CORK
SAGE The Courtyard, Main St, Midleton, Co. Cork
Food Depot - Gourmet Street Kitchen, Courtmacsherry beach
Rohu's Country Market, Inishannon
ARCHITECTURE
Cities on the Rise - Academy of Urbanism Congress in Cork Nano Nagle Place, 27—30 June
Glucksman, University College Cork
Cork Centre Architectural Education New building at Douglas Street
WATCH
A Wild Irish Year with Dr. Tara Shine
Westworld
Silicon Valley
Evil Genius
Wild Wild Country
THEATRE
Asking For It, Everyman Theatre
Kite Runner, Cork Opera House
PLACES OF INTEREST
Plugd Records
Nano Nagle Place
Sample Studios
The Sky Garden, Liss Ard Estate