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Project Arts Centre

Name: Project Arts Centre
Address: 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, D02RD45, IE
Telephone: +35318819613
Price range: ££
Rating: 4.7

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"The city's most interesting venue…You never know what to expect, which makes it all that more fun” Lonely Planet. Charity No: CHY6465
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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 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.

13/10/2026

Calling all club lovers and club avoiders alike – WIRED is BACK on 5 Nov for its winter edition! €10 tickets available to book now via the link below.

After a few months rest we are gearing up for another night of neuro-friendly realness. Picture gentle ambient lighting, soft quiet furnishings, chill groovy sounds, and high-energy BPMs inviting you to stim the night away.

This is the third edition of the hottest event to headline Dublin’s nightlife scene. Each part of our space will embody its own atmosphere, energy and pace. Whether it’s a high-energy or a relaxed club experience you’re after, this is your opportunity to take up space and dance on your terms.

Are you ready to get WIRED one final time in 2026?

5 Nov | Space Upstairs & Bar
🎟️ Tickets €10 via the link: https://bit.ly/4yOoG2M

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12/10/2026

As we enter week 2 of the run of 4.48 Psychosis, Director Tom Creed and Actor Marty Rea chat all things Sarah Kane and what we can expect from Marty's first ever performance in Project.

With this also being their first time working together, the duo reflect on their shared experience of bringing the work to life in such an intimate space as the Cube, as well as their own personal relationships with the text.

Radical, intimate and darkly funny, 4.48 Psychosis remains “a work of extraordinary beauty” (The New York Times) — confronting despair, lucidity, survival and death with devastating clarity.

Running until 17 Oct in the Cube.

Find out more via the link: https://bit.ly/4gu8NaP

09/10/2026

Calling all live music lovers! Grammy award-winning pianist Francesco Turrisi launches his album Vuci on 22 Oct with a multimedia show in the Space Upstairs, exploring his Sicilian roots and migration through music, archival recordings, and poetry. Tickets from €20 via the link below.

The album is an exploration of Turrisi’s Sicilian roots through a series of solo piano compositions inspired by the time he spent on the island as a child. It is a reflection on migration: that of his own family leaving Sicily, and the more recent one of people arriving on its shores.

After the performance Francesco Turrisi will be joined by Kate Ellis to discuss the new album, followed by a Q&A. Vuci vinyl will be available to purchase on the night for €35.

22 Oct, 7:30pm | Space Upstairs
🎟️ €22/20 via the link: https://bit.ly/4AiGbt2

Bundle: Full price ticket + Vuci vinyl: €50. Your vinyl will be available to collect on the night from our box office before the performance.

With thanks to Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Dublino
Photography by Karen Cox. IDs in ALT Text.

08/10/2026

Here it is! Our final visual arts exhibition of 2026: Plantation, by Rehana Zaman. Join us on Thursday 22 Oct from 6 – 8pm for the opening in our gallery, kindly sponsored by Febvre Wines🍷 As always, our openings are free to attend, no booking required.

Plantation is a new solo exhibition by artist Rehana Zaman, exploring land use, labour and environmental collapse through the experiences of agricultural workers. The exhibition includes two new films presented within an immersive sculptural landscape.

The films 'Soft Fruit' (filmed in Angus, Scotland) and Jo Kherray so Khaey' (filmed in Punjab, Pakistan), follow migrant seasonal workers, sharecroppers, tenants and day labourers as they pick, prepare and transport cash crops.

Plantation explores the nature of work on modern industrial farms driven by the accumulation of profit, extractive processes that exhaust and deplete both land and worker, and an increasingly precarious labour force positioned according to class and caste.

Running until 19 December in our gallery.
Find out more via the link: https://bit.ly/3TRafeS

Plantation by Rehana Zaman is co-commissioned by Site Gallery, Glasgow International, Project Arts Centre and Chapter in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery. Produced by Site Gallery. Research and development supported by Hospitalfield.

Rehana Zaman’s commission and exhibition has been made possible with support from Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation, the Joanna Drew Travel Bursary and Goldsmiths University of London Strategic Research Fund.

With thanks to Sara Greavu – former Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre, who initiated Project's collaboration with our international partners for this exhibition – for her ongoing support. With thanks also to Fire Station Artists’ Studios for their generous support throughout.

We would also like to thank Rory Rowan and Patrick Bresnihan for consultation on the public programme of events to accompany the exhibition.

Poster design by Take Courage
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07/10/2026

An “ambitious, memorable piece that treats familiar themes in new, even alien ways.” – Irish Times

ALIENS is coming to Project as part of its Irish tour on 4 & 5 Nov, written and performed by IFTA award-winning writer & director Alessandra Celesia (The Flats, 2025). Tickets from €18 via the link below.

Join a real-life mother and daughter on a road trip from Donegal to southern Italy, as they weave their personal stories with those of Italian immigrants in Northern Ireland.

