Cork European Capital of Culture 2005

Well, the launch of Cork 2005 is rapidly approaching, Saturday the 8th is the official launch. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, I am talking about Cork, Ireland which is European capital of culture for 2005.

I went to another "Where's Me Culture?" meeting last night, it was pretty interesting - for those of you who don't know they have organised a Party on the evening of the 8th in Cork city, which looks like it will be pretty good. There are three rooms and one of the rooms will be free to enter for those who can't afford or don't want to go ito the other rooms. The entrance is 10 euros for the other two rooms, so it's well worth it.

The official program's for Cork 2005 apparently has no events for that evening other than a party for the bigwigs - politicians etc. However I can't corroborate that fact because I found the official programme too confusing to figure out what was on. Guess I'm that stupid. The Cork 2005 website is somewhat easier to decipher regarding what's on when but it's not brilliant either to be honest. For some reason they have hidden the calendar feature, which I think is the best - you have to get off the home page to access the calendar, and there's no obvious link to it. Go to 'what's new' for example and you'll see a calendar - click on any day to see what's on for that date.

'Where's Me Culture?' are also bringing out a magazine and hopefully some BifSniff cartoons will feature. They are looking for submissions, so if you have potential content for this regular Cork 2005 magazine get in touch with them.

Here's the the Euorpean capital of Culture for 2005!