‘In the Vicinity of the Sun’: the new work choreographed by John Scott
‘In the Vicinity of the Sun’ is a new work choreographed by John Scott, filmed and edited by award winning filmmaker Luca Truffarelli with music by Michael Scott. Commissioned by the Five Lamps Arts Festival and located around Dublin’s Five Lamps North Inner City area, ‘In the Vicinity of the Sun’ features a joyous celebratory […]
A Celebration of International Women’s History
We celebrated International Women’s History Month this year (2021) with a unique event, ROCK HARD WOMEN, which celebrates female artists working in all varieties of art forms. We had an amazing day of performances at The Grand Social Dublin, with poets, musicians, actors, dancers from different parts of the world coming to share their incredible […]
Winners of the “Short Story Competition” announced!
The winners of the “Short Story Competition” have been announced! CONGRATULATIONS! Well done and a big thank you to all the keen young writers that entered this competition. Over 100 young people from around the country sent their stories, and the standard was extremely impressive. The winning story was “Words” by Jonathan Walsh. Here are […]
#5LampsChats – John Scott – Irish Modern Dance Theatre
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#5lampschats – Gemma Dunleavy
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#5lampschats – Breda Jackson
Breda Jackson is an artist who studied in NCAD and Trinity College Dublin before getting involved in multimedia design. In the last few years, Breda has moved away from this to focus full time on her art. She works mainly in the community and is heavily involved with The Mud Island Community Garden. She speaks […]
#5lampschats – Tara Kearns
Five Lamps Chats is a new series of conversations between the Five Lamps team and local artists that we carried out over lockdown. We chat about various topics from their current work, inspirations, and how people can get involved in the arts in Dublin. For the first in our series, we had a natter with […]
Ann Cullen appointed Poetry Ireland’s Poet in Residence
Ann Cullen has been appointed the first Poetry Ireland’s Poet in Residence. For the next two years she will be working with community groups in the North East Inner City, including students of Marino College of Further Education. She will certainly contribute to the arts in the area and are looking forward to working with […]
The Five Lamps Arts for Heritage Week
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Drag Storytime
Drag Storytime is a storytelling session facilitated by drag performers: Drag Queens, Drag Kings and queer performers. The phenomenon began in the San Francisco, USA in 2015 as Drag Queen Story Hour and since then it has taken off worldwide. The story sessions are generally 60-90 minutes and include reading story books with themes of […]
Wrap It Up Workshop – One Scarf, one thousand possibilities.
The Brazilian fashion designer Thaís Muniz from Turbante-se project will be teaching simple & nice techniques on how to use a scarf in 4 different ways. The 30 first people to subscribe will receive one of our special scarves by post. Age group: 10 – 18 years old Thaís will be teaching an online workshop […]
Dancing in Dublin 1: Home Edition with Emily Kilkenny Roddy
We invite the young people of Dublin 1 between the ages of 10-18 to be part of ‘Dancing in Dublin 1: the Home Edition. Over the next 3 weeks this tutorial will be broken into 3 easy to learn at home dance tutorials. What we need from you at home? -Download the videos and […]
Dancing in Dublin 1 – Film + Dance Workshop
Resident artist with Five Lamps Arts Festival Emily Kilkenny Roddy will lead children from Scoil Chaomhin, Marlborough St, St Laurence O’Toole’s JBS, Marino College Secondary School, Ballybough Youth Service, and ASESP in Sheriff Street in a series of dance workshops across June. The process will be recorded and edited into a film of their experience and the joy of dance, […]
Gala Fundraising Concert – Thursday 10th May at 8pm
A Gala Fundraising Concert featuring artists from the Royal Irish Academy of Music will take place on Thursday 10th May in Clontarf & Scots Presbyterian Church, commencing at 8pm. Proceeds from the concert will go towards a new piano for the Clontarf Coffee Concerts – a platform for young emerging artists & students of music […]