Feathers for Rosa was a multidisciplinary event and a unique tribute to Rosa Luxemburg - revolutionary, feminist, visionary ecologist and rebel -...
Foraging with Jen & Samual
Jen Doran & Samuel Arnold Keane. A forage from land to sea. Bere Island. 22 August 2025. A forage from land to sea … deep, enriching and...
Leatherwork for Islanders Part II
Stephen Carter & the Bere Island Men's Shed. Leatherwork for Islanders Part II. Bere Island Community Centre. October 8th 2025 to April 2026....
How To Make a Traditional Willow Lobster Pot
Brendan Simpson. Traditional willow lobster pot. Bere Island. 1 November. One-day demonstration. Brendan Simpson from heritagefisheries.ie led...
The Boathouse Heir Island
Heir Island. Venue programme. Summer 2025. It was a busy summer at the boathouse on Heir Island with an eclectic mix of events with folk nights...
Collective Mending & Repurposing Sessions
Marianne O’ Drisceoil. Collective Mending & Repurposing Workshops. Coláiste Pobail Chleire, Cape Clear Island Comhar na nOileán. 11 September...
Barefoot Baroque Island Tour
Katy Salvidge, baroque recorder, Justin Grounds, baroque violin, Tess Leak, cello, Camilla Griehsel and Gideon Wiech. Heir Island, Cape Clear,...
Children’s Drama Classes
Bere Island Projects Group. Bere Island Drama classes with Maria O’Sullivan and Shirley Cahill. Ongoing 2025 & 2026. Bere Island Project Group...
Printmaking Workshop
Paula Marten. Printmaking Workshop. Sherkin Island. 5 November for 6 weeks until December 10. This new workshop will introduce participants to a...
The Quickening
Deirdre O’ Mahony. The Quickening, Film Screening. Bere Island. 21 Oct. Bringing together urgent conversations, original music and moving image, The...
Sherkin Island Community Exhibition
The Community of Sherkin Island. Sherkin in Motion. Community Exhibition & Dancing at the Crossroads. Sherkin Island Community Hall. June/July...
Quilting Workshop
Mary Palmer. Quilting Workshop. Bere Island. Sat 22 & Sunday 23 Nov. Textile artist Mary Palmer will instruct participants over the course of...
Thriving Together Community Weaving Project
Lucy Hyland. Thriving Together Community Weaving Project. Bere Island Oct 11, Sherkin Island Oct 17 Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre Oct 18....
Sherkin Ceramic Group
Ann Burns. Sherkin Ceramic Group. Sherkin Island. November & December. Intermediate Ceramic Skills. In this stage of the ceramics course,...
Anti-Defuturing: Infrastructuring for Socio-Technical Sustainability
Robert Collins & Paul O’ Neill. Anti-Defuturing: Infrastructuring for Socio-Technical Sustainability. Whiddy Island Schoolhouse. 4 to 6 July....
Lonehort Viking Harbour
Jamie Howard Working With What’s There - Lonehort Viking Harbour Bere Island 10 to 21 September A sculptural intervention placed along the...
Silk flower making with Nadiia
Nadiia Lotnyk Silk flower making with Nadiia Sherkin Island 20 May Making and workshops part of Sherkin's Try It Series where Nadiia teaches...
Fit-up Theatre Festival
Blood in the Alley Theatre Company Fit-up Theatre Festival Hair, Sherkin, Whiddy and Bere Island Summer Island Cottage, Hair Island East, Bank...
Community Céili
Whiddy Island Development Association Gerry McCarthy and Band Community céilí 31 August
Bere Island Arts Festival 2025
Bere Island Arts Festival Bere Island 18 to 21 September Bere Island Arts Festival was established in 2022 by three Bere Island women, Pauline...
Sea & Stone, Island Art Works & Artefacts
Contributions from the West Cork Islands. Sea & Stone, Island Art Works & Artefacts. LHQ Gallery, Cork County Hall. March to May. An...
The St Anthony, A Traditional Wood Boat Restoration
Ronan Collins and Nigel Towse. Sherkin Island. The St Anthony, A Traditional Wood Boat Restoration. Ongoing. The St Anthony is a traditional...
Bobstock 2025
Róisín Ní Chonaill & One Morning in August. Bobstock 2025 Cotter’s Bar, Oileán Chléire. 4 July Bobstock, a music festival on Cape Clear Island...
Gardens of Our Memory
Juno Cheatle. Gardens of Our Memory. Sherkin Island. Culture Night The Culture night event was a site-specific video/visual and audio...
Start Standing
Rachel Donnelly Start Standing - Try It Series Sherkin Island 15 January Start Standing was an hour-long somatic workshop focused on breath, mindful...
Guthanna na hOige / Voices of Youth
Graffiti Theatre Company agus MEITHEAL Phlean Teanga Chléire. Guthanna na hOige / Voices of Youth. Cleachtadh & Léiriú (John McCarthy) Oileán...
Sewn Up
Jordyn Lynch, Neisha Azzopard. Sewn Up - Making and workshops. Sherkin Island Throughout 2025. Sewn Up is a project about up-cycling and repairing...
Material Library/Material Mapping
Simon Kidd Material Library/Material Mapping, Residency, Workshop & Exhibition. Oileán Chléire Through 2025 His community participation project...
Jon Sousa & Adam Agee with Louise Fitzgerald
Comharchumann Chléire Teo Jon Sousa & Adam Agee with Louise Fitzgerald. Concert and informal session with local musicians. Concerts Cotters Pub...
The Crow’s Old Gold
A play by Carina McNally, Éadaoin O Donoghue & Strive Theatre. The Crows Old Gold. 31 May & 1 June On a windswept rock near Dursey...
Harmony in Blue
Susan McManamon & Ger Wolfe Singing in Harmony. Sherkin Island. June, July, August The project focused on singing in harmony using the voice in...
Leave No (Plastic) Trace
Nuala Mahon. Leave No (Plastic) Trace, presentation, poetry reading and video sessions. Nuala Mahon (short film), Nollaig Rowan (poet) and Dr Marcel...
The Museum of Birds and Beasts
Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley The Museum of Birds and Beasts Island Wide 2024 / 2025 / 2026 Participatory arts project. The artists will work with...
Open Ear Islander’s Night
Seamas Hyland and Caoimhín ó Raghallaigh with the Sherkin Island Musicians. Open Ear Islander’s Night 2025. Sherkin Island. 29 May
Drawing Walks
Sarah O’Brien. Drawing Walks. Sherkin Island. 28 June. The drawing walks are a mindful experimental-drawing project. The project suits all ages with...
Radio Connection Hour: Live From Bere Island
Liz Clark. Radio Connection Hour Bere Island Through 2025/6 Singer-songwriter Liz Clark will work with the Bere Island community to bring a...
Bere Island Writing Retreats Poetry Competition
Pauline Hurley Bere Island Writing Retreats Bere Island. Judge: Theo Dorgan May to August Now in its second year, the poetry competition again...


































