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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….
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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

there is plenty to fuel your imagination. With two theatres and a gallery Project Arts Centre offers a huge variety of events at great value and is located close to a host of great restaurants and bars. The gallery presents a series of free exhibitions throughout the year and tickets to performance range from €0-€25.

23/08/2025

Our Open Day is fast approaching...who's next up on the roster? 🔥 Catch them in Project on Aug 30th! Free for all to attend, no booking required.

Leonardo Oliveira's short film 'Sunflower' will be screening and tells the story who came to Ireland to make a new life. She faces a health problem that changes her life and her journey - come see this beautiful film that will uplift and move you 🌻

The Q***r History of Project Arts Centre will be explored by our very own house manager Han Tiernan, who will go through the LGBTQ+ history from 1966 - 2000s 🏳️‍🌈

And the talented Ingrid Machaddo will be screening her short film 'Roll 1: What am I looking at?' which follows a young woman wandering through Galway with an analogue camera and a head full of intrusive thoughts. Come see for yourself....

Our Tola Vintage merch collaboration Take Care Of Each Other will also be up for grabs on the day - with all proceeds going towards Black and Irish initiatives in Project Arts Centre. Come for the artists, grab some merch and tour the building!

As always, our Open Day is a free, accessible and open to all event, with no booking required⚡Pop in and see what catches your eye!

You can check out the full programme for the day via https://projectartscentre.ie/events/project-arts-centre-open-day-2025/
August 30 11 am - 5pm | Project Arts Centre Open Day ❤️‍🔥

Join us at 11am on Aug 30 when our Artistic Director Sophie Motley will be giving a building tour for our Open Day - eve...
22/08/2025

Join us at 11am on Aug 30 when our Artistic Director Sophie Motley will be giving a building tour for our Open Day - everything from backstage antics to some Artistic Director secrets, come along and check us out!

Our very own House Manager Han Tiernan will also present 'Foul, Filthy, Stinkin', Muck', a short presentation exploring the origins of the Project Arts Centre and its early days of LGBTQ+ theatre at 12:30pm 🌈

Both events start early on in the day so make sure you pop in on the morning and get a Hibiscus Welcome Drink from Tawla Collectivebefore setting off on the tour!

As always, our Open Day is a free, accessible and open to all event, with no booking required⚡Pop in and see what catches your eye!

You can check out the full programme for the day via https://projectartscentre.ie/events/project-arts-centre-open-day-2025/
August 30 11 am - 5pm | Project Arts Centre Open Day ❤️‍🔥

Only a handful of tickets left 📢 Join us for a special night of live music as three Hong Kong-Irish artists share the st...
21/08/2025

Only a handful of tickets left 📢 Join us for a special night of live music as three Hong Kong-Irish artists share the stage together for the first time.

With solo sets from Chris Wong, Khidyie and Touzai, expect a distinct mix of voices and genres 🎵

Chris Wong is an R&B/soul artist known for his keen observations and catchy melodies. Khidyie creates dreamy, poetic folk music that captures the magic of everyday moments. Touzai blends 90s alt-rock and shoegaze with raw emotion.

Hosted by Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍 this event will be a joyful gathering of community and creativity where everyone is welcome. There’ll even be some complimentary Hong Kong treats afterwards to end the night on an extra sweet note!
Poster Photographs (Left to Right): Karl Magee, Georgia Levins, Carrie Davenport.

The Cube | Saturday, 23 August | €18 / €16
https://projectartscentre.ie/events/a-night-of-hong-kong-irish-music/

On August 30, we will have a selection of short films running in The Cube for our film fanatics and media lovers 🎬 Rebel...
20/08/2025

On August 30, we will have a selection of short films running in The Cube for our film fanatics and media lovers 🎬

Rebellious Hope is a deeply personal and quietly urgent dance film, created by choreographer Philip Connaughton in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Luca Truffarelli and Tony-nominated, multi-disciplinary composer Mel Mercier. Commissioned by Bealtaine Festival and Project Arts Centre, presented by Philip Connaughton, in association with Once Off Productions.

