Location: Main Reception
Free, booking required. Book here.

Join us for an evening of original poetry readings by The Poetry Vigilantes, of Dublin 8’s Fatima Groups United, and the award-winning poet, playwright, and performer Dagogo Hart as compère.

Fatima Groups United’s The Poetry Vigilantes includes poets Muireann Farrell, Peter Hand, Della Hickey, Richie Keane, Mary Kennedy, Kristina McElroy, Helen Nealon and David Sherry.

This community gathering is presented by IMMA in celebration of the collaborative project, Art in Motion: Routes and Roots, a mobile artwork that brings creativity to the streets of Dublin. The artwork was created by Alberta Whittle and developed in collaboration with poet Dagogo Hart and community writers group The Poetry Vigilantes.. 

As part of the evening celebration, a selection of videos capturing the Art in Motion project, from the poetry workshops to the final artwork, will be screened on the museum’s large outdoor screen, Living Canvas at IMMA. We welcome you to take a moment to watch the videos before or after the celebrations. The videos will be playing from 6.30–9pm.

Art in Motion was launched in June 2026 and is brought to you by IMMA in partnership with the National Transport Authority (NTA) under its Transport for Ireland (TFI) brand. 

Refreshments will be served as part of the celebration. All welcome! 

About the Artists 

Fatima Groups United
Fatima Groups United Family Resource Centre represents residents and community projects in Fatima and Herberton, Dublin 8. Since 1995, we have supported the physical and social regeneration of the area. FGU provide services in health and wellbeing, education and employment, arts and childcare, counselling and family support, and information, advice, and advocacy. Fatima Poetry Vigilantes are a poetry group organised by Fatima Groups United. They won the Creative Lives Ireland Award in 2022 for Dance Til Dán – a film celebrating community though poetry and dance. They organise frequent Poetry Cafés and Poetry Trains.

Dagogo Hart
Dagogo Hart is a Nigerian-Irish writer, poet, and theatre-maker based in Ireland. His work spans poetry, theatre, film, and education – rooted in performance but designed to resonate beyond the stage. He has featured on everything from TV to film and bar basements, led poetry workshops and showcases across Ireland and West Africa, and is author of Lantern Smoke, 2025, a children’s book with Gill Books. His acclaimed play MMANWU explores grief and cultural identity, while is new play PALMFIST continues his powerful interrogation of masculinity, violence, and vulnerability. Hart is also co-founder of WeAreGriot, a collection committed to platforming Black Irish voices through performance poetry, storytelling, and collaboration.

Alberta Whittle
Alberta Whittle is a Barbadian-Scottish artist, born in Bridgetown and living and working in Glasgow. Whittle’s multifaceted practice is preoccupied with developing a personal response to the legacies of the Atlantic slave trade, unpicking its connections to institutional racism, white supremacy and climate emergency in the present. Against an oppressive political background Whittle aims to foreground hope and engage with different forms of resistance.  Whittle received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (2011); PhD at the University of Edinburgh (2024); and is currently a Research Associate at The University of Johannesburg. She has exhibited and performed in various solo and group shows internationally and represented Scotland in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Margaret Tait Award winner (2018/19); a Turner Bursary, Frieze Artist Award and Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2020); and Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists (2022). 

About NTA/TFI The National Transport Authority (NTA) is a statutory non-commercial body, which operates under the aegis of the Department of Transport. Established in 2009, the NTA’s core function is around the planning, development and funding of sustainable transport modes, public transport and active travel on a national basis. NTA’s remit also extends to the regulation of commercial bus services, as well as the Small Public Service Vehicle (SPSV) sector and vehicle clamping. 

Transport for Ireland (TFI) is the public-facing brand of the NTA, used to deliver and promote Ireland’s integrated public transport network across bus, rail, TFI Luas and active travel services. 

Location: The People’s Pavilion
Free, booking required. Book here.

IMMA is excited to bring together two artists working with moving image, Marianne Keating and Yvonne McGuinness, for a one-off in conversation and screening event.

Marianne Keating presents her film installation Cad Leis a Bhfuilimíd Ailínithe/To What Do We Align, 2025, in cinematic form, while Yvonne McGuinness’ What’s Left Us Then, 2023, will be shown in Dublin for the first time.

Join us for a conversation between these two artists following the screenings, moderated by Aisling Clark, Curatorial Fellow: Exhibitions at IMMA.

Screenings (continue until 13 August on Living Canvas at IMMA) 

Marianne Keating, Cad Leis a Bhfuilimíd Ailínithe / To What Do We Align, 2025 (20 minutes)
Cad Leis a Bhfuilimíd Ailínithe / To What Do We Align situates Ireland within the broader anti-colonial movement. The film traces the country’s political and economic developments throughout mid-20th century, from the culturally insular, economically protectionist society of the 1940s and 50s to a lunge toward foreign direct investment in the 1960s. Though Ireland’s liberation from the British Empire inspired decolonial struggles across the globe, To What Do We Align asks how Ireland has distanced itself from the ‘colonial other’. Through a collage of archival footage leading up to the historical founding of the Non Alignment Movement, Keating’s work explores how Ireland has oriented itself towards the interests of global superpowers, rather than supporting true decolonisation for all.

