Thursday, 29 July
What: Han-earl Park
Where: Glucksman Gallery, UCC
When: 6pm

Set in the beautiful West Cork town of Skibbereen, the second edition of the Skibbereen Arts Festival promises a great mix of music, theatre, art and film, as well as the special Children's Festival offshoot. Highlights include 'Skibbereen Sound and Vision', a series of film and sound events comprising the enchanted works of Guillaume Beauron, Kevin Brew and The Quiet Club.

'Frost/Nixon' is a play by the British screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan, whose work includes 'The Queen', 'The Deal' and 'The Special Relationship'. The subject of the play is the series of televised Frost/Nixon Interviews that former US President Richard Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with an admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.

Award-winning Cork actor Denis Conway will be performing in Enda Walsh's new play 'Penelope'. He spoke to Brian Hayes Curtin about the reaction to the new work, his late start in acting and the experience of working on a Hollywood epic like 'Alexander'

Thursday 22 July
What: Clare O'Mahony, Sherry Ryan and Joe Belly
Where: The Roundy
When: 9pm

A new exhibition opens in the beautiful Crawford Art Gallery today Thursday 22 July from 6 to 8pm. Curated by Dawn Williams, 'Close To Hand' looks at some of the more mundane aspects of our lives and how we interact with our most familiar environments.

Moon Duo come from San Francisco. The band consists of Wooden Shjips guitarist/singer Erik 'Ripley' Johnson along with his female partner Sanae Yamada, and together they make a big, big sound. Wooden Shjips played a great gig a few months ago in the Crane Lane and Moon Duo's songs share similarities but are played in a different manner.

The hugely successful Pitch Party series of concerts at the Marquee in Ballinhassig GAA club comes to a close this weekend with some stand out gigs. Ballinhassig has already rocked to the sounds of the Frank and Walters and Bagatelle while last Sunday the High Kings brought the house down with stirring renditions of such classics as the 'Rocky Road to Dublin', the 'Irish Rover' and 'The Holy Ground'.

Francesco Turrisi presents this latest evolution of his Tarab ensemble, which links modal jazz to traditional music from across Europe. Over the course of 2010, the group takes on a major project and will devise new music over four cycles, each with a very special guest artist. This time it is Bulgarian Theodosil Spassov.

An exciting new nightclub was launched last weekend and promises to offer a very different experience for Cork revellers. Society, on Oliver Plunkett Street had 350 guests at their launch. Owners Brian Corish and Gavin Payne, despite their youth, have a long experience in the Cork music scene and have been DJing in Cork for the last 14 years.