Project Arts Centre
"The city's most interesting venue…You never know what to expect, which makes it all that more fun” Lonely Planet Dublin’s best kept secret….
a venue packed full of surprises, tucked away in the historic cobbled streets of Temple Bar. Choose from theatre, music, dance, visual arts and everything in between. Visit the place that helped to shape and to launch the careers of many Irish artists including: Gabriel Byrne, Jean Butler, Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Jim & Peter Sheridan, Alan Stanford and U2 - and with a packed year round programme
👋🏼 Join us to celebrate Irish Sign Language Awareness Week!
Throughout 2023 and 2024 we’ve been working closely with the Deaf community, and with the support of the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission grant we were able to establish a number of programmes and initiatives to support the Deaf community, highlight some of the barriers experienced and create more opportunities for Deaf artists.
Every day this week we will be sharing the voices of the artists involved, as well as sharing some tips we’ve picked up along the way. Stay tuned over the next few days for information on working with Deaf artists, coordinating accessible performances, digital access and participation!
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23/09/2024
🎉 Applications for MAKE 2024 are now open!
This year, MAKE is taking place The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig , 7 - 14 December 2024
⏰ Deadline for submissions is 5pm on 14 October 2024.
📝 🔗 projectartscentre.ie/news/make-2024-applications-now-open/
MAKE is an artist development programme and residency initiative of Project Arts Centre, Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and Performing Arts Forum. It is open to artists for the purpose of generating new performance work outside of the traditional writer-led model at all career levels.
Since the first MAKE in 2009, over 175 Irish and international artists have been MAKE residents, receiving mentoring support from renowned international theatre makers. Past programmes have borne highly acclaimed performance work and collaborations going on to tour here in Ireland and internationally.
19/09/2024
🤳 A darkly comic new play that blends multimedia, movement and live illustration, CONTENT is the story of the unseen people who are charged with scooping up the sum total of our daily online toxic waste - armed with a teaspoon.
𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧: https://bit.ly/3MRsIkG
written by Ross Dungan and directed by Sara Joyce
as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival
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10-11, 15-18 Oct, 7:45pm
12 & 19 Oct, 7.45pm
13 Oct, 3.45pm
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Tickets
10, 15, 16, 17 Oct: €20/€18
11, 12, 13, 18, 19 Oct: €25/€23
🙌 ISL Interpreted performance: 18 Oct
📍The Space Upstairs
Funded by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Supported by The Digital Hub, Dublin
18/09/2024
📖 An epic adaptation of Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee’s novels, The Jesus Trilogy is a moving saga exploring the legacy of memory, the nature of passion, and dance.
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬 𝗕𝗬 𝗝.𝗠. 𝗖𝗢𝗘𝗧𝗭𝗘𝗘: https://bit.ly/4gy9VIL
🎭 As part of Dublin Theatre Festival
Adapted for the stage by Eoghan Quinn in collaboration with Annabelle Comyn
🗓️ Preview: 9 Oct, 7pm9-12, 15-19 Oct
🗓️ Performances: 10-12, 15-19 Oct, 7pm, 13 Oct, 3pm
🎟️ Preview: €20
🎟️ Performances: 10, 15, 16, 17 Oct: €25/€23
🎟️ 11 ,12, 13, 18, 19 Oct: €30/€27
🌟 Post-show discussion on 13 Oct with Eoghan Quinn & Annabelle Comyn
🙌 ISL Interpreted performance: 16 Oct
📍The Space Upstairs
A world premiere by award-winning Hatch Theatre Company re-unites Annabelle Comyn and Eoghan Quinn (colic, DTF 2022) together with a team of leading creatives including Tom Piper, Stephen Dodd, Philip Stewart and Megan Kennedy.
“There’s qu**rs in every county, homosexuals in the every hamlet, g**s in every gable. And tonight you’ll be talking to some of them.”
Kabosh Theatre Company presents
CALLINGS
6 - 9 November
🎟️ EARLYBIRD OFFER: €18/16 until Friday 27th Sept, when they’re gone they’re gone! On sale now: https://tinyurl.com/3rrnc6fj
As the 70’s rage on, the telephone rings….Callings follows five q***r people who found sanctuary and community on the other end of the phone by seeking solace in Cara-Friend - a befriending service set up in the 1970’s to support the many hidden LGBTQ+ individuals across the north of Ireland. Charged with the music of the day, and set amidst a storm of anti-gay headlines, Callings delves deep into the struggle for survival our q***r communities faced on a daily basis.
