MAF EVENTS 2024

Watch our gorgeous MAF23 video to get a great idea of what is in store for you and your family.

A happy and beautiful festival for all!

The festival theme this year is ‘Flourish‘ MAF provides opportunities to experience public art in the community and to get involved at ground level to reinforce the message of climate change. We focus on free, family events, highlighting the work of artists, schools and groups, developing creative pathways to protect and develop our connection to the environment.

Schedule MAF24

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Wed, Thurs, Sat evening
Shop Front Gallery & Walkthrough Friday 6pm
Opening Art Exhibition
Friday 7pm
Exhibition at My Place
All weekend
Treedom Art Workshop
Saturday 10-1pm
Clay Workshop Saturday 10.30
Drop-in art workshop
Saturday 11-12.30
Literary Reading
Saturday 12 – 1.30
Wobbly Circus – Two Shows Saturday 1 and 3pm
Family Art Workshop
Saturday 2-3
Exhibition of Tiny Books
Saturday 3-5
Soul & Blues Concert An Seomra Saturday 7pm
Art and Crafts Market
Sunday 11 -4
Art Workshop for all!
Sunday 2-4
Poetry Competition & Event Sunday 3pm
Stormtroopers Cinema Event
Sunday 5pm
Sat & Sun 10.30 – 4.30

The Vibrant Artists Community of Midleton and Surrounds come together in May this year, to present their work, experiment, stretch imaginations and raise the spirits of the local community. Feel the town buzz the minute you step foot on the street. Expect the unexpected and bring your friends and family along to take part in the many activities! Magical events for all ages; three nights of theatre with Alice Barry’s incredible play Violet Gibson, the Woman Who Shot Mussolini, two concerts in An Seomra; Alicia Olaniran’s Soul and Blues and Stan Notte & Eoin Jordan in a night of Poetry and Music, the exhibition opening Variables IV at MyPlace with three featured artists Susan Herlihy, Janet Turra and Niall McCarthy, a sound installation by Danny McCarthy, children’s poetry competition, art & nature workshop, the Cork Light Orchestra in the Farmers Market, children’s exhibitions, talks, music, poetry, film, bohemian discussions, free screenings at the Gate Cinema and a Huge Art Market on Sunday. There is something for everyone at Midleton Arts Festival.

Our festival is a celebration of our community and its relationship with art. With so many talented artists in the area and wonderful art teachers in the schools, creativity is bubbling in East Cork throughout the year. MAF creates an opportunity to showcase, share and express this ongoing creativity during the festival.

Past Festival videos – MAF captured so beautifully by East Cork filmmaker Kara Sweeney of Twenty4Films. Many more fabulous films to view on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@midletonartsfestival

About

If you are able to, we are always looking for volunteers and sponsors to help keep the festival going. Donations can be made via our bank transfer please EMAIL US if you want to help or support us. Thank You!! To our supporters and sponsors who have given so generously. They help make Midleton Arts… Continue reading About

Nice One, to the creators and organisers of Midleton Arts Festival. The weekend was so amazing and such a great display of the talent and creativity so abundant here in East Cork…..there was something for everyone to see and do and the energy in the town was phenomenal. This is an ideal forum for ECMP participants to express themselves and demonstrate their creative capacities….Thank you all for organising such a Fabulous Festival!!!

Clare Seymour/project coordinator ECMP

I saw so many beautiful people dreamers, artists , moms, dads , brothers and sisters , drummers, youth workers , the young people and older wise warriors who all come together in a shared humanity! It was really an amazing thing to stand back from and witness. Well done Ilse de Ziah. A beautiful day for Midleton and for Humanity….John Wayne McSweeney

One of the best events I was ever at in Midleton. What an experience. Bravo Midleton Arts Festival. Fergus McCarthy

Well done thanks for streaming it. I could see it from the hospital in cork. You folks rock!‪ Cormac Brenock

Great festival. As has been said already there really was something for everyone. Looking forward to next year already. Congratulations to all involved.‪ Paul Casey

Everyone looks great. Midleton is so lucky to have all this talent. Keep it up guys. Clare Buckley

This was really super yesterday. The street came alive with music. Well done to all the buskers – fab Claire O Sullivan