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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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LIVE COLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2019
Performance/ 24 Apr - 28 Apr
€5-16
It's back! Live Collision is an annual curated international festival of Live Art, and Ireland’s first independent year-round Creative Producer + Art Director working with exceptional artists across
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No Feeling Is Final
Cube
Exhibitions/ 24 Apr
€0 (Free admission, no booking required)
Live Collision has partnered with Berlin Opticians Gallery to co-present this once off event. ‘No Feeling Is Final’ is an interdisciplinary experiment inclusive of two new paintings by Lee Welch c
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I AM FROM REYKJAVIK: Sonia Hughes Residency
Special Event/ 24 Apr - 27 Apr
Free Admission
As part of her research into becoming a bona fide post-racial, global citizen Sonia Hughes wants to find out what it would be like if she was from Dublin.She wants to meet individuals a little like he
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LADA BIBLIOTHEQUE // SHORT READS
The Foyer
Talks and Readings/ 24 Apr - 27 Apr
€ Free Admission
A curated selection of Short Reads from LADA available to all those attending Project Arts Centre. This year we will host a selection of short reads from the Study Room to celebrate the evolution of L
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NIGHTCLUBBING
Cube
Performance/ 25 Apr
€14-16
Rachael Young and her badass band of super-humans embrace Afrofuturism and the cult of Grace Jones in NIGHTCLUBBING; an explosive new performance bringing visceral live music and intergalactic visions
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The Kindness of Strangers
Cube
Performance/ 25 Apr
€ Free Admission, Booking Required
I place myself at the mercy of the kindness of strangers and seek to find balance on the spreadsheet of my life. An exciting collaboration between Dancer & performer Lisa McLoughlin and mathematic
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BITE SIZE // SCRATCH
Cube
Performance/ 25 Apr
€8-10
Irish artists and companies have limited opportunities to *Scratch live work, and Irish audiences have limited opportunities to engage in live processes ahead of final works. Therefore, Live Collision
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The Factory Line
tbc
Performance/ 26 Apr
€5
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE AT THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY A work in-development What they did back then? When? Then? The other place, the other world, the past. I'm always fascinated by those days o
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SPICEBAG: XXXtra Portion Karaoke
Bar
Performance/ 26 Apr
€6-12
Your friendly neighbourhood SPICEBAG slagzz are back. We’ve teamed up with the good folk at Live Collision to bring you a very special ORT party (but is it ORT?) Get ready for SPICEBAG: XXXtra Porti
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Roee Rosen: Exorcisms
Exhibitions/ 26 Apr - 15 Jun
Free Admission
The first ever solo exhibtion in Ireland of the Internationally-acclaimed and widely exhibited artist, filmmaker and writer, Roee Rosen .
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ADMIN
Cube
Theatre/ 26 Apr
€14-16
Oisín moved to London to pursue his dream of becoming socially mobile. Now, he is having an existential crisis in a Pret A Manger toilet, trying to remember his mindfulness techniques.
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For now we see through a mirror, darkly
Cube
Performance/ 26 Apr
€14-16
This eerie and mystical dance performance has been created in collaboration and performed with Jo Hellier and Peter McMaster. The performance includes a Visual Description developed in collaboration w
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NU ROOTS
Bar
Special Event/ 27 Apr
€0 (Free admission, no booking required)
NU ROOTS is back again! Now fiercer than ever, Fried Plantains Collective is ready to blow the roof off Live Collision with set the best of Irish and African talent in Dublin right now. An exceptional
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Welcome Town
Meeting Point Project Arts Centre
Performance/ 27 Apr
€0 (booking required)
Welcome Town invites you on a personal walk with Natasha Davis, joined by local artists and migrants - mixing facts, performative episodes, recollections and fantasy into a conversation about resilien
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SIRENS
Meeting Point: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Performance/ 27 Apr
€0 (Free admission, no booking required)
SIRENS at Live Collision is the second iteration in a series of test events. Celina Muldoon is collaborating with writer Sue Rainsford and producer/musician Keith Mannion. Together they are explorin
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Cock and Bull
Cube
Performance/ 27 Apr
€14-16
Responding to the meaninglessness and repetition of empty political promise, the privilege of the governmental elite and the deep discontent of an increasingly disproportionate and divided society, th
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The Best Banned in the Land - A Forum on Artistic Freedom of Expression
Space Upstairs
Special Event/ 30 Apr
€0-5
The ordered removal of Maser’s Repeal the 8th mural has brought censorship to the fore once again. Is freedom of artistic expression being limited in Ireland? Are issues such as funding, promot
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Dublin Dance Festival 2019
Dance/ 01 May - 19 May
Free Admission
Collective release, worlds collide, everybody moves. Explore the 2019 Dubin Dance Festival edition at Project Arts Centre. A world of party, politics and power.
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MAYDAY - The Fight To Save Our World
Space Upstairs
01 May
€8-10
The world is in ecological crisis. This is an emergency. Join GCN and Extinction Rebellion for an evening of information, learning, conversation and action around what each of us can do to effect mean
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'SICK GIRLFRIEND' NAOISE ROO + GUESTS
Cube
Music/ Performance/ 04 May
€0 (Free admission, booking required)
Returning after an extended hiatus from the world of music, Irish songstress Naoise Roo invites you to join her for a night of art, music, theatre and spoken word.
