Upcoming Events

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Choose from theatre, music, dance, visual arts and everything in between.

Tiny Dancer: A DJ Set for Kids with Donal Dineen

Special Event / 29 Jun 2019 5-7 Space Upstairs
It’s time for the kids to throw some shapes and bust out their best moves as DJ Donal Dineen hits the decks for a special musical rollercoaster ride. Expect dance tunes from every era and every corner of the globe. So if you’re ready to get into the groove, lace up your dancing shoes and grab those glowsticks.
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Extinction Rebellion Youth: First Members Meeting

Special Event / 20 Jun 2019 0 (Free, booking required) Cube
XR have been campaigning globally for action on the climate crisis and at this meeting we’ll be launching the youth voice of the XR movement in Ireland. It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis, but joining XR Youth empowers young people to be the change they want to see in the world.
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#CALLITOUT – A Queer Perspective

Special Event / 05 Jun 2019 5-3 Space Upstairs
GCN presents, in conjunction with TENI and the Call It Out campaign, an evening of conversation exploring the complex and multifaceted nature of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia as experienced by LGBT+ people in today's Ireland.
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DRAFF | Cube Takeover

Special Event / 14 May 2019 - 16 May 2019 10 Cube
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 be, these artists mine the full potential of the body. They view the body as a critical site of knowing, as an archive, as multiply intelligent.
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Modes of Capture Symposium: An Introduction

Special Event / 12 May 2019 0 (Free admission, booking required) Space Upstairs
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 College Dublin; and Val Bourne CBE, Founder/Artistic Director, Dance Umbrella, London and Founding Board Member, Dublin Dance Festival.
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The Best Banned in the Land – A Forum on Artistic Freedom of Expression

Special Event / 30 Apr 2019 0-5 Space Upstairs
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, promotion, social media restrictions and discrimination creating conditions for self-censorship? Join a host of artists and activists as we remember and examine censorship.
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