In an era when the government attempted to quash their right to exist, these moments of connection were an act of resistance and rebellion.
💞 Embark on a journey with London-based performance artist as they search for the ‘perfect’ s***m donor. The show explores human connection and parenthood, challenging expectations, and redefining what it means to create a family as a transgender person.
𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥: https://bit.ly/47xJuP5
BY Krishna Istha
🗓️ 19 - 21 Sep | 🎟️ €17/€15
⏰ 19 & 20 Sep: 6.30pm | 21 Sep: 12pm, 2pm, 5pm, 7pm
🎉 as part of Dublin Fringe Festival
This performance is a rare opportunity to contribute to and witness q***r family-making, watch the interviews unfold or sign-up as a participant and prospective donor.
Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Roundhouse & Marlborough Productions. Supported by Arts Council England.
11/09/2024
A mismatched trio rent a house owned by an elderly woman now living her last days in a nursing home. Unlikely housemates, they try to find a connection in the short time they’re here- and a space for themselves amongst the stuff of her entire life.
🎭 Dublin Theatre Festival presents
Guest Host Stranger Ghost
By Once Off Productions
4 chances to catch this one! 🏃🏻♂️
THE SPACE UPSTAIRS
🗓️ 3 October 4pm & 12 October 3pm
🎟️ €25/23
THE CUBE
🗓️ 5 & 13 October 1pm
🎟️ €25/23
⏰ 60 mins, no interval
🎟️: https://bit.ly/3B8Q0j3
Playful and boldly inventive, this vagabond new play will criss-cross the city to borrow the stages of other festival productions. With no two performances taking place on the same set, each iteration with offer a completely unique encounter.
A world premiere from Stewart Parker Trust Award winning writer Kate Heffernan, this play is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for a moment of stillness in a life of transience.
📸: Ste Murray
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We want to hear from you! 🗣️
Have you heard? We've reached a mid-way evaluation point for our TEDI Policy (Towards Equality, Diversity and Inclusion), and it's time for us to hear feedback from the voices we trust the most, our audiences, artists, collaborators, and the general public.
💙 If you have a few minutes to spare, please fill out our TEDI Policy Feedback Form, to share your experiences and feedback with us. We want to take this opportunity to learn what is working well and what was more challenging, by listening to how others are experiencing our efforts to create change.
🗣️ Form here: https://bit.ly/3XhEEAX
All answers are confidential and you will not be individually identified.
If you would prefer to speak with us in person or over the phone, please ring our box-office at +353 1 881 9613 to request a call back to speak to our external evaluator, we are more than happy to arrange that for you.
As always, full information is available on our website projectartscentre.ie.
We can't wait to hear from you!
Team Project 💙
04/09/2024
“I was in New York in April, and went to the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition at the Met. The work of Archibald Motley (no relation) just blew me away….”
Did you catch our Artistic Director Sophie Motley in today’s RTE Culture Something For The Weekend? Head over to the to find out what Sophie has her eyes on lately, if she’s really having a Brat summer, and what she sees as the next big thing.
Thank you as always, Culture on RTÉ!
📸: Celeste Burdon
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Something For The Weekend: Sophie Motley's cultural picks Sophie Motley is the new Artistic Director of one of the country's most loved cultural institutions, Project Arts Centre in Dublin...
03/09/2024
🐦 What happens when a bird brings chaos to a small family in the west of Ireland?
𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮 ➡️ https://bit.ly/47fMJe6
🎭 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival
🗓️ Previews: 26-27 Sept, 7.45pm
🗓️ Dates: 28 & 29 Sep, 1 - 5 Oct
🎟️ Previews: €15
🎟️ €25/€23 (28 & 29 Sep, 4 & 5 Oct) | €20/€18 (1-3 Oct)
🎉 Post-show talk with Dee Roycroft: 1 Oct
🤟 ISL Interpreted Performance: 2 Oct
In a world full of weather forecasts and seed arks, 𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮 is a play about birds, migration, and radical hope in an offline future. Even with carbon quotas and power cuts, we will still dance, still sing, and still love. 💚
⏳ Duration: 90 mins, no interval
📍 Space: Cube
02/09/2024
🎤 King Kandoro’s Propaganda World Tour is coming to Dublin!
