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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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Active Archive – Slow Institution: The Long Goodbye
Exhibitions/ 31 Jan - 30 Mar
€0 (Free Admission)
Active Archive – Slow Institution is an extensive research initiative that delves into Project’s 50+year history, looking at the imagined futures and proposals for transformation recorded in Proje
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Hamnet
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 20 Feb - 23 Feb
€23-26
From the makers of the Fringe First and OBIE Award winning LIPPY and Chekhov’s First Play, Hamnet is a solo work for an eleven year old boy.
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Relatively Speaking: A guided walking tour(February 2019)
Exhibitions/ 21 Feb
€0 (FREE)
Discover some of Temple Bar’s best keep secrets as three city centre arts organisations - Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Black Church Print Studio and Project Arts Centre - join forces for a guided w
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Public Viewing 1: Sandra Johnston's 'Reserved' (1998) and Ronan McCrea's 'View' (1999)
Gallery
Special Event/ 23 Feb
€0 (Free admission, no booking required)
Presented as part of Active Archive - Slow Institution: The Long Goodbye the gallery will play host to a special screening event of two projects that were commissioned by Project Arts Centre as part
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The Wickedness of Oz
Cube
Theatre/ 25 Feb - 02 Mar
€20-22
A story of unfilled potential, The Wickedness of Oz follows a day in the life of a travel agent with a penchant for 1960s musicals. Debbie McInerney's day spirals into a mire of self-doubt when she wa
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The Examination
Space Upstiars
Theatre/ 28 Feb - 02 Mar
€18-22 (Preview and Matinee €14)
Based on real life prisoner testimonies, The Examination is an uncompromising and revelatory look at an aspect of our society that is all too often ignored.
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Alice in Wonderland
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 04 Mar - 16 Mar
€18-20
From the team that brought you Shackleton and The Third Policeman comes a fast-paced visual and imaginative rendition of a timeless classic for all the family. Follow Alice on her madcap journey thro
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Extraordinary Rendition
Cube
Theatre/ 06 Mar - 08 Mar
€10
In a cabin built from the same materials as Camp X-Ray, the temporary detention facility at Guantanamo bay, and with the same internal dimensions of a detainee’s cell, Extraordinary Rendition is a p
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Slap Talk
Cube
Theatre/ 09 Mar
€ Free (Suggested Donation €5)
Inspired by the self-aggrandising of boxers at the pre-fight weigh in, Slap Talk is a verbal sparring match that is both a linguistic version of the fight itself and a reflection upon the violence pre
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Sure Look It, Fuck It
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 19 Mar - 23 Mar
€18-20 (Preview and Matinee €15)
Sure Look It Fuck It is a spoken word odyssey through 24 hours in Dublin. It’s the story of Missy, back in town after years away trying to ‘make it’ as a returned emigrant. As she grapples with
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Relatively Speaking: A guided walking tour (March 2019)
Various
Exhibitions/ 21 Mar
€0 (Free admission, no booking required)
Discover some of Temple Bar’s best keep secrets as three city centre arts organisations - Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Gallery of Photography and Project Arts Centre - join forces for a guided walk
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Michael and Me
Cube
26 Mar - 13 Apr
€18-20 (Preview and Matinee €16)
Local nobody Scut Kelly needs a friend. This turns out to be an iconic pop legend with world wide fame. Scut’s life is about to change forever.
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Merlin
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 28 Mar - 30 Mar
€14-16
A furry monster, a headstrong child-woman, a jumping shamanic devil, a crumbling statue... Simultaneously wise man and wild man, Merlin dances at the interface of law and nature: we are moving animals
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Watt by Samuel Beckett
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 09 Apr - 13 Apr
€23-26
Samuel Beckett's hilarious and moving early novel adapted and performed by one of the greatest Beckett interpreters in the world.
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Latest From the Newsroom
REALISE PRODUCTION AWARD: Shortlisted Artists
December 15 2018, at 04:53pm
Project Arts Centre and Arts & Disability Ireland are delighted to announce the shortlisted artists for the REALISE production award for theatre and contemporary dance artists with disabilities. This award is designed to support the production and presentation of ambitious new work by individual artists with disabilities. The 4 shortlisted artists are: • Conor Geoghegan • Emma Fisher • Roderick Ford • Tara Brandel The 4 shortlisted artists will receive mentoring support from Lucy Ryan, consultant producer prior to submitting their final applications on 21st February 2019. The final recipient of REALISE will receive a production award of €40,000 for…
Read MoreNew Appointment: Communications and Development Manager
November 23 2018, at 01:41pm
We're thrilled to announce our new Communications and Development Manager, Eimear O'Reilly! Eimear currently holds the position of Communications Officer here at Project and will take up her new role in January 2019. Since completing her studies at University College Dublin with a BA in English and Art History, Eimear has been immersed in the local arts and theatre scene, working with multiple festivals and arts organisations throughout Dublin City, including Dublin Theatre Festival, Gerry Lundberg PR, Arts & Disability Ireland, Temple Bar Tradfest, O'Reilly Theatre, Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin Writers Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival. Before joining Project Arts…
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