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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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Walls Talk
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 25 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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The Spider's House
Cube
Theatre/ 27 Feb - 07 Mar
€14-18
A nightmare from a disordered mind.
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Double Bill: The River + Pidgin'
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 06 Mar - 07 Mar
€20 Full - €15 Concession
THE RIVER (premiere) is Flora Fauna Projects latest work - a large scale dance piece performed by 20 women primarily from Sheriff Street and Ballybough.
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SHIT by Patricia Cornelius
Space Upstairs
11 Mar - 14 Mar
€16
Out of control girls. Angry girls. Nasty girls. They are a sight to behold. Terrifying, electrifying, funny and awful, they’re everything women shouldn’t be, and we hate them. Grown-up litt
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Landfall
Gallery
Exhibitions/ 11 Mar - 21 Mar
€Free
Landfall is an immersive sound and film installation that brings together observations on the island of Ireland as a set of geographical, social, political, and ideological conditions, charting the be
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Off Plan 1
Space Upstairs
Work in Progress/ 13 Mar
€12
Off Plan is a red-hot artistic response around community-making in Ireland today. In a series of work-in-progress double bills, we get a first look at sparks of incendiary ideas around the changing ci
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Off Plan 2
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ Work in Progress/ 14 Mar
€12
Encompassing anything and everything from theatre, dance, music, performance and film, artists from around the country will present a performance, moment or in-progress idea that is a rapid response t
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Leaving by Wayne Jordan
Space Upstairs
15 Mar
€16
Leaving is a diary of that time in Prague, transformed into performance. A reflection, a travel journal, an exhibition of scars and possibilities... A ceremony. A way of being together.
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Landfall Live
Gallery
15 Mar
€15
To the backdrop of the dual-screen film installation Landfall, Peter Maybury presents a one-off live solo drum performance combining realtime processed electronic music with acoustic drums and percuss
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Zero Zero
Space Upstairs
Music/ 16 Mar
€21
Telling a story of modern Ireland from the perspective of two young Dubliners, Zero Zero examines themes of love, loss, setbacks, social breakdown and personal growth — all set to the backdrop of an
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HOTHOUSE
Space Upstairs
Performance/ 18 Mar - 21 Mar
€16
We're born dying. Hooray? This was true before climate breakdown, but now our grandchildren won't even remember us fondly. (Assuming we have any.)
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Off Plan 3
Space Upstairs
Performance/ Work in Progress/ 19 Mar
€12
a red-hot artistic response around community-making in Ireland today. In a series of work-in-progress double bills, we get a first look at sparks of incendiary ideas around the changing city, gender,
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Mrs Macushla by TKB
Space Upstairs
20 Mar - 21 Mar
€12
Gertrude Kelly was given one true purpose in life, to be a bingo caller at the Macushla. When she’s up there? She’s untouchable. All her memories and her scars, they dance away into the stars.
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Tonie Walsh is Selling All His Records
Foyer & Bar
21 Mar
€FREE - € Early access ticket (11am) - €15
Forty years after his first DJ gig at legendary gay club Flikkers, Tonie Walsh is selling his vinyl record collection. Thousands of 12” singles and albums (many first editions and rarities) lay bare
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Town Hall Session curated by Emma Dabiri & Willie White
Space Upstairs
Talks and Readings/ 21 Mar
€6
Future Dublin Now. What do we need to do right now to create the future that we want and need?
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CLUB CHROMA On Tour
Space Upstairs
Music/ Special Event/ 21 Mar
€6 - also available as part of Savage Saturday and Festival Passes
THISISPOPBABY invites you to join the Where We Live artistic family for a love-in and shake out to mark the end of festivities. We're yoinking Niall Sweeney's sublime Club Chroma Exhibition from IMMA
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Where We Live - Savage Saturday Ticket €50
Performance/ 21 Mar
€50
Finish the festival on a high note with an action-packed Savage Saturday programme, taking you from the record store to the dancefloor! Catch every show and special event that day for €50 (save €1
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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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ELIZA’s Adventures in the Uncanny Valley
Space Upstairs
13 May - 16 May
€22 full - €18 Concession
ELIZA’s Adventures in the Uncanny Valley explores what it is to be human, how artificial intelligence interferes or modifies natural human characteristics and scrutinises what is real and what is il
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Latest From the Newsroom
New Appointments: Marketing, Communications & Engagement
February 10 2020, at 05:04pm
Project Arts Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Marketing, Communications & Engagement team. We are delighted to welcome Veronica Dyas (Access & Engagement Officer), Sorcha FitzGerald (Marketing & Communications Officer) and Astrid Newman (Marketing & Communications Officer) to the Project family. The team will work to further develop audiences and grow opportunities for engagement across our busy performance and visual arts programmes. Welcome to the big blue building! Veronica Dyas joins the team in the brand new position of part-time Access & Engagement Officer. Veronica is an artist working through theatre, new text & installation. Facilitation, Action & LOVE…
Read MoreCompany Philip Connaughton presents MAMAFESTA MEMORIALISING (To not forget or be forgotten)
February 03 2020, at 05:51pm
This month critically acclaimed choreographer Philip Connaughton brings his beautiful, sparkling, laugh-out-loud meditation on the fear of forgetting and of being forgotten to Cork and Dublin venues. Mamafesta Memorialising, which enjoyed its successful international premiere in France last year, is woven from inspirations including musical theatre, Bruce Forsythe’s Generation Game and most importantly, Philip’s mum Madeleine, who has senile dementia. Philip made his last piece, Assisted Solo, about her. But it wasn’t enough. He still has more to do and more to say. He’s worried that what’s happening to her will happen to him. His latest testimony to an ever-evolving,…
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