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A photograph of Veronica Dyas as a young child. She sits in the centre of the image facing the camera at a table with her arms crossed and her eyes closed. Her lips are pursed. Behind her is a window cill, with bowls and potted plants lining it. The photograph is black and white. Taken by Pat McGrath, circa 1987.

Announcing New TEDI Commissions in Partnership with RTÉ Culture

On the first weekend of each month, Project Arts Centre will publish a new work in partnership with RTÉ Culture. Project have invited a number of artists and social activists, with a lived experience of intersectional discrimination and disadvantage, to produce a series of ambitious and provocative new works, encouraging crucial dialogue around the impact of social and […]

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An image of a rectangular green map placed against a rich brown background. The map is bound by a cream slip wrapped around the centre. The slip states the title of the map in indigo Migra font: a cartography of the middle of nowhere

a cartography of the middle of nowhere – a publication by Léann Herlihy – BUY NOW

€6 in Project | €8 shipped within Ireland | €9 shipped to UK/EU a cartography of the middle of nowhere is a map which attempts to (de-)centre the middle of nowhere. Navigating through cognitive terrain, Léann Herlihy uses anecdotal references to highlight how the middle of nowhere becomes a subjective area of geographic desire wherein each individual’s map is

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Open Call: RHIZOME

GREEN ARTS COMMISSION AND MENTORSHIP | OPEN CALL 2022 CONNECTING COMMUNITY, ARTS & SCIENCE Rhizome is a pilot Green Arts programme that aims to highlight the critical role of creativity, optimism, and imagination in the craft of social and environmental change, both locally and internationally. Developed through the Project Potential Programme, this is an opportunity

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Project Arts Centre Co-Design Update

This year, together with contemporary architectural firm OBFA, we launched a Co-Design process to develop a Master Plan for Project Arts Centre. We’re looking at improving access, enlivening social spaces & extending the facilities currently available to artists, staff, audiences and communities living locally. In November 2021, we presented a questionnaire and invited the public to

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A photo of a green, beige and red brick interior hall wall with uplighting. Overlayed is text reading: Room. An online dance film presentation by Flora Fauna Project. 7/1/22 - 27/2/22. Artists: Oluwaseun Usman and Busayo Olowu; Deepanwita Roy; Tobias Sköld; Ríonach Ní Néill. Supported by The Irish Arts Council, Project Arts Centre, D-Light Studios and Dance Ireland.

ROOM: An Online dance film platform + artist conversations by Flora Fauna Project

– Open between 22.01.07-22.02.27 on www.florafaunaproject.com – ROOM is free to the public and is supported by the Irish Arts Council, in partnership with Project Arts Centre, D-Light Studios and Dance Ireland. How to bring dance close again?  How to connect with each other through this art form in a digital space?  As well as their

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Open Call: SHORT CUTS

Project Potential Digital Commission and Mentorship Programme | Open Call 2022 DEADLINE 12pm January 14th 2022 Short Cuts is a small scale digital commission and mentorship programme that prioritizes artists who have not yet entered the world of arts applications and funding streams. We want to see the kind of things you’re creating and we

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Co-Design Project with us!

Have your say in shaping the future of Project!We’re embarking on a Co-Design process and we need your help! ✏️Take our Co-Design Questionnaire! Together with contemporary architectural firm OBFA, we’re working on the development of a Master Plan for Project Arts Centre. We’re looking at improving access, enlivening social spaces & extending the facilities currently available

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Conversations on a Playwright 2021: Open Call for Writers

Conversations on a Playwright is a biennial, week-long series of masterclasses, talks and discussions and a showing of work for an audience, at The Lir Academy. The event is focused on the work of Tom Murphy, one of the most significant playwrights of 20th-century Irish theatre. Conversations on a Playwright is an opportunity for intensive

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Open Call: Project Intensive

Are you an artist who wants to develop their work but you’re not currently engaged in mainstream education? Are you curious/critical/restless/bored/mystified/interested in what other artists are making and want to evaluate it and understand it? Project Arts Centre is delighted to announce a new pilot artist programme: Project Intensive. Join us for a programme of watching, listening,

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THIS IS NOT A DRAMATISATION _ THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING by DRAFF – Buy Now

ORDER HERE NOW Full sale price: €14 over the counter at Project | €17.35 incl. postage for Ireland | €19 incl. postage for UK/EU “The stage as we experience it nowadays is here and now – it’s in the iPhone.” – Chris Haring, choreographer “As the body disappears, so does our ability to empathise.” –

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ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Project is delighted to present our Annual Report for 2020. A year like no other, we were stopped in our tracks but still managed to bring the work of amazing, brave artists to our audiences across the globe. We are proud of the brilliant work we presented in the house and online, and look forward

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FROM STAGE TO SCREEN
A RESEARCH REPORT BY SINEAD MCPHILLIPS

UNDERSTANDING THE OPPORTUNITIES, REACH AND IMPACT OF IRISH DIGITAL THEATRE The global outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic sent Ireland into lockdown in March 2020 and saw all cultural activity ground to a halt. The pandemic turned everything on its head and disrupted our cultural norms. Despite all the challenges, and with the help of technology,

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A RESEARCH REPORT BY SINEAD MCPHILLIPS
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Dublin Fringe Festival 2021 at Project

We’re delighted to be hosting FOUR fantastic shows for Dublin Fringe Festival 2021! Join us in the Space Upstairs for electrifying live-music from Fehdah, comedic confession with Joanne McNally Live, a fearless & savagely comedic MASTERCLASS with Adrienne Truscott & Brokentalkers and Where Sat the Lovers, a new live work from theatre-making collective Malaprop. Fehdah | BOOK NOW18th Sept 2021

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