Project Arts Centre

This Saturday Mel Mercier leads the extraordinary Irish Gamelan Orchestra (IGO) at Project in Dublin for the first time in 10 years. Tickets from €22.

Guest artists include Luke Murphy, Aoife Ní Bhriain, Paul Noonan, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Kathleen Turner, Nick Roth and West Cork Ukulele Orchestra in a rare Dublin performance of their powerful, original music.

Described by critics as "like a classical orchestra on acid", the IGO has pioneered the creation of a unique style of Irish contemporary music. The orchestra has collaborated with multiple Irish and international artists, including Fiona Shaw, Joseph O’Connor, Martin Hayes and Colin Dunne.

Performing on the 60 bronze instruments of Ireland’s first Javanese gamelan – housed at University College Cork for 30 years – the IGO has performed on stages across Ireland, the UK and Indonesia.

7 November, 8pm | Space Upstairs
🎟️ Tickets €28/22 via the link: bit.ly/4z2b0B0

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Photography by Maurice Gunning.

Are you ready to get WIRED one final time in 2026? Join us this Thursday 5 Nov for the third edition of the hottest event to headline Dublin’s nightlife scene. Tickets are only €10!

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.

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.

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

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Join a real-life mother and daughter duo on a road trip from Donegal to southern Italy in ALIENS, running in the Cube this Wednesday & Thursday. Tickets from €18.

After a sell-out run in Belfast, IFTA award-winning writer & director Alessandra Celesia (The Flats, 2025) brings ALIENS to Dublin with her daughter, Marta McIlduff. Blending performance, video, archive testimony and live electronic music, the duo weave their personal stories with those of Italian immigrants in Northern Ireland.

Witness as they meet present-day migrants, activists and strangers along the route, asking who gets to draw the lines between us and them. The performance is a meditation on inheritance, migration and those who live in between: the aliens.

Performed in English, French and Italian with subtitles.

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

No costume this weekend? Come make your own mask with Sweet Spot Social tonight 👻 Last minute tickets available at the link bit.ly/4srmFaw

Joined by artist/photographer Elvin Ojuka, we will explore mask making traditions across different cultures and create our own ceremonial Masks of Play. And of course, expect beats by Sweet Spot host Blkcnvs.

Just wanna dance? You’re still very welcome to join us tonight! Our standard €7.50 tickets, which include a complimentary drink, are still available! So pull up, unwind, and enjoy the Sweet Spot ambiance.

For workshop guests your ticket also includes a free drink & access to The Sweet Spot Social. Come for the workshop, stay for the music, and maybe leave with a new friend to dance with 🍬

Photography by Michael D'Angelo.
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With the final visual arts launch of 2026 under our belts, take a look back at the opening of Rehana Zaman's Plantation last week in our gallery – what a buzz! A huge thank you to all who joined us, as well as Febvre Wines for supplying the vino 🍷 Plantation is running in our gallery until 19 December.

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.

The installation extends this world into a sculptural environment riffing off agricultural structures, such as polytunnels and cooling tents, transforming our gallery into an immersive landscape of light and sound.

If you find yourself in Temple Bar, pop in and take a minute to experience our transformed gallery! As always, this exhibition is free to attend, no booking required.

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