Camden Palace Hotel

Join us for a full evening of events…

Open studios;

Free contemporary dance class with Inma Moya Pavon and a public sharing of The Rebirth Project. ;

Introduction to Hacker Space Cork ;

The Dog Project;

Join the performers in CIRCUS SQUARE for their open day including introductions to all workshops,juggling,clown and aerial;

Photographic retrosepctive of Camden Palace Hotel year 1;

Enjoy Electric Undergrounds space with music listening posts, Soundart exhibits and talks from artists on the scene;

Shape Note Singers performance;

Poetry performance;

Make your own button badges;

Creative face painting for adults and kids;

Capoeira performance and chill out in our cafe with homemade Eastern European foods.

AND MORE…

Well…..it is our birthday!

The next monthly Ceili will be happening in Camden Palace Hotel on Friday the 3rd of September at 8pm until 11pm.

Entry fee €5. All children welcome and free of charge. Beginners welcome also. Dance instruction on the night with Fionan Cogan. Live Ceili music with the Palace Ceili Trio. This is an alcohol-free event.

The next Céilí at Camden Palace Hotel will be happ’nin’ on Friday the 13th of August between the hours of 8 and 11pm.

Music and encouragement will be provided, as always, by Fionán Cogan & The palace Trio Céilí Band.

This is a non-drinking event, although teas, coffees and digestive biscuits will be available.

Children welcome.

Camden Palace Hotel presents an exhibition of over 100 papier mache dogs created by Tom Campbell and team. Starts at 6pm, weather permitting the dogs will be doin’ PANA with your help.

Should be a laugh so don’t miss out.

Exhibition will run Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 11-6pm only.

Currently rehearsing in Camden Palace, is Conflicted Theatre’s presentation of After Jekyll.

“Dr. Jekyll created a potion which he hoped would separate and purify the elements of good and evil which reside in us all. What is truly good and what is truly evil? The difference can be something as simple as perspective. Who is to judge? You? Me? Society?Like Stevenson’s novel, After Jekyll also explores the idea of civilization vs. savagery. How far does civilization bend us from our true nature? Is it for the better or worse?
With the years that have passed since the death of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Hubert Ucanny can take advantage of huge advances made in psychology by Freud and especially Carl Jung. Hubert can also learn from the mistakes of his predecessor to help him delve even deeper into age old problems associated with good and evil, wrong and right?
Can there ever be a cure for the base side to our nature?
Or is it a part we need within to balance us?
Is good simply in the eye of the beholder?
Have good and evil been constructed as a way of maintaining order?
After Jekyll is a script which came into existence as a result of the seemingly impossible task of producing a worthy adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Our story was created because of our position in time. Even those who have not read Jekyll and Hyde will know that they are one and the same. We pay homage to the original novel by dealing with the same issues and themes dealt with in the original, which are still as relevant today, but in the process offer the audience something new. Something which means that our journey will not be distorted by foreknowledge or by assumptions of what the play should be.”

Tickets €8/10 from Pro Musica(Oliver Plunkett St.) & Positively Vintage(Castle St.)

SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word has, for the last three years, curated a Alternative Cabaret which combines Poetry, Performance, Music and Film. this year sees a brand new venue but retains the emphasis on all things experimental

this year’s Cabaret will feature: Laura Sheeran, The Quiet Club, Chris Goode, Jonny Liron, Nat Raha, Cork’s Shape Note Singers, Mersk, Trumpets Of Jericho, trad session.etc.
Cassette DJ set from Black Sun DJs
Vegan Cakes from Sugar Moon
(more to be added)

Large room Upstairs
1. The Quiet Club and VJ set by Claire Guerin 9-9.30
2. Cork Shape note singers 9.30-10
3. Laura Sheeran 10-10.30
4. Mersk 11.30.-12
5. Trumpets of Jericho 12-12.30
6. DJ by BlackSun 12.30-1

Cinema/theatre room
1. Experimental film programme 8-9
2. Trad Session 9-9.30
3. Nat Raha 9-9.30
4. Chris Goode and Jonny Liron 10.30-11

Hall
5. Paula selling Cakes
€5 entry

The SoundEye poetry festival is coming to Camden Palace Hotel this year.

