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Central Library, Grand Parade

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CreAtinG ShAPeS exhibition Until tomorrow, details see Monday.

CLeAn CoAStS exhibition of PhotoGrAPhSEnds today, see Monday for details.

1.10pm – 2pm

how teLeSCoPeS ChAnGed underStAndinG Hear from a speaker from CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory how major discoveries made with telescopes have influenced our understanding of the universe.

2.30pm – 4pm

Your riGht to A heALthY environment Want to know what impact activities in your area have on your environment and your health? Learn about the UN Aarhus Convention, which came into force in Ireland last September. Make sure of your place by booking – call Bernie Connolly, Cork Environmental Forum 083 146 8064.

See separate entry for more details.

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bishopstown Library

All day

Exhibition of Abstract Art by David Murphy in the Gallery, continues until end of April.

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douglas Library

All day

hiStorY iS to bLAme exhibitionSee Tuesday for details, continues until end of April.

9.30am – 10.30am/11am – noon/ 2pm – 3pm /3.30pm – 4.30pm

StAY SAfe onLine Four one hour sessions with Damien Mulley covering Twitter, Facebook, Internet safety & privacy. Event sponsored by Blacknight Solutions. See separate entry. Booking essential.

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hollyhill Library, foyle Avenue

Knocknaheeny

10am – 5.30pm (closed 1pm –2pm)

LeArn touCh tYPinG Book your free session using the library’s collection of self-learning DVDs. Computer experience required. Booking essential.

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blackpool Library

10am – noon

CommunitY Art from the GLen, KnoCKnAheenY & GurrAnAbrAherLast chance to see exhibition. See Wednesday for details.

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blackpool Shopping Centre 9.15am – 7.30pm

CorK CoLLeGe of CommerCeStand with information on the wide range of courses at the college, daytime & evening, with staff available to answer your questions. Info: 422 2100 email: queries@ccoc.ie www.corkcollegeofcommerce.ie

2pm – 4pm

‘Size mAtterS’ ALCohoL AwAreneSSInformation stand aimed at raising awareness of alcohol consumption guidelines to help reduce related harm through interaction with the public. Take part in quizzes & interactive exercises. Information on supports & services available citywide, as well as further educational & training opportunities.

Presented by Community Outreach Drug Awareness Project – Cork City Partnership & Dublin Hill / Ballyvolane Initiative for Youth – Foroige.

Info: Jackie Daly 087 196 2030 or email: jdaly@partnershipcork.ie www.corkcitypartnership.ie

wilton Shopping Centre 10am – 4pm

reAd write now & SKiLLS for worKFind out about the Cork Education & Training Board’s Literacy & Basic Education Services available in the community & workplace for adults who need assistance. Stand organised by the Ballyphehane/Togher & Bishopstown/Glasheen Community Education Networks. Info: Cathy Kelly (Read Write Now) 087 684 9150 & Lillian Buckley (Skills for Work) 086 048 7406

8am – 9pm

Quay Co-op Restaurant, Sullivan’s Quay

exhibition of Student worK ImaginEight showcases work by Level 6 Painting & Sculpture students at St John’s Central College. Ends today.

9am – 5pm

City Hall

Art bY YounG trAveLLerSEnds today, see Monday for details.

9am – 5pm

Colaiste Stiofain Naofa, Tramore Rd

hidden in PLAin SiGhtExhibition continues – details see Monday.

9am – 11am

Colaiste Stiofain Naofa, Tramore Rd

Combined mAteriALS worKShoPExperiment with mixed media, understanding 2D & 3D work in a contemporary style using found & made surfaces. In Room 109, facilitated by Jean Bradley. Book your place, call Lara Norris, Arts Business Management 496 1020 or email: csnartsevents@gmail.ie

9.30am – 10.30am

Douglas Library, Douglas Village Shopping Centre

StAY SAfe onLine First of four one hour sessions today with Damien Mulley of Mulley Communications who teaches organisations how to communicate amongst themselves & with the world. Especially organised for the festival, workshops cover Twitter, Facebook, Internet safety & privacy, including: locking down your Facebook; how to spot scam emails; good browsers, spyware, secure passwords. Sponsored by Blacknight Solutions. Booking essential as spaces limited. Phone 492 4932

Repeated at 11am, 2pm & 3.30pm today.

