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Choose from theatre, music, dance, visual arts and everything in between at Project Arts Centre
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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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Agnieszka Polska: Softly Spoken
Exhibitions/ 19 Apr - 16 Jun
Free Admission
Fresh from winning Germany’s National Gallery Prize for Young Artists, video artist Agnieszka Polska returns to Project with her first solo exhibition in Ireland, presented in two consecutive iterat
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All day I imagine how to act by Hugh Farrell
Project Foyer
Performance/ 25 Apr - 28 Apr
€5
Which eye are you reading with? Who’s around you? Let your shoulders go. Stand in your self and let immersive theatre makers Listen&Breathe lead you on a journey to your soul with their latest audio
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The Comforter by Stacy Makishi
Cube
Performance/ 25 Apr - 26 Apr
€14-16
Part ritual, part prayer, part rowdy revivalist rally, The Comforter is a rite of passage that reclaims spirituality and proposes a new perspective on the church.
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RACE CARDS by Selina Thompson
Project Foyer
Performance/ 25 Apr - 28 Apr
Free Admission
Race Cards is a constantly growing installation and archive, undertaken in aid of Selina’s research for ‘As Wide And As Deep As The Sea’. Each version never takes the same form twice. It’s bee
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LIVE COLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2018
Performance/ 25 Apr - 29 Apr
Free Admission
LIVE COLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL presents some of the most daring and beautiful work of our time, and is Ireland’s leading curatorial model of live art.
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LADA STUDY ROOM // BIBLIOTHEQUE
Project Foyer
Exhibitions/ 25 Apr - 28 Apr
€0.00
A curated selection of work from the Live Art Development Agency (LADA)’s Study Room has toured to Live Collision each year, representing topics such as feminism, sexuality, disability and race in r
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Untitled by Celina Muldoon
Cube
Performance/ 26 Apr
€0.00
How do we respond when the gaze is flipped? What unfolds when...'The Watcher'... becomes... The Watched? The farce plays out; perpetual; nonsensical; tit for tat squabbling; resonating; an underlying
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BITESIZE // SCRATCH
Cube
Performance/ 26 Apr
€10 - €8
BITE SIZE // SCRATCH is a ‘curated’ fast and furious look at the current new blood / next generation artists who are making dynamic new work in Ireland.
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Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) by Split Britches
Cube
Performance/ 27 Apr - 28 Apr
€14-16
Combining a Dr Strangelove - inspired performance with a daring forum for public conversation, Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) explores ageing, anxiety, hidden desires and how to look forward when the futu
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Nu Roots by Fried Plantains Collective and Change of Address
Project Bar
Performance/ Special Event/ 27 Apr
€0.00
A night of Afro diaspora music displaying the roots of Africa in all its punk, funk and grunge brilliance. Whether you’re brown, white, punk or into trap, you’re gonna enjoy BLACK JAM.
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A Salon of Trans Live Art
Cube
Performance/ 27 Apr
€10 - €8
An exciting selection of poetry and live art works in development from some our favourite trans artists in Ireland. With short work from Aidan Wall, Rainbow Fadeyi, Ollie Bell, and Kate Kiernan, come
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Faultline by ANU / Louise Lowe
Cube
Performance/ 28 Apr
€10 - €8
Faultline is a work in development by ANU examining the events of January 20th 1982, whereby a gay man Charles Self was murdered in Dublin. Nobody has ever been charged with his killing. Nearly 40 ye
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Regnant by Xavier de Sousa
Cube
Performance/ 28 Apr
€0.00
Part theatre show, part dinner party, Regnant is a new durational piece inviting you to join your host, performance maker Xavier de Sousa and play, laugh, rant, cry – pretty much all you expect from
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LCIFxTLAS: All Trans on Decks
Bar
Performance/ Special Event/ 28 Apr
€0.00
Closing out an inspiring week of Irish and international Live art at LCIF, Trans Live Art Salon will be hosting an after party in Chelsea Drugstore from 11pm after kicking things off in Project bar to
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WAITING by Fiona Looney
Space Upstairs
Comedy/ 30 Apr - 02 May
€11
An all-female comedy about waiting! Last year WAITING proved such a success that it is now being supersized as a 6-part series recorded over 3 nights starring award-winning actresses Deirdre O’Kane,
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RTE Comedy Showhouse 2018
Space Upstairs
Comedy/ 30 Apr - 05 May
€11
It's back! Now in its third year, RTE Radio 1’s Comedy Showhouse is a festival of Irish comedy featuring the best writers, performers and acts live on stage in Project Arts Centre. Join us in the
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Dublin Dance Festival 2018
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 02 May - 20 May
€0 - 22
Ireland's leading dance event, the Festival brings together dance artists and choreographers from across the world to share vibrant contemporary dance with audiences in Ireland.
