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Irish Examiner
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Watch: Helios at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
Helios, a large-scale installation by UK artist Luke Jerram, has opened at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral as part of this year's Cork Midsummer Festival. Running until June 21st, the immersive work explores the power and presence of the sun. Among the first to experience it were senior infants from St Patrick's Infants National School in Cork, who shared their reactions to the piece during a visit on opening day.
Irish Examiner
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Street spectacle, theatre, music... 10 highlights of Cork Midsummer Festival
1. Les Girafes: An Animal Operetta Outside Dunnes Stores, Patrick's Street, June 22 at 2pm and 9pm French street theatre company Compagnie OFF will show off their towering red giraffes during a parade through Cork city, accompanied by performers and musicians. The parade will blend circus arts, opera, and street theatre into a display of colour and sound. 2. The Second Woman Cork Opera House, June 14 to June 15 Eileen Walsh stars in The Second Woman, a film that features 100 different men opposite Walsh over 24 hours, as she repeatedly performs a scene about a relationship that has lost its creativity and romance. 3. Helios by Luke Jerram St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, June 9 to June 21 from 9am to 5pm Light and sound combine to create an immersive opportunity as Helios invites people to explore the sun up close through a new artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram. Each centimetre of the six-metre sculpture represents 2,300km of the real Sun's surface. 4. Caught In The Furze Cork Centre for Architectural Education, June 14 and 15 and June 17 to June 21 from 12pm to 5pm Caught in the Furze is a seven-day performance within an immersive installation of furze (gorse) bushes. The performance sees Coogan navigate the spaces between history and memory, myth and modernity by drawing on ancient folk traditions. 5. Cork Girl!, Camille O'Sullivan The Everyman, June 21 at 8.30pm On the evening of the summer solstice, Camille O'Sullivan presents a brand-new show which celebrates her hometown and its music through a mix of favourite songs and new gems. 6. Escaped Alone The Everyman, June 12 to June 14 at 8pm Directed by Annabelle Comyn, this new work from Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman, in association with Once Off Productions, satirises contemporary capitalist culture and celebrates the voices of aging women. 7. Stitch J. Nolan Stationary, Shandon Street, June 13 to June 15 and June 18 to June 22 at 5pm and 9pm (9pm and midnight on June 14) Set on Shandon Street in 1989, Stitch digs deep into a world where the past lingers and the walls whisper. Described as sinister and unsettling, audiences are warned that this play is not for the faint of heart. 8. Burnout Paradise, by Pony Cam Dance Firkin Crane, June 19 at 8pm, June 20 at 9pm and June 21 at 4pm Known for their bold, high-energy performances, Pony Cam is set to bring an exhilarating and chaotic performance that exposes a system that demands more than we can give through pushes bodies, minds, and spirits to their limits. 9. Theatre for One: Made In Cork Emmet Place, June 14, 15, 17 and 22 The Theatre for One booth returns to Emmet Place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival, with a special instalment of five-minute plays performed by one actor for one audience member at a time. Pieces by Cónal Creedan, Katie Holly, John McCarthy, Michael John McCarthy, Gina Moxley and Louise O'Neill. 10. Songs and Souls by Deirdre Kinahan and Steve Wickham The Pav, June 14 at 2.30pm A celebration of music and storytelling, Songs and Souls features voices from the plays of Deirdre Kinahan and live music from fiddler Steve Wickham, bringing Kinahan's funny and fragile characters to life.
Irish Independent
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Meet Luke Jerram – the man bringing the sun to Cork this summer (but only indoors!)
