Project Arts Centre

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.

That's a wrap! 🎁 We will be 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 (23 Dec) and re-opening at 10am on 5 January, 2026. Still looking to...
23/12/2025

That's a wrap! 🎁 We will be 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 (23 Dec) and re-opening at 10am on 5 January, 2026. Still looking to pop in for some last minute gift shopping? Our box office will be open until midday today, so catch us if you can!

We would like to take this time to thank all of the artists, audience members and communities who have engaged with us throughout the last 12 months. As we move closer to our 60th anniversary in 2026/27, we are reflecting on a 2025 defined by community, collaboration and artistic engagement.

From a jam-packed artistic calendar to our community engagement programmes, we here at Project will be taking a well earned rest for the festive season. But the work doesn't end here... we have a packed 2026 calendar just around the corner!

From our home to yours, we wish you a very happy and healthy Xmas and new year 💙

Image credits:
1. Variations for Two Disabled Bodies at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2025. Photo by James Ward LostLensCaps.
2. Jessie Thompson's Dance Workshop at our 2025 Annual Open Day. Photo by Patrícia Guimarães.
3. The Decameron / Na Deich Lá by Eva Richardson McCrea. Photo by Louis Haugh.
4. Disrupt Disability Arts Festival 2025. Photo by Simon Lazewski.
5. Equalisation by Dublin Modular. Photo by Alex Del Chill.
6. Hothouse by Malaprop. Photo by Ros Kavanagh.
7. Dancehall by Luail. Photo by Ros Kavanagh.
8. The Black Wolfe Tone by Fishamble and the Irish Repertory Theatre. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
9. Escaped Alone by Hatch Theatre Company and Everyman Theatre in association with Once Off Productions. Photo by Ros Kavanagh.
10. Not A Word by Brú Theatre. Photo by Emilija Jefremova.

22/12/2025

As we wrap things up here in Project for 2025, we've been reflecting on the amazing year we have had welcoming some of the most innovative artists in Ireland and beyond, along with some of the best audiences who come along with them.

Here's some of our staff's 2025 highlights, let us know in the comments what caught your eye this year in Project!

Here's to a whopper 2025 and and even bigger 2026...🕺

18/12/2025

Tomorrow can't come quick enough 🪩 Dublin Modular are BACK in the Big Blue Building tomorrow from 7:30pm till late with a jam-packed line-up of the best of live and electronic artists emerging in Ireland right now. Limited tickets remaining.

Come start the Xmas festivities with us! Grab your nearest and dearest for an unforgettable night of costumes, chaos and community with Dublin Modular.

Dublin Modular is a q***r, artist-run organisation primarily hosting all types of live electronic music, visual and performance events throughout Dublin City in unconventional spaces.

𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗣
𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘜𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴
8-8.45 – BLINNE (LIVE)
9- 9.45 – Qbanaa (LIVE)
10- 10.45 – Marconi’s Mess (LIVE)
11-12.30 – Mooncup
12.30- 2am – Mercorn

𝘝𝘪𝘯𝘺𝘭 𝘉𝘢𝘳
7.30-8 – Dub Modular Krew
9-11pm – Aoife Nic Canna
11-1am – Governess

🎟️ From €18. Get them before they're gone!
Book now via the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/events/dublin-modular-panto/

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲! Join us on Saturday 10 January for an afternoon of events with artist Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, celebrating h...
17/12/2025

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲! Join us on Saturday 10 January for an afternoon of events with artist Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, celebrating his current exhibition 𝘝𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤. Running from 2:30pm - 4:30pm, the afternoon will feature a live performance followed by an in-conversation with Isobel Harbison.

Ciarán will begin the afternoon with a 30-minute performance in The Gallery, expanding on the themes of his solo exhibition. The work explores Ireland’s legacies of colonialism, partition, and state violence, and their relationship to intergenerational trauma and inherited chronic illness.

The performance will be followed by a discussion between Ciarán and Isobel Harbison in The Cube from 3:30pm. Teas and coffees will be served from 3pm.

This event is free, but booking is required. Tickets available now at the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/events/ciaran-o-dochartaigh-performance-qa/

1. Image credit: Garrett Phelan
2. Image credit: Áine Belton
3. Image credit: Artist or Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh

Open Call! 🚨 We are looking for dance artists, both pre-and-professional, who are interested in a week-long dance reside...
15/12/2025

Open Call! 🚨 We are looking for dance artists, both pre-and-professional, who are interested in a week-long dance residency lead by our Dance Artist in Residence Jessie Thompson.