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9.30am – 5pm

Knocknaheeny Community Centre Foyle Avenue

exhibition of ArtS, CrAftS & PhotoGrAPhS bY LoCALS Ends today, details see Monday.

9.30am

National Learning Network Training Centre, Hollymount Industrial Estate, Hollyhill (across from Apple Computers)

SCreeninG & diSCuSSion All welcome to the first of two screenings this morning of an animation film based on a personal account of depression. The film was produced by Animation Space with the support of O lá go lá & Madpride & is now an online resource. Screening followed by a Q & A with those involved in making it & groups involved in helping people deal with depression.

Booking preferred, as places limited. Call Maura at 430 0144, ext 112 or email: maura.keane@nln.ie or Kay or Natasha at 430 0144, ext 110 or email: hollyhill@nln.ie

Repeated at 11am.

10am – 1pm

Ballyphehane Togher CDP Community Resource Centre & Crèche Lower Friars Walk

LeArninG for demoCrACY: the roLe of CommunitY eduCAtion Brid Connolly, Lecturer in Adult & Community Education at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, gives a workshop with the title: The Role of Community Education in the 21st Century: Civic Participation or Corporate Activation? If you are interested in attending, please contact Siobhán O’Dowd: 431 9085 or email: siobhan@btcdp.ie

It’s the last in the series Learning for Democracy this week – see Tues & Thurs.

Organised by Ballyphehane Togher CDP in conjunction with the Critical Thinking Network – a voluntary network of community workers in the South and South East.

9.30am – 11.15am

St John’s College, Sawmill Street

hAPPY tALK worKShoPS for PArentS Parents of children aged up to six are invited to workshops given by Happy Talk speech & language therapists. Let’s Play explores the links between play & language development; followed by Meet Nibbles and Twitch – providing parents with strategies to support their children’s language development. Happy Talk is an Early Years Project based in the Glen & Mayfield areas, which supports the language development of all children aged 0-6 years. It provides training to parents, Early Years educators in crèches, pre-schools, and teachers in Junior Infant classes. Booking essential.

Call Sheila Dillon 087 757 3749 email: sdillon@partnershipcork.ie www.corkcitypartnership.ie

The workshops are run by Happy Talk in conjunction with Cuddles Crèche, St John’s College. Happy Talk is supported by Cork City Partnership, HSE, Cork ETB, Cork City Childcare, Cork City Council, Barnardo’s & UCC and is funded by Pobal (NEYAI) and Tom Cavanagh, Tomar Trust.

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10am – 2pm

Tourism & Hospitality Building, Cork Institute of Technology

CitY SChooLS ShowCASe CreAtive buSineSS PitCheS The Cork Schools Enterprise Programme is an initiative of Cork City Enterprise Board aimed at fostering a spirit of entrepreneurship & innovation in second level schools. Each year it offers students the opportunity to take part in a range of enterprise competitions including a mini-company programme, a business ideas box competition & a creative business pitch competition.

As part of the Creative Business Pitch competition 2014, second level students from all over Cork City were invited to write, design & record a two minute creative video pitch for a new business idea.

Today the finalists have their video business pitches showcased at a special screening at CIT. An overall winner will be announced & presented with a special award.

Info & booking: Yvonne O’Neill, Co-ordinator 086 153 7440

email: info@corkschoolsenterprise.ie www.studententerprise.ie

10am – noon

Mahon Family Resource Centre

LeArn About AromAtherAPYDiscover the use of aromatic plant extracts & essential oils for healing and cosmetic purposes. Learn how to enhance mood & a general feeling of well-being through massage; reduce pain, encourage restful sleep, improve digestion & blood and lymphatic circulation. Event specially organised for the festival. If you are interested, you can join the regular Monday class. Parking available. Places limited, book by calling Maeve or Elsa on 435 8855 or e-mail: info@frcentre.ie

10am – noon

Blackpool Library

CommunitY Art from the GLen, KnoCKnAheenY & GurrAnAbrAherDetails see Wednesday

10am – 5pm

Foyer, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC

exhibition of CommunitY PhotoGrAPhY Ends today - details see Monday

10am – 5pm

Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s, North Main St

exhibition: the wAterfowL PeoPLe Ends today – details see Tuesday.

10am – 8pm

James Barry Exhibition Centre, CIT

mY eduCAtion, mY future exhibitionEnds today - details see Tuesday at 2pm.