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Bealtaine @ Temple Bar: Relatively Speaking 3 May 2018
Gallery
Exhibitions/ Special Event/ 03 May
€0.00
Do you love contemporary art? Or do you just wonder what it’s all about? Art aficionado or absolutely novice, this tour is perfect for you. Discover some of Temple Bar’s best keep secrets as Proje
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A Life of Play by Emma O'Kane
Cube
Dance/ 03 May - 05 May
€0.00
A LIFE OF PLAY is a creative dance and play project from the CoisCéim BROADREACH Project, for children aged 5 -10 and their older family members aged 50+. Commissioned by Bealtaine Presented in partn
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COLM O' REGAN WANTS A WORD
Space Upstairs
Comedy/ 03 May - 05 May
€11
Starring the Cork-born author of the successful Irish Mammy books, best seller of Bolloxology and a regular performer on stage, radio and TV, and featuring two of Ireland’s best comedy actors; Tara
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Bealtaine @ Temple Bar: ACCESS ALL AREAS
Special Event/ 03 May - 04 May
Free Admission
Did you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes – now’s your chance to find out! Project Arts Centre is offering you the chance to take an exclusive look backstage.
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Bealtaine @ Temple Bar: Relatively Speaking 4 May 2018
Gallery
Exhibitions/ Special Event/ 04 May
€0.00
Do you love contemporary art? Or do you just wonder what it’s all about? Art aficionado or absolutely novice, this tour is perfect for you. Discover some of Temple Bar’s best keep secrets as Proje
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THE RADIO SITCOM TRIALS
Space Upstairs
Comedy/ 05 May
€0.00
A brand new initiative designed by Sideline Productions and grintage.com to promote new Irish comedy writing for radio, supported by RTE Radio 1 with The Broadcast Authority of Ireland.
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Autumn Royal
Cube
Theatre/ 08 May - 12 May
€18 - €20
A new play by Kevin Barry. May and Timothy are looking after the father - their own lives are curtailed, closed down, and they’re not getting any younger. A dark comedy, Autumn Royal is about lif
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And so you see…
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 08 May - 09 May
€22 - €18
A humorous and provocative piece, this cheeky work from controversial choreographer and social commentator Robyn Orlin, offers us a glimmer of hope while challenging our preconceptions. Part of Dublin
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(b)reaching stillness
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 11 May - 12 May
€22 - €18
Choreographer Lea Moro courageously takes Baroque still life painting as a starting point for this playful dance piece. Part of Dublin Dance Festival.
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Akram Khan: Can We Live With Robots?
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 13 May
€10 - €8
As robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) become increasingly prevalent, questions arise around their impact on human relationships. This is the topic of Akram Khan’s thought-provoking documentary,
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Bobbi Jo Hart: Rebels on Pointe
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 14 May
€10 - €8
Rebels on Pointe is the untold story of the world-famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The all-male comic ballet company was founded in the 1970s on the heels of New York’s Stonewall riots
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WRoNGHEADED
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 16 May - 17 May
€22 - €18
Dance work emerging amidst the call to repeal the 8th Amendment, merging film, voice and movement to confront the stark realities of women’s rights and freedom of choice in Ireland today. Presented
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Leila’s Death
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 19 May - 20 May
€22 - €18
Leila’s Death, a stirring contemporary work by Lebanese choreographer and performer Ali Chahrour, delves into the fading tradition of professional Shiite mourner. Presented as part of Dublin Dance F
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My Son My Son
Cube
Theatre/ 23 May - 26 May
€10 - 14
A new play from Veronica Dyas. My Son My Son is the story of a mother, set on Meath Street in the heart of working class Dublin. Up the Liberties!
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Tremble Tremble by Jesse Jones
Gallery
07 Jun - 18 Jul
Free Admission
A multi-media installation which re-imagines feminist history & law. Jesse Jones has created an artwork she describes as a “bewitching” of the judicial system. Originally commissioned for the Pavi
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Latest From the Newsroom
You can’t paint over an issue, but you can paint over an artwork! Maser mural update.
April 20 2018, at 03:34pm
We are painting over the Maser Mural (again) The Charities Regulator has informed Project Arts Centre that the display of Maser’s ‘Repeal the 8th’ artwork is ‘political activity’ and that we are therefore in breach of the Charities Act 2009 and not in line with our ‘charitable purpose’. Should the artwork not be removed, we risk losing our charitable status. Project Arts Centre respects the authority of the Charities Regulator and will comply with their order to remove Maser’s artwork. Fiona Slevin, Chair of Project Arts Centre said: “The Board and executive of Project are conscious of their obligations under…
Read MoreRepeal the 8th: Maser's Mural Reinstalled at Project Arts Centre
April 10 2018, at 10:29am
Since it was founded in 1966, Project Arts Centre has always placed the vision and freedom of expression of the artist at the centre of our work. We believe that all art is, in some way or other, indelibly political because it relates to the workings of the society from which it emerges. This artwork by Maser was first programmed at Project Arts Centre in July 2016 and was removed due to planning legislation. According to The Planning & Development Regulations 2001, Schedule 2, Part 2, Exempted Developments, Class 14, the mural is not subject to planning permission in the…
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