Revealed: Cork Craft Month's top events and activities
Ava Hayes, Cork Craft Month festival director, back, Michael Healey (MISH), furniture maker; Charlie Mahon, ceramicist; Jade Hogan, lampshade maker and operations manager, Cork Craft & Design; Cian O'Driscoll, woodworker, and Chris Tuohy, woodworker. Pictures: Michael O'Sullivan/OSM Photos
Someone who is passionate about what they're doing will always use the vocabulary of affection in their references. Cork Craft Month’s festival director, Ava Hayes, is talking to me about the events’ programme across the city and county, from July 31-August 31, so I ask her for her top picks. Such is her care for the event, it's like asking her to pick her favourite child.
With good humour, she says, “My two favourite children are the Emerge graduate exhibition at 46 Grand Parade with 20 new craft makers, and I’m excited to go to Fota House with an exhibition of our long-term makers.”
