The art of falling in love
Speed dating has been helping people find that special someone for decades, but what if you applied the same formula to a piece of art?
This Friday night (Culture Night), the Crawford Art Gallery is inviting the public to come and fall head over heels in love with some of its most timeless art works through a series of ten minute 'speed dating' mini-talks.
Speed Dating the Collection will feature talks by an expert guide in front of a given selection of works by artists like John Butts, Sean Keating, Rita Duffy, and Mainie Jellet.
You’d never know, a beautiful stranger in the form of Sean Keating’s ‘Men of the South’ or Rita Duffy’s ‘Epiphany’ may catch your eye and sweep you off your feet.
The artworks of Crawford’s collection are not exactly lonely hearts but they’re definitely looking for love, and this is a chance to fall for them, truly, madly, deeply.
Speed Dating the Collection is just one event on Crawford’s programme for Culture Night, which sees the gallery team up with Cork events impresarios The Good Room to stay open until 11pm with a spectacular programme of events featuring everything from family-friendly interactive workshops to live music to poetry and conversation.
The evening will be a true feast for the senses, with in-house café the Green Room open and serving small plates and a kids’ menu for hungry culture vultures until 9.30pm.
From 5-8.30pm the family-friendly Workshop Fête will ignite the creative spark in children of all ages with the Crawford’s Learn & Explore team in the Upper Gallery.
Elsewhere in the building from 5-8.30pm is the Crawford Past, Present & Future film screening which will help visitors get to grips with Crawford’s past and explore its exciting future as it prepares for an ambitious expansion.
From 9-11pm, The Good Room will present an impressive late programme including singer-songwriter Elaine Howley and author Danny Denton presenting an evening of conversation and poetry.
There will also be a programme of diverse musical performances throughout the evening in everything from jazz and trad to classical and funk in the Sculpture Galleries and Gibson Landing.