Running from 9 - 14 March 2026 at Project Arts Centre, this performance and development opportunity is specifically looking for female identifying and non-binary individuals.

In collaboration with French dancer & choreographer Chris Fargeot, the week will include morning workshops, choreographic development, and will culminate in a live performance on the 14 March in the Space Upstairs. This performance will be presented in front of a live audience alongside a jam packed programme of dance, film, battles & discussion panels.

Whether you're a female breaker who wants to gain more experience in dance theatre, or a movement curious individual with a basic skill set comfortable with a challenge, this dance residency is for you!

With shared dance backgrounds & practices in contemporary, hip-hop, breaking and ballet, these two facilitators welcome applicants from all dance backgrounds and experience.

Please note: you do not need to be a professional dancer to apply, although a minimum level of intermediate skill level is required within your discipline.

This is not a paid opportunity. Lunches will be provided per person, daily.
Apply now and learn more by clicking the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/news/open-call-for-dance-residency-with-artist-jessie-thompson/

Deadline for submissions: 15th January 6pm.

This project is supported by the Project Arts Centre, the Arts Council Ireland, Dublin City Arts Office, and the France Embassy in Ireland.

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀! Dublin's oldest experimental theatre company Pan Pan are in the house this week with Melbour...
10/12/2025

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀! Dublin's oldest experimental theatre company Pan Pan are in the house this week with Melbourne-based collective APHIDS with their newest work YFEL (★★★★ Irish Times).

Join us today as APHIDS performer Marcus McKenzie takes over our instagram and gives us some behind the scenes insight into the YFEL School of Performing Arts for the artistically deranged.

APHIDS makes experimental work across art forms and contexts: in public space, festivals, digital platforms, across visual and performing arts, major institutions and beyond. Their mission is to collaborate with people inside and outside of the arts to bring attention to social, political and cultural concerns, as well as interrogate power structures and create radical new ways of working together.

YFEL runs until Sat 13 Dec in the Space Upstairs. You can grab the remaining tickets now via the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/events/yfel/

Pan Pan is core funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. APHIDS is supported by Creative Victoria.

Photography credit: Ros Kavanagh

Say hello to 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵: 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 by Kian Benson Bailes with designer Alex Synge (). The perfect stocking filler, t...
09/12/2025

Say hello to 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵: 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 by Kian Benson Bailes with designer Alex Synge (). The perfect stocking filler, tool to unwind, or something for yourself to channel out the noise over the Xmas hols. Join us in marking the end of our 2025 artistic programme with this special limited edition publication. Available for €8 at our box office or online, with collection and delivery options available.

The book is comprised of 10 illustrations inspired by Irish folklore, q***r autobiography, references to sign language, and recurring motifs and patterns designed with both neurodivergent and neurotypical audiences in mind.

Kian is a longstanding friend and collaborator of Project, with his sculptural exhibition 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘺, 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 / 𝘎𝘳á 𝘮𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰í 𝘵𝘩ú, 𝘮𝘰 𝘤𝘩á𝘣ó𝘪𝘨í𝘯 𝘧é𝘪𝘯 opening at Project in 2023 and later touring nationally in 2024. From the northwest of Ireland and currently based in Dublin, his multifaceted practice explores rural Ireland, visual language, and identity.

Combining bespoke commissions and archival drawings, 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵: 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 allows our audiences at Project to engage with our artists and the work that we present in our programme in a different way. Whether to be used as an access resource and support for neurodivergent audiences and artists, or as a last minute stocking filler, gift a piece of art by a local Irish artist this festive season.

Available to buy now! Grab them while you can....💖

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Europe Beyond Access have launched their new report 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, which examines the current state of accessibilit...
08/12/2025

Europe Beyond Access have launched their new report 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, which examines the current state of accessibility in higher arts education across Creative Europe countries and the UK.

The report sheds light on widespread barriers to access and participation, while also identifying examples of promising practice. It calls for a shift from reliance on individual goodwill to the development of structural and institutional change.

While some institutions are taking steps to improve accessibility through flexible entry requirements, dedicated staff and partnerships with specialised organisations, the report concludes that systemic change — not ad-hoc adaptations — is needed.

Accessibility must be recognised as a fundamental part of artistic diversity, not an exception.

