CurrentLee Arts Festival Set For Next Month

CurrentLee Arts Festival is an interactive event at Cork Opera House on April 10, 2024. Overlooking the River Lee, the festival celebrates this unique city by bringing people in and of Cork, together. In collaboration with Cork-based artists, the festival invites the public to create and explore through an immersive journey within the Opera House. This festival is divided into a number of events throughout the day, concluding with a main evening event at the venue. CurrentLee Arts Festival utilises a variety of spaces at Cork Opera
House in a celebration of Cork’s past, present, and future.

Incorporating a number of events throughout the day CurrentLee Arts Festival concludes with a main evening event and utilises a variety of spaces at Cork Opera House in a celebration of Cork’s past, present, and future. The programme includes Leeside Promenade, a showcase of music, dance, and improv comedy in a celebration of Cork’s arts scene. Conversations with Strangers, the closing event, is a one-off, unique across-the-table event where everyone is welcome to engage in informal and open dialogue facilitated and guided by curious and socially intriguing questions. 

Directed but flexible, the questions cover a range of topics and ideas, intended to lead to thought provoking yet casual and fun conversations as strangers get to know each other. “It's a pleasure to welcome UCC’s Arts Management and Creative Producing MA students back to Cork Opera House this year and we are very much looking forward to working with them on the CurrentLee Arts Festival,” said Cork Opera House CEO Eibhlín Gleeson. “Cork Opera House is delighted to play its part in helping this cohort of incredible arts producers emerge into the industry, CurrentLee is full of fresh and innovative programming, an ideal platform for these new producers. We look forward to hosting this festival and its audience at Cork Opera House.” 

CurrentLee Arts Festival is produced by a new collective of Cork-based creatives composed of students from the MA in Arts Management & Creative Producing, University College Cork from around the world. Through fusing our individual passions and backgrounds, we are exploring the arts by producing a one-day festival at Cork Opera House. The festival producers look forward to exploring the arts with their audiences at this one-day festival. They take as their inspiration the symbolism of the Lee, the current dynamism of the City, and the magic of the Cork Opera House as a theatre for all. Tickets are on sale from the 15th of March from www.corkoperahouse.ie or direct from the box office on (021) 427 0022.   

Later on in the evening, Leeside Promenade embarks on a showcase of music, dance, and improv comedy in a celebration of Cork’s arts scene. Following on from this, patrons will be invited to the closing event Conversations With Strangers at 9:30pm. Conversations with
Strangers is a one-off, unique across-the-table event where everyone is welcome to engage in informal and open dialogue facilitated and guided by curious and socially intriguing questions. Directed but flexible, the questions cover a range of topics and ideas, intended to lead to thought provoking, yet casual and fun, conversations as strangers get to know each other. Tickets are FREE but registration is required. 

"It's a pleasure to welcome UCC's Arts Management and Creative Producing MA students back to Cork Opera House this year and we are very much looking forward to working with them on the CurrentLee Arts Festival,” said Cork Opera House CEO, Eibhlin Gleeson. “Cork Opera House is delighted to play its part in helping this cohort of incredible arts producers emerge into the industry, CurrentLee is full of fresh and innovative programming - an ideal platform for these new Producers.  We look forward to hosting this festival and its audiences at Cork Opera House.”

CurrentLee Arts Festival is produced by a new collective of Cork-based creatives composed of students from around the world participating in the MA in Arts Management & Creative Producing, UCC. Fusing their individual passions and backgrounds, the festival curators are exploring the arts by producing a one-day festival at Cork Opera House. Tickets are on sale from March 15 from www.corkoperahouse.ie or direct from the Box Office on (021) 427 0022.

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