1st – 9th July 2010
Highlights of the Carnival Weekend include “Ebb-Tide-Flow” an audio-guided walk distributed on mp3 players. Designed by artist Fiona Hallinan and composer Alex Synge, the tour is accompanied by an original map and comprises a score and original text written for the Scilly walk. During the weekend children and adults will be invited to come to the Methodist Church and make a page for “The Clipper Adventure Book”. The book will follow the journey of the clippers around the world and will then be exhibited for the year at the local library.
Food and drink are key ingredients for a good carnival and they’ll be plenty of both at the fabulous Artisan Food Market on Long Quay where stallholders will participate in a market which will consist of the finest artisan food and food to go, all from the locality. Goldiefish Events, organisers of the Kinsale Clipper Stopover Carnival, have developed a partnership with the Taste of West Cork Fuchsia Brand who will showcase the best of West Cork’s produce as the main focal point of the Goldiefish Clipper Market. There will also be Tea Tents located at the busking spots throughout the town offering the public a wide range of usual and unusual tea blends. The busking spots will feature artists such as The Invisible Men; Grant Goldie; The Fanzinis and their Cannonball Circus and Cork City String Quartet.
One of the centrepieces of the Carnival Weekend will be Live Music at the Square where organisers will present local, national and international acts throughout Saturday and Sunday with artists such as Ian Whitty and The Exchange; Aaron Dillon and Band; Novella Hermosa and Txutxukan.
Friday July 2nd will see the Kinsale Clipper Burrells. A Burrell is an evening of music in different venues, where instead of the audience travelling to see different acts in different venues, the acts come to each venue in turn. The Locations are: The Trident Hotel, Actons Hotel, Vista Bistro, Jolas Restaurant, The White Lady, The Blue Haven and artists include Colin McLean Latin Trio and Kinsale’s own The Good Rain.
As part of the Clipper Carnival, Kinsale Arts Week, which takes place in the town the following week, has invited each of the regions participating in the Clipper Race to exhibit at the festival in a unique art exhibition “Stopover” which will commence on July 2nd in the newly renovated Old Mill Building.
The culmination of the weekend on Sunday 4th July will be the Kinsale Clipper Parade where the streets of Kinsale are going to be transformed into the mighty trade routes – from Asia to Europe – that the Clippers of old sailed along all that time ago.
The race is due in Kinsale on the first weekend of July, the first European stopover, so let us all ensure that this one everyone will remember! Pick up a brochure or see local press for full details. The Kinsale Clipper Carnival is sponsored by Cork County Council, Cork City Council and Failte Ireland.
Welcoming the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
www.clipperroundtheworld.com/
