Thank you to everyone who joined us for the launch of Patient Labyrinth by Junk Ensemble. It was a pleasure to welