Services

  

Masonic Hall 27 Tuckey Street                                                              Tel: 021-4924333 www.munsterfreemason.com 7.15pm to 9pm

The Masonic Hall at 27 Tuckey Street has been the home of Freemasonry in Cork since 1845. A guided tour of the building outlining the history of Freemasonry and showing historic items dating from the 18th Century will take place at 7.15pm.

 

University College Cork                                                 Visitor Centre, UCC, Western Road Tel: 4901876 www.ucc.ie At 8pm

University College CorkJoin Twilight Tour of University College Cork, a tour which will give an overview of the history of the 160 year old university including a number of the most impressive buildings such as the Quadrangle, the Aula Maxima, the Ogham Stone collection, the Crawford Observatory and its many telescopes, and the Honan Chapel with its fine collection of Stain glass windows. The tour will take place at 8pm.

 

Everyman Palace Theatre 15 MacCurtain Street                                                        Tel: 4501673 www.everymanpalace.com 4.30 pm to 8pm

At 5 pm, come to a behind-the-scenes tour of this Victorian theatre (pre-booking essential).

 

Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s North Main Street                                                             Tel: 4279925 www.corkvisioncentre.com 6 pm to 9.30pm

Author Tom Spalding will lead a walking tour entitled Street Wise – Walking tour of Cork’s Street Furniture (7pm to 8.30 pm, pre-booking essential).

 

Crawford Art Gallery Emmet Place Tel: 4907857                                                                   www.crawfordartgallery.ie  5pm to 10pm

In Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts! (6.30pm) meet Eilis who will reveal amazing facts about the gallery. Join Cork Artists Tours featuring artists whose lives are an integral part of Cork culture (7.45pm and 9pm).

CIT Cork School of Music Union Quay Tel: 4807307                                                                  6pm to 12pm

The CIT Cork School of Music will open until midnight with tours of the building, awarded the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland’s Award for the Best Educational Building in Ireland in 2008. Starting at 6pm, tours will leave from the Ground Floor Concourse every half hour up to 11pm.

 

Cork Printmakers Wandesford Quay, Clarke’s Bridge                                 Tel: 4322422 www.corkprintmakers.ie 6pm to 10pm

 Join Cork Printmakers for a series of screenprint demonstrations (6.30pm & 8.30pm), How to Identify a Print seminars (7pm & 9pm), Make a Print! workshops (6 pm & 8 pm) and workshop tours (from 6pm, half hourly).

 

Backwater Artists Group Wandesford Quay Tel: 4961002                                                           www.backwaterartists.ie 6 pm to 10pm

Backwater Artists Group will open its doors for guided tours every half hour. Exhibitions of  artists work in the studio complex will include paintings by Elaine Coakley, an exhibition of sculpture and drawing by Tony Magner and a Marimekko inspired woodcut frieze in the courtyard by Máire O’Mahony. Light refreshments will also be available.

 

Barbara Hubert Bookbindery Tobin St.                                                                                 Tel: 4277546 www.hubertbookbinding.com     4pm to 7pm

Barbara Hubert Bookbindery The bookbindery will be open for tours from 4pm. You can see the work in progress – thesis, new bindings and restoration. At 6pm there will be a demo showing the techniques of making a book from stitching sections to making and embossing the cover.

Cork City and County Archives   Seamus Murphy Building, Great William O’Brien Street, Blackpool Tel: 4505876 www.corkarchives.ie 5 pm to 9pm

Look behind the scenes at the Archives with guided tours of the new archive centre. See the different types of records being preserved, which span a 400 year period. Talk to archivists about preserving archives and researching family history.

 

Cork Foyer Assumption Rd, Blackpool Tel: 4288524                                                         www.corkfoyer.ie 4 pm to 8pm

Take a tour of Cork Foyer Garden Project (most famously renowned for its involvement in the TV series “Corrigan’s City Farm”), a workshop on push bikes provided by the Cork Community Bikes, and a taster of a number of other things that regularly go on at the Foyer through local involvement.