Welcome to An Cosan Glas

An Cosan Glas is an artists collective based in the Donegal Gaeltacht. We run sculpture trails and arts educational programs throughout Ireland and Europe.

An Cosan Glas means 'The Green Path' in Gaeilge, the Irish Language.

For nearly 20 years we have been filling the sand dunes of Magheraroarty beach with the popular Loinnir night time illuminated sculpture trail which attracts thousands of people from all over Ireland.

For the past three years in September we have taken this magical collection of artwork to Letterkenny Town Park for Culture Night.

More recently An Cosan Glas have also been travelling to Bologna, Italy to run workshops with children and create a sculpture trails comprising works made on site and illuminated sculptures from the many successful years of our project.

 

Loinnir Sculpture Trail 2014 POSTPONED

An Cosan Glas wish to announce that the annual “Loinnir Sculpture Trail” show at Magheraroarty (Machaire Rabhartaigh) will not go ahead this year. We will however continue, as before to host a week of children’s sculpture workshops at Machaire Rabhartaigh and more info on this will be available on this site in due course.

The Loinnir night-time sculpture show has been part of the  the Earagail Arts Festival since 1995 and  has become a core part of the festival. The show constantly changes and live music, both traditional and contemporary has become an increasingly popular part of it. We want to acknowledge and thank the many visitors who have come from all corners of Ireland and abroad to see the show. Last year 3,000 attended the event over two nights.

We must also take the opportunity to acknowledge our local support as much of the success of the event hinges on local community involvement and many give of their time and expertise voluntarily.

The increasing popularity of the show has meant that the costs of running it have risen year after year and although our major funders responded positively to our request for increased funding for this year, the Earagail Arts Festival was unable to commit the necessary additional support. We have come to the regrettable conclusion that we cannot create the popular night-time sculpture trail for 2014 but will instead put our energies into planning for an expanded event for Loinnir 2015.

Children's Workshops

As stated above, we will continue as before to host a week of children’s sculpture workshops at Magheraroarty. These will not be part of the Earagail Arts Festival and thus will not feature in its brochure. The workshops will run from Monday 30th June until Friday 4th July. For more information and bookings, please contact us.

 

Earth Festival 2014

In November 2014, during Science Week, An Cosan Glas sculptures will be exhibited in Letterkenny Town Park forming the centerpiece of the Earth Festival, which includes talks, art workshops and tours.

So far An Cosan Glas artists have spent a week talking to postgraduate science students in UCD and will create sculptures inspired by their ground-breaking research.

Read more here...