Sirius Arts Centre

30/05/2026

Zoé Basha at SIRIUS

Zoé Basha is a musician based in Dublin. Zoé’s songwriting explores identity, grief, societal norms, and human connection. Her debut album, Gamble, is inspired by her experiences of travelling and growing up in different cultures, and blends country, blues, Americana, French chanson, and Irish traditional influences. Named ‘folk album of the month’ by The Guardian in 2025, Gamble has earned both national and international recognition. At SIRIUS, Zoé performs key songs from Gamble alongside new pieces she has been developing during her year of touring.

Saturday, 6 June
7pm (doors: 6.45 pm)
Tickets: €15 (non-refundable)
Advance booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/aq8BO9j
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception before the performance, depending on capacity.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

📸: Elisa Babkina

Image description: Musician Zoé Basha, standing in a doorway inside a bar with her arms raised, looking at the camera and smiling.


Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

30/05/2026

Cruinniú na nÓg at SIRIUS

SIRIUS presents a workshop led by artist Kate McElroy and participants in the YMCA Cobh STEP programme to celebrate Cruinniú na nóg, the national day of creativity for children and young people.

The session is inspired by Ogham and Ireland’s native trees, drawing on the local biodiversity meadow at An Gearán, Cobh. Participants create ceramic pieces exploring themes of language, landscape, and ecology.

The activity is designed for young people aged 12-18 years.

Kate McElroy is an artist based in Cork City who has been devising and delivering activities across various learning contexts for organisations such as Sirius Arts Centre, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, and Sample-Studios

SIRIUS
Saturday, 6 June
12 – 1:30pm
Free; booking via Eventbrite is required: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cruinniu-na-nog-at-sirius-tickets-1990569047606

Information
Participants must wear suitable clothes.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

Image description: A poster depicting a circle with a Hawthorn leaf and the letter ‘H’ in Ogham.


Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Creative Ireland
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

29/05/2026

Weird and Wonderful by Haulbowline Theatre Group at SIRIUS

Haulbowline Theatre Group is based in Cobh. They originated as a cultural output for the Irish Naval Services community. Once again this year, they are fundraising for the newly launched Great Island Theatre, housed in the Old Parochial Hall in Cobh. This venue serves all types of performing arts. At SIRIUS, they present Weird and Wonderful, a series of short plays written by Joanne McCall, David McCall and Glenn Kavanagh.

Wednesday - Saturday, 24-27 June
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
Tickets: €15.00
Booking via Eventbrite only: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1988546642538
For assistance, ask a member of staff at the SIRIUS reception.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our facilities are also accessed via stairs.

Haulbowline Theatre Group
Great Island Theatre
Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Haulowline Theatre Group presents Weird and Wonderful, a series of plays ranging from the weird to the wonderful to the downright wacky.

29/05/2026

Shirani Bolle is interviewed by Aidan McGrath for Go Leor, in the context of her exhibition this has nothing to do with me, presented at SIRIUS earlier this year and curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado.

Aidan writes: “The exhibition marked a turning point – not just in visibility for her work, but in understanding. As a self-taught artist, she describes her practice as something built in motion, each piece part of an ongoing process rather than a fixed outcome. But it wasn’t simply the act of exhibiting that shifted things. It was the process of installation, working alongside the curator, that reframed how she understood her own output. Within the exhibition, pieces she had previously dismissed – work left sitting in the studio, half-forgotten – were suddenly recontextualised. What emerged was not a collection of stand-alone, separate works, but a system of relationships.”

To read the full text, copy and paste the link below. You can also purchase a copy online.

https://buff.ly/W77YwZd

Image description: A screenshot of an article depicting various text and images related to Shirani Bolle’s exhibition this has nothing to do with me.

28/05/2026

It was great to hear Hina Khan share ideas about her practice and elaborate on the works featured in her exhibition, Red Storm, with SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. They examined Hina’s interest in themes of displacement, climate change, and conflict, and how they appear throughout the motifs she employs symbolically, including fragmented land, water, architecture, and animals. Hina also delved into her journey from a practitioner informed by the tradition of miniature painting from the Indian subcontinent to creating large-scale scrolls and drawings. Finally, they discussed how Hina’s education in Pakistan and Ireland affects her overall output. Following their conversation, a Q&A session provided further insight into these topics and questions through audience interaction, allowing Hina to further express her vision and career trajectory as an artist.

Image description: 1. An audience seated inside a SIRIUS gallery listening to artist Hina Khan and Director Miguel Amado discussing Hina's exhibition. 2. Artist Hina Khan and Director Miguel Amado discussing Hina's exhibition inside a SIRIUS gallery.