Europe Beyond Access is the biggest trans-national project in the world supporting Disabled and Deaf artists to break the glass ceilings of contemporary dance and theatre. The project started in 2018, and in 2024 the second generation has been co-funded once again by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and will run for another 4 years, to 2027.

To read the report and to find out more, hit the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/project/eba-europe-beyond-access/

𝗩𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟳 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆! (★★★★ Irish Times).Drop in to the gallery 11am-6pm (closed Sundays) to catch...
05/12/2025

𝗩𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟳 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆! (★★★★ Irish Times).

Drop in to the gallery 11am-6pm (closed Sundays) to catch Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh's latest sculptural and glass work exhibition before it closes in early 2026! As always, this exhibition is a free event, no booking required.

Ciarán's new work considers Ireland’s legacies of colonialism, partition, and state violence, and their relationship to intergenerational trauma and inherited chronic illness.

The exhibition’s title is taken from the real-life National Health Service (NHS) clinic that attempts to identify the origins or causes of a range of indefinite indicators of disease, including weight loss, fatigue, brain fog and night sweats.

Vague Symptom Clinic by Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh was commissioned by Project Arts Centre and part-funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the % for Arts Scheme.

Supported by the Arts Council/ an Chomhairle Ealaíon, with the support of Derry City & Strabane District Council's (DCSDC) Individual Artist & Cultural Practitioner Award (IACP) and Fire Station Artists’ Studios.

Co-curated by Sara Greavu and Marysia Więckiewicz.
Photography credit: Louis Haugh

Find out more via the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/events/vague-symptom-clinic/

04/12/2025

𝗣𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁! In advance of 𝘠𝘍𝘌𝘓 opening in Project, we caught up with associate producer and sound designer Alice Quinn Banville to chat about her experience as a DJ and the influence of local electronic music producers in Ireland on 𝘠𝘍𝘌𝘓's live soundscape and score.

Running from the 4 - 13 Dec in the Space Upstairs, The YFEL School of Performing Arts brings you through the journey of becoming an artist, where artistic success is guaranteed. Influenced by Faust, dodgy artists’ memoirs, art manifestos and acting manuals; YFEL is a performing arts school for the artistically deranged.

This production is in association with APHIDS. Pan Pan is core funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. APHIDS is supported by Creative Victoria.

Audio Described & ISL Interpreted Performance: Sat 13 Dec, 4pm
Touch Tour: Sat 13 Dec, 2:45pm

🎟️ €28/25 | Previews €23/18
Book now via the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/events/yfel/

𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄! 🍻 Our next IRL group Chat event is happening tomorrow, 4 December, from 5 - 7pm in...
03/12/2025

𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄! 🍻 Our next IRL group Chat event is happening tomorrow, 4 December, from 5 - 7pm in our Bar & Upper Foyer, and we have partnered with our friends at O'Hara's Irish Craft Beers to bring you some cozy Winter vibes to the event.

Our IRL Group Chat events are a chance for artists from all disciplines to stop by for a chat, soundboard an idea, and find out about other projects that are in the works. You will also get the chance to meet some of the team at Project and find out more about our 2026 Artistic Programme.

So, why not pop on in? Who knows what relationships or collaborations could come from it! This event is free to attend with no booking/ RSVP required.

Looking forward to seeing you soon! 💙

Photo credit: Radka Koprivnakova, Carlow Brewing

01/12/2025

Project Arts Centre is delighted to present 𝗔𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘆 by artist and writer Bridget O’Gorman to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities on the 3rd of December.

This piece includes an excerpt of text from a work in progress piece as part of 'Deep Time', a nonconforming, collective research project. The work was commissioned by EVA International as part of the 41st EVA International Platform Commissions, selected by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais and Roy Claire Potter. It is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the creative support initiative field:arts, and was produced by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais and Hannah Wallis.

'Deep Time' stems from ongoing research around sustaining a practice in a disabled body. Applied slowness alongside an overt acknowledgement of support and interdependency forms an integral part of this inquiry. The 'Deep Time' publication will be launched at PAC in Spring 2025.

A number of different access supports will be available to support audiences with disabilities to engage with this work. Such supports include NaviLens codes, large print documents, braille documents and ISL translations. All physical resources will be available to collect at Box Office, with the NaviLens code accessible via the NaviLens app. The ISL translation can be found on our website.

Access some of these resources and find out more about the work via the link: https://projectartscentre.ie/news/project-arts-centre-international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities-2025/

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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.