Sirius Arts Centre

06/06/2026

TODAY - Zoé Basha at SIRIUS

Zoé Basha is a musician based in Dublin. Zoé’s songwriting explores identity, grief, societal norms, and human connection. Her debut album, Gamble, is inspired by her experiences of travelling and growing up in different cultures, and blends country, blues, Americana, French chanson, and Irish traditional influences. Named ‘folk album of the month’ by The Guardian in 2025, Gamble has earned both national and international recognition. At SIRIUS, Zoé performs key songs from Gamble alongside new pieces she has been developing during her year of touring.

Saturday, 6 June
7pm (doors: 6.45 pm)
Tickets: €15 (non-refundable)
Advance booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/aq8BO9j
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception before the performance, subject to availability.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

📸: Elisa Babkina

Image description: Musician Zoé Basha standing in a doorway inside a bar with her arms raised, looking at the camera and smiling.
basha

05/06/2026

Weird and Wonderful by Haulbowline Theatre Group at SIRIUS

Haulbowline Theatre Group is based in Cobh. They originated as a cultural output for the Irish Naval Services community. Once again this year, they are fundraising for the newly launched Great Island Theatre, housed in the Old Parochial Hall in Cobh. This venue serves all types of performing arts. At SIRIUS, they present Weird and Wonderful, a series of short plays written by Joanne McCall, David McCall and Glenn Kavanagh.

Wednesday - Saturday, 24-27 June
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
Tickets: €15.00
Booking via Eventbrite only: https://buff.ly/Sikvi6Z
For assistance, ask a member of staff at the SIRIUS reception.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our facilities are also accessed via stairs.

Haulbowline Theatre Group
Great Island Theatre
Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

05/06/2026

Summer Art Club at SIRIUS

SIRIUS, in collaboration with artist Fabby Scaglioni, presents a Summer Art Club for children this Summer. Participants engage in activities promoting creativity, making and experimentation in relation to stories, ideas and images associated with Cobh, including water, movement and migration. The sessions promote self-expression and sense of belonging.

Fabby Scaglioni is an artist and educator based in Cobh who explores questions of cultural diversity, embodiment and emotion informed by traditions and practices of alternative pedagogy.

SIRIUS
Monday-Friday, 10-14 August
10am - 2pm
8-12 year olds
€70 per child (excl. booking fee)
Limited capacity; booking via Eventbrite is required: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1989401980878

Information
Children must wear suitable clothes. Each child should bring a packed lunch. Light refreshments will be provided.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

Fabiana Scaglioni
Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

04/06/2026

Exhibition – Hina Khan: Red Storm

Hina Khan is a Pakistani Irish artist based in County Cork. Khan’s practice encompasses painting and drawing, ranging from miniatures informed by the traditional visual language of the Indian subcontinent to large-scale scrolls influenced by contemporary Western expressionist movements. She demonstrates a sustained engagement with history and memory, as well as an emphasis on emotion and spirituality.

This exhibition is the most extensive presentation of Khan’s output to date, showcasing a comprehensive selection of new and existing works created since 2014. It features fragmented territories, borders, deep scars on the land, animals, and real and imagined gardens conveyed through a gestural approach to line, movement, and colour, as well as processes of cultural negotiation and re-rooting.

SIRIUS Director, Miguel Amado, and SIRIUS Curatorial Intern, Róisín Pavie, comment, respectively: “Hina’s work is a continuous process of cultural negotiation and re-rooting, reflecting both her heritage and her integration into a different society.” “Hina explores complex themes of global resonance. Her large-scale abstract banners draw viewers into compelling representations of war, climate change, and utopias, while her smaller drawings explore the nuances of migration through delicate scenes.”

This exhibition is produced by SIRIUS and curated by Miguel Amado, Director.

📸: John Beasley

Image description: 1-4. Installation views of a large-scale scroll hanging on a wall and lying on the floor, as well as a large-scale painting and various framed drawings hanging on three walls.

Hina Khan

Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
John Beasley Photography
Backwater Artists Group
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

03/06/2026

Cruinniú na nÓg at SIRIUS

SIRIUS presents a workshop led by artist Kate McElroy and students in the YMCA Cobh STEP programme, to celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg, the national day of creativity for children and young people.

The session is inspired by Ogham and Ireland’s native trees, drawing on the local biodiversity meadow at An Gearán. It offers an opportunity to create ceramic pieces exploring themes of language, landscape, and ecology.

The activity is designed for 12-18-year-olds.

Kate McElroy is an artist based in Cork City who has been devising and delivering activities across various learning contexts for organisations such as Sirius Arts Centre, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, and Sample-Studios.

SIRIUS
Saturday, 6 June
12-1:30pm
Free; booking via Eventbrite is required: https://buff.ly/JwseKAn

Information
Participants must wear suitable clothes.