We then have a short film collection for talented Brazilian filmmakers that will uplift, inspire and move you. Leonan Ribeiro, Ingrid Machado, Leonardo Oliveira and Eric Limão are bringing their amazing work to Project and we can't wait for you to see them 👀

Fatima Groups United will also screen their short film 'Who Are We Now, Together?' a short film depicting the work of LGBTQ+ community group Out South-Central and arts worker Hannah Scrine. The film reflects on how LGBTQ+ communities are mis/represented in arts projects and how to avoid using qu**rs as decoration - come along as see for yourself 🏳️‍🌈

As always, our Open Day is a free, accessible and open to all event, with no booking required⚡Pop in and see where the day takes you!

You can check out the full programme for the day via https://projectartscentre.ie/events/project-arts-centre-open-day-2025/
August 30 11 am - 5pm | Project Arts Centre Open Day ❤️‍🔥

19/08/2025

Hear from the next three artists on our Open Day roster! Will we see you there on Sat Aug 30? 🪩

Project Artist Jessie Thompson will be here on the day at 11am for her movement and performance workshop - whether you are an actor, dance or anything in between, this is for you.

BLKCNVS will be in-house giving us a taste of the Sweet Spot with some sick beats that will get you moving ❤️‍🔥

Followed by the iconic G!O and Elo to end the day off on a high of house, disco, pop and some Brazilian rhythms 🇧🇷

As always, our Open Day is a free, accessible and open to all event, with no booking required⚡Pop in and see what catches your eye!

You can check out the full programme for the day via https://projectartscentre.ie/events/project-arts-centre-open-day-2025/
August 30 11 am - 5pm | Project Arts Centre Open Day ❤️‍🔥

🪩 Get ready to dance free and eat good at this years Open Day with these four artists on the roster!On Sat 30 Aug, we ha...
16/08/2025

🪩 Get ready to dance free and eat good at this years Open Day with these four artists on the roster!

On Sat 30 Aug, we have DJ Blckcnvs supplying the tunes in the upper foyer and giving you a taste of The Sweet Spot Social 🎧

IBILE will also be in the house presenting a taste of the modern West African dining experience that honours tradition while embracing innovation. Free Jollof rice? YES PLEASEEEE ❤️‍🔥

As well as the amazing TAWLA Collective who will welcome us with a gorge Hibiscus welcome drink before coming back later to give us a hospitality art experience!

And to lead us out on the night, Crystal Q***r Club are on the decks celebrating diversity, inclusion, and the power of electronic dance music.

We are buzzing to be bringing a group of Ireland's most exciting creatives and collectives for this Open Day and can't wait for you to join. Surely you're not missing this one? 🪩

As always, our Open Day is a free, accessible and open to all event, with no booking required⚡Pop in and see what catches your eye!

You can check out the full programme for the day via the https://projectartscentre.ie/events/project-arts-centre-open-day-2025/
August 30 11 am - 5pm | Project Arts Centre Open Day ❤️‍🔥

15/08/2025

Our annual Open Day 2025 is just around the corner and we chatted with some of the artists to find out what you can expect from the day ❤️‍🔥

Grainnemir is a Palestinian theatre maker, storyteller and educator who will be bringing his One of Many workshop to the Open Day to teach about cultural tools to resist and confront oppression - we are so happy to have them join us on the day 🇵🇸

Our fearless Artistic Director Sophie Motley will be giving a building tour on the day and an insight into what she does here - no better time to learn about Project secrets 😉

We also spoke with the wonderful Hannah from Fatima Groups United who spoke to us about the short film screening 'Who Are We Together, Now?' as part of the Out South Central LGBTQ+ Community Group 🏳️‍🌈

Our Tola Vintage merch collaboration Take Care Of Eachother will also be up for grabs on the day - with all proceeds going towards Black and Irish initiatives in Project Arts Centre. Come for the artists, grab some merch and tour the building!

As always, our Open Day is a free, accessible and open to all event, with no booking required⚡Pop in and see what catches your eye!

You can check out the full programme for the day viahttps://projectartscentre.ie/events/project-arts-centre-open-day-2025/
August 30 11 am - 5pm | Project Arts Centre Open Day ❤️‍🔥

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝 / 𝘼𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙚, a new experimental moving image work by artist Jenny Brady, is running in our gallery ...
14/08/2025

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝 / 𝘼𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙚, a new experimental moving image work by artist Jenny Brady, is running in our gallery until Oct 4! Have you caught a screening yet?

Thank you to Ste Murray for capturing these gorgeous stills.

