Culture Night 2025 at Dance Cork Firkin Crane

We celebrate Culture Night at Dance Cork Firkin Crane this year by offering tours of the building at 5.30pm and 6.30pm as well as keeping our Satori in Cork exhibition open until the later time of 8pm.

“Satori” (悟り)—a Japanese Buddhist term meaning sudden enlightenment or deep spiritual insight—is the starting point for this reflective visual arts exhibition. Curated by Dermot Browne, Satori in Cork: Stage 2 – A Sangha of Makers is inspired by Satori and Unfolding, two contemporary dance works by Australian choreographer Lewis Major, who returned to Cork for the 2025 Midsummer Festival.

The exhibition brings together a sangha—a creative community—of thirteen artists whose work explores presence, materiality, and the felt experience of stillness. Ranging across painting, sculpture, video, poetry, and installation, the works lean into emptiness, quiet form, and the subtle tension between appearance and insight.

Avoiding spectacle, Satori in Cork invites viewers to move slowly, breathe, and notice. Like the Zen moment it references, this is an exhibition of attentiveness—offering space for perception and small awakenings. Presented by Crane Visual in collaboration with Dance Cork Firkin Crane.

Hourly screenings of Satori by Lewis Major Projects take place at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm.

Guided tours at 5.30pm and 6.30pm

We are delighted to offer two informative and interactive tours of Dance Cork Firkin Crane to celebrate Culture Night 2025. Starting with a brief history of the building, right up to how the building is used today for public performances, artist residencies, classes, exhibitions and more. Get a behind the scenes tour of the building, getting to see areas usually off-limits to the public, and learn about all the things that happen in the building throughout the year.