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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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Date:2018-02-12
Active Archive - Slow Institution
Gallery
Exhibitions/ 31 Aug - 22 Dec
€0.00 (Admission Free)
The gallery will be transformed into a research-archive-work-meeting space and a study of the documents and archives that uncover the history of one of Ireland’s oldest public art institutions.
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Couched - performative sculptural work (2018)
Gallery
04 Oct - 22 Dec
€0.00 (Admission Free)
In this new performative commission Christopher Mahon further develops his most recent sculptural experiments using his family couch. The piece of furniture was designed by his father in 1988 and has
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Process | Event
Cube
Film/ 30 Oct - 04 Dec
€6-8
A unique series of artist-led discursive screening events featuring Jenny Brady, Sarah Browne, Dennis McNulty and Tadhg O'Sullivan presented by aemi, an agency dedicated to the support and exhibition
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Talk and Think Tank: Sebastian Cichocki
Gallery
Special Event/ 31 Oct
€0.00 (Free, no booking required)
Active Archive - Slow Institution continues with a series of seminars and events led by international artists, curators and critics.
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Recovery
Cube
Theatre/ 08 Nov - 10 Nov
€14-16
Peter Coonan (Love/Hate) and Maud Lee (Maud in Cahoots) star in this live staging of a concept pop album combining twelve original pop-styled songs with contemporary choreography to paint a moving por
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Relatively Speaking Guided Walking Tour: November 2018
Project Arts Centre
Exhibitions/ 08 Nov
€0.00 (free)
Discover some of Temple Bar’s best keep secrets as three city centre galleries - Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Black Church Print Studios and Project Arts Centre - join forces for a guided walking t
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The Bystander
Space Upstairs
Dance/ 09 Nov - 10 Nov
€18-20
What makes us help someone and what makes us simply stand by? An intriguing and adventurous production by multi-award winning dance theatre innovators, Junk Ensemble. Inspired by the ‘bystander effe
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PANNED
Cube
Theatre/ 12 Nov - 17 Nov
€14-18
This fast paced, comic and unsettling one-man adventure sees our Lost Boy pulled apart by the voices inside his head. As Seán goes through the motions of a night out in town, what he says and what he
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Woman Undone
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 16 Nov - 24 Nov
€20-22
A fusion of theatre, music and dance, Woman Undone is a re-imagining of singer Mary Coughlan's extraordinary life and her difficult childhood. It tells the story of a young woman who endured abuse, ad
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My Magnetic North
Cube
Performance/ 19 Nov - 24 Nov
€14-16
What’s the fallout when you lose your magnetic north and you find yourself directionless? Combining moving images, photography and spoken word, My Magnetic North explores one man’s observations of
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SAY NOTHIN' TO NO ONE
Cube
Theatre/ 26 Nov - 01 Dec
€16-18
Kian Harris is a career shoplifter. Charleigh Brennan is a career session moth. These two young professionals are bound together by a love of fashion and a yearning for escape. Now London is calling a
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I Am Tonie Walsh
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 27 Nov - 01 Dec
€20
Known as Ireland's Godfather of Gay, Tonie Walsh is a living legend. For decades he has fought tirelessly for civil rights - for housing rights, women's rights, and queer rights - while the country ch
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Poetry Ireland: Carol Ann Duffy and Theo Dorgan
Space Upstairs
Special Event/ 01 Dec
€8-10
Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's Poet Laureate reads alongside Theo Dorgan, one of Ireland's best-known poets. The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have mad
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Cultivating Stories
Gallery
Exhibitions/ 03 Dec - 22 Dec
€Free Admission
In a multi-year explorative project hosted by Project Arts Centre and conducted in collaboration with Archive Books, Berlin, visual artist and amateur plant breeder Åsa Sonjasdotter researches histor
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Miscellany50
Space Upstairs
Special Event/ 07 Dec - 09 Dec
€16-18
Miscellany50 is a celebratory radio festival weekend of short writing and music produced to salute fifty years on air in 2018 of Sunday Miscellany, RTÉ Radio 1’s iconic programme. Five concerts wil
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THE THEATRE MACHINE TURNS YOU ON. Vol 5
Cube
Theatre/ 11 Dec - 15 Dec
Free Admission
Follow in the footsteps of over a hundred artists who have presented work in 4 iterations of THEATRE MACHINE since 2009. The time is now.
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Dublin Oldschool
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 12 Dec - 22 Dec
€18-22
With smash-hit runs both at home and abroad, and hot on the heels of its triumphant cinematic release, Dublin Oldschool returns home to Project. Join wannabe DJ Jason on a chemically enhanced trip thr
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Mangina Jones' Big Christmas Cracker
Space Upstairs
Comedy/ Performance/ Special Event/ 14 Dec - 15 Dec
€25
Join the erstwhile Alternative Miss Ireland for two festive nights of gaiety with some of Ireland's best loved stars. Expect the unexpected in this fabulous trifle of performance, art and music.
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Walk For Me
Space Upstairs
Music/ Performance/ 16 Jan - 26 Jan
€16 - 18
Expect sex, decks and original songs by MissKate, MathMan and Bobofunk.
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I'm Not Here
Space Upstairs
Theatre/ 01 Feb - 02 Feb
€16 - 18
It's a duet with her brother. He’s not here. He is dead. Doireann Coady is back with a powerful play that smashes through the silence around suicide.
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Rapids
Cube
Theatre/ 07 Feb - 09 Feb
€16 - 20
Exploring stigma in the lives of men and women who are HIV+ in Ireland today, Rapids returns following its sell-out run at Dublin Theatre Festival.
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This is the Funeral of your Life
Cube
Theatre/ 13 Feb - 16 Feb
€16 - 18
Watch us facilitate your funeral in real time, in this live event featuring an actor, a dancer and a mezzo soprano.
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East Belfast Boy & Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful (Double Bill)
Cube
Theatre/ 18 Feb - 20 Feb
€16 - 18
A double bill of Theatre from award-winning company Prime Cut Productions.
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The Wickedness of Oz
Cube
Theatre/ 25 Feb - 03 Feb
€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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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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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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Latest From the Newsroom
We're Recruiting: Centre Technician
October 05 2018, at 02:37pm
Project Arts Centre is seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Centre Technician. The Centre Technician will be a key member of the Project team and will be responsible in the first instance to the Production Manager and ultimately to the General Manager. This role will involve the provision of technical support to all visiting groups, companies, artists, and individuals in the presentation of Project Arts Centre's Artistic Programme and will require flexibility given the busy work environment and the varied requirements of a multi-disciplinary arts centre. A full job description and more information about how to apply can be downloaded here.…
Read MoreWe're Recruiting: Communications & Development Manager
September 25 2018, at 11:48am
Project Arts Centre is seeking an experienced, energetic and creative Communications & Development Manager to undertake the efficient and effective delivery of an ambitious communications and fundraising strategy as part of a larger organisational strategy, Project 2020. The Communications and Development Manager is a key member of the Project Arts Centre team who will report to directly to the General Manager and work closely with the Artistic Director and other staff to develop and deliver Project’s communications and income generation strategies. The role will include the management of institutional marketing, press and publicity, staff, and the development of strategies for…
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