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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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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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Relatively Speaking: A guided walking tour (October 2019)
Exhibitions/ 17 Oct
€0 Free (booking required)
Learn more about three city centre arts organisations – Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Gallery of Photography Ireland and Project Arts Centre – join forces for a guided walking tour through their
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Alarmist: Sequesterer Album Launch
Space Upstairs
Music/ 18 Oct - 19 Oct
€18-21
Homebeat, champions of the independent Irish music scene and creators of heart driven event production, return to Project to present two very special nights of spectacular music from the much fete
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Spliced
Off-site
Theatre/ 22 Oct - 26 Oct
€16-18
Timmy is contemplating his 21 years playing GAA. He loves it. He hates it. Honest, brave and hard-hitting, SPLICED is a visceral account of his struggle to become an individual outside of the sporting
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Double Bill: 'Visible and Invisible' and 'Too'
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 25 Oct - 26 Oct
€14-16
Croi Glan, Ireland's leading Integrated Dance Company presents an evening of two brand new, contrasting duets that celebrate diverse dancing bodies.
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Mother of Pearl
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 07 Nov - 09 Nov
€16-18 (Previews €14)
Pan, God of the Wild, travels to the Ocean to dance with a pearl - a freakish hyper-object from a post-natural age.
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Hugh Cooney Stories
Cube
Comedy/ 07 Nov - 09 Nov
€14-16
Join Hugh by the fireside as he regales you with tales of post-celtic tiger repo men and pig farmers with Casio watches, all told through the ancient Irish tradition of storytelling.
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Divine Madness
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 13 Nov - 16 Nov
€16-18
A dance/opera study of grief, revenge and love built around a soprano and two dancers. John Scott creates a work with soprano Orla Boylan and dancers, including the gifted Conor Thomas Doherty, who ha
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Dance Double Bill: Connections / Lift
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 15 Nov - 16 Nov
€8-10
In conjunction with Irish Modern Dance Theatre's Divine Madness, Laura Macken presents a double bill of two brand new dance works; Connections and Lift.
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Minor Monuments
Cube
Performance/ 15 Nov - 16 Nov
€12-14
Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a live audio-visual essay unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands.
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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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Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 30 Nov - 07 Dec
€20-35
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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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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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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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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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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Latest From the Newsroom
2019/20 Season at Project Arts Centre
August 30 2019, at 11:13am
Welcome to a brand new season of theatre, dance, performance and visual art at Project Arts Centre. We can’t wait for you to experience some of the many exhilarating, thought provoking and fun events and collaborations we’ve assembled for you throughout the 2019/20 season. We’ll be announcing more works for the season in the coming months, but in the meantime, we have over 40 productions, events and exhibitions for you to experience. This year we have approached our programme in a new way. We want to take you beyond a list of events and instead put an equal focus on…
Read MoreOpen 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…
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