Three Sisters in a Sketchbook (Romana Turina, 2024, 45’) won Best Biographical Film at the Toronto International Women Film Festival 2025 and Best Short Documentary at the LA Independent Film Channel Festival.

Eight UCC students have been awarded the prestigious title of Puttnam Scholar.

Join us on Friday, 28th March at 1:10 PM in the Ó Riada Hall in the Music Building, Sunday's Well for a captivating concert of classical masterpieces. The Meliora Quartet will perform the powerful first movement of Beethoven’s Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 Razumovsky. Then, the Vanrugh will bring Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 to life, a work often called the “Champagne Quintet” for its sparkling, effervescent opening. A liquid lunch not to be missed!

19th & 20th March 2025 

7:30pm in the Granary Theatre

Free - Booking Essential.

Gao Yanming has received a Master's degree in Pipa Performance from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing where she studied on a full national scholarship under renowned pipa master Prof. Fan Wei. Currently a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at University College Cork (supervisor, Prof. Jonathan Stock), her research topic is tracing a new history of the Pinghu Pipa School, a traditional pipa lineage originating from Pinghu City, China, in the 19th century. Yanming is a pipa instructor in the Department of Music at Zhejiang International Studies University, executive director of the Pipa Professional Committee of Zhejiang Musicians Association, China, and was designated by the Beijing Arts Foundation a pipa performing talent of the Pinghu Pipa School.

The Department of Film and Screen Media is delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to Laura Fioretti (BAFX2) and Sean Leahy (BAFX3), who were awarded prestigious Quercus College scholarships for the academic year 2024-5.

In the Making is a one-day, participatory and multidisciplinary arts festival designed to spotlight and inspire creative exploration and discovery. Taking place in the city’s iconic Cork Opera House on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, this packed programme presents a unique opportunity to look inside the imaginations and creative practices of vibrant artists and makers, connecting audiences with some of the distinctive creative processes, inspirations and ideas driving Ireland’s arts scene today.

“'Dancing across the pages': Women and jazz in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland in the 1920s-30s”

When does the (colonial) past become the past? And how do we interpret its legacies in postcolonial societies? What is the role of colonial archives in keeping the memory of the past alive?

In this masterclass, filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos will guide us through his process of reclaiming archival footage of Palestinian wild flowers, made in the 1930s and 1940s by a Scottish missionary who had decided to film the floral splendour of the Holy Land.