10.30am

Curraheen Family Centre, Meeting Room, Church of the Real Presence Curraheen Rd

LeArn to PAint on SiLK Ever wondered how you could make your own silk scarves, wall hangings & pictures? Wonder no longer, but join with Ann Kearns, gifted dress designer & artist, and with her students, to learn this unusual, but very accessible, art form. Free refreshments. All welcome. Curraheen Family Centre, a member of the Bishopstown Glasheen Community Education Network, meets here regularly. Info: Irene Higgins 454 1583

11am

National Learning Network, Hollyhill

SCreeninG & diSCuSSionSee 9.30am today for details.

11am

Douglas Library

StAY SAfe onLine Details see 9.30am today.

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mahon Point Shopping Centre 10am – noon

ALCohoL info-PodCome up to the stand, take part in a quiz & learn the facts about alcohol. Details of services & supports available. Stand organised by Cork City Partnership Community Outreach Drug Awareness Project & the TVG Drug and Alcohol Support Project. To book an Alcohol Information Stand for your organisation call Mella Magee 087 196 2022 or email: mmagee@partnershipcork.ie www.corkcitypartnership.ie58 59

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Knocknaheeny Community Centre, Foyle Avenue

the burninG of CorKAll welcome to a talk by Gerry White, historian & the author of a number of books, including The Burning of Cork (Mercier Press) written with Brendan O’Shea. On the night of 11 December 1920, Cork City experienced unprecedented terror & destruction at the hands of British forces, with over five acres of the city destroyed & an estimated £20 million worth of damage. Booking preferred, call Norma or Deirdre 439 9503

A Cork City Partnership Knocknaheeny (We the People) Outreach Community Project.

11am – 4pm

Cork Vision Centre @ St Peter’s, North Main St

LeArn About muSiC CourSeSInformation about Cork Academy of Music, with an Academy member available to answer your questions. Details see Tuesday.

1pm – 2.15pm

Tourism & Hospitality Building, Cork Institute of Technology

CorK ACAdemY of muSiC ConCert Come along & relax as you listen to members and students of the Cork Academy of Music performing. All welcome. Info: Vision Centre 427 9925 email: visioncentre@eircom.net www.corkvisioncentre.com

11am – 12.30pm

Examiner & Echo Offices Linn Dubh, Assumption Rd.

Guided tour of the eveninG eCho Festival sponsor The Evening Echo invites you to a very special event. See how a newspaper works from the inside, from coping in a busy newsroom & meeting deadlines to page layout & design. Linn Dubh is next to the tax office. Places are very limited, booking essential. To book email sarah.horgan@eecho.ie

11am – 1pm

Terence MacSwiney Secondary School, Knocknaheeny

one booK, one CommunitY tAbLe QuizFirst years in Terence MacSwiney Secondary School compete with 5th class students from the local primary schools: St.Mary’s on the Hill, Scoil Padre Pio, Sunday’s Well BNS and GNS, along with their parents in this inter schools table quiz. It’s based on the book Now written by the popular children’s author Morris Gleitzman. This is part of the annual One Book, One Community Family Reading Initiative in Knocknaheeny.

Parking available off Hollyhill Lane behind the PE hall at the back of the school.

Info: Ann Neff 439 7740

Organised by Knocknaheeny Hollyhill Community Education Network, members Home/School/Community Liaison, Terence MacSwiney Secondary School, St Mary’s on the Hill Primary School, Scoil Padre Pio Primary, Sunday’s Well BNS & GNS

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1.10pm – 2pm

Foyer, CIT Cork School of Music

LunChtime ConCert Students from the CITCSM BMus & Masters Programmes perform an entertaining range of music featuring: Siobhan McDonnell (percussion); Hannah Conneely (saxophone); Brian Flanagan (solo piano); Lydia Thorpe – cello; Kevin Walsh – voice (musical theatre); with Accompanist: Michael Young (piano). Includes work by Bruch, Liszt, Prokofiev and more. Some seating, wheelchair accessible, on-street parking, Bistro on-site. Info: Edel Sullivan 087 234 4669

noon – 1pm

Terence MacSwiney Community College Knocknaheeny

wAtCh StudentS dAnCe Dance students from Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa College of Further Education give a performance.

