Dublin City Council celebrates city’s 16th Culture Night

Dublin City Council has announced its plans for Culture Night 2021.

Tomorrow the city will come alive as our capital’s creatives showcase the diversity of Dublin’s culture.

With events drawing inspiration from our shores and beyond, the night will be a true celebration of all of life’s cultural elements.

From walking tours and lectures to treasure hunts and circus performances, there’s something for everyone.

Since its inception in 2006, Dublin City Council has played a central role in bringing Culture Night to life. Now in its 16th year, the festival continues to go from strength to strength.

See below a list of events organised and/or funded by Dublin City Council:

The Mansion House

The Lord Mayor of Dublin invites you to tour their official residence. Walk through the public rooms of this impressive building, built by Joshua Dawson and the heart of civic life for over 300 years.

Hugh Lane Gallery

The Hugh Lane Gallery will present an evening of art, music, performance and more inspired by modern and contemporary art through an imaginative programme of online and (subject to current guidelines) in-gallery activity as well as opportunities for enjoying the collection and temporary exhibitions on view.

14 Henrietta Street

This Culture Night, join 14 Henrietta Street tour guide Sheila Robinson for this special ‘Making a Museum’ Culture Club talk.

Bollywood Ireland

Learn some moves with Bollywood Ireland at Wood Quay Amphitheatre.

City Centre Sculpture Trail

Dublin City Council is delighted to announce a new outdoor city-centre sculpture trail featuring 12 life-size works from one of Ireland’s top artists, Patrick O’Reilly.

Dublin Circus Project

Join Dublin Circus Project at the Wood Quay Amphitheatre as they bring Circus Arts to life.

Ephemeral Monument

Ephemeral Monument is an open air, large scale installation which will combine portraiture, public space, projection mapping and painting. Created by artist Niall Kurb Junki Cullen, the exhibition will be on show at Barnardo Square, Dame Street.

Irish Modern Dance Theatre: Street Symphony

A live urban dance performance and film journey using Dublin’s streets and stones as a background and inspiration, by five exceptional Dublin-based dancers of vastly diverse dance backgrounds, at the Wood Quay Venue.

Kevin Bohan and Iljin: Live Murals at Bedford Lane

Responding to the poem Dublin by Louis MacNiece, this commission will see two live murals completed in Bedford Lane, Temple Bar.

Lewis Barefoot

Join alt folk artist and Dublin City Arts Office Artist in Residence, Lewis Barfoot, at the Wood Quay Amphitheatre for Culture Night Dublin.

Sculpture Dublin

Join art historian, Antony Suttle on Culture Night for a guided tour of Dublin’s sculptural landscape.

The New Brass Kings

Boogie with the New Brass Kings at the Wood Quay Amphitheatre this Culture Night!

Traditional Traveller Tinsmithing

James Collins and Tom McDonnell are two of the last remaining Traveller Tinsmiths in Ireland. Join us at Wood Quay Amphitheatre to see James and Tom make several household items.