South Dublin County Arts Office

Window Art in South Dublin

For Unwrapped ’20, Shining a Light, artists from Tallaght Community Arts have continued to engage South Dublin’s communities. Like many cultural processes, the artists have adapted their programme to the Covid19 pandemic guidance. In place of their annual Unwrapped outreach programmes in schools, libraries and community centres, participatory workshops have been happening through online resources…

Creating the Light

Our final film in this year’s Unwrapped ’20 Shining a Light Festival is a documentary celebrating the people and places of South Dublin and how they used their creativity to respond to the Unwrapped ’20 celebration of rebirth and renewal in a time of Covid19. Featuring South Dublin’s creative communities and the work of spoken…

Singing the Light

This Friday Unwrapped ’20 will show a screening of Singing the Light on the Unwrapped YouTube channel and Facebook Live. See and hear this choral accompaniment to Lyndsey Lawlor’s spoken word piece. Over several weeks Kingswood Community and Youth choirs led by Pauline Dalton rehearsed the soundtrack via a virtual video and audio communications app…

Wonderful Window Art

Our inbox has been hopping at the Unwrapped HQ over the past few days with photographs of fantastic window art made by very talented people indeed. We can’t wait to see what these look like illuminated in your windows, in preparation for a visit by our Winter Queen. This Wednesday at 7.15pm the Winter Queen…