Culture night

Culture Night 2025 - highlights from across the country

All-island, for all, and always free! Culture Night showcases the quality of Irish arts and culture, connecting people of all ages to activities and nurturing new opportunities to engage and experience creativity in every imaginable shape and form.

Culture Night • 19 hrs

Celebrate Culture Night with RTÉ - everything you need to know

RTÉ will again celebrate Culture Night on Friday 19th September with a rich schedule of live programmes across its television, radio and online services.

Culture Night • 05 Sep

RTÉ lyric fm celebrates Culture Night with Ambient Orbit

A live event for Culture Night at Trinity College, Dublin in partnership with the Douglas Hyde Gallery...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

Live Ambient Orbit - Culture Night Special

A live event for Culture Night at Trinity College, Dublin in partnership with the Douglas Hyde Gallery.

Lyric Fm • 20 Sep 24

Listen Back: Arena's Culture Night Special

Live from the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray for a special Culture Night Arena, with music from Junior Brother, Susan O'Neill and John Spillane as well as conversation with film maker Alan Gilsenan, and visual artist Harold Offeh.

RTÉ Radio 1 • 20 Sep 24

RTÉ lyric fm's Culture Night spectacular from the NCH Dublin

Join Paul Herriott this Culture Night in the company of the National Symphony Orchestra as they celebrate two living American musical giants Philip Glass and John Luther Adams.

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

RTÉ Celebrates Culture Night

A music and arts extravaganza hosted by Denise Chaila and featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra with special guests.

RTÉ Player • 20 Sep 24

Listen to RTÉ Arena's Culture Night special

Tune in live from Bray's Mermaid Theatre...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

Watch: RTÉ One celebrates Culture Night in style

Join us for an music and arts extravaganza hosted by Denise Chaila and featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra with very special guests...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

Nine Inch Nails feature in Aideen Barry's Culture Night playlist

Listen to Aideen Barry's Culture Night playlist

RTÉ's Culture Night Artist In Residence Aideen Barry presents her Culture Night playlist...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

An example of a previous Open-Air Art Gallery (File image)

Culture Night: An eclectic mix on offer in the west

Connacht is providing an eclectic mix of entertainment as part of its Culture Night offerings.

Connacht • 20 Sep 24

Demolition Take Down at IMMA, Dublin. Photo: Brian Cregan

What an art installation tells us about demolition waste

Demolition Take Down looks at the construction industry, a sector which generates 48% of all waste produced in Ireland

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

Inside Aideen Barry's epic stop motion art film Klostės (Folds)

RTÉ's Culture Night Artist In Residence Aideen Barry introduces her film Klostės (Folds), a stunning stop motion art film inspired by Kaunas's architectural Modernism and the hidden histories associated with the magical Lithuanian city.

Culture Night • 24 Sep 24

Aideen Barry is RTÉ'Culture's first-ever Artist-in-Residence for Culture Night 2024

Culture Night 2024: Aideen Barry on the culture that made her

Visual artist Aideen Barry welcomes you to RTÉ Culture's Culture Night celebrations...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

Crowds gather to look at the living statues exhibit at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork

Free Culture Night events taking place across country

Artists, musicians, and performers have invited members of the public to take the streets across the country to celebrate Culture Night.

Ireland • 20 Sep 24

Jugglers will welcome people to Sligo town (Pic: Donal Hackett)

Culture Night: Northwest rolls out cultural carpet

Tonight is Culture Night and right around the country events have been organised to showcase local talent and provide entertainment for the general public free of charge.

Ulster • 20 Sep 24

Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Keaton in Batman Returns

Tim Burton revisited - poet Jessica Traynor on movies and memory

For RTÉ's Culture Night special, poet Jessica Traynor revisits the movies of her childhood...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

8 of the best foodie events taking place this Culture Night

Whether you're looking for a nibble on the go, or want to learn about different cuisines, here's our pick of the best food events across the country this Culture Night.

Food • 20 Sep 24

Culture Night

A first culture night in Dublin has plenty to offer.

History Repeats Itself • 19 Sep 24

Culture 6: Aideen Barry's must-see exhibitions nationwide

This is a round of of art exhibitions I highly recommend people see during our season of celebrating culture...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

Beidh Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde, ag seoladh an treoir bliaintúil léitheoireachta Leabhair Pháistí Éireann i mBÁC ar Oíche Chultúr.

Léitheoireacht d'Oíche Chultúr!

Children's Books Ireland will launch its annual reading guide for young people at a special Culture Night event at Dubray Books on Grafton Street, at 5pm on Friday, 20th September.

Leabhar Pháistí Éireann • 18 Sep 24

Celebrate Culture Night With RTÉ

Culture Night • 17 Sep 24

Culture Night

Enjoyment, inspiration and appreciation at the wide range of events offered by Culture Night across the nation.

Arts and Culture • 19 Sep 24

Bassam Al-Sabah: I AM ERROR, 2022, Installation View (Pic: Rob Harris)

In The Picture: Artist Bassam Issa Al-Sabah

For Culture Night 2024, Artist-in-Residence Aideen Barry invited acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Bassam Issa Al-Sabah to pen an essay exploring his unique body of work...

Culture Night • 20 Sep 24

Dancing at the crossroads in Leitrim (Pictures: Roisin Murphy O'Sullivan)

RTÉ Celebrates Culture Night: Dancing in Jimmy's footsteps

RTÉ brings Culture Night 2024 to RTÉ One on September 20th with a joyful celebration of our cultural landscape...

Culture Night • 14 Sep 24