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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Aug 19

SPECTRUM is back!
A high-energy takeover of Rua Red & Parthalán Place for Culture Night Late 2025 with live music, visuals, block party vibes, performance & more.

🗓 Fri 19 Sept | 18:00–23.30
📍 Rua Red Gallery
🎟 Free | Tickets: www.eventbrite.ie/e/spectrum-c...

SPECTRUM: Culture Night Late 2025

SPECTRUM: Culture Night, a high-energy evening takeover of Rua Red and Parthalán Place, co-produced by SoFFt Productions

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 15

‪@creativefutures.bsky.social at @ncad-ireland.bsky.social 's Professional Certificate in Creative Learning, co-delivered with
@ruaredgallery.bsky.social, explores innovative, collaborative teaching models for community & alternative learning spaces.

Apply now: shorturl.at/HIrRk

Professional Certificate in Creative Learning — CFA Creative Futures Academy

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎨 OPEN CALL: Rua Red Annual Open 2025 – Right Here, Right Now
📅 Deadline: 1 Sept, 5pm
Calling artists (grad, emerging + established) across Ireland to submit work reflecting the urgency of now.
All disciplines welcome.
🔗 Apply: shorturl.at/g0mxI

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 23

Deadline Extended!

Rua Red have extended the application deadline for the Education & Learning Coordinator position.

New deadline: Tuesday 5 August at 5pm

There's still time to apply, don’t miss your chance to join the team!

Full details at: www.ruared.ie/media/pages/...

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Creative Futures Academy @creativefutures.bsky.social · Jul 21

Rethink teaching. Reimagine learning.

Explore creative facilitation and alternative learning environments in CFA at @ncad-ireland.bsky.social's 'Creative Learning', co-delivered with @ruaredgallery.bsky.social.
🔹Saturdays and online
📍Apply by 12 September: creativefuturesacademy.ie/courses/prof...

Professional Certificate in Creative Learning — CFA Creative Futures Academy

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 21

Whelan described it as “a rich conversation between practitioners sharing insights from their methodologies, and the layers of labour within their practices.”

A second workshop will take place on Friday, August 22nd. Places are limited: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1435001832...

Visualising your Practice as Process and Method with Fiona Whelan

Artists are invited to a one-day workshop to reflect on the methods and processes that shape their artistic practice.

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 21

On Friday, a group of artists and designers took part in a reflective half-day workshop facilitated Rua Red studio artist Fiona Whelan, exploring the methodological and processual features of their artistic practices.

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨🚨Just a wee reminder: Deadline to apply for Learning and Engagement Coordinator is 12 noon Friday 18 July!
Rua Red is seeking to recruit an energetic individual who will have a unique and exciting approach to community engagement in contemporary art practice...

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 17

Join us on Friday 25th July from 17:00 - 21:00 for a summer clothes and book swap! Bring up to 10 items of clothing you’d like to donate, we’ll take them off your hands and add them to the swap shop. Once you’re in you’re free to shop from everyone’s donations!

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Swap Til Ye Drop

Swap Til Ye Drop Present The Summer Spectacular, Friday 25 July at Rua Red!

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Performing Arts Forum @pafireland.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣 #jobfairy Reminder
⏰Closing Fri 18 July
👉Learning & Engagement Co-ordinator
@ruaredgallery.bsky.social
to oversee the Learn programme
🗣Reflecting the organisation’s interests with place, politics and people through high quality, diverse programming
📋 www.performingartsforum.ie/.../learning...

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 15

‪@creativefutures.bsky.social at @ncad-ireland.bsky.social 's Professional Certificate in Creative Learning, co-delivered with
@ruaredgallery.bsky.social, explores innovative, collaborative teaching models for community & alternative learning spaces.

Apply now: shorturl.at/HIrRk

Professional Certificate in Creative Learning — CFA Creative Futures Academy

creativefuturesacademy.ie

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 11

Massive shoutout and congratulations to the incredible Oein DeBhairduin, chair of Rua Red’s Traveller Steering Group, and to our talented artist-in-residence Sarah McDonagh, who is performing in this magical SOLD OUT production of 'Why The Moon Travels' with Moonfish Theatre!
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Why The Moon Travels | Moonfish Theatre

A haunting and magical new production from Moonfish Theatre, Why the Moon Travels is a retelling of Irish Traveller folktales devised by an all-Traveller cast, based on the best-selling book by writer...

