ChoiceCuts presents One Summers Eve in association with Bulmer’s Berry, Saturday 7th August from 7.30pm on Meeting House Square, Temple Bar.
An outdoor event for the music lover in you!
They are the talk of the festival circuit worldwide, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble will perform with local favourites The North Strand Kontra Band, up and coming singer from Cork Brian Deady and DJ Sets will be served up by DJs Tu-ki, B+ and Handsome Paddy.
Food will be available on the night includingauthentic Spanish paella with spicy chorizo, chicken, roasted piquillo peppers & butter beans seasoned with Amontillado sherry and saffron or try spiced Moorish meatballs in a tomato, yoghurt & honey sauce with mint couscous.
Tickets cost €12.50 plus a complimentary drink of Bulmers Berry and are on sale on www.ticketmaster.ie
For more information on event visit www.choicecuts.com/one-summers-eve
Meeting House Square covered in grass with music and fun for a fantastic summer day today in Temple Bar!
… with the Dublin Gospel Choir
… the electro acoustic journey of The Joculator
… story telling, street theatre and entertainment for all the family!
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The opportunity to enjoy 8 wonderful photography exhibitions in Temple Bar, Dublin’s Cultural Quarter is all yours as last night saw the opening of the 2010 PhotoIreland Festival – Ireland’s International Festival of Photography.
With 8 of Temple Bar’s 50 cultural venues playing host to the exhibition why not try and catch some or all of them this weekend for FREE! The exhibition runs until July 8th. Please check individual venue websites for opening hours.
- The Gift, by Girogia Fiorio at The Gallery of Photography.
- Fragments From a Broken World, by kennardphillipps, Sean Hillen at The National Photographic Archive.
- Inspiration, by Perry Ogden, David Bailey, August Sander, Roger Mayne, Gilles Peress, Donovan Wylie, Alan MacWeeney, and Paul Kranzler, at The Sebastian Guinness Gallery.
- America, by Deirdre Brennan at The Sycamore Club Gallery.
- Kleinburger. New Photography and Video from Austria, by Gianmaria Gava, Harald Hund & Paul Horn, by Paul Kranzler at Exchange Dublin.
- 360 degrees, by Ruben Ochoa at The Smock Alley Boy’s School.
- Demise en Scène, by Michael Boran and Ethna O’Regan at The Monster Truck Gallery Temple Bar.
- Thrown at the Wall. PhotoIreland Projections, a view on contemporary photography at CityArts, 15 Bachelors Walk.
Contact PhotoIreland to find out more: info@photoireland.org / 087 685 6169
We’ve just received planning permission to install a retractable canopy in Meeting House Square – this means we can organise and host more event all throughout the year so there’ll be lots more for you to do and see here in Temple Bar!
We have also been offered funding from Fáilte Ireland to help with this important cultural tourism project. We plan to have everything in place and working early 2011 which is our 20th birthday year, so you can expect loads of great events on the Square!
This year, the James Joyce Centre’s Bloomsday Festival celebrates Joyce’s epic ‘Ulysses’ from 12th –16th June at venues across the city.
On Wednesday 16th June from 11am-4pm Meeting House Square will host Readings, Song & Dance on the Square, a star-studded afternoon of readings and songs from ‘Ulysses’.
Joyceans of all ages and backgrounds are welcome to join in, so come one, come all, and read your favourite few words from the book of the day! We’ll be treated to music of the era as soprano, Deirdre Masterson, pianist, Dearbhla Brosnan and other guest soloists sing a variety of songs from ‘Ulysses’. Eileene McLoughlin will gives a ballet performance to ‘Marble Halls’, and at 1pm, Senator David Norris will perform an extract from his one-man Joyce show, ‘Do you see what I’m hearing?’
This event is free and open to the public, limited seating available, no bookings required.
A fantastic Donegal day entitled Donegal Live will take place on Meeting House Square on Sunday 16th May from 12noon-6pm.
A range of Donegal performers will showcase the quality entertainment that can be experienced in Donegal. The day opens with a real “Dancing at Lunasa” theme, a céilí mór and set dancing at 12noon in Meeting House Square and here is the line up for the day:
Line up
12noon: On street ceili with Ceili Time & Dancers
12.30pm: Donegal Youth Orchestra
1.00pm: An Crann Og
1.30pm: Aine O Doherty
2.00pm: Official Opening by Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
2.00pm: Mickey Joe Harte
2.30pm: Fidil
3.00pm: Clannad
3.30pm: Aoife ni Fhearraigh & Maria McCool
4.00pm: Donegal Tenors
4.30pm: Altan
5.00pm: The Plea
5.30pm: Roots Orchestra & The Henry Girls
Temple Bar will be alive with street entertainment including fire juggling, face painting, balloon modelling and familiar characters to suit all ages. Impromptu comhaltas music, marching bands and Irish dancing will fill the streets leading to Meeting House Square.