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2pm – 3pm Carrig Sound Recording Studios C3 Units A&B Donnybrook Commercial Centre, Douglas

tour A reCordinG Studio & LeArn About CLASSeS Repeated daily until Sunday. Details see Wednesday.

2pm & 3pm Douglas Library

StAY SAfe onLine Details see 9.30am today.

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2pm & 3pm Alliance Française de Cork, 36 Mary Street

bordeAux – A virtuAL viSit Resident Bordelais tutor Matthieu Nivard takes you on a virtual guided tour through the highlights, the essential sites, the curiosities off the beaten track, of one of France’s most beautiful cities.

Info: 431 0677 email: info@alliancefrancaisecork.com

2.30pm – 4pm

Central Library, Grand Parade

Your riGht to A heALthY environment Want to know what impact activities in your area have on your environment and your health? Want to influence decisions on transport or planning? Want to know if the river you swim in is polluted? If you answer ‘yes’ then the Aarhus Convention, which came into force last September, matters to you.

The Aarhus Convention means that public authorities, including semi-state companies, have to provide environmental information on request at little or no cost & to involve the public in all decision-making that impacts on the environment. Come along to find out more. Make sure of your place by booking.

Organised by Cork Environmental Forum in partnership with the Environmental Pillar.

Info: Bernie Connolly 083 146 8064 email: bernadette@cef.ie

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Spailpín Fánach, South Main St. opp Beamish & Crawford

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Writers read from their works & discuss what inspired them in an event inspired by Féile an Phobail, our festival partner. Chaired by Danny Morrison.

Danny Morrison is a writer who lives in West Belfast. He’s secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust & until this year was chairperson of Féile an Phobail. He was the national director of publicity for Sinn Fein in the 1980s, served time as an IRA prisoner, and is a well-known political commentator in newspapers, on TV & radio. Since the mid 90s he has concentrated on writing & reviewing. Among his books are the novels West Belfast, On the Back of the Swallow, The Wrong Man; All the Dead Voices, a memoir, & Rebel Columns, a collection of articles. His fourth novel, Rudi: in the Shadow of Knulp, inspired by Hermann Hesse’s 1915 novel, was published last year.

All welcome.

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Cork City and County Archives Seamus Murphy Building, Great William O’Brien St, Blackpool

hiStorY & ArChiveS weeK: CorK’S diStiLLinG StorY

Join historian & researcher Dr Alicia St Leger for a lecture entitled Thomas Hewitt & Cork’s Distilling Story, part of History & Archives Week here. See Tuesday for more information. Preceded by a short introduction

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to Cork City & County Archives. To ensure your place, book.

Call Timmy O’Connor LG Archivist 450 5876 email: timmy_oconnor@corkcity.ie As line-up subject to change, check for updates on website www.corkarchives.ie; or facebook.com/corkarchives. Final lecture tomorrow.

3pm – 4pm

University College Cork, Visitors’ Centre, North Wing, Main Quad

Guided hiStoriCAL tour of uCCLast chance to enjoy tour, specially organised for festival week.

See Monday for details.

Room 9, West Wing Main Quadrangle, UCC

the free univerSitY: ACe At uCC PubLiC LeCture ProGrAmme

3pm – 4pm

emPowerinG CitizenSDr Clodagh Harris of the Department of Government, UCC, explores democratic innovations & new democratic approaches that aim to empower & include citizens in political decisions. Event will include short videos & discussions of: Participatory Budgeting in the US; Citizens’ summits in Belgium; Participatory Theatre in France & Ireland’s Convention on the Constitution.

4pm – 5pm

A SoLution to the eConomiC CriSiS?

Join Dr William Denayer of ACE for a presentation on the economic thoughts of Maurice Allais (1911-2010), one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century & a forgotten Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics in 1988. Allais meticulously explained the causes of the current crisis. His work is fundamental in putting correct policies in place. His thoughts on globalisation, de-industrialisation, diminishing returns & the pernicious results, both economic and social, of neo-liberalism and austerity will be dealt with.

Info: 490 4700 email: ace@ucc.ie www.ucc.ie/en/study/ace

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4.30pm – 6.30pm Spanish Studies Centre Cork 19, St Patrick’s Hill

virtuAL tour of St PeterSburG Elena Morets gives a virtual tour of the beautiful historical city of St. Petersburg.