Cruinniú na nÓg at SIRIUS is supported by Cork County Council through the Creative Communities Scheme 2026, funded by Creative Ireland.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

Image description: A tile depicting Hawthorn leaves and the words and letter ‘troman’, ‘r’ and ‘elder’.


Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Creative Ireland
Cobh YMCA
Cobh Tidy Towns
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

30/05/2026

Zoé Basha at SIRIUS

Zoé Basha is a musician based in Dublin. Zoé’s songwriting explores identity, grief, societal norms, and human connection. Her debut album, Gamble, is inspired by her experiences of travelling and growing up in different cultures, and blends country, blues, Americana, French chanson, and Irish traditional influences. Named ‘folk album of the month’ by The Guardian in 2025, Gamble has earned both national and international recognition. At SIRIUS, Zoé performs key songs from Gamble alongside new pieces she has been developing during her year of touring.

Saturday, 6 June
7pm (doors: 6.45 pm)
Tickets: €15 (non-refundable)
Advance booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/aq8BO9j
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception before the performance, depending on capacity.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

📸: Elisa Babkina

Image description: Musician Zoé Basha, standing in a doorway inside a bar with her arms raised, looking at the camera and smiling.


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

30/05/2026

Cruinniú na nÓg at SIRIUS

SIRIUS presents a workshop led by artist Kate McElroy and participants in the YMCA Cobh STEP programme to celebrate Cruinniú na nóg, the national day of creativity for children and young people.

The session is inspired by Ogham and Ireland’s native trees, drawing on the local biodiversity meadow at An Gearán, Cobh. Participants create ceramic pieces exploring themes of language, landscape, and ecology.

The activity is designed for young people aged 12-18 years.

Kate McElroy is an artist based in Cork City who has been devising and delivering activities across various learning contexts for organisations such as Sirius Arts Centre, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, and Sample-Studios

SIRIUS
Saturday, 6 June
12 – 1:30pm
Free; booking via Eventbrite is required: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cruinniu-na-nog-at-sirius-tickets-1990569047606

Information
Participants must wear suitable clothes.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

Image description: A poster depicting a circle with a Hawthorn leaf and the letter ‘H’ in Ogham.


Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Creative Ireland
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

29/05/2026

Weird and Wonderful by Haulbowline Theatre Group at SIRIUS

Haulbowline Theatre Group is based in Cobh. They originated as a cultural output for the Irish Naval Services community. Once again this year, they are fundraising for the newly launched Great Island Theatre, housed in the Old Parochial Hall in Cobh. This venue serves all types of performing arts. At SIRIUS, they present Weird and Wonderful, a series of short plays written by Joanne McCall, David McCall and Glenn Kavanagh.

Wednesday - Saturday, 24-27 June
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
Tickets: €15.00
Booking via Eventbrite only: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1988546642538
For assistance, ask a member of staff at the SIRIUS reception.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our facilities are also accessed via stairs.

Haulbowline Theatre Group
Great Island Theatre
Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Haulowline Theatre Group presents Weird and Wonderful, a series of plays ranging from the weird to the wonderful to the downright wacky.

29/05/2026

Shirani Bolle is interviewed by Aidan McGrath for Go Leor, in the context of her exhibition this has nothing to do with me, presented at SIRIUS earlier this year and curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado.

Aidan writes: “The exhibition marked a turning point – not just in visibility for her work, but in understanding. As a self-taught artist, she describes her practice as something built in motion, each piece part of an ongoing process rather than a fixed outcome. But it wasn’t simply the act of exhibiting that shifted things. It was the process of installation, working alongside the curator, that reframed how she understood her own output. Within the exhibition, pieces she had previously dismissed – work left sitting in the studio, half-forgotten – were suddenly recontextualised. What emerged was not a collection of stand-alone, separate works, but a system of relationships.”

To read the full text, copy and paste the link below. You can also purchase a copy online.

https://buff.ly/W77YwZd

Image description: A screenshot of an article depicting various text and images related to Shirani Bolle’s exhibition this has nothing to do with me.

28/05/2026

It was great to hear Hina Khan share ideas about her practice and elaborate on the works featured in her exhibition, Red Storm, with SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. They examined Hina’s interest in themes of displacement, climate change, and conflict, and how they appear throughout the motifs she employs symbolically, including fragmented land, water, architecture, and animals. Hina also delved into her journey from a practitioner informed by the tradition of miniature painting from the Indian subcontinent to creating large-scale scrolls and drawings. Finally, they discussed how Hina’s education in Pakistan and Ireland affects her overall output. Following their conversation, a Q&A session provided further insight into these topics and questions through audience interaction, allowing Hina to further express her vision and career trajectory as an artist.

Image description: 1. An audience seated inside a SIRIUS gallery listening to artist Hina Khan and Director Miguel Amado discussing Hina's exhibition. 2. Artist Hina Khan and Director Miguel Amado discussing Hina's exhibition inside a SIRIUS gallery.