Properganda In Dublin: https://bit.ly/479Gus0
🗓️ 26 October, 7pm
🎟️ €29
📍 Space Upstairs
Fresh off sold-out shows in Dubai, South Africa, and London, King Kandoro is here to ask the big questions—like why first world museums look like police evidence rooms and why it’s even called the first world in the first place.
This is going to be a sell-out, so grab your tickets now and get ready for a night of laughter and insight!
27/08/2024
Sweaty dancing, fabulous strangeness, abundance, transforming naked bodies, sparkling visual design and gorgeous garments. What’s not to love?
𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 / 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆
Isabella Oberländer & Fearghus Ó Conchúir
🗓️ Preview: 19 Sept 6:15pm
🗓️ Perfromances: 20 & 21 September, 6:15pm | Matinee: 21 September, 3:30pm
👂 Audio Described Performance: 21 September, 6:15pm
🎟️ Preview: €15 | Performances €19/€17 conc.
🎉 as part of Dublin Fringe Festival
https://bit.ly/3AyJd1V
Tearmann Aiteach / Q***r Sanctuary dances a welcoming space that supports flourishing, solidarity and spritely sparkle. It has grown out of Fearghus and Isabella’s separate practices as artists of different gender, generations and nationalities. Their dancing together celebrates what’s possible between their q***r bodies and others.
You’re invited to watch, and if you fancy, to dive in. Dress up or not. Sparkle.
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26/08/2024
🎹 The David O’Doherty of comedy is back!
𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗬, 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗬, 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 𝗢'𝗗𝗢𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗬: https://bit.ly/471Bndk
🗓️ Preview: 17 Sep, 9pm
🗓️ 18 - 21 Sep, 9pm
🗓️ 21 Sep, 1pm
🎟️ Preview: €15
🎟️ €19/€17 conc.
🎉 as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival
Having trained his body and mind to the point of perfection, he has used a very nice pen to write a new concert of talking and songs. Now it’s time to say it out loud.
He’s got fresh batteries for his keyboard and a splendid new hat. He is ready. ARE YOU?
21/08/2024
🍉 Róisín El Charif, an Irish-Palestinian artist from Galway, creates a mesmerising fusion of Arabic and Irish musical traditions. Her unique style weaves Arabic songs into mournful Irish airs, offering a poignant reflection of her dual heritage.
RÓISÍN EL CHERIF: https://bit.ly/3MlzdM1
🗓️ 17 Sep - 8.15pm
🎟️ €16/€14 conc.
🎉 as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival
This unique show brings together El Cherif’s original music, poetry, and films, creating a rich and immersive experience.
🇵🇸 This event is presented in aid of the Palestinian Children Relief Fund.
20/08/2024
Once a celebrated conductor, the Maestro now lives alone, haunted by dreams of past glory and tortured nightly by the visitations of a bloodhungry mosquita.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮
presented by Theatre Lovett
written by Carmel Winters
🎉 as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival
🔗 Book Now: https://bit.ly/3WRZsyz
Preview: 12 Sep, 6:15pm
🗓️ 13 Sep, 6:15pm
🗓️ 14 Sep, 1pm & 9pm
🗓️ 15 Sep, 1pm & 6:15pm
🎟️ Preview: €15 / Performances: €19/€17
🔉 Audio Described Performance: 15 Sep, 6:15pm
This tiny nemesis destroys the Maestro’s dream of a magnificent comeback and plunges him into a war he can’t win. Not until he recognises in his enemy the same need for love and life as in himself.
With an original score by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, this big hearted show follows an artist’s journey from innocence to corruption, delight to downfall.
19/08/2024
🎭 This September performance artist Krishna Istha will interview 100s of participants like here at Project as part of Dublin Fringe Festival, in a quest to find them and their partner a s***m donor, or at least discover the qualities that bring them closer to their perfect match.
Krishna is currently recruiting s***m-havers across all genders, ages, races, and cultures to be interviewed live on stage as part of their Dublin Fringe Festival performance.
🎤 𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚:
What’s your favourite way to move your body?
What do you think happens when we die?
And most importantly, have you watched the Princess Diaries?
This performance is a rare opportunity to contribute to and witness q***r family-making, watch the interviews unfold or sign-up as a participant and prospective donor.
