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Arts Development Policy 2011 - 2014
- Continuing the conversation - Arts Development Policy 2011 - 2014 (pdf - 4.34MB)
- Leanúint leis an gComhrá - Beartas um Forbairt na Healaíona 2011 - 2014 (pdf - 4.33MB)
Latest News
- STOP LOOK LISTEN -Youth Arts 2012
- Grants awarded under Arts Office Grants Scheme 2012
- Tender for an audit for the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Public Art Collection
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council: Public Art Policy (pdf - 75kb)
- dlr Arts Grants Scheme 2012
- SOURCE: An exhibition of contemporary craft
- Maureen Kennelly announced as new Curator of Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012
- Grants awarded under Arts Office Grants Scheme 2011
- Mentoring programme for Playwrights and Theatre Director with The Mill Theatre and Fishamble
- Paul Perry announced as new curator of Poetry Now
- Unfolding narratives - Dundrum Open Submission 2011 - Mediation Programme - Tours - Picnic event - Dublin South FM broadcast (pdf - 131kb)
- Daniel Figgis' The Battle oF Speeds - An immersive fantasy spectacle for all the family
- STOP LOOK LISTEN dlr Youth Arts 2011 (pdf - 568kb)
- Invitation to tender for design and print management of dlr Arts Policy
- Unfolding Narratives - Dundrum Open Submission 2011
- Julie Merriman - Carlisle Pier
- Exhibition - Outside the Lines - Contemporary Drawing Practice
- Outside the Lines - Contemporary Drawing Practice - Mediation Programme - workshops- talks - screening (pdf 89kb)
- Call for proposals from Visual Arts Practitioners for Dundrum Open 2011 (pdf 89kb)
- Call for Creative Practitioners 2011 - 2012
- Call for Arts and Health Interview Facilitator (pdf 25kb)
- Call for Youth Arts Incubation Award
- Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2011 dates announced.
- Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012 - Call for Primary Curator (pdf 197kb)
- Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012- Call for curator for Poetry Now (pdf 200kb)
- Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012- Call for curator for programme of school and family events (pdf 198kb)
What We Do
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is committed to high quality arts and cultural programming and over the last twelve years has commissioned and developed an exciting range of festivals including the Poetry Now Festival and the Youth Dance Festival, the Concourse Visual Arts Exhibition, the Artist Residency programme, the Artists in Schools Programme and most recently the Public Art Programme.
In 2006 the Council, in partnership with local and national agencies and organisations prepared a three-year Strategic Vision for the development of arts in the County. On November 12th 2006 Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council ratified the first strategic plan for the county - The second dlr Arts Policy was ratified in Septmeber 2011
This website provides an online archive of previous festival programmes, exhibitions, residencies and events and links to arts organisation in the area.
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