FREDDIE WHITE TO PLAY SIRIUS SATURDAY 7 APRIL 8pm!
For the past 5 weeks award winning design duo BCXSY have been in residency at the Sirius Arts Centre. Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto have been invited to Sirius to work with traditional craftsmen at Meithal Mara as part of their ongoing project of design works titled Origin: explorations into traditional crafts from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.
Over the past weeks BCXSY have been at the workshop at Meithal Mara envisioning how their traditional craft methods can be utilized in contemporary design.
The output from this exciting collaborative project will be featured at the 51st edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobil in Milano.
BCXSY have won numerous awards for their past projects including being short listed for the Brit Design of the year Awards the Dutch Design awards and past creation from Origin Part One – Join (Japan) – has been purchased for the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
You can see more about BCXSY’s work here.
As part of RMS Titanic Centenary Commemoration, Sirius Arts Centre is honored to exhibit photographs from the Mount Brandon Hotel Collection.
The images capture travelers from the 1920′s who all stayed at the Mount Brandon Hotel @15 King Street in Cobh before embarking on journeys that would change their lives forever.
The exhibition commemorates all those who left from Cobh including the passengers who boarded the Titanic 100 years ago.
special thanks to Iris Toner for use of the Mount Brandon Hotel collection for this exhibition and Tony O’Brien at Right Brain (www.rightbrain.ie) in Cork for his support and care of printing the images.
Exhibition runs until Sunday 22 April
Sirius Closing for the holidays
Please note that Sirius Arts Centre will close on Wednesday 21 of December at 5:00pm and will reopen on Thursday 5 of January 2012 at 11AM. We’d like to thank everyone for their support this year and look forward to working with you and seeing you in the New Year.
Happy Christmas to Everyone and all the best in 2012!!!
Darragh McGann to Play Sirius 17 Dec 8pm
Sirius Arts Centre is pleased to present Darragh McGann performing his “A Golden Christmas” Concert on Saturday 17 December at 8pm tickets are €15.00 and proceeds benefit the Sirius Arts Centre. We will also pull the name for our monster Christmas hamper draw on the night so get on down and buy your lines soon!


