We are delighted to be taking part in the Culture Date with Dublin 8 May Weekender on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May. Culture Date with Dublin 8 is a neighbourhood initiative, which celebrates Dublin 8’s rich cultural, historical and architectural heritage, encouraging people who are living, working and visiting the area to explore what is on their doorstep.

For a full programme of events throughout Dublin 8 please visit the Culture Date with Dublin8 website.

Explore the Green Cube: Biodiversity Tour of IMMA’s Gardens
Date and time: Saturday 13 May, 2pm, Meeting Point, IMMA Reception
Ticket booking: Free, booking required, Please click here to book your place.
Event Description: Join a tour of the magnificent formal gardens and meadows, exploring the flora and fauna of IMMA and the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. This tour is led by Sandra Murphy, a member of IMMA’s Visitor Engagement Team and an amateur wildlife photographer and Birder. This easy one-hour walking tour will explore the site observing the birds, plants, and pollinating insects. You can read Sandra’s articles in the IMMA magazine on the biodiversity of birds, butterflies and wild flowers found on IMMA’s 48 acre site.

Gate to Gate Heritage Talk
Date and time: Sunday 14 May, 2pm, Meeting Point, IMMA Reception
Ticket booking: Free, booking required, Please click here to book your place.
Event Description: Join Barry Kehoe, historian and member of IMMA’s Visitor Engagement Team, for a bespoke exploration of IMMA and the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in search of the lost Priory of the Knights Hospitallers. Barry will take you on a historical journey unveiling the morphology of the hill terrace of Kilmainham from the earliest bronze age settlement, through to its monastic settlement and Viking Occupation. He will discuss the occupation by the crusading Knights hospitallers before the re-engineering of the land to accommodate the baroque neoclassical Royal Hospital.

Gallery Tour exploring the work of Irish artist Patricia Hurl
Date and time: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May, 2.30pm. Meeting Point, IMMA Reception.
Ticket booking: Free, No booking required.
Event Description: Join a gallery tour of the exhibition, Irish Gothic, and explore the work of one of Ireland’s most accomplished artists, Patricia Hurl. Hurl’s work is of its nature, political and traverses the disciplines of painting, multi-media and collaborative art practice. The exhibition is the first major exhibition of Hurl’s work spanning over 40 years and features over 70 of the artist’s paintings and drawings.

Explorer Family Workshop: Create your own Artwork
Date and time: Sunday 14 May, 2 – 4pm. Projects Spaces.
Ticket booking: Free, No booking required.
Event Description: Enjoy some creative family time with our Explorer family art workshop. Children and grown-ups will explore selected artworks in the museum and make artworks together. Led by our Visitor Engagement Team, this is a fun family experience. All materials provided.

Film Screening: Félicité by Alain Gomis
Date and time: Sunday 14 May, 2pm. Meeting Point, Lecture Hall.
Ticket booking: Free, booking required, Please click here to book your place.
Event Description: Félicité (2017) is an award winning Senegalese drama set in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Félicité, free and proud, is a singer in the evenings in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life changes when her 14-year-old son is the victim of a motorcycle accident. To save him, she begins a frantic race through the streets of an electric Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. This screening is part of the event programme for Unseeing Traces: Artefacts from the Kingdom of Kongo.

Visit Exhibitions at IMMA
Date and time: Sat 13 May 10am to 5.30pm, Sun 14 May 12noon – 5.30pm.
Ticket booking: Admission Free, Book your tickets here or get tickets on the day.
Event Description: Over the festival weekend there are four exhibitions to visit at IMMA. Irish Gothic explore the work of one of Ireland’s most accomplished artists, Patricia Hurl. Championing Irish Art from the Mary and Alan Hobart Collection featuring the work of prominent Irish artists including Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery, William Orpen & Mary Swanzy. Scene of the Myth is an expansive solo exhibition of the work of Sarah Pierce, featuring performances, videos, installations, and archives. Unseeing Traces in collaboration with New Communities Partnership presents artefacts from the Kingdom of Kongo to explore displacement, colonialism, race and representation.