We need volunteers!
We’re as busy as a bluearsed fly finalising our jam-packed programme ahead of the April launch. If you’d like to volunteer to help out for an hour, or a day, or a week right now or during the festival we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for photographers and videographers to cover the […]
Charity Impact Awards 2021
We are participating in The Charity Impact Awards 2021 which celebrates the positive impact that charities, community groups, and voluntary organisations are making in people’s lives across Ireland. Public voting is now open until 3rd of November!! Show your support and vote for us in the Small Organizations category by clicking the button below. Every […]
European Week of Sports
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#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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]