Contract for Festival Director for Big Scream Festival 2018
Following the highly successful Halloween Festivals in 2016 and 2017 drawn from Ballybough, Sheriff Street and Sean McDermott Street, a Festival Director is sought for the 2018 Big Scream Festival, which combines community engagement, the arts and youth projects, culminating in a street spectacle for citizens and visitors alike, to take place over a few […]
Five Lamps Arts Festival 2018 launch party
Five Lamps Arts Festival 2018 launch party yesterday in Belvedere House was a great success. Thank you to all the artists, volunteers, sponsors, partners, board and friends. The Festival cannot exist without all of you. We are sharing few pictures from last night by PKStudio3 Weddings.
Dreaming and Clowning at FLAF
The Five Lamps Arts Festival is big on events for children. I had the pleasure of going to see two events provided free of charge to local primary schools. The Magikloko Theatre Company presented and performed Dreams Under the Roof at Marino College for the junior and senior infant classes of St Vincent’s Girls National […]
Culinary Ingenuity and Tasty Mish Mash
On Saturday 1st April, VOICE and Connect the Dots brings you free food and tips for avoiding food waste as part of the 2017 Five Lamps Arts Festival. Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment (VOICE) is a waste and water charity that empowers individuals and local communities to take positive action to conserve our […]
The Uncertain Life of a Docker
“‘Oh Jaysus, a fella’s after falling in the river’. And a voice came from the other side, now normally they’d say throw him a buoy, but some fella shouted, ‘Is it a button man?’, and someone shouts back, ‘Throw him a bar!’” That was a quip from one of the Dublin Dockers who is part […]
“Here were garda resources being deployed against a handful of women while heroin dealers were selling openly on the streets only a stone’s throw away, and yet that was the reality”.
On 2nd April, two documentaries will be screened back to back as part of the 2017 Five Lamps Arts Festival, Sé Merry Doyle’s first documentary, Looking On (1982) and Alive Alive O: A Requiem for Dublin (2001). Both deal with what Sé describes as “Dublin’s inner city under […]
On 6th April, Talking To My Father (2005), Sé Merry Doyle’s documentary about Architect Robin Walker will be screened as part of the 2017 Five Lamps Arts Festival.
Sé Merry Doyle makes documentaries about culturally defining moments in Ireland from the perspective of the human story or experience. Talking To My Father is as much about the father and son relationship as it is about Robin Walker, the influential modernist architect. Robin Walker (1924-1991) was a key figure in Irish modernist architecture. He studied […]
Roisin Lonergan, Artistic Director speaks with Noel McGuinness about ‘The Five Lamps Arts Festival’
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Róisín Lonergan is the Creative Director and force behind the Five Lamps Arts Festival, she is also a coordinator and lecturer at Marino College.
In 2007, while a teacher at Marino College of Further Education, Róisín approached Dublin City Council’s Arts Officers about the need for an arts festival in the Five Lamps area. The reaction was positive and Róisín was told that the Council would support it if she would initiate it. That she did and the festival […]
Local is diverse; history is evolving; the Five Lamps Arts Festival is the meeting point for the arts, culture and diversity.
The 2017 Five Lamps Arts Festival is fast approaching. The programme is live; the buzz has commenced. Help us swarm the minds and diaries of the good people of our fair city. Yes, the Five Lamps Arts Festival is indeed another arts festival competing to stimulate and distract the Dublin public. Or maybe it’s ‘an […]
St Laurence O’Toole Girl’s School trip on the Royal Canal as part of the art project with Martina Galvin – 04/10/2016
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Behind the Scenes: Women in the Arts
Behind the Scenes: Women in the Arts by Laurie Ingram In the lead up to International Women’s day on Tuesday the 8th of March, the Five Lamps Arts Festival has been celebrating the creative contributions of women in many areas including music, dance and performance art. This is a fantastic opportunity to shine a spotlight […]
Behind the Scenes Volunteering Experience: Making NIGHTTOWN
Behind the Scenes Volunteering Experience: Making NIGHTTOWN by Laurie Ingram NIGHTTOWN is a play based on a chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses that records the feverish experience of Dublin’s sordid nightlife in the early 1900s. Adapted by director Joe O’Byrne and presented by Co-Motion Media and Carnation Theatre Company, this performance brings into action the […]
Irish TV Covers Launch of Five Lamps Arts Festival Programme
On 25th January 2016, an exclusive event was held at the Mansion House in Dublin, which launched the 2016 Five Lamps Arts Festival programme. Irish TV was there and covered the event. Click on the image below to check out the full episode (Festival coverage starts at 0:12:00):