🔗 Click the link to find out more and take part: https://firsttrimester.co.uk/
15/08/2024
Emma met Adam in a Tesco at a strange time in her life. After six months of romance and joy she decides to move out of her mouldy box room and into his apartment...
Dublin Fringe Festival presents
𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗬
A new play by Harry Butler
Book Now ➡️ https://bit.ly/4dIQJWp
(80 mins) | The Cube
🗓️ Preview: 12 Sept, 6:30pm
🗓️ Performances: 13 - 15 Sept, 6:30pm
🗓️ Matinees: 14 & 15 Sept, 15:45pm
🎟️ Preview: €11 | Performances: €16/14
Things are looking up for Emma.
But on her first night in her new home Adam’s ex-girlfriend is waiting for her in the sitting room and she no longer feels safe.
A thrilling story about love and the things we wished we didn’t know 💔
15/08/2024
🫚 𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗨𝗚 ➡️ Click this link to sign up: https://bit.ly/4fIFrTV
🗓️ Wed, 21 Aug: 3-4pm, 4-5pm & 5-6pm
🕰️ 6 spaces are available for each timeslot
🤗 Each participant will learn how to make a Ginger Bug from scratch, will begin their own Ginger Bug and will leave with the materials to continue this fermentation process at home.
🌱 Fermentation is a rich metaphor for community, diversity, and harmony, showcasing the balance of microorganisms, the exchange of sugars, and the sharing of starters and 'SCOBYs' (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast). It’s a centuries-old process of mutual cooperation with our environment and each other.
🌈 Join our Q***r Ecologies research group on the balcony for a special Ginger Bug fermentation workshop next Wednesday!
14/08/2024
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 / 𝘍𝘦𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘯𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘯 is an exhibition with newly commissioned and reconfigured works from Farouk858, Paddy Critchley and Rose Nordin, gathering practices that speak to the political, material, metaphysical and somatic dimensions of language and text.
The flesh of language / Feoil na teangan
Running until 5 October
Gallery open times: 11 am - 6 pm
Free, all welcome.
More info: bit.ly/4coG3er
📷: Finn Harney
13/08/2024
Meet Don Murphy; a proud Irishman, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation’s greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. A Kerry c**k, to be exact.
Dublin Fringe Festival presents
𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗡
by Eva O' Connor & Hildegard Ryan
Book Now ➡️ https://bit.ly/3M5zvXs
(60 mins)
🗓️ 9, 11 & 13 – 15 Sep: 9.15pm
🗓️ 7 Sep: 6.30pm
🗓️ 14 & 15 Sep: 1.15pm
🎟️ 9, 11 & 13 – 15 Sep: €16/€14 conc & 7, 14 & 15 Sep: €16/€14 conc.
✋ ISL Interpreted Performance: 15 Sep: 1.15pm
Join the feathered Oscar winner as he shares his star-studded life story: from moving to New York to getting his big break, having his first bird-on-bird sexual experience, and attempting to navigate life in the spotlight. Along the way, Don will be confronted with some hard truths about himself, chicken-kind and humankind.
💫 Sell out run and winner of Filipa Bragança Award Edinburgh Fringe 2023 💫
12/08/2024
As festival season approaches, we want to remind our audience of the newly integrated NaviLens system we recently installed here at Project!
Through a partnership with Disrupt Disability Arts Festival, Project is proud to have a NaviLens system installed in-house, which brings culture closer to people with disabilities by making visiting an arts space more accessible.
🤳🏼 How to use NaviLens:
1. Download the NaviLens app for IOS or Android
2. Set up the options of the application so that it best suits you.
3. Scan a code through the app and enjoy the experience!
NaviLens does not need to focus and frame the code on the screen. It can also be read at a greater distance than QR codes and that is why it is more accessible! Each individual code throughout the building gives you details of the corresponding space it is located in, allowing you to navigate the space more effectively.
If you’ve any questions at all on how to navigate our NaviLens system, pop us a DM or contact our Box Office at [email protected] 💙
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Ireland’s leading centre for the development and presentation of contemporary art
Project Arts Centre is Ireland’s leading centre for the development and presentation of contemporary art, dedicated to protecting and nurturing the next generation of Irish artists across all forms of the performing and visual arts. Annually we present over 620 events, and curate and co-ordinate 6 exhibitions, as well as supporting the presentation and touring work of a group of independent artists as part of our Project Artist initiative.
Project Arts Centre is proud to be supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.
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