Our Events
Visit the Sexual Health Centre at the Pride Family Fun Day! 🌈
Find the Sexual Health Centre table at the Pride Family Fun Day and celebrate your family, your identity, and your community. Our friendly team will be on hand with the latest information on sexual health, as well as details about our services and support.
Drop by to say hello, ask questions, or pick up free resources—we'd love to see you!
📍 Venue: Fitzgerald Park, Mardyke, Cork
📅 Date: Saturday, 1 August
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Life Drawing Session 🎨
Join award-winning artist Ian Brennan for a unique life drawing session that combines creativity with mindfulness. Ian will guide participants through a somatic meditation, inviting each artist to connect with their body and respond intuitively to the unfolding experience.
📍 Venue:
46 Grand Parade, Cork, T12 VN56
📅 Date: Friday, 31 July
🕝 Time: 2:30 PM
Spaces are limited – booking is essential.
To book, email: hivproject@sexualhealthcentre.com
Pride Quiz Night 🌈
Gather your team and join us for an evening of Pride trivia! Test your knowledge of LGBTQ+ history, pop culture, and sexual health in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Expect great prizes, plenty of laughs, and a chance to celebrate Pride with friends old and new.
Great prizes from Cork Businesses. Thank you to: @the_grumpy_bakers @boojummex @murphysicecream @fivepoints @vibesandscribes @sandboxcork @isaacsrestaurant @greenescork @edithairclub
@bginkfluence @bazzersbarbershop @bladez_barbers_
@wildecork
📍 Venue: WILDE
64 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork, T12 K5FH
📅 Date: Thursday, 30 July
🕘 Time: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Tickets from:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1995450246403?aff=oddtdtcreator
All welcome!
Join The Sexual Health Centre for an engaging, inclusive, and thought-provoking workshop exploring sex, relationships, and wellbeing through a queer lens. Facilitated by Graham Nagle, LGBTQIA+ Sexual Health Counsellor, this interactive session creates a welcoming space to discuss queer sexual health, identity, pleasure, consent, communication, and relationships.
Together, we will explore:
🌈 Sexual, gender, and relationship diversity
💜 Queer identities and inclusive terminology
🗣️ Consent, communication, and healthy relationships
✨ Sex positivity, pleasure, and self-discovery
Dating, intimacy, and the concept of "second
adolescence"
🩺 Sexual health, hygiene, and safer sex practices
🤝 Building confidence, connection, and community
This workshop is sex-positive, queer-affirming,trauma-informed, and designed to encourage curiositywithout judgment. Participants are welcome to engage as much or as little as feels comfortable, and there is never any pressure to share personal experiences.
Who is this for?
LGBTQIA+ people, allies, healthcare workers, community members, and anyone interested in learning more about queer sexual health and wellbeing. Come along, ask questions, challenge assumptions, and learn more about creating safer, more pleasurable, and more affirming experiences for yourself and others.
All welcome. 🌈💜
Tickets from:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1994941258005?aff=oddtdtcreator
Theme: Pride in Every Story! 🌈
Bring your heart, your words, and your celebration of pride to the Cork Pride Poetry Slam. Whether you're an experienced performer or sharing your voice for the first time, everyone is welcome.
📍 Venue: Clancy's (Middle Floor)
15–16 Princes Street, Centre, Cork, T12 V6FH
📅 Date: Tuesday, 28 July
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Great Prizes From:
@thewinebuffcork
@loccitane
@theblackpoppy.cork
Thank you.
Tickets from:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1995446652654?aff=oddtdtcreator
🌈✨ Ease Into Pride with a Guided, Queerful Meditation ✨
Join Graham Nagle for a calming sensory meditation to help you feel grounded before Cork Pride. 🧘🏳️🌈
💜 A relaxed, welcoming space to be your authentic, queer self.
📍 18 South Mall, Cork
📅 Monday, July 27
🕕 6:00 PM
Bookings through Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/queer-mind-a-week-of-pride-in-sexual-health-tickets-1994788230295?aff=oddtdtcreator
Have your say in the development of a new city centre art piece by Cork’s Ardú Street Art and the Sexual Health Centre
Cork Wall of Positivity, Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Background:
The Sexual Health Centre is working with the Ardú Street Art Project on a HIV Wall Of Positivity. This innovative initiative is the latest in a number of innovations by the Sexual Health Centre; examples include being the first agency in Ireland to offer rapid HIV testing in non-clinical settings and partnering with the Cork Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force on Ireland’s first mobile drugs, alcohol and sexual health mobile unit. We wish to continue to innovate with this mural which will reinforce Cork’s reputation as an inclusive, forward-thinking place to live or visit. This mural will join the ranks of other HIV related murals in Brussels, Barcelona and Paris.
💬 Why Attend?
“This piece of art aims to speak to people living with HIV, their allies and to the general public who may be holding onto outdated ideas around HIV. For these reasons it is very important that we have input from a wide number of stakeholders”, says Fiona Finn, Chief Executive Officer at the Sexual Health Centre.
The new mural will also bring fresh colour and creativity to the city’s streets, transforming an ordinary wall into a new visual landmark. This is more than an art project — it’s a chance to shape how HIV is represented in Cork City. --- 🎨 About the Event
Join us for an inspiring community consultation led by Ardú to co-create the “HIV Wall of Positivity” — a new public mural that celebrates the positive realities of people living with HIV today.
This vibrant artwork will challenge outdated perceptions and promote understanding of U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) — the message that people living with HIV on effective treatment can live long, healthy lives and pose no risk of transmission.
🧡 Who’s Invited?
This event is open to everyone — including individuals living with HIV, their friends, allies, professionals and anyone passionate about community art and inclusion.
Your voice and perspective matter in shaping this important public art piece.
🖥️ How to Join
You can take part in-person in Cork City or online. Venue details and online links will be emailed prior to the event.
Thursday Chats For People Living With HIV
Mindful Movement
25th September 1730 - 1900
Join your local Cork community to learn from choreographer Bruce Coleman simple and joyful movements that can ground you, and create space in your life away from intrusive thoughts and rumination.
This is part of a series of Q&A sessions we’re organizing once a month. Tea and snacks provided.
We invite you to join us in having meaningful conversations and building a supportive network of friends and allies. People who register will be emailed a link with the option to join the session via Zoom a few days before the event. Book your place here.
If you have any questions, you can contact us on 021 427 6676 or email tara.r@sexualhealthcentre.com
Evening Rapid HIV Testing Sessions
Our next late rapid testing sessions at the Sexual Health Centre will be on October 2nd from 17:00 - 20:00 on both evenings.
If office hours don’t suit you, we’ve got you covered. Remember you can also pick up your SH24 self test kit while you are here. Book your appointment
Evening Rapid HIV Testing Sessions
Our next late rapid testing sessions at the Sexual Health Centre will be on September 18th from 17:00 - 20:00 on both evenings.
If office hours don’t suit you, we’ve got you covered. Remember you can also pick up your SH24 self test kit while you are here. Book your appointment
DASH Van Grand Parade
Watch out for our DASH Van on Grand Parade between 18:00 and 22:00 this Saturday, September 14th.
We provide:
Free condoms
Free rapid HIV testing
Collection of SH24 self test kits
Information on harm reduction
Sexual health advice and more…