An indoor display of Donegal art & sculpture complimented with Donegal artists performing extracts from the Brian Friel collection including Philadelphia Here I Come and The Faith Healer will also form part of the event.
For further information visit www.donegallive.ie
We are delighted to welcome back RTÉ Dance on the Box to Meeting House Square on 21st-22nd May.
Over 900,000 viewers were attracted to the eight dance films commissioned by the Arts Council and RTÉ’s Dance on the Box initiative and premiered on RTÉ television during the Dublin Dance Festival in 2006 and 2008. Also screened in the open air in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, the films went on to travel to festivals in Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and the USA.
Following up on that success, the Arts Council and RTÉ are delighted to come together again with Temple Bar Cultural Trust for a third season of RTÉ Dance on the Box. Four short films have been commissioned, by the choreographer/director teams of David Bolger & Conor Horgan, Cindy Cummings & Oonagh Kearney, Fearghus Ó Conchúir & Dearbhla Walsh and John Scott & Steve Woods.
Venue: Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Dates: Meeting House Square: Friday 21 & Saturday 22 May (TV Screenings: Monday 17-Friday 21 May.)
Time: 10.00pm
Tickets: Meeting House Square Screenings / Admission FREE
Bumper 2 Bumper, the headphone disco is back! This is a chance to celebrate the opening night of Dublin Dance Festival in unique style, with an invitation to show off your finest dance moves.
Following last year’s highly successful event in Meeting House Square, this year’s Bumper 2 Bumper will again see hundreds of people silently dancing the night away on Saturday May 8th to a soundtrack broadcast live on Phantom 105.2.
The headphone disco is presented by Dublin Dance Festival in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Phantom 105.2 with the station’s Jim Carroll and Michelle Doherty on the decks spinning all the best tracks, from the latest indie floor fillers to classic tunes from the 80s and 90s.
The headphone disco will start at 9 pm with gates opening at 8.30 pm.
Tickets for Bumper 2 Bumper are free but must be picked up in advance from Dublin Dance Festival Box Office at The Culture Box, 12 East Essex Street (opposite Meeting House Square), Temple Bar from May 1st.
Then put on your very best dancing shoes, and bring your headphones and FM radio device tuned to 105.2 – whether that’s a mobile phone or any other device with a radio tuner and headphones – for a nifty, noiseless night out!
Tickets are limited to 4 per person. Please note that this event is for OVER 18s ONLY. ID must be presented at the time of ticket collection and at the event. Latecomers cannot be guaranteed entry (so do come early). As this event is outdoors, audiences are advised to dress appropriately.
On Thursday 22nd April at 5pm in IMMA, Jaki Irvine and Anne Tallentire will discuss the work of Tallentire in the context of the exhibition, Anne Tallentire: This and other things 1999-2010, questioning themes such as ephemerality, work and everyday life that inform the overall practice of Tallentire. This will be followed by an outdoor screening of a series, in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust, of single screen video works by Tallentire in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar.
Film Screening: 9.30pm, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar
Company (8min 25sec); Zero-58 (58sec); Telling I (18min 34 sec); Spool (3min); In Time (13min 15sc) and Instances (31min) by artist Anne Tallentire.
The Dublin Puppet Festival takes place from 19th to 25th April and replaces the International Puppet Festival Ireland. After almost 2 decades in South Dublin, Ireland’s only puppet festival has now moved into the heart of Dublin’s city centre!
Despite its new name, location and its move from autumn to spring, this year’s Puppet Festival will, as always, feature an amazing array of puppet performances from all over the world, with entertainment and excitement for all ages.
Events during the festival include a weekend of free, open-air, performances on the streets of Temple Bar and in Wolfe Tone Square on April 24th and 25th. Ireland’s first International Punch Day will form part of the festivities with Punch & Judy shows from all over Europe taking place in Meeting House Square on the 25th of April.
One of Irelands oldest forms of puppet theatre; Punch shows have entertained the adults and children of Dublin for over 300 years. Four diverse and unique Punch performers from Ireland, Italy & the UK will perform back to back in Meeting House Square for the festivals grand finale. Featuring side splitting slapstick comedy and a little live music, this event will be one of the festival’s highlights.
For further details, the Dublin Puppet Festival’s programme is available on http://puppetfest.ie/.
Meeting House Square | TBCT August 5, 2010 | 
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