27/05/2026

Exhibition – Aikaterini Gegisian: Third Person (Plural)

Aikaterini Gegisian is a Greek Armenian artist based in Thessaloniki and London. Gegisian’s practice spans film, photography, and collage, and explores unstable identities shaped by concepts of place, belonging, and memory. Her films examine the interplay between bodily and mental experiences, subjective and ideological perspectives, and personal and social dimensions.

Third Person (Plural) assembles an archival collection of two hundred informational pieces and newsreels produced in the United States after the Second World War that offers an American viewpoint on European political dynamics. The film depicts the construction of a notion of the ‘rest of the world’ that has continuously supported isolationist and proto-imperialist positions in the United States.

Aikaterini comments: “Third Person (Plural) is a bracing encounter with the Western, white, and male gaze that created the ‘image’ of the world as the new Western order. By casting a decentred female gaze, the film questions the role of image making technologies in the construction of dominant narratives, while paying tribute to the ‘unseen’ glances, making visible a ‘third person’. I deconstruct the way the images have been used to create specific ideologies, identities, processes of imagining as a community as well as establishing a collective memory – a creation of new image-worlds.”

This exhibition is produced by SIRIUS and curated by Miguel Amado, Director.

📸: John Beasley

Image description: Installation view of digital prints leaning against walls, a bench and a carpet.

Aikaterini Gegisian

Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
John Beasley Photography
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

23/05/2026

Zoé Basha at SIRIUS

Zoé Basha is a musician based in Dublin. Zoé’s songwriting explores identity, grief, societal norms, and human connection. Her debut album, Gamble, is inspired by her experiences of travelling and growing up in different cultures, and blends country, blues, Americana, French chanson, and Irish traditional influences. Named ‘folk album of the month’ by The Guardian in 2025, Gamble has earned both national and international recognition. At SIRIUS, Zoé performs key songs from Gamble alongside new pieces she has been developing during her year of touring.

Saturday, 6 June
7pm (doors: 6.45 pm)
Tickets: €15 (non-refundable)
Advance booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/ThZgJE2
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception before the performance, depending on capacity.

Accessibility Note
The building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door, but a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. The facilities are also accessed via stairs.

📸: Elisa Babkina

Image description: Musician Zoé Basha, standing in a doorway inside a bar with her arms raised, looking at the camera and smiling.


Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

23/05/2026

CURATORIAL INTERN: Róisín Pavie

SIRIUS offers opportunities for professional development for artists, curators, and critics, focusing on practitioners with a broad understanding of what art, curation, and criticism mean today, and who wish to interact meaningfully with the Irish scene and broaden their horizons into international contexts.

SIRIUS is pleased to announce Róisín Pavie as the 2026 Curatorial Intern. Róisín is a History of Art student working on her BA at University College Cork. Her study spans all periods of art history, with a focus on critical analysis informed by her secondary subject, English. She comments: “I am delighted with the opportunity to further my writing and critical practices in a gallery setting, understanding the intricacies of curating, and expanding my knowledge and appreciation for art.”

This scheme facilitates engagement with artists’ practices, exhibitions, events, and societal topics. It suits students and early career professionals committed to evolving their practice through a relationship with SIRIUS.

Image description: SIRIUS Curatorial Intern 2026, Róisín Pavie, looking at the camera.



Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

23/05/2026

Event Highlight.... Zoé Basha Live at the Sirius Art Centre Saturday 6th June. Well worth seeing!

Zoé Basha is a musician based in Dublin. Zoé’s songwriting explores identity, grief, societal norms, and human connection. Her debut album, Gamble, is inspired by her experiences of travelling and growing up in different cultures, and blends country, blues, Americana, French chanson, and Irish traditional influences. Named ‘folk album of the month’ by The Guardian in 2025, Gamble has earned both national and international recognition. At SIRIUS, Zoé performs key songs from Gamble alongside new pieces she has been developing during her year of touring.

Tickets €15:

At SIRIUS, Zoé performs key songs from Gamble alongside new pieces she has been developing during her year of touring.

22/05/2026

The presentation of Shirani Bolle’s new performance, Oh Bo***ge Up Yours, at the launch of her exhibition at SIRIUS, was compelling and provocative. Shirani conceived the work specifically for the exhibition’s opening, delving into and expanding the themes of the other works on view.

Shirani sings ‘Maybe This Time’, a song popularised by Liza Minnelli in the film ‘Cabaret’ (1972), while expressing a range of emotions and engaging directly with the audience. The work interrogates themes of sexuality, power, and failure, and references the historical rise of fascism in Europe, a motif that is significant within Shirani’s biography and relevant to contemporary politics.

Those who could not see this performance on that occasion can now access it online.

📸: John Beasley

Image description: Artist Shirani Bolle is dressed in a textile piece she created, holding a microphone made of wool, in a SIRIUS gallery surrounded by colourful, textile-based pieces.



Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon