CULTURE NIGHT at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre

On Friday 18 September 4:00pm to 7:30pm

Join us for an inspiring evening of movement, scent, performance, and visual art as Uillinn opens its doors for Culture Night. Everyone is welcome. Galleries open all evening and all events are free.

4:15pm to 5:15pm | Enter the Liminal Space | Esmée O’Brien

A gentle movement workshop with Esmée O’Brien, Dance student from UL undertaking cooperative placement at Uillinn. Experience a gentle, reflective movement session to transition from your working day to a creative evening led by Esmée O’Brien, one of our Young Leaders from the SAMHAIN project. Suitable for all levels, bring a yoga mat along. Kindly supported by the Arts Council, Young Ensemble Scheme.

5:15pm to 5:45pm | Gallery Tour: Love beyond the species and sexual solo exhibition by Siobhán McGibbon

Join Public Engagement Assistant Sylvia Migdal for a 30-minute guided tour of Siobhán McGibbon’s solo exhibition, unfolding across three gallery spaces in three acts. Explore an imagined world that rethinks relationships between humans, plants, animals, fungi, and ecosystems.

5:45pm to 6:15pm | The Land Longs for You: A Scent Encounter by Frank Bloem & Siobhán McGibbon

Smell your way through a selection of experimental scents created during the artists’ residency at Uillinn. These works explore themes of woodland ecologies, decomposition, therapeutic language, and contemporary relationships — including red flags, boundaries, attachment, and triggers. Visitors are invited to sample works-in-progress and scents that didn’t make it into the final exhibition, offering a behind-the-scenes look at scent as material and non-visual storytelling. Facilitated by Public Engagement Assistant Sylvia Migdal

Learn more: westcorkartscentre.com/event/siobhan-mcgibbon-2/

6:An aerial performance where circus,30pm to 7:30pm| Womb Bones | Linda Cullen and Etaoin Melville.

Solo Aerial Performance by Linda Cullen, created in collaboration with visual artist Etaoin Melville. An aerial performance where circus, visual art, and spoken word entwine to honour the womb as keeper of birth, life, and loss across generations. Womb Bones isa reflection on our lineage and all life held within the womb: birth, life and death. It is an exploration of personal narrative as we navigate the loss of parents, the maturation of children, and the cycles that unite us across generations. Learn more about their residency: westcorkartscentre.com There is limited seating for Womb Bones so booking ahead is advised. Kindly supported by Cork County Council.

All events are free. We look forward to welcoming you to Uillinn for Culture Night.