30 May 2018
By Bryan Smyth
bryan@TheCork.ie
Entertainment: Summer Series of Events this coming season
The stage is set this summer at Fota Wildlife Park for a series of fun and educational events to celebrate the Park’s 35 years in existence as one of Ireland’s top visitor attractions. Fota Wildlife Park, a not for profit organisation, opened its gates in June 1983 as a zoological Park serving the core values of conservation, education, research and entertainment. The summer programme of events will feature outdoor concerts, educational weekends, art workshops, yoga and a Blue Playground – all the events are free with your admission; however, the art workshops and yoga require a pre-registration which can be found on www.fotawildlife.ie/blog. These events are in addition to a programme of wildlife talks, feeding times, arts and crafts and face painting held seasonally throughout the Park.
Musicians Keeva O’Mahony and Ellen Jansson from Music in Community and Kate McNamara, Bikram Yoga Cork Pic Darragh Kane
Kate McNamara, Bikram Yoga Cork launching Fota Wildlife Parks Summer Series of Events. Pic Darragh Kane
Musician Ellen Jansson from Music in Community with Lilly O’Keeffe, Ballincollig Pic Darragh Kane
The summer kicks off in style with Music in Community presenting a Summer Concert Series in Fota Wildlife Park featuring a quartet of players from the Brandy Lane Orchestra with either Aine Whelan or Keeva O’Mahony taking up the vocals for the final set. The quartet will perform a range of genres from well-known pop to rock anthems all of which have been given a classical twist in the relaxed atmosphere of the Park. Feel free to bring a picnic or a coffee, or drop by if you are in the Park that day. Music in Community is a Cork-based organisation founded in 2014 to bring communities closer together, they deliver regular programmes in the Westgate Foundation and Marymount Hospice.
Each concert takes place from 12 noon to 3 pm. Weather permitting the concerts will take place outdoors at Cypress Lawn and promises to be a wonderful musical treat for all visitors to the Park, bring your picnic basket and make a day of it at Fota Wildlife Park this summer.