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 7

Join us for a special gallery tour of Together in Commune with the curator Marysia Więckiewicz, as she explores the processes of research, dialogue, experimentation, and collective exchange that unfold within the artists’ studio.

🗓️ Sat 19 July, 14:00–15:00
🎟️ RSVP: www.eventbrite.ie/e/curator-to...

Curator Tour with Marysia Więckiewicz

A Tour of Together in Commune with Curator Marysia Więckiewicz

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Rua Red is seeking a Learning and Engagement Coordinator to lead our Learn programme, working across communities, ages, and art practices.

📅 Deadline: 12 noon, Fri 18 July
📩 Apply: [email protected]
🔗 Job description and application: shorturl.at/6hglb

Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 4

🌿 Happening tomorrow! Urban Talismans: Collective Rituals of Making, a drop-in workshop with artist Cecilia Bullo

🕑 14:00–17:00 | Ages 13+ | Free, no booking needed!

Create protective and healing talismans using clay, fibre, and natural materials, inspired by folklore, ecofeminism, and ritual.

Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 3

Part of the Fabric w/ Ala Buisir is a free workshop for migrant & second-gen communities to explore ancestral archives through sublimation printing on the Irish flag. Reclaim space, resist exclusion, redefine belonging.
📅 July 12, 26 | Aug 9, 23
🎟️ Booking essential: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1434992113...

Part of the Fabric with Ala Buisir

Part of the Fabric invites migrant and second-gen communities to explore ancestry in a one-day sublimation printing workshop.

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Creative Futures Academy @creativefutures.bsky.social · Jul 3

CFA at @ncad-ireland.bsky.social's Professional Certificate in Creative Learning, co-delivered with @ruaredgallery.bsky.social, explores innovative, collaborative teaching models for community & alternative learning spaces.

Apply now: creativefuturesacademy.ie/courses/prof...

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 DEADLINE REMINDER! 🚨 SPECTRUM — Invitation for Artist Proposals. 5PM TODAY!

Rua Red x SOFFT Productions x Noise Music are commissioning a visual artist for SPECTRUM 4, a multidisciplinary gallery takeover this Culture Night.

Working in projections / screen-based media? ➡️
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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks to @dublininquirer.com for highlighting Together in Commune as a top thing to do in Dublin! 🌟

Launching tonight at 6pm at Rua Red, this group show brings studio practice into public view, with live performance from artist Lauren Kelly + workshops all summer.

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Things to Do: Embrace silence, hear a few ghost stories and see the world from the perspective of an insect

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jun 26

Open Call: Rua Red x Sofft Productions x Noise Music present SPECTRUM: a one-night visual + music intervention this Culture Night. Artists working with screen-based media invited to apply by July 1, 5pm: [email protected]

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨 Exhibition Launch! Join us Fri 27 June, 6–8pm for the opening of Together in Commune, the first show from Rua Red’s current studio artists. Plus, don't miss live performance 'Against the Oppressor by Lauren Kelly' on opening night (6–6:40PM). RSVP and learn more: www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-eve...

Launch Event - Together in Commune

Together in Commune, is the first exhibition of Rua Red’s Studio Programme, curated by Marysia Wieckiewicz.

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jun 16

For Cruinniú na nÓg, we partnered with artist Seiko Hayase and St.Dominic's National School for a series of art workshops with students aged 9 to 12. Each participant used their imagination to bring their own monster to life, culminating in the creation of a giant monster! youtu.be/vRyjLwBA5Ys

My Monster and Me - Cruinniú na nÓg 2025

YouTube video by Rua Red Gallery

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Rua Red Gallery @ruaredgallery.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join us for the launch of Impressions, Café Wall Exhibition,
launching tonight from 18:30. Featuring work by Safa Miqdad, Diabuah Chibuike Richard, and Jose Ukachukwu, Impressions portrays their lived experiences as artists from migrant backgrounds...

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Impressions

On Monday, 16th June, join us in celebrating World Refugee Week with the launch of our Café Wall Exhibition, Impressions.

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National College of Art & Design @ncad-ireland.bsky.social · Jun 14

It's also the last day to visit the NCAD MFA Fine Art exhibition at @ruaredgallery.bsky.social from 10 am to 6 pm. Don't miss out!

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