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Exclusive previews and one-off experiences from just €5 a month
Choose from theatre, music, dance, visual arts and everything in between at Project Arts Centre
What's On
We’re Ireland’s leading centre for the development and presentation of contemporary art, across all forms of the performing and visual arts. The ‘Big Blue Building’ offers a huge variety of events and with a packed year round programme there’s plenty to fuel your imagination.
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Comedy Showhouse
Cube
Comedy/ 22 Nov - 23 Nov
€0, email sidelinecomedytickets@gmail.com to reserve a ticket
It's back! As part of RTÉ Radio 1's award-winning Comedy Showhouse, the Cube will play host to six brand new half-hour comedy-dramas written by Ireland's best female writers performed by a stellar ca
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SOLO EXHIBITION: Anna Daučíková
Gallery
Exhibitions/ 22 Nov - 18 Jan
Free Admission
Anna Daučíková’s practice addresses issues around the conflicting aspects of normativity, the technologies of power, queer subjectivity and the politics of privacy.
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Artist Talks Series: Kader Attia
Cube
Exhibitions/ Talks and Readings/ 25 Nov
€5 (Free for VAI Members, People in Direct Provision, Unemployed, and OAPs)
VAI, in partnership with Project Art Centre, welcome Kader Attia to Ireland to present on his recent work. The event will include a screening of Réfléchir la Mémoire / Reflecting Memory (2016), whi
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Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 30 Nov - 07 Dec
€20-30
Endgame tells the story of Hamm, a blind man who cannot stand; Clov, his servant, who cannot sit; and Nagg and Nell, Hamm’s parents, who have no legs and live in rubbish bins.
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Sound Collector
Cube
30 Nov
€15
The second installment of the Sound Collector series brings an exciting and diverse line up of Irish and international artists.
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Overfired
Cube
Performance/ 02 Dec - 07 Dec
€14-16 (previews €12)
Like those guys with guitars they’ve been watching in bars, StefanFae and LadyK have been stomping their feet to a different beat. Batten down the hashtags there chicken, the revolution won’t happ
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Jazz Connective Festival Day 1
Space Upstairs & Cube
Music/ 11 Dec
€16-19
Jazz Connective is a 2 day pop-up festival of avantgarde and adventurous music featuring Irish and international artists and curated by Improvised Music Company in collaboration with six European part
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Jazz Connective Festival Day 2
Space Upstairs & Cube
Music/ 12 Dec
€16-19
Jazz Connective is a 2 day pop-up festival of avantgarde and adventurous music featuring Irish and international artists and curated by Improvised Music Company in collaboration with six European part
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Champions of Dance
Space Upstairs
Comedy/ Dance/ 13 Dec - 14 Dec
€18-20
Bombastic and fantastically flamboyant dancing duo Lords of Strut have teamed up with comedy powerhouse National Lampoon to create a dance-fantasy-opera of pure comic mayhem!
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Tiny Dancer: A DJ Set for Kids with Donal Dineen (A very Christmassy special)
Space Upstairs
15 Dec
€10 (Under 1s go free, but if you’re dancing you need a ticket!)
Let’s dance and be merry! It’s time for the kids to throw some shapes and bust out their best moves as DJ Donal Dineen hits the decks for a very special Christmassy musical rollercoaster ride.
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Well That’s What I Heard
Cube
Theatre/ 16 Dec - 21 Dec
€16-18
Join Zara,Kelis and Amber as they duck and dive their way through school, parties, InstaFollowers and the brutal reign of Tell.Com.
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Maria Somerville w/ support from Linda Buckley
Space Upstairs
Music/ 18 Dec
€18-21
Homebeat are delighted to present a very special show with one of our most treasured contemporary artists Maria Somerville in the wonderful Project Arts Centre.
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Honk With The Bonk
Space Upstairs
Music/ 19 Dec
€18-21
Homebeat round off their year of live shows with a very special, once off evening of freewheeling music & mischief at 'Honk With The Bonk'.
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Francesco Cavalli's La Calisto
Space Upstairs
Opera/ 12 Jan - 18 Jan
€20-24 (students €12)
Packed full of mischief, irreverence and outrageous flirtation, La Calisto is a seventeenth-century retelling of an ancient Greek myth. As saucy as it is beautiful, this opera delights with catchy tun
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All Honey
Cube
Theatre/ 11 Feb - 22 Feb
€14-16
Ru and Luke are throwing a house-warming. They intend to warm their house. However, their guests seem more interested in whispering in the box room than joining the festivities. Explosive characters a
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Mamafesta Memorialising
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 19 Feb - 22 Feb
€16-18
Philip's mother has senile dementia. His last piece was about her but it wasnt enough, he still has more to say. Mamafesta Memorialising is a memory excerise for 3 male dancers.All pushing to see how
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Walls Talk
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 24 Feb - 29 Feb
€18-20
Walls Talk is a dance piece for solo dancer, Breandán de Gallaí, and singer, Gina Boreham, supported by pre-recorded arrangements of jazz classics by 2 composers.
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Iphigenia in Splott
Cube
Comedy/ Theatre/ 23 Mar - 04 Apr
€16-18 (Previews €14)
Effie’s life spirals through a mess of drink, drugs and drama every night, and a hangover worse than death the next day — till one night gives her the chance to be something more. Inspired by the
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Des Bishop: Mia Mamma
Space Upstiars
23 Mar - 04 Apr
€24-27
I am often asked “where do you get your material from?” The truth is really that I try to see the funny in everything. My mother died in March 2019 and of course it was sad and grief can be&hellip
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Endling
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 06 Apr - 07 Apr
€14-16
An endling is an individual that is the last of its species. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. ENDLING uses dance, vocals, music and design to reimagine tales of funerary and mournin
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A Holy Show
Space Upstairs
Comedy/ Theatre/ 23 Jan - 25 Jan
€18-22
A new comedy play based on the 1981 hijacking of an Aer Lingus plane by an ex-Trappist monk with a bottle of water as his weapon, the Pope as his nemesis, and a burning desire to know The Third Secre
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Latest From the Newsroom
MAKE 2019 Participants Announced
October 25 2019, at 11:37am
We're thrilled to announce this year's MAKE participants and mentors! MAKE is an artist development programme and residency initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival , Project Arts Centre and Theatre Forum. It is open to Irish and international artists for the purpose of generating new performance work outside of the traditional writer-led model at all career levels. The 11th MAKE residency will run from Saturday 2 November to Sunday 10 November. MAKE 2019 MENTORS Ron Athey, Kim Bowers AKA Busty Beatz, Lisa Fa’alafi and Gundega Laivina. MAKE 2019 PARTICIPANTS Working individually: Jane Deasy, Barry Fitzgerald, Gráinne Hallahan, Alan…
Read MoreWe're Recruiting: Communications Manager
October 17 2019, at 04:32pm
Project is seeking an experienced, energetic and creative Communications Manager to lead out on the development and delivery of a new and ambitious communications strategy (as part of a larger organisational strategy 2021 – 2025), and to support work in the area of fundraising. Project Arts Centre is more than a venue. Built around a community of artists, audiences, members, staff, Board and other stakeholders, it is: A home for contemporary arts An artist resource A critical hub. The successful candidate will understand the artist led ethos at Project, which is creative, ambitious, loyal, edgy, energetic, supportive, passionate, empowering, courageous…
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