Mixing art with science, Luke Jerram's works have invited audiences to play, fall in love and see our solar system in detail When the sun comes out, most people put on their shades. Luke Jerram is different. When the English artist looked up at the sun, he wanted to get closer to it. The result is his dazzling new artwork, Helios. 'Helios is an artwork which provides an opportunity to see the sun up close,' he says. 'The sun artwork took about eight months to create and it's created out of 40,000 photographs of the surface of the sun. It shows all the sunspots and filaments and all these lovely details of the sun that we can't ordinarily see because, obviously, we're not allowed to look at the sun up close.' We are talking on Zoom and he smiles broadly as he tells me about Helios, which opens at St Fin Barre's Cathedral on June 9 as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. 'If you think about it scientifically but also culturally, the sun is a light and energy source for life on our planet,' he continues. 'It has inspired music and religions and culture and poetry, in every literature and every culture all around the world. So it has that sort of universal appeal.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Seven-metre-wide artwork of Mars coming to Truro Cathedral
A seven-metre-wide artwork of Mars is coming to Truro Cathedral. The piece, created by Luke Jerram, will be on display from October 13 to November 2, 2025. The artwork, which is part of a UK-wide tour, follows on from his other astronomical pieces, Museum of the Moon and Gaia. It features 120 dpi NASA imagery of the surface of the planet, with each centimetre representing 10 kilometres of the planet, and is accompanied by a sound composition by Dan Jones. Mars by Luke Jerram. (Image: Ella Foster/ Exeter Cathedral) Sean O'Neill, chief operating officer, said: "From the moment we had Gaia here, I hoped that we would be able to host Mars next. "The red/orange hues of Mars will bring the soft Bath stone of the cathedral to life, especially during Mars by Night sessions." Entry to Truro Cathedral will remain free throughout the installation during the day, with donations encouraged to enable the cathedral to continue to bring events such as Mars to the community of Cornwall. The cathedral previously hosted Luke Jerram's Gaia artwork. (Image: James Kitto) There will also be a range of ticketed events and activities accompanying the installation for people to enjoy, including the opportunity to ascend into the roof space and view Mars from an aerial perspective. Reverend Simon Robinson, dean of Truro Cathedral, said: "It is very good to welcome Luke Jerram's great artwork Mars: War and Peace, particularly as we approach the season of Remembrance. "This vast artwork provokes us to reflect on conflict, conflict perhaps in our communities and conflict on a worldwide scale. "I am proud that Cornwall's great cathedral, a place of sacred space and common ground for us all is hosting this evocative work." Artist Luke Jerram said: 'I am delighted to be invited to bring my artwork back to Truro Cathedral. " He added that he hopes that "visitors will feel transported to the inhospitable desert wasteland of Mars".
South Wales Argus
24-05-2025
- Science
- South Wales Argus
Night Sky: What's in the sky this week and Helios display
Helios is the brainchild of artist Luke Jerram with his intriguing seven-metre representation of the Sun being placed on display on the South Lawn at Dyffryn Gardens from Friday, May 23 to Monday, May 26 and again from Thursday, May 29 to Sunday, June 1. Helios, from the ancient Greek God who personifies the Sun, is on a nationwide tour and this is the Sun's only stop in Wales before moving on. Jerram has afforded incredible attention to detail so that each centimetre of the sphere represents 2,000 kilometres of the Sun's surface which all told has been cleverly combined with a NASA-inspired soundscape. Lizzie Smith Jones, general manager for National Trust Cymru, said: 'We're beyond thrilled to welcome Helios to Dyffryn Gardens.' The planet Jupiter finally slips into the evening twilight during the last week of May, meaning that it will be lost in the Sun's glare during June. However, on the evening of Wednesday, May 28, there is a lovely pairing with Jupiter positioned directly below a thin crescent Moon. Whilst we will lose Jupiter, we still have the red planet Mars in the evening sky for a good while yet. On Friday, May 29, the Moon features again in the western sky after sunset but this time accompanied with the two brightest stars in the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. Forming a nice triangular shape, look for the Moon, then sweep upward to find Pollux to the left and Castor to the right. Venus continues to dominate the sky before dawn, easily recognisable as the 'morning star' above the eastern horizon, with Saturn rising ahead of Venus and remaining to its right, although it will appear noticeably fainter. Spaceflight news and the next private astronaut mission has been pushed back from its planned launch on May 29. With no celebrities in sight on this occasion, the crew of Axiom Space's Ax-4 will head to the International Space Station. Amongst the quartet will be Peggy Whitson, who has spent more time in space than any other American or woman, a staggering 675 days. Ironically, another private space company, SpaceX, will provide the Falcon 9 rocket that will power the four to the ISS, where they will conduct scientific experiments. With Wales' own Spaceport at Llanbedr Airfield in Snowdonia seemingly on hold, further proof that you don't need a base on land to launch space-bound rockets as Galactic Energy, a privately owned Chinese company, successfully dispatched its Ceres-1 rocket with four satellites onboard from a ship at sea. The International Space Station makes several appearances during the coming days, although the window for sighting the second of these is rather short. On Saturday, May 24, the ISS rises in the west at 10.04pm, setting in the southeast five minutes later. On Monday, May 26, the ISS rises in the southwest at 10.07pm, setting in the southwest one minute later. Send your astrophotography pictures to: thenightsky@
