Wednesday 19th August, 7pm The Student Forum hosts a collaging workshop inspired by Nour Jaouda’s layered tapestries in the current exhibition Matters of time. Inspired by the artist’s process of décollage, where fabric is cut out and reassembled, attendees will create their own ‘landscapes of memory’ in the form of paper collages. Using naturally dyed […]
Thursday 4 September, 6.30pm Join our 2025 Student Forum for a workshop exploring Mohammed Sami’s exhibition To Whom it May Concern, through writing and slow looking. Sami’s paintings often evoke the blurred terrain of memory, sensation, and lived experience. In this session, participants will spend extended time with select works from the exhibition and experiment with different […]
Tuesday 24 June, 2pm Join us for a workshop to map the terrain of art criticism in Ireland, led by curator Sara Muthi and PVA co-editor Nathan O’Donnell. PVA Journal has been in operation since 2009 as an online and in-print publisher of contemporary art criticism. Over these fifteen years, much has evolved and changed […]
**This workshop is now fully booked** Inspired by Anna Boghigiuan’s The Chess Game, which depicts significant figures from Austrian history, this workshop invites participants to reimagine the artwork from an Irish perspective. Designed for children between the ages of 8 and 14, the group will work together to brainstorm, select, and draw portraits of important […]
As a part of Deirdre O’Mahony’s ground-breaking exhibition, The Quickening, The Douglas Hyde is thrilled to introduce a series of dynamic Creative Labs. The Creative Labs aim to ignite collective imagination and action in response to the pressing challenges of food production, farming, and the climate crisis. Each Lab will be designed to investigate innovation […]
As part of Deirdre O’Mahony’s The Quickening exhibition engagement programme, The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the Eat Food Policy Workshop, a generative event responding to the urgent need for a multidisciplinary approach to food production, farming, and the climate crisis. Guest scientists, farmers, food producers and policymakers from the community are invited to propose topics for discussion […]
Participants in this interactive Animation Lab will use their imaginations to discuss and visually explore the nature of memory. The lab will consider questions like: What is memory? How does memory change over time? What about memory is special? Participants will create their own creative responses to these ideas through animation. Explore animation and Memory […]
In this lab, participants will experience sound in its different forms and reflect on the emotional responses that sound provokes. Daranijoh Sunni (E the Artist) will create and isolate different sounds and vibrations for participants to experience – and then ask them to think about and discuss the feelings, emotions, and responses they have to […]
As part of our Response Series The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present an Artist’s Response where musician Rian Treanor will respond to Josh Tonsfeldt’s work and his current exhibition in Gallery 2 by facilitating a participatory music performance. Using software created by Rian Treanor you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other participants to work […]