All welcome, no need to book. See Monday for details of language classes here or call: 086 311 1193 or email: spanishstudiescork@gmail.com www.spanishstudiescentrecork.com

6.30pm – 9pm

The Granary, Bessboro, Blackrock

the PALeStine QueStion: A new PerSPeCtive SHEP guest speaker Dr Kathy Glavanis-Grantham, retired lecturer in the Department of Sociology, UCC, examines the Palestinian question through a Development Education lens. Kathy taught for nine years in the prestigious Birzeit University near Ramallah, Palestine. Booking essential as places limited. Call Geraldine Flanagan 466 6180 email: socialandhealth@eircom.net www.socialandhealth.com

7.30pm – 9pm The Teaching Rooms 6 Sydney Place, Wellington Rd

ConneCtinG the dotS See Tuesday for details.

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Central Library, Grand Parade

All day

CreAtinG ShAPeS exhibition Ends today, details see Monday.

Children’s Library, Central Library

2.30pm – 3.30pm

interACtive StorYteLLinG Presented by Cork City Childcare - see separate entry.

3pm – 5pm

CreAtive writinG worKShoP nothinG write, nothinG wronG…Get writing with Kathleen O’Brien & Pamela McDonald.

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bishopstown Library

All day

Exhibition of Abstract Art by David Murphy in the Gallery, continues until end of April.

1.30pm

PotterY worKShoPEnquire at Library for details.

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hollyhill Library, foyle Avenue

11.30am

treASure hunt for KidSHave some fun as you learn about your library - win Easter eggs.

2.30pm

Junior CheSS CLubCome along to the regular meeting. New members always welcome. Open to boys and girls aged 8 – 13.

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Cónal Creedon is a short story writer, novelist, playwright, and documentary film-maker from Cork. His stage plays include The Trial of Jesus, Glory Be To The Father, Second City Trilogy. Cónal has written over 60 hours of radio drama and his work has been broadcast on RTÉ, BBC Radio 4 & World Service, and by radio stations in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. His books include Pancho and Lefty Ride Out, a collection of short stories, and Passion Play, a novel.

Colin Sloan lives in Lisburn and is the author of two novels and three volumes of poetry.

Titus Unlive covers 300 years of Irish history witnessed and narrated through the eyes of an immortal participant, a Huguenot doctor in the retinue of William III.

The Volga German concerns two former soldiers from conflicts years apart, one a Russian who fought for the Germans at Stalingrad, the other an Irish soldier who served in the Lebanon. They trade stories across the refectory table within the confines of a Munich hotel in 1987.

Three volumes of poetry; each marking his stages of development, his sense of place and belonging, his loves and loss, his development as a person. All three poetry books are lavishly illustrated with companion photography.

Gerry Murphy, poet, was born Cork in 1952. His most recent publications are: End Of Part One, New & Selected Poems (Dedalus 2006), My Flirtation With International Socialism (Dedalus 2010). His new collection is due in 2015.

Gerry McCullough was born & brought up in North Belfast & is an award winning short story writer. She has had nearly 70 short stories published, broadcast or collected in anthologies & around 30 poems published in various magazines. In 2005 her story Primroses won the Cuirt International Literary Award and she has won, been short listed, and been commended in a number of other literary competitions since, including the Seán O’Faolain Short Story Competition in Cork.

Gerry’s first novel, Belfast Girls, published by Precious Oil Publications, topped the bestseller list on paid UK Kindle Literary Fiction. Danger Danger, her second, an Irish romantic thriller, was followed by a collection of Irish short stories The Seanachie: Tales of Old Seamus. Angel in Flight, featuring Angel Murphy,‘a strong minded Belfast girl’ was published in 2012. Angel in Belfast, the second Angel Murphy thriller, appeared last June.

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blackpool Shopping Centre 9.15am – 5.30pm

CorK CoLLeGe of CommerCe

Stand with information on the wide range of courses at the college, daytime & evening, with staff available to answer your questions.

Info: 422 2100 email: queries@ccoc.ie www.corkcollegeofcommerce.ie

wilton Shopping Centre 9.30am – 8.30pm

CorK CoLLeGe of CommerCe

Stand with information on the wide range of courses at the college, daytime & evening, with staff available to answer your questions.

Info: 422 2100 email: queries@ccoc.ie www.corkcollegeofcommerce.ie

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