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Fergal McCarthy's Red Flags fly on Sandymount beach, Dublin

Can art offer an appropriate response to a global catastrophe?

Avril Corroon in ACME Studios, London (Pic: Acme Archive)

Avril Corroon on making art from 700 litres of Dublin damp

Artist Avril Corroon introduces Got Damp, a new installation at Project Arts Centre that explores damp as 'a crisis of nature in the home'.

visual arts • 15 Apr

Nap Club - artist Áine O'Hara on their radical sleepover

Project Arts Centre has invited a number of artists, curators and social activists, with a lived experience of intersectional discrimination to discuss their practice and …

visual arts • 05 Mar

Exploring the untold stories in Irish queer histories

The new archive aims to explore the untold stories in Irish queer histories. Initially focusing on lesbian, feminist, female-identified, transgender and bisexual histories from the …

LGBTI+ • 24 Jun 22

Éire to the World - Black Irish creatives in the spotlight

Spotlight: Éire to the World is a new film that showcases Black Irish creatives and artists in the fields of music, spoken word, acting, podcasts …

Now Streaming • 12 Feb 21

Breandán de Gallaí and singer Gina Boreham rehearsing Walls Talk (Pics: Declan English)

Dancer Breandán de Gallaí - why sad songs say so much

Breandán de Gallaí writes for Culture about creating 'an abstract assemblage of fragments which give meaning to all of our lives'.

Dance • 20 Feb 20

Tiny Dancer - Donal Dineen on DJ-ing for kids

DJ, broadcaster and living legend Donal Dineen has been making a noise of late with his massively popular Tiny Dancer events, which feature DJ sets …

Music • 19 Jun 19

Photographer Miriam O'Connor has photographed the places where the Project's Off Site programme was presented

Project Arts Centre's Long Goodbye - tales from the archives

In late 2018 the Project Art Centre's gallery was transformed into a workspace where documents related to the Project's archives were studied and shared - …

visual arts • 21 Mar 19

Dying onstage - Louise White on This is the Funeral of Your Life

Acclaimed theatremaker Louise White writes for RTÉ Culture about her latest unique creation, This is the Funeral of Your Life, coming to Dublin's Project Arts …

Theatre • 31 Jan 19

Something For The Weekend – Jesse Jones' Cultural Picks

Choice Cultural Picks from the acclaimed multi-media artist behind 'Tremble Tremble', Ireland's entry at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Something For The Weekend • 16 Feb 18

Josh Williams and Alan Mahon in 'If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You'

Love is the drug - John O'Donovan on his new play

'The world is small when you have no money...' Playwright John O'Donovan writes for Culture about his first full-length play, If We Got Some More …

Theatre • 22 Jan 18

Collapsing Horse's new show The Water Orchard opens at Project Arts Centre Dublin this week.

Are Collapsing Horse Ireland's most exciting theatre company?*

Dan Colley, founder member of Collapsing Horse Theatre, writes about the young companies meteoric rise to success, their new show The Water Orchard and getting …

Theatre • 20 Jul 17

Sex sells - Tracy Martin on her play Harder Faster More

Writer and director Tracy Martin writes about the inspiration for her acclaimed play Harder Faster More, which returns to the stage next week.

Theatre • 05 May 17

Siobhan Cullen and Donal Gallery star in Lucy Prebble's play The Effect.

The Effect - bringing a neuro-biological romance to the stage

If you love someone, does it matter why? Theatre director Ronan Phelan writes for Culture about his production of Lucy Prebble's play The Effect, which …

Theatre • 16 Mar 17