The Douglas Hyde will host Skin&Blister at the gallery on Thursday 9 March for an experimental electronic dance night as part of our Music Sessions series. Skin&Blister is a platform that supports female, trans, and non-binary DJs and creatives, fostering safe and progressive dance floors across Dublin. Skin&Blister have handpicked a promising line-up, including Ruby […]
Music Session

As part of our Culture Night 2022 programme, E The Artist will present BLACKBOYSBLUSH* BLACKBOYSBLUSH* is a three part visual, performance & sound project curated by E The Artist (Daranijoh Sanni) in collaboration with Alice Rekab’s multinational FAMILY LINES Project, which is currently being displayed in The Douglas Hyde. BLACKBOYSBLUSH*’s aim is to both document and […]

We are very pleased to announce that The Douglas Hyde will host the first show of Cian Nugent’s upcoming European tour on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 7.30pm. With special guest Aoife Nessa Frances.

High energy drums and synth improvising duo Rainfear will perform with a custom musical device developed by artist Dennis McNulty. Co-ordinated by David Donohoe, Rainfear is a loose arrangement of improvising musicians from Dublin. Currently comprising David Donohoe, Fergus Cullen, David Lacey and Peter Maybury, it can operate as any iteration of the four, from […]

The Douglas Hyde, in association with aemi (Artists’ and Experimental Moving Image), present a programme of 16mm short-film screenings by Stan Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann: Cat’s Cradle (dir. Stan Brakhage, 1959, silent, 6 minutes) Fuses (dir. Carolee Schneemann, 1965, silent, 25 minutes) Plumb Line (dir. Carolee Schneemann, 1968-1972, with sound, 15 minutes) The films will […]

The Douglas Hyde are delighted to announce this one-off event devised by producer Davy Kehoe along with the imprint Wah Wah Wino, featuring a host of their frequent collaborators, on Friday 6 October at 6.30pm. Poppa Wheelie will be travelling all the way from Amsterdam with his tapes and other sounds, and will be accompanied […]

We are very pleased to announce that Lisa O’Neill will be performing in the Douglas Hyde Gallery on March 27. Following on from the success of concerts by Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Nina Nastasia, Jandek, and Josephine Foster, Irish folk artist Lisa O’Neill will be the next singer-songwriter to play in the Gallery’s unique and intimate atmosphere. […]

LIVE DANCE YOUR WAY TO THE 4TH SIGNAL was the first of a new series of Music Sessions with an emphasis on artistic practices that blur and break traditional genre boundaries through music. The programme supports and commissions new work, inviting artists to create new and fun engagements through music. The session was live streamed […]