Blending performance, video, archive testimony and live electronic music, the duo meet present-day migrants, activists and strangers along the route, asking who gets to draw the lines between us and them.

4 & 5 Nov | Cube
🎟️ Tickets €20/18 via the link: https://bit.ly/4y5G4yE

Image credit: Jim Corr (1 & 2) and Piero Oronzo (3 & 4)
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ALIENS Autumn 2026 Irish Tour is funded by the Arts Council Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

06/10/2026

Big news! 🇮🇹 For one night only on 6 Nov the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin presents PRE-GIUDIZIO, an international dance performance in collaboration with Gruppo Danza Oggi. Tickets from €15 via the link below.

PRE-GIUDIZO is a choreographic project of dramatic movements that exposes silent prejudice, what crawls between people and what becomes a barrier. Every step becomes resistance, every gesture a struggle against the chains of preconceived thought.

Manipulation, conformity, conditioning and consensus stifle personal development: when everyone looks of things from the same perspective, individual talent is stifled.

This is a question. Do you believe this too?

It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. Do you have the answer?

6 November, 7:30pm | Space Upstairs
🎟️ Tickets €20/15 via the link: https://bit.ly/3VwDa8F

05/10/2026

Closing this week! 📣 Only a few days left to catch A Disentailing Deed by Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, which explores how cultural, political and environmental issues are affected by ideas of ‘Irishness’. Find out more at the link below.

This is the duo's first collaborative exhibition in Dublin in 13 years, bringing together many strands from their practice and draws on their extensive research into Irish and Diasporic histories. With video installation, hand-replicated historical objects and a newly composed score, this immersive exhibition foregrounds stories of contested histories, collective action, and the struggle to authentically remember.

Our gallery is free to attend, no booking required! Open Mon – Sat, 11am – 6pm. Running until Sat 10 October.

Find out more at the link: https://bit.ly/4waGfZA

02/10/2026

Opening next week! Following her production of WHITEWASHING in 2025's Dublin Theatre Festival, acclaimed French theatre maker Rébecca Chaillon returns to Project with La Parabole du Seum [Parable of the Sour], the production’s Irish premiere. Running from 8 – 10 October in the Space Upstairs.

Rébecca moves Heaven and Earth, including her home territory of Seine-Saint-Denis, to broaden the horizon of what is possible: a parable of venom and anger which seeks to spark dreams, laughter, empathy, and revolt against the coming fascism.

See the show and stay for the conversation. Join Rébecca and members of the company on 9 Oct for a post-show Talking Theatre conversation following La Parabole du Seum – big, messy, world-expanding theatre that brings together fear, anger, humour and the possibilities of the future.

Performed in French with English subtitles.

8 – 10 Oct | Space Upstairs
🎟️ Tickets from €32 via the link: https://bit.ly/46prLcS

Photography by Marikel Lahana.

01/10/2026

Just announced 💥 Beta Festival, Ireland's annual festival of art and technology, is taking over Project from 13 - 21 Nov. This year the festival will bring together artists working across installation, performance, sound, games, AI and digital media. Tickets on sale now at the link below.

We sat down with founder Aisling Murray to chat more about what audiences can expect from the programme coming to Project at the end of the year. From collective video game participation to an interactive sound installation for dogs, our brand new associate festival boasts some of the most innovative Irish and international work being presented today.

Operating across both artistic practice and public engagement, Beta brings together artists, researchers, technologists, policymakers, and audiences to examine issues including AI, digital ethics, ecology, immersive media, and networked culture.

13 – 21 Nov | Cube
Tickets on sale now via the link: https://bit.ly/4rDqaKh

Beta Festival is co-founded by The Digital Hub and is a Project Arts Centre Associate Festival with ADAPT Research Centre as research partner.

29/09/2026

CoisCéim Dance Theatre presents SINGSONG, a world premiere by David Bolger. Running from 28 Nov – 5 Dec in the Space Upstairs. Pay What You Can options available at the link below 🎟️

One body becomes many. A voice becomes a chorus. David Bolger’s luminous new work finds poetry, wit and possibility in the company of others. The cast includes Sibéal Davitt, Anderson De Souza, Alex O’Neill, Simone O’Toole, Anne Rowe, Mufutau Yusuf and more to be announced...

28 Nov - 5 Dec | Space Upstairs
ISL Performance | 2 Dec 7:30pm
Relaxed Performance | 5 Dec 2.30pm
Book now: https://bit.ly/4jufkEr

CoisCéim Dance Theatre is proud to be strategically funded by the Arts Council Ireland and supported by Dublin City Arts Office and Culture Ireland.

Photo credit: Pato Cassinoni
Graphic design: Sha Griffin

Address

39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar
Dublin
D02RD45

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 7pm
Tuesday	11am - 7pm
Wednesday	11am - 7pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	11am - 7pm
Saturday	11am - 7pm

Telephone

+35318819613

Website

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

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