The Project turns 50 this year and to celebrate the event, they’ve lots and lots of very cool events! These include the The Casement Project, which has some great images above. There’s also Pan Pan, Live Collision and more besides. Check out the full list below…

BUTTERFLIES AND BONES, THE CASEMENT PROJECT

by Fearghus O Conchúir as part of ART2016: The Arts Council’s programme for Ireland 2016

7.30pm, 20 – 22 October 2016

In 1916, British peer Roger Casement was hanged in Pentonville Prison. Having achieved international recognition for exposing human rights abuses in the rubber trade of the Congo and of the Amazon, his support for Irish nationalism during the First World War was a scandal for the Empire that had knighted him. His sex with men was even more contentious both then and for many years after his death. A hundred years later, Butterflies and Bones uses Casement’s legacy to address today’s questions of belonging and becoming: Who gets to be in the national body? How could that national body move?

HERESY – An opera by Roger Doyle on the life and death of Giordano Bruno, with libretto by Jocelyn Clarke and directed by Eric Fraad.

7.30pm 28 October 2016-05 November 2016

Heresy is an imaginative, contemporary electronic opera based on episodes from the life and works of Giordano Bruno and the first opera by the celebrated Irish composer, Roger Doyle, with a libretto by noted playwright and dramaturg, Jocelyn Clarke, directed by American opera director Eric Fraad.

ONE TIME

A Festival of work co-curated with Pan Pan Theatre. A season of contemporary theatre featuring works by Pan Pan and the greatest hits of American/Belgian group Random Scream, including What You Need to Know and Karaoke (ART)

The Importance of Nothing (a new work by Pan Pan) – 12 – 19 November, 2016

A selection of works from Belgian company Random Scream – 23 26 November 2016

MAINSTREAM by Rosaleen McDonagh – 7.45pm 16-26 November 2016

Project Arts Centre and the Olivier Award-winning Fishamble: The New Play Company present a new play by Rosaleen McDonagh about truth, lies and the mainstreaming of people with disabilities.

LIVE COLLISION FESTIVAL 2016 – 30 November – 4 December 2016

Ireland’s leading festival of Live Art returns in December, presenting live performance and digital platforms including dialogues, exhibitions andpublications with work never before shown in Ireland.

PRECIOUS METAL by John Scott – 7.30pm 6-10 December 2016

John Scott, one of Ireland’s most radical, imaginative and internationally acclaimed choreographers, celebrates 25 years of his company with a compelling new work Precious Metal. Featuring an international team of technically brilliant, culturally diverse dancers and artists, the piece combines passion and virtuosity, humour and heartbreak.

THE WILD – 11 November 2016-28 January 2017

Opening: Thu 10 Nov 6pm – 8pm

The Wild adopts a horizontal, vine-likeapproach to exhibition-making, where the contents and accumulations of artworks and experiences will evolve throughout the months of November and December as an active memorial to the festival in which Project was formed in 1966, then remain on display until the end of January 2017.

DANSE MOROB by Laurent Gaudé & Olwen Fouéré – January 2017 TBC

A new work by Laurent Gaudé (Prix Goncourt Laureate) & leading theatre artist Olwen Fouéré.  Based on a woman’s search for the missing body of her ex-hunger striker father;  Danse, Morob will be co-produced by Project Arts Centre.

THIS IS AN IRISH DANCE by Jean Butler

February 2017 TBC

Jean Butler’s  new duet, this is an Irish dance, created with Belfast-based cellist Neil Martin, further unearths her roots by returning to the relationship between live music and movement as the choreographic departure point for the work.

50 OBJECTS FOR 50 YEARS

Digital Archive project with Digital Repository Ireland and National Library of Ireland

The Project Arts Centre 50 Objects for 50 Years archive marks DRI’s first collaboration with a multi-disciplinary arts centre to build and publish a brand new digital collection. “We are delighted to be collaborating with the Project Arts Centre on initiating a digital archive that reflects 50 amazing years of provocative performance and art,” said Natalie Harrower, Director of the DRI. “Archives are about preserving records of the past, but importantly, they are also about making that past accessible in the future.”