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SIRIUS approaches art through the lens of society in order to play a civic role locally and beyond. SIRIUS creates focused, artist-driven projects and collaborative, community-oriented projects. SIRIUS facilitates the production and presentation of, and public engagement with, art and knowledge, and offers professional development opportunities to artists through commissions and residencies. SIRIU

S operates across all art forms – visual, performing, live, film, sound, vocal, written and born-digital – programming a mix of exhibitions, performances, events and activities, both on site and online.

Caroline Fraher & Dominic Finn at SIRIUSCaroline Fraher and Dominic Finn have been playing to Cobh audiences at SIRIUS f...
22/11/2025

Caroline Fraher & Dominic Finn at SIRIUS

Caroline Fraher and Dominic Finn have been playing to Cobh audiences at SIRIUS for two decades to popular demand. Once again, this year, they present an evening of magical Christmas songs and carols guaranteed to stir those Christmas feelings.

Caroline Fraher has been wowing audiences with her heartfelt and unique interpretations of songs from varying genres for three decades. From playing a part in a couple’s special wedding day to an impromptu duet with Josh Groban at Ireland’s Bord Gáis Theatre, Caroline has enjoyed a very rich and varied career.

With over thirty years of experience singing, recording, and producing shows, pianist, musical director, and arranger Dominic Finn has worked in the studio and on stage throughout Ireland and is Director of Music at St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh.

Saturday, 20 December
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
€15.00 (non-refundable)
Booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/8ySz6Vq

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.
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Samir Mahmood’s exhibition Symplegmatic Portals is opening at RAMPA in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, 22 November, at 4pm...
22/11/2025

Samir Mahmood’s exhibition Symplegmatic Portals is opening at RAMPA in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, 22 November, at 4pm. This presentation is a new iteration of the exhibition produced by and presented at SIRIUS in 2025.

Samir is a Pakistani artist based in Dublin. His practice encompasses painting, textiles, objects and video, with a particular focus on themes of identity, representation, bodily awareness and spiritual transformation. Symplegmatic Portals features an eclectic mix of works and is his largest presentation to date. The exhibition examines what the artist calls ‘q***rscapes’ – transcendental spaces of liberation where bodies, on their own or in dialogue with nature, are interacting, mutating, coalescing.

Symplegmatic Portals is organised by SIRIUS in collaboration with Rampa and curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through the Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme 2025. The presentation at Rampa is supported by Culture Ireland.

Image description: A red poster with a black background and the words ‘Samir Mahmood Symplegmatic Portals’ in pink along with other information.














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Colour Explorers at SIRIUSThe artist Catarina Araújo is facilitating workshops for toddlers (1-3 years) at SIRIUS. Throu...
21/11/2025

Colour Explorers at SIRIUS

The artist Catarina Araújo is facilitating workshops for toddlers (1-3 years) at SIRIUS. Through hands-on, interactive sessions, children explore how colours mix and blend, creating new shades in a fun and engaging environment. The sessions are designed to spark curiosity and foster early learning, combining sensory and visual experimentation with developmental benefits.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 6 December
11am - 12pm
Tickets: €10 per child (non-refundable)
Advanced booking via Eventbrite is essential: https://buff.ly/M3Qtmqj

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs and are not open to visitors. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A yellow poster with the words ‘Colour explorers’ written in colourful text.








John Spillane at SIRIUSJohn Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story,...
21/11/2025

John Spillane at SIRIUS

John Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story, and appeals to listeners across many genres and generations. His performances shimmer with the magic realism that permeates his songs, as he effortlessly flits between poetry tinged with melancholy to roguish, irreverent irony. He can charm, mesmerise and entertain in equal measure. At SIRIUS, John presents firm favourites from his vast repertoire, along with humorous anecdotes, creating an evening of unmissable entertainment.

Friday, 21 November
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
€23.00 (non-refundable)
Booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/5yEaC3F
Tickets can be purchased at the SIRIUS reception prior to the performance, subject to availability. Exact cash only.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A person, the musician John Spillane, is leaning against a bench in a park and holding a guitar case.






John Spillane at SIRIUSJohn Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story,...
20/11/2025

John Spillane at SIRIUS

John Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story, and appeals to listeners across many genres and generations. His performances shimmer with the magic realism that permeates his songs, as he effortlessly flits between poetry tinged with melancholy to roguish, irreverent irony. He can charm, mesmerise and entertain in equal measure. At SIRIUS, John presents firm favourites from his vast repertoire, along with humorous anecdotes, creating an evening of unmissable entertainment.

Friday, 21 November
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
€23.00 (non-refundable)
Booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/5yEaC3F
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception prior to the performance, subject to availability.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A person, the musician John Spillane, is leaning against a bench in a park and holding a guitar case.






Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is on view at Highlanes Gallery, following its presentation at ...
20/11/2025

Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is on view at Highlanes Gallery, following its presentation at SIRIUS and Galway Arts Centre. The exhibition is curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado.

Alice explores expressions of both personal and broader historical and cultural narratives informed by their lived experience as a person with Irish and Sierra Leonean heritage. They practice across sculpture, expanded painting, digital collage, film, and performance.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics includes an expansive selection of works that examine themes of identity, familial and artistic relationships, diaspora, and sense of place and belonging. This iteration of the exhibition features a renewed set of works, some new or never exhibited in Ireland, in a fresh, site-responsive display.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is organised by SIRIUS in collaboration with Highlanes Gallery. The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Arts Council through a Project Award. The exhibition’s presentation at Highlanes Gallery is part of a tour produced by Rayne Booth. This tour is delivered with funding from the Arts Council through the Touring of Work Scheme.

