Saturday 18th March 10am – 1pm – Fiction Workshop with Billy O’Callaghan – for more details click here Saturday 18th March 2pm-5pm – Needle Craft with Gerli Kerm – for more details click here Sunday 19th March 10am -1pm -Drypoint Print Making with Brid Moynahan – for more details
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Welcome to the Website of Kanturk Arts Festival Kanturk Arts Festival aims to celebrate and promote the arts in the region and to provide a platform and focal point for the arts locally.
Kanturk Arts Festival is once again looking for your poems for its summer project Poets’ Trees 2023. So whether you are, young, young at heart or anything in between, please get writing on any topic of your choice. The poems will be hung on the magnificent trees in O’Brien Street
The spaces are filling up quickly. There are only a few places left for the poetry workshop with Poet Lucy Holmes on March 19th click here for more details. There is a Needle Craft workshop on the 18th . Don’t miss out on making your own felt Easter egg. More
Needle Craft Workshop 2pm Saturday 18th of March 2023 Trades Union Hall, Kanturk €10 Gerli Keirm is back by popular demand for another needle craft workshop Class is suitable for beginners. To book a place text (087) 944 – 4523 Places are limited so booking is essential.
Drypoint – Printmaking Workshop with Bríd Moynahan 10am Sunday 19th of March 2023 Trades Union Hall, Kanturk €10 Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the Intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a metal plate or acetate with a hard pointed needle. These scratches on the surface hold
Kanturk Arts festival are delighted to bring you two writing workshops this year. On Saturday 18 March from 10am – 1pm, the world-renowned Cork novelist, Billy O’Callaghan will hold a fiction writing workshop. Click here for more details On Sunday 19 March, Lucy Holme, Poet and Editor of The Four
Kanturk Arts Festival are delight to invite you to the launch of In Leafy Shade” a collection of photographs and poems from Poets’ Trees installation 2022 on Wednesday, Nov 30th 7pm Kanturk Library.
Thanks to Sheila Fitzgerald for the Photographs
Kanturk Arts Festival is once again looking for your poems for its summer project Poets’ Trees 2022. So whether you are, young, young at heart or anything in between, please get writing on any topic of your choice. The poems will be hung on the magnificent trees in O’Brien Street
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