Press
Storytellers interview Sherkin Sounds and the Surrounds https://on.soundcloud.com/GPcj72EzPpXBirWN6
Sherkin Island radio
Oileán Chléire & Sherkin April
On April 24th and 25th, we will be on Cape Clear. On the 26th we visit Sherkin.
Bere Island March 2025
World Storytelling Day with Bere Island Groups
- Performance with the Bere Island Active Retirement, Mens Shed & Women Create groups.
- Performance with the national school on Bere Island
Dursey Island & Surrounds March 2025
Dursey Island visits & performance at Lehanmore Community Center. A night of stories and music
Storytellers in Residence
Exploring themes and rhythms through oral storytelling and composition across the 7 West Cork Islands.
Our Storytellers in Residence Programme for the West Cork Islands has now begun. This 10-month adventure features acclaimed storytellers Paddy O’Brien, Nuala Hayes, and Simone Schuemmelfeder. Supported by Creative Places West Cork Islands, the ‘Three Heads / Na Trí Chinn’ will work across the Islands Dursey, Bere, Whiddy, Long, Heir, Sherkin, and Oileán Chléire. There will be participatory live events, storytelling, song, story exchanges, folklore research, video, and podcasts..
The residency also collaborates with the @cape_clear_storytelling_fest and @storytellers_of_ireland to enhance storytelling traditions locally and internationally.
- Research potential engagements and opportunities across the seven islands.
- Engage islanders with stories about place and culture on the West Cork Islands.
- Explore themes and rhythms through oral storytelling and composition.
- Develop their practice through the creation of new work.
- Create events, activities and instances informed by islander life and experience.
- Connect with the Gaeltacht culture and language of Oileán Chléire through story.