Yvonne McGuinness, What’s Left Us Then, 2023 (27 minutes)
What’s Left Us Then examines marks left by concrete on the landscape of rural Ireland, where in the artists’ words, ‘the meeting of the bucolic with the brutalist is often contested’. Lending a poetic quality to the investigative form, the film surveys abandoned buildings and sites of buildings-in-progress, considering the cultural, historical, and emotional weight of concrete forms. Through encounters with architects and quarry owners, McGuinness offers a meditation on decay, endurance, and the contradictions of modern shelter. Commissioned as part of the Engaging with Architecture programme funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, the film premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival 2024.

About the Artists

Marianne Keating is an Irish artist and researcher, exploring Irish history, particularly the complex legacies of colonialism, migration and empire and the often-overlooked experiences of the Irish diaspora, especially in Jamaica. Through visual, material, and oral traces, and supported by intensive on-site investigation, she reconstructs and reimagines these fragmented histories. She seeks to reinsert previously muted or silenced voices into the archive, giving them renewed presence through her practice-based work as an artist researcher. Her work sits within ongoing discourses on post/neocolonial identity and diaspora.

Yvonne McGuinness is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work critically examines place, belonging, and social dynamics within environments. Through performance-based films and installations, often created in collaboration with communities, she explores collective histories and identities. McGuinness’s interdisciplinary practice embraces chance and layered narratives, blurring the boundaries between documentary and performance.

IMMA’s Fruition café van will be open in the courtyard for refreshments and treats until 6.30pm!

Join us for the second Dublin by Dusk event at IMMA, from 4pm visit our Dwell Here residents on Studio Street where you will meet some of the current residents working and living at IMMA.

At 6pm IMMA Talks presents a rare talk with legendary artist AA Bronson to discuss collective practice, artistic self-organisation, his roles in General Idea, Art Metropole and Printed Matter, and pioneering projects celebrating punk protest, queer theory, and AIDS activism – and otherness. See booking details below.

Dwell Here Open Studios
4 – 5.45pm / Studio Street / Drop-in – no booking required
We invite you to come meet our Dwell Here residents and take a stroll along IMMA’s Studio Street where you’ll find one-year residents Addoley Dzegede, Glenn Loughran, Paul O’Brien, Samir Mahmood, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, and Xiao Zhiyu. One-month residents joining us in June include Roots for the Future Collective, Lorena Moreno Vera, Jaana Kokko, and Shivanjani Lal.

At 4pm we’ll meet in IMMA’s reception where you’ll be welcomed by IMMA’s residency curator Janice Hough who will offer a brief introduction to who’s available before you’re encouraged to explore and be curious about the developing studio practices.  

IMMA Talks: AA Bronson in Conversation with Paul O’Neill
6 – 7.30pm / People’s Pavilion / Booking required – Book here
Paul O’Neill (artist, curator, educator, director of PUBLICS, Helsinki) is joined by renowned artist AA Bronson to discuss collective practice, artistic self-organisation, his roles in General Idea, Art Metropole and Printed Matter, and their impacts on contemporary art and artist-run culture.

This rare discussion with AA Bronson will survey his enduring influence as an artist, healer, curator, educator and ally. From early beginnings in a free school and commune AA Bronson has spent over six decades developing work through collaboration. A founding member of artist collective General Idea, he spent 25 years working alongside co-founders Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal presenting projects that embodied the spirits of punk protest, queer theory, and AIDS activism; he has also worked to promote and celebrate otherness.

Presented in association with Paul O’Neill Archive at IMMA, and as part of Pallas 30, a programme of exhibitions, commissions, events and collaborations celebrating 30 years of the artist-run space Pallas Projects/Studios. Supported by Dublin City Council, The Arts Council, and Dublin by Dusk series of events at IMMA. Talk proceedings are followed by refreshments.

Free, booking required.

“Beautiful, visual and sonically striking. A heartfelt love letter to Dublin.” Variety

North Circular is a documentary musical that travels the length of Dublin’s North Circular Road, from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, exploring the history, music and streetscapes of a street that links some of the country’s most beloved and infamous places.

The films exploration of this iconic route touches on themes from colonialism and mental health to women’s liberation, while also addressing contemporary issues such as the campaign to save the legendary Cobblestone Pub. Local characters share their powerful and emotive stories, accompanied by traditional ballads and folk music featuring musicians rooted in the area, including Lisa O’Neill, John Francis Flynn, Séan Ó Túama, Eoghan O’Ceannabháin, Ian Lynch and Gemma Dunleavy. 

North Circular is written and directed by Luke McManus, edited by John Murphy, produced by Luke McManus and Elaine Gallagher. 

The screening will be preceded by a live overture performed by acclaimed cellist Kevin Murphy (Slow Moving Clouds, Rattling Ark) featuring themes from his soundtrack for the film.

Alongside the screening the exhibition Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman will open late until 8pm. This exhibition brings together two distinct art practices – of painter Camille Souter (1929–2023) and contemporary artist Alberta Whittle (b. 1980). Spanning a period of 70 years across two generations, the works in this thematic exhibition range from painting, collage and watercolours, to immersive film, sculptural installation and live performance.