A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTORS
It is with great pleasure and excitement that we share with you our picture for Cork Fringe 2025. A city brewing with artists and artforms, ready to share their explorations with you. To us, Fringe represents an ecosystem in which to disrupt traditional artforms and delineations, as well as opportunities for collaboration and cross-pollination of artistic visions. This creates an avenue of continued experimentation and evolution of the arts in Cork which we hope will result in a constant innovation across the arts and cultural landscape.
We are incredibly passionate about the Fringe model of supporting artists and arts practitioners by creating an environment to tell their stories. We hope to create a Fringe community in Cork that will not be restricted to the confines of the festival but one that will enhance the collaborations of all arts makers in the city and further afield.
We are inspired by the artistic talent present in Cork and are passionate about developing a space for these artists to thrive. We invite you to share in this journey of experimentation and constant learning with us, as we contribute to creating a space for artists in Cork to flourish and reach their full potential.
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Ineke Lavers & Daniel Cremin
Co-Founders & Directors of Cork Fringe
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WHY FRINGE?
Cork is a city brewing with creative potential and arts organisations brimming with ideas. With so much creativity in the city, a Fringe in Cork adds to the number of spaces for emerging artists to exhibit, workshop, and perform their work in front of audiences. Whether it’s the premiering of completed work or work in its developmental stages, Fringe includes the rough and polished, allowing Cork creatives to receive feedback from and exposure to Cork audiences and arts professionals.
Cork Fringe also creates further opportunities for artistic work in Cork as well as a new destination for performers planning European Fringe touring routes. This builds a community of Fringe Practitioners that can lead to more art being created, outside of the confines of Cork Fringe, positively impacting the Arts ecology of the city more widely.
WHO ARE WE?
DANIEL CREMIN
Daniel Cremin is an Irish producer and magician from Cork who develops high calibre theatre work, through writing, producing. and directing. From producing and performing his own one man magic play IT’S ALL AN ACT! (2023: Dance Cork Firkin Crane) to directing musicals such as Grease (2024: Dance Cork Firkin Crane) and starring in Summer Revels! (2024: Cork Opera House).
Daniel’s experience is coloured through a diverse spectrum of theatrical lenses. As a magic consultant, Daniel works with musicals and plays who wish to add magical elements to their productions, while also working with leaders in the field of magic, such as Keith Barry. Daniel has worked on productions at The 3Olympia (Dublin), Cork Opera House, (Cork), The Everyman (Cork) and The National Opera House (Wexford) to name a few as well as working on a number of TV series and specials with RTÉ.
INEKE LAVERS
Ineke Lavers is an international arts producer based between Cork, Ireland and Abu Dhabi, UAE. She has worked across the areas of education, marketing, museum studies and festival development and hopes to centre an interdisciplinary approach to arts practise throughout her career.
Internationally, she has worked in the Africa, Oceania and the Americas collections at the British Museum in London, as an English Teacher at Brockwood Park School, UK and in fashion and sustainability writing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Across Cork city, Lavers has worked with Cork Opera House, Cork Midsummer Festival, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality, Cork Theatre Collective and others across a variety of projects including SHOW 2024.