📸: Tom Flanagan

Image description: 1. An installation view depicting an installation. 2. An installation view depicting a screen showing a film and a sculpture.














Caroline Fraher and Dominic Finn at SIRIUSCaroline Fraher and Dominic Finn have been playing to Cobh audiences at SIRIUS...
19/11/2025

Caroline Fraher and Dominic Finn at SIRIUS

Caroline Fraher and Dominic Finn have been playing to Cobh audiences at SIRIUS for two decades to popular demand. Once again, this year, they present an evening of magical Christmas songs and carols guaranteed to stir those Christmas feelings.

Caroline Fraher has been wowing audiences with her heartfelt and unique interpretations of songs from varying genres for three decades. From playing a part in a couple’s special wedding day to an impromptu duet with Josh Groban at Ireland’s Bord Gáis Theatre, Caroline has enjoyed a very rich and varied career.

With over thirty years of experience singing, recording, and producing shows, pianist, musical director, and arranger Dominic Finn has worked in the studio and on stage throughout Ireland and is Director of Music at St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh.

Saturday, 20 December
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
€15.00 (non-refundable)
Booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/8ySz6Vq
Tickets go on sale Saturday, 22 November at noon.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Exhibition – Barbara Knežević: Gvozdene Kapije (The Iron Gates)Barbara Knežević is an artist based in Dublin with Austra...
19/11/2025

Exhibition – Barbara Knežević: Gvozdene Kapije (The Iron Gates)

Barbara Knežević is an artist based in Dublin with Australian, Polish and Serbian heritage. She has an enduring interest in the historical, semiotic and political functions of objects. This exhibition features a film and a series of related sculptures informed by the art, environment and history of Lepenski Vir, which place the artist’s family experience of displacement against the backdrop of larger narratives of the Balkans.

Barbara comments: “There are five characters in the film: one of the sculptures (Water Fairy), the river (Danube), the dam (Đerdap), the mountain (Treskavac), and the fish (Moruna). They were all written from a first-person perspective, describing their experiences and relationships to one another, in a polyphonic arrangement. They each materialise through voiceover. I had accumulated a vast amount of visual and written material, and realised I could not ‘translate’ all this research through a single perspective, nor use a purely documentary approach. I had to employ the device of fiction, and these characters were what facilitated that.”

The production of Gvozdene Kapije (The Iron Gates) was funded by the Arts Council through a Project Award. The work is commissioned by Belinda Quirke, from Solstice Arts Centre, with additional commissioning support provided by the National Sculpture Factory. Its presentation at SIRIUS is curated by Rayne Booth with Director Miguel Amado, as part of a tour produced by Booth with funding provided by the Arts Council through the Touring of Work Scheme. The tour also includes Regional Cultural Centre, Solstice Arts Centre and Wexford Arts Centre.

📷: John Beasley

Image description: An installation view of a screen displaying a mountain with captions.





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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the latest edition of Art Adventure Day at SIRIUS. During this session, staff fr...
15/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the latest edition of Art Adventure Day at SIRIUS. During this session, staff from SIRIUS, artist Fabiana Scaglioni and staff from Cobh YMCA Parents & Kids Together explore craft-making with children and their guardians from Cobh and beyond. The workshop offers an opportunity for personal progression through creativity in a supportive environment.

Image description: 1-3. Close-ups of children making Halloween-inspired collages.

Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cobh YMCA
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon


John Spillane at SIRIUSJohn Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story,...
14/11/2025

John Spillane at SIRIUS

John Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story, and appeals to listeners across many genres and generations. His performances shimmer with the magic realism that permeates his songs, as he effortlessly flits between poetry tinged with melancholy to roguish, irreverent irony. He can charm, mesmerise and entertain in equal measure. At SIRIUS, John presents firm favourites from his vast repertoire, along with humorous anecdotes, creating an evening of unmissable entertainment.

Friday, 21 November
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
€23.00 (non-refundable)
Booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/onwaJRr
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception prior to the performance, subject to availability.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A person, the musician John Spillane, is leaning against a bench in a park and holding a guitar case.






Samir Mahmood’s exhibition Symplegmatic Portals is opening at RAMPA in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, 22 November, at 4pm...
14/11/2025

Samir Mahmood’s exhibition Symplegmatic Portals is opening at RAMPA in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, 22 November, at 4pm. This presentation is a new iteration of the exhibition produced by and presented at SIRIUS in 2025.

Samir is a Pakistani artist based in Dublin. His practice encompasses painting, textiles, objects and video, with a particular focus on themes of identity, representation, bodily awareness and spiritual transformation. Symplegmatic Portals features an eclectic mix of works and is his largest presentation to date. The exhibition examines what the artist calls ‘q***rscapes’ – transcendental spaces of liberation where bodies, on their own or in dialogue with nature, are interacting, mutating, coalescing.

Symplegmatic Portals is organised by SIRIUS in collaboration with Rampa and curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through the Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme 2025. The presentation at Rampa is supported by Culture Ireland.

📷: John Beasley

Image description: An installation view of a grave-like structure covered by velvet and roses and with a piece representing a leaf at the top, surrounded by a pink curtain.






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