Five Lamps Arts Festival

Five Lamps Arts Festival The Five Lamps Arts Festival supports and promotes the arts and community development mainly in Dublin's North East Inner City.

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The Five Lamps Arts Festival returns. Since 2007 as one of the main festivals in Northside Dublin. Celebrating the Five Lamps landmark and surrounding community, the festival showcases a range of art forms including literature, dance, music, visual art and theatre. For more information visit the website www.fivelampsarts.ie


About Five Lamps Arts:
The organisation is best known for its

flagship event, The Five Lamps Arts Festival; an award-winning annual community-based festival that takes place each spring in Dublin’s North East Inner City. The festival first took place in 2007, when Róisín Lonergan, a teacher at Marino College of Further Education, realised that although major national cultural institutions were based in the area, local people were not using them in the same way as the rest of the population. Róisín believed then, as she does now, that it should be possible for all citizens, regardless of socio-economic status, to access the arts. In recent years, the Five Lamps Arts Festival has grown beyond a festival alone, and now additionally works year-round with local community groups and schools to develop and run a wide range of arts-based community development programmes. These creative programmes are a highly regarded resource in an area disproportionally impacted by poverty, drugs, homelessness and dereliction.

20/08/2026

to CHOP at the 2026 Five Lamps Arts Festival.

With humour, physical theatre, and thought-provoking storytelling, the performance explored toxic masculinity and sustainability in an engaging, funny way.

Bold, energetic and full of personality, CHOP proved that important conversations can be both entertaining and unforgettable.

14/08/2026

Fantastic performance!
Opera in the Open happens every Thursday for the month of August at 1 pm. The Amphitheatre at the Dublin City Council Civic Offices on Wood Quay, Dublin 8
The event is free and it’s a lovely way to spend your lunch time. 🫶

Thank you for being part of the Whether you joined us as an attendee, artist, partner or supporter, you are at the hear...
28/04/2026

Thank you for being part of the

Whether you joined us as an attendee, artist, partner or supporter, you are at the heart of what we do.

We’re now gathering feedback to better understand the festival’s impact on people, places, and opportunities across Dublin’s North East Inner City, from community connections and cultural life to wellbeing and the local economy.

We’d be so grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete our short survey and share your experience.

Your feedback will help shape future events, guide who we work with, and strengthen how we support arts and culture in the North East Inner City - Dublin Every response matters.

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Join us for the Artist Panel Talk for *SUBSTRATA*, a group exhibition presented by Five Lamps Arts Festival Dublin.Takin...
20/04/2026

Join us for the Artist Panel Talk for *SUBSTRATA*, a group exhibition presented by Five Lamps Arts Festival Dublin.

Taking place at The Substation in Dublin Port, the exhibition brings together site-responsive works that engage with the architecture, infrastructure and layered histories of the port. Through sculpture, painting, installation and video, *Substrata* explores themes of migration, labour, ecology and memory.

🗓 Wednesday 22nd April
⏰ 6:00–7:00 PM
📍 The Substation, Dublin Port

Hear from exhibiting artists Claire Halpin, Maree Hensey, Katherine Sankey and Sohrab Uduman, with the discussion facilitated by Sara Greavu, Director of Fire Station Artists’ Studios .

🚌 Free bus from Fire Station Artists’ Studios to The Substation at 5:30 PM.

🎟 Free booking

Facilitated by Sara Greavu, Director of Fire Station Artist’s Studio

15/04/2026

Calling all Irish speakers and language lovers.

Join us for a multilingual spoken word night of poetry, rap, music and storytelling, a space that celebrates culture and the people who keep it alive.

REIC was initiated 11 years ago at the Five Lamps Arts Festival and continues to bring people together through language and expression.

🎟️ Tickets on Eventbrite
📍 International Centre for the Image
🗓️ 17th April · 8pm

Come along, take part and be part of the conversation.

15/04/2026

We're very sorry to announce that our event for Five Lamps Arts Festival has been CANCELLED due to illness
All tickets will be refunded.
Thanks to everyone for your support!
We WILL be back!

14/04/2026

Wednesday 15th, the Queens will take over both the screen and the stage.

Don’t miss this special night of film screening, Q&A with the director and drag performances.

And have you checked our giveaway?

You still have time to win two tickets to see the amazing performances by Marian Mary the 6th and Vicky Volltz.

13/04/2026

Tickets are almost sold out for this show!
is back to the Sean O’Casey Theatre in East Wall as part of the

🗓️Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th April
⏰ 8pm
📍Sean O’Casey Theatre
🎟️ Tickets in bio

12/04/2026

Sharp writing and compelling performances come together on stage.

Join us on 16th April at the Irish Writers Centre for a powerful story set in between Ireland and Italy, filled with emotion and unexpected turns.

Get your tickets on Eventbrite and travel from Milano to Marino with us.

11/04/2026

Where cultures meet, the energy moves.

On Sunday 19th April, Mud Island Community Garden comes alive with rhythm, connection and pure joy. With the vibrant energy of Kidoka Oko Doka, expect movement, music and bodies dancing freely, cultures blending into a true celebration of community.

In this video, Silver shares a glimpse of what’s to come.

Watch and start planning your days at the Five Lamps Arts Festival.

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