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In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: Roberto Castello / ALDES (Italy)
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 07 May - 08 May
€18- €22
‘We go around at night consumed by fire’, by controversial Italian choreographer Roberto Castello, explores a life engulfed by endless desire. Fusing cinema, dance and theatre, four dancers move t
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Phoenix: Eric Minh Cuong Castaing / Shonen (France/Palestine)
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 11 May
€18-22
This piece for drones and dancers evokes two opposing realities – one of innocent childhood play, the other of deadly modern warfare.
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First Looks
Cube
Dance/ 11 May - 18 May
€10
First Looks is a chance to see new works-in-development by dance artists in Ireland including work by Lucia Kickham, Deirdre Griffin with Craig Cox and CoisCéim Dance Theatre
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Dance on Film: Merce Cunningham, A Lifetime of Dance
Space Upstairs
Film/ 12 May
€8-10
This documentary is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary artist, whose revolutionary take on modern dance is brilliantly explained in a film that places interviews with the master, and footage of his
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Modes of Capture Symposium: An Introduction
Space Upstairs
Special Event/ 12 May
€0 (Free admission, booking required)
Dr Jenny Roche hosts a panel discussion with Dr Linda Murray, Curator of the Dance Archive at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts; Dr Finola Cronin, Lecturer in Drama Studies at University
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Tiny Dancer: A DJ Set for Kids
Cube
Dance/ 12 May
€6 (under 1s go free)
It’s time to let the kids throw some shapes and bust out their best moves as they’re taken on a special musical rollercoaster ride, that parents will love too. Expect funky dance anthems from ever
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Dance on Film: A Selection of Shorts
Space Upstairs
Film/ 13 May
€8-10
This year’s Dance on Film sees a carefully curated programme of six short films that includes a selection of Light Moves Festival 2018 Award Winners, some recent French releases, and the premiere of
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DRAFF | Cube Takeover
Cube
Special Event/ 14 May - 16 May
€10
DRAFF, the living archive of experimental performance-making, brings three workshops by three boundary-breaking international artists to DDF. Creating work that pushes the limits of what dance can b
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Ensemble: Robbie Synge & Lucy Boyes (Scotland)
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 15 May
€18-22
On a sparse and open stage five performers, ranging in age from 30 to 76, share a journey of interactions that lays bare their strengths, efforts and possibilities. Light and poignant in equal measure
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Inventions: Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland)
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 16 May - 17 May
€18-22
Inventions centres around two extraordinary women: Belfast-based Oona Doherty, one of Europe's most gifted dance artists, and 84-year-old American dance legend Valda Setterfield, winner of a Herald An
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Sound and Stage: New Music | DRAFF x ddr
Cube
Music/ 16 May
€6
DRAFF have teamed up with Dublin Digital Radio (ddr.) to host a night of music by two of Ireland’s most adventurous sound designers for dance and theatre: Kevin Gleeson will make his first appearanc
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Dēmos: Liz Roche Company (Ireland)
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 18 May
€5
Sharing a mutual admiration for each other’s work, Liz Roche and composer David Coonan have begun a collaboration to create a major new piece for orchestra and dancers in partnership with the RTÉ C
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Midsummer (a play with songs)
Cube
Theatre/ 22 May - 08 Jun
€14-18
Midsummer is a musical tour through Edinburgh; a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers. A collaborati
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Sandra Johnston: Ghosting Through Situations of Minor Importance (working title)
Gallery
Exhibitions/ 29 Aug - 17 Oct
€0 (Free Admission)
This solo exhibition with newly commissioned video work of Sandra Johnston at Project commences in late August and partly revisits her time spent in Dublin during the late 1990s. As an emerging artist
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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
Programme Announcement: 2019 Exhibitions at Project
April 11 2019, at 12:46pm
Project Arts Centre is proud to present a new season of solo exhibitions featuring work from leading international artists. Highlights from the 2019 visual arts programme will include Exorcisms, the first solo exhibition in Ireland of Israeli-American artist, writer and film director Roee Rosen that negotiates the alternate forms and practices of devotion, possession and politicized demonology, and a landmark solo exhibition with a new commission from Northern Irish artist Sandra Johnston. The 2019 programme will close out an exhibition of work from one of the most outstanding feminist and queer artists of her generation, Prague-based visual artist Anna Daučíková.…
Read MoreProject Arts Centre and Arts & Disability Ireland announce the recipient of the REALISE production award
March 21 2019, at 12:30pm
Project Arts Centre and Arts & Disability Ireland are delighted to announce the recipient of the REALISE production award for theatre and contemporary dance artists with disabilities. The REALISE Award is designed to support the production and presentation of ambitious new work by individual artists. It represents an exciting opportunity to present ambitious new work that reflects the complexity of contemporary life in Ireland to a diverse audience. The final recipient is playwright Roderick Ford. Roderick will receive a production award of €40,000 for production of his play The Spider’s House at Project Arts Centre in February 2020. Speaking about…
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