Summer season at IMMA – August Occasions
Summer season at IMMA
August Occasions
This August IMMA Is worked up to share one other month of free occasions as a part of Summer season at IMMA. On Sat 2 Aug be part of us for a gathering round a campfire the place two gifted Traveller storytellers, Chrissie Donoghue Ward and Owenie Ward, carry the magic of Traveller folklore to life. This occasion Canvas, Campfires & Tradition, runs alongside Leanne McDonagh’s sequence Why the Moon Travels now on present in IMMA Assortment: Artwork as Company. This can be a free occasion, all are welcome.
On 30 Aug be part of us for a particular celebration to mark the harvest of The Mannequin Plot because the Loy Affiliation of Eire, Horticulture College students from Inchicore School and artist Deirdre O’Mahony dig the potato crop grown over 2025. The celebrations will embody a Loy College Demonstration adopted by a crop harvest, feast of the potatoes and a day of singing, led by vocal artist and composer Siobhan Kavanagh and ecofeminist storyteller Sinead Mercier. On 28 Aug an artist speak with Deirdre O’Mahony will happen in affiliation with The Mannequin Plot. Reserving required for all occasions, click on right here for full particulars.
We’re additionally delighted to announce the programme is now reside for IMMA’s Earth Rising Competition, going down from 12 -14 Sept. Earth Rising is a a vibrant competition of artwork, ecology, and concepts that invitations you to have interaction with the massive questions of our time via the lens of artwork, creativity, and neighborhood. See full programme right here.
All through August there are heaps extra workshops, excursions, performances, yoga lessons and extra to decide on, together with a particular late night screening of The Matrix (1999).
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Dwelling Canvas at IMMA
August / Entrance Garden / All Day / Free
Thur 14 Aug / The Matrix (1999) / 7pm
We’ve a jam-packed line-up of movies to indicate you as a part of Dwelling Canvas at IMMA, that includes movie screenings by Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Anita Delaney, Tamsin Snow, and Avril Corroon  which is able to run till 13 Aug. From 14 Aug we’ll be exhibiting Derek Jarman’s charming work The Angelic Dialog, adopted by movies by Deirdre O’Mahony. We’re additionally delighted to announce we may have a particular night screening of The Matrix (1999) on 14 Aug.
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Workshops
August / IMMA Campus / Free
Get inventive this summer time with hands-on workshops at IMMA! Highlights in August embody a Shibori dyeing workshop utilizing conventional Japanese methods, a zine-making session, and an Oak Gall ink-making workshop. Discover seed sovereignty via artwork, become involved in a poetry studying and drawing session, or be part of us for a workshop in designing productive city areas. With actions working all through the week for all ages, it’s the proper time to dive into one thing new. Please observe reserving is required for chosen workshops.
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Excursions & Actions
August / IMMA Campus / Free
Add a splash of tradition and discover our wealthy mixture of excursions and actions set within the lovely environment of IMMA. We’ve a lot to select from, with family-friendly exhibition excursions, Gradual Trying Artwork classes, excursions in our gallery as Gaeilge, lunchtime and night yoga at IMMA’s Formal Gardens, mum or dad and child hour on the museum, and biodiversity walks. Whether or not you’re visiting with buddies, household, or taking time for your self, there’s one thing for everybody. Reserving required for chosen excursions.
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Talks
August / Free, reserving required
Highlights for this month’s Talks programme embody a lecture by textile curator Valerie Wilson on Irish patchwork and it’s hyperlinks to the Quilts of Gee’s Bend; a Heritage week screening and dialogue of Picturing Derry with administrators Sylvia Stevens and David Fox; and an in-conversation with artist Deirdre O’Mahony on The Mannequin Plot, exploring land use, rural sustainability and local weather resilience. All talks are free however reserving is required.
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Save the Date: Earth Rising Competition
12–14 Sept 2025
This yr’s competition is impressed by Staying with the Bother, IMMA’s present group exhibition based mostly on Donna Haraway’s influential textual content. The exhibition and the competition discover how we would reside in another way in a time of planetary breakdown, not by turning away from complexity, however by staying with it, collectively. From radical talks to joyful workshops, restorative installations to grassroots motion, Earth Rising 2025 options over 50 free occasions designed to encourage, join, and activate. Full programme particulars and reserving hyperlinks at the moment are obtainable.
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