In 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝 / 𝘼𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙚, Jenny Brady casts a cinematic gaze on the figure of the interpreter, exploring the interpreting profession and the contemporary landscape of interpretation. Through vignettes set in both extreme and familiar environments, the film portrays the processes of listening, speaking, and forgetting within acts of formal and informal interpretation.

This work has been generously funded through the Arts Council’s Film Project Award and premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2025.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝 / 𝘼𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙚 by Jenny Brady
Running until 4 October | 11am - 6pm (Closed Sundays)
Free to attend, as always!

More information, along with the screening times, are available at https://projectartscentre.ie/events/the-glass-booth-an-both-gloine/

DANCEHALL is back.LuailDance are making their Project debut on 23 & 24 October. A decade after its original creation, E...
14/08/2025

DANCEHALL is back.
LuailDance are making their Project debut on 23 & 24 October.

A decade after its original creation, Emma Martin and Andrew Hamilton’s celebratory Dancehall returns—bolder and more alive than ever—reimagined for Luail’s company of dancers.

October 23 & 24 | 7.30pm | €22/20
https://projectartscentre.ie/events/dancehall/

Drawn from the shadows of Ireland’s Public Dance Halls Act, this exhilarating work revels in the powerful simplicity and raw humanity of the dancehall—a space where freedom, resistance, and individuality unapologetically meet in messy, sweaty, chaotic joy.

Dancehall is an unrestrained tribute to what it means to be alive—together, egos smashed up, in the moment.

Presented by Luail – Ireland’s National Dance Company
By Emma Martin, with music by Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble.
Luail is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
📷 : Patricio Cassinoni

🪩 OPEN DAY ANNOUNCEMENT 🪩 Project Artist Jessie Thompson will be in the building on Saturday, Aug 30 presenting a free m...
13/08/2025

🪩 OPEN DAY ANNOUNCEMENT 🪩 Project Artist Jessie Thompson will be in the building on Saturday, Aug 30 presenting a free movement & performance workshop 🤩

In this workshop, Jessie will present some ideas and tools to the participants, welcoming people from all disciplines and backgrounds who have an interest in movement or/and performance. Dancers, actors, musicians - and all in between - are welcome to join! This workshop will take place in the Space Upstairs at 11 am.

Through using elements of her live dance work to date such as CRAWLER, Dance Music For the Apocolypse & BENCH, the workshop will look at presence in the body as performance, collaboration within an environment and sustaining endurance.

This workshop encourages beginners as-well as professional practitioners to engage with their physicality in a theatrical setting 💙

𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦:
This workshop will be ISL interpreted, in a relaxed space, where you can come and go if need.

As always, our Open Day is a free, accessible and open to all event, with no booking required⚡Pop in and see what catches your eye!

You can check out the full programme for the day via https://projectartscentre.ie/events/project-arts-centre-open-day-2025/
August 30 11 am - 5pm | Project Arts Centre Open Day ❤️‍🔥

The last Sweet Spot Social of the summer is on the way! 🪩 🍬 On Friday Aug 22nd Big Cheeks will be taking over & hosting ...
12/08/2025

The last Sweet Spot Social of the summer is on the way! 🪩 🍬

On Friday Aug 22nd Big Cheeks will be taking over & hosting the next Sweet Spot Social with an all women line-up.

Sweet Spot Socials are a chance for you to release some stress from this wild ride we call life. Come through and unwind after the grind — you deserve it! Let loose, shake rump & maybe make a new friend.

22nd August | 6.30 - Late | 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 €𝟱
Guest DJs: Unity / Thxtti / Big Cheeks
Secure your ticket via the link https://projectartscentre.ie/events/sweet-spot-social-w-big-cheeks/ 💙

Haven't you heard? 👀 This year Dublin Fringe Fest are introducing a Pay What You Can initiative for one night of the fe...
11/08/2025

Haven't you heard? 👀 This year Dublin Fringe Fest are introducing a Pay What You Can initiative for one night of the festival to improve access to live performance — and we’re buzzing to be involved ⚡

On Wednesday 17 September (after 7PM) you choose what you pay for a performance of Alison Spittle's BIG or David McGovern's SHREDDER — whether that’s a lower price, the standard rate, or a little extra to help someone else come too.

You can book tickets for BIG and SHREDDER through fringefest.com 💙

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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.