Here’s the blurb:

SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word, now in its fourteenth year, is delighted to announce the line up of this year’s festival. The poets that SoundEye continues to attract range from new exciting talent to internationally regarded linguistically innovative poets from both Ireland and abroad. Highlights of this year’s programme include a Poetry Ireland reading featuring Irish poet Michael O’Loughlin, and a special envoy from the Greenwich Festival of Women’s Innovative Poetry & Cross-genre Work organised by Carol Watts (Birkbeck University) and Emily Critchley (Greenwich University) which sees the important American poets Rachel Blau Duplessis, Jean Day and Eleni Sikeliano read in Ireland for the first time. In addition the festival will include a critical thread with talks from Dr John Goodby (University of Swansea) and Dr Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex); the DEFAULT reading which showcases new, emerging poets from Ireland and abroad; and a Cabaret night of music, performance and poetry. All this on top of our regular fare of over twenty poets in four venues across the city … and almost all for free.
SoundEye is one of the largest and longest running poetry festivals in Ireland and has attracted praise from critics and poets alike. Poet and Professor Charles Bernstein has described the festival as “Without question … the most innovative and most important literary gathering to take place in Ireland – or just about anywhere else – over the last decade.” Poet and Professor Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb has said “SoundEye is Ireland’s most important literary festival.” We are also a keen participant in Cork’s The Avant festival that runs from the 9th – 18th of July and which brings together Cork’s cultural organisations for nine days of exciting events that include visual art, poetry, performance, sound art, video art and music.

UNCORKED – THE MIDSUMMER IMPROVATHON

A 26-hour, non-stop, improvised soap opera made up of 13 two-hour episodes. Starting at 8pm on Saturday night and finishing at 10pm the following day, you can drop in at any time to catch the unfolding story or come and relish the whole 26 hours. The action is entirely improvised and takes its performers through sleep deprivation resulting in a wild, joyous and anarchic form of live performance featuring live music.

From the team behind Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, this celebration of spontaneity will involve acclaimed performers from Ireland, the UK and further afield.

“This isn’t really theatre. It’s blood sports. It’s absolutely incredible.” WHATSONSTAGE.COM

“A feast of human endurance.” LONDON IS FUNNY

From 8pm Saturday 26 June to 10pm Sunday 27 June
Tickets 26 Hour pass: €25
2 Hour Slots:
Saturday 8pm, 10pm & Sunday 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm €10
Sunday 10am & Noon €5
Sunday Midnight, 2am, 4am, 6am, 8am €1

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical:
A brand new musical is created from scratch at each performance of this award-winning production, which has played sell-out seasons in London’s West End and at the Edinburgh festival. Audience suggestions help to create a show on the spot, as the all-singing, all-dancing cast improvise with unpredictable and frequently hilarious results. Packed with drama, dazzling dance routines and catchy melodies, Showstopper! leaves delighted audiences singing all the way home.

“Having now seen Showstopper! twice, I can testify that not only is each performance achingly funny, it’s a genuinely new full-length musical every time. Top-class in creativity in action. Worth seeing again and again.“ Time Out

Friday 25 June 6:30 & 9pm
Saturday 26 June, 4pm
Tickets €15/€10 concession

Cork takes on Dublin in an improvisation match to the death! You the audience will be the judges as Snatch Comedy try to outdo Dublin’s Craic Pack in improvised scenes and games.

It’s only friendly, but honour is at stake. Each team will be working their socks off and the audience gets to score the results and decide the winner.

Fast-paced and gruelling, the Improv Match is fun and competitive in equal measure.

7:30pm – 10pm at Camden Palace Hotel. Tickets €10/€8 concession.