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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
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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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Sandra Johnston: Wait it Out
Gallery
Exhibitions/ Performance/ 29 Aug - 19 Oct
€0 (Free Admission)
Consisting of two main parts, 'Wait it Out' negotiates personal and historical narratives in relation to the reverberation of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. The work reflects upon the indeter
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Step Up 19
Cube
Dance/ 31 Aug
€10
Step Up Dance Project, now in its ninth year, once again plays host to some of Ireland’s most promising contemporary dance graduates. Step Up 19 brings a new outlook, curated by Marguerite Donlon (I
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ADMIN
Cube
Theatre/ 06 Sep - 15 Sep
€13-15
Oisín left Dublin to pursue his dream of becoming socially mobile. Now, he is having an existential crisis in the canned goods aisle at Aldi, trying to remember his mindfulness techniques.
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The Examination
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 06 Sep - 14 Sep
€14-16
A documentary performance work exploring mental health and human rights in the prison system in the UK and Ireland. Based on historical research and interviews with current life-sentence serving priso
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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Cube
Theatre/ 07 Sep - 15 Sep
€8-12
In a kitchen, in a theatre, two storytellers and their audience find something remarkable — a very old man with enormous wings. The wise neighbour woman tells us he’s an angel. The priest says he
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Villains
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 07 Sep - 11 Sep
€14-16
In a world of Twitter wars, cycling news feeds and cancel culture, come explore the myths and legends we create, destroy and forget in the rise and fall from viral fame to infamy — all within the co
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THE NORTH IS NEXT
Space Upstairs
Special Event/ 07 Sep
€10
Dublin Fringe Festival and GCN have joined forces to commission a zine to spotlight and support the drive for queer and reproductive rights in Northern Ireland, in partnership with Outburst Queer Arts
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Dublin Fringe Festival 2019
07 Sep - 22 Sep
Free Admission
This September we're helping Fringe celebrate their 25th birthday. The 2019 editions will bring together some of the best artists in Ireland, welcoming the most exciting international acts, and throwi
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Making a Mark
Cube
Theatre/ 11 Sep - 14 Sep
€14-16
Mark has competed in the World Games, played King Lear before packed houses and packed bags for 20 years in Tesco’s... But that’s not even half the story.
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Patchwork
Cube
Theatre/ 11 Sep - 21 Sep
€12
An odyssey of a young Frenchman in Dublin. After hearing about the Bataclan attacks back in Paris, author and performer Louis Deslis heads into the night to find comfort.
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Cuckoo
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 13 Sep - 14 Sep
€14-16
A bunch of talkative rice cookers take you on a journey through the last 20 years of Korean history. Combining personal experience with political events and reflections on happiness, economic crises a
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Nate
Cube
Theatre/ 17 Sep - 21 Sep
€14-16
For the first time in history, it’s hard to be a man. Natalie Palamides (2017 Edinburgh Comedy Awards’ Best Newcomer) doesn’t understand this... but Nate does. Natalie Palamides is Nate.
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Some Names Were Changed
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 17 Sep - 21 Sep
€14-16
Based on disputed testimony, this highly interactive documentary theatre show attempts to piece together a real-life event when none of the persons involved can agree what actually happened.
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Sorry Gold
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 18 Sep - 21 Sep
€14 - 16 (Preview: €11)
If aerial is the dance of industrial technology, what will the dance of biotechnology be?
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Things We've Always Wanted to Tell You
Cube
Theatre/ 18 Sep - 21 Sep
€14-16 (Preview €11)
You’re invited to a dinner party we’d never be invited to. Sit down, shut up and come overhear the conversations of four proud working class Irish folk as they discuss the middle classes, privileg
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Dublin Theatre Festival 2019
Theatre/ 26 Sep - 13 Oct
Free Admission
Dublin theatre Festival is back. Enjoy 18 wonderful days of world-class Irish and international theatre this autumn right across Ireland's capital city.
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Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia
Cube
26 Sep - 05 Oct
€20-25
From the concrete jungle of the N31 to a painfully hip music festival on the white sands of the Aran Islands, The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia lovingly exposes a generation of adult children living b
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Hecuba
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 27 Sep - 06 Oct
€25-35
Hecuba is a passionate re-imagining of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the events surrounding its iconic characters; a series of intense, dangerous personal encounters and impossible choices, desc
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Design & Destroy
The Foyer
Special Event/ 28 Sep - 12 Oct
Free Admission
Presented in Virtual Reality, this exhibition of Irish stage design is curated by Jo Mangan, Artistic Director of Carlow Arts Festival and The Performance Corporation. We meet designers and their work
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Rat King
Space Upstairs
Work in Progress/ 04 Oct
Free Admission
Rat King observes the darkly comic lives of David and Chrissy, a pigeonhearted duo clambering to make sense of the world in which they exist.
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Vanishing
Cube
Work in Progress/ 04 Oct
Free Admission
Can we listen to each other? Can you hold our hands together? A thin girl and a less thin girl are sad and would like to disappear. A new collaboration between Doireann Coady and Jane Deasy.
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Transmission
Cube
Work in Progress/ 05 Oct
Free Admission
Part ode to the lighthouse keeper, part personal history and part enquiry into evolving technology, Transmission is an inventive and playful meditation on what our futures might hold and how our his
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Conversations After Sex
Cube
Work in Progress/ 06 Oct
Free Admission
Strangers meet through dating apps, websites or random hook ups at the supermarket. They couple in cars, hotel rooms and anonymous apartments. They f*ck furiously, fulfilling perceived physical desire
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Blast: International Critics’ Forum
Cube
Special Event/ 07 Oct
Free Admission
Bringing together critics with a wealth of experience and a breadth reference of different theatre cultures, this forum considers performance from several angles and welcomes audience reflection and f
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Real Magic
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 08 Oct - 09 Oct
€25
Real Magic creates a world of absurd disconnection, struggle and comical repetition. To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, three performers take part in an impossible illusion – part
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Case Study BeSpectACTive! A European Network for Active Spectatorship
Cube
Special Event/ 08 Oct
Free Admission
A free seminar on Creative Europe funding for the arts and culture sectors, open to arts organisations who wish to learn about European support for culture projects. Seminar will be followed by a netw
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Collection of Lovers
Cube
Theatre/ 10 Oct - 12 Oct
€20-25
Raquel André is a collector of rare things. Across 20 cities around the world she has collected more than 200 ‘lovers’ to date. People of all nationalities, genders and ages, have agreed to meet
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Physics and Phantasma
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 11 Oct - 12 Oct
€20-25
Even before we enter the theatre, our imagination is at work, anticipating what is to come. We are already doing so reading this text.
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Decoys
Cube
Work in Progress/ 12 Oct
Free Admission
Written and performed by Shaun, this piece is heavily informed by a period of time he spent in the UK, volunteering with organisations that work to equip convicted sex offenders towards community livi
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Youth Theatre Ireland Young Critics’ Panel
Cube
Special Event/ 13 Oct
Free Admission
The Young Critics are back. Get a different perspective on this year’s festival programme as 16 young people from across Ireland share their critical response in a session chaired by Dr. Karen Frick
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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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Latest From the Newsroom
Open Call: Future Forecast Curator
June 17 2019, at 01:10pm
Project Arts Centre is powered by creative ideas, critical thinking and debate. Artists and audiences are often first to forecast the future – for good and for ill. As we look to our future in an uncertain world, which is leaning towards populism, tokenism, and right wing conservative politics, we want to engage in a conversation about contemporary Ireland and the arts. We want to peel back the skin to see how artists are faring and examine the ways in which our arts community can reflect, mediate, challenge and shape our collective fate. Where does our future lie? As part…
Read MoreEmma Wolf Haugh Research Project: Domestic Optimism - A queer, working class, post-colonial critique of architectural modernism
May 14 2019, at 11:31am
Upcoming Artist Talk event from Emma Wolf Haugh around her ongoing research will be presented later this year. Date and Location TBC. This event will present the artists research towards new work from Haugh in 2020 Domestic Optimism begins with the work and continually expanding legacy of the Irish-born, self-taught, modernist architect and designer, Eileen Gray. A considerable amount of attention has been given to Gray’s work in recent years but, more often than not, the queerness inherent in her life and design is sidelined or ignored. I am interested in what comes to bear on the construction of legacy and what…
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