Lepetitejournal.com previews the 2015 Five Lamps Festival
In its 4 March 2015 edition, online publication dedicated to French expats, lepetitjournal.com previews the 2015 Five Lamps Festival: CULTURE: The House Presents au Five Lamps Arts Festival Dans le cadre du Five Lamps Festival du 4 au 14 mars 2015, The House Presents anime 6 soirées au Annesley House. Qu’est ce que “The House […]
Monto Walk with Terry Fagan
A Walk back in time with Terry Fagan North Inner City Folklore Project. Story’s from around Dublin’s famous Red-Light district known as Monto. Hear the story’s of the famous Madams who ran the brothels, and of the women known as the “Poor Unfortunates” who walked the Streets of Monto and of the man Frank […]
Photos from the Brochure Launch
Music on your way to work!
Chamber music brought to you by the Five Lamps Arts Festival on your way to work.
Pia Dunne and The Eleusians
Pia Dunne released her Debut EP in May 2012 to much acclaim. Since then Pia Dunne and The Eleusians (feat Johnny Taylor piano, Tommy Moore bass and Aidan O’Donavan drums) have played to full houses in venues such as The Workman’s Club and Whelans. Pia was nominated for Best Female Artist, Best Unsigned Artist and […]
Plants and Soil in our City Gardens and Canal Banks
“Plants and Soil in our City Gardens and Canal Banks” is an art project with the Laurence O’Toole Senior Primary Girls and Boys Schools and artist Martina Galvin. It involves a series of workshops in school as well as field trips to The Dunne Street Community Garden and the Royal Canal. Art works created will be exhibited as part of the […]
Five Lamps Photos: An Exhibition of Community Photographs by Cormac O’Connell
This photography exhibition by Cormac O’Connell takes a look at life in the Five Lamps area of Dublin over the course of the last year.
North Strand Kontra Band supported by Locoswing
The North Strand Kontra Band was formed on the North side of Dublin in the Winter of 2005. They are an instrumental band that plays a mix of original and traditional material influenced predominantly by the music of Romania and Bulgaria. The band has played to critical acclaim in many of the leading venues and […]
Niamh Creely: Physical Narrative Workshop
Physical Narrative – how can the body tell a story? This workshop will explore how to refine and define gesture, minimalist narrative – how stories can be told with the barest of ingredients – and comic improvisation. The workshop is by writer and circus performer Niamh Creely of Ether Productions. You don’t need to be […]
Fuss on the Bus
Fuss on the Bus follows the lives of two girls by way of a bus journey through the decades. We first meet Nell and Rita as 12-year-olds in 1954 as their bus trundles along Abbey Street, Upper Gardner Street, Drumcondra, Dublin Airport, Santry, Lusk, Skerries and Balbriggan. A whole life will be lived and loved from school days […]
Bathnight on Henrietta Street
Bathnight on Henrietta Street takes place on the 24th of July, 1969. And what’s so important you might ask? Is it that man has just landed on the moon with all Ireland gripped around their TV sets as man takes one giant leap into the unknown? Not a bit of it! It’s Bathnight on Henrietta Street and that’s […]
Dublin’s Laptop Orchestra
Dublin Laptop Orchestra’s aim is to bring theatricality and physical presence into electronic music performance. They make music with laptops, built-in cameras, motion sensors, golf controllers, and anything else they can misappropriate. The Dublin Laptop Orchestra has played with This Is How Fly, Yurodny, Crash Ensemble and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and have created numerous […]
Saint Patrick’s Parade
St Patrick’s Parade with a marching band and samba drums. Fun for children and the whole family. Come celebrate Ireland’s most famous saint with the Five Lamps Arts Festival at this festive parade!
Ether Productions Circus Cabaret Spectacular
Ether Productions Circus Theatre Company Niamh Creely and Jonathan Walsh are Ether Productions, a theatre company that revels in the world of aerial circus. Niamh, a writer who ran away with the circus and Jonathan, an award-winning boylesque performer with killer comic-timing recently performed at the Project Arts Centre with their new comedy duo show The Locked Room. […]