Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City, is a venue programmed with a rich bill of live music with a focus on classical and jazz concerts, cultural cinema, visual art exhibitions and literary events. Triskel Arts Centre run a second contemporary art room Triskel Gallery Space.
The Paperboys Café and Garden is open at Triskel from Wed to Sun 09:00 to 17:00. It brings a café experience to the people of Cork serving coffee, wine, beers, all day brunch and delicious hoagies.
Triskel Gallery Space is a dedicated exhibition room on the first floor of Triskel Arts Centre where a diverse exhibition programme features contemporary artists. The Collective Cork, is also based on the top floor at the Triskel Arts Centre, it is a yoga and dance school. Cork Traveller Women’s Network, working for traveller rights in Cork has a base at the Triskel Arts Centre.
- Chris Finnegan: Residency & Exhibition
Family funChris Finnegan: Residency & Exhibition Chris Finnegan: Residency & Exhibition at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on 7 May-28 Jun. This artist will use Triskel Sample Project Space to combine visual art and collaborating with young people through a series of workshops and studio production.
- Fingerprints: Cork Midsummer Festival
Family funFingerprints: Cork Midsummer Festival Fingerprints at Triskel Arts Centre, on 21 Jun. A fully improvised live performance experience, where music, drawing and movement interact in real time. A truly unique experience where nothing is fixed in advance. Part of Cork Midsummer Festival.
- Breathless: Three Films by Jim McBride
Arts and cultureBreathless: Three Films by Jim McBride Breathless at Triskel Arts Centre, 22 Jun. Jim McBride's remake of Godard's 1960 classic stars Richard Gere as a drifter running from the law who hooks up with a French student. Their differences make for a fiery relationship as they flee to Mexico.
- The Misfits
Arts and cultureThe Misfits The Misfits at Triskel Arts Centre, 22-24 Jun. John Huston's tragic swan song to the Western would be Marilyn Monroe's final film. She plays a divorcee who moves out to the Nevada desert, encountering misfits, burnouts and a cowboy who she falls for.
- The Big Easy: Three Films by Jim McBride
Arts and cultureThe Big Easy: Three Films by Jim McBride The Big Easy at Triskel Arts Centre, 23 Jun. In crime-ridden New Orleans, two competing dons have never fought. That changes when corrupt cops start muscling in, but a prosecutor and a cop will try to stop them. Jim McBride will be present for a Q&A.
- Great Balls of Fire: Three Films by Jim McBride - Filmmaker Q&A
Family funGreat Balls of Fire: Three Films by Jim McBride - Filmmaker Q&A Great Balls of Fire at Triskel Arts Centre, 24 Jun. Musical biopic of Jerry Lee Lewis. His stage performances were scandalous, but not as much as his private life, which included marrying his 13-year-old cousin. Jim McBride will be present for a Q&A.
- Bullet in the Head
Arts and cultureBullet in the Head Bullet in the Head at Triskel Arts Centre, 26 June. Three friends from Hong Kong flee to Vietnam, hoping to make a fortune as smugglers. After meeting another expat and a singer, they rob a gangster and begin a nightmarish odyssey in order to escape.
- Wake in Fright
Arts and cultureWake in Fright Wake in Fright at Triskel Arts Centre, 26 June. While travelling through the Australian Outback a schoolteacher loses all his money in a bad bet, leaving him stranded in a remote town, where he begins a descent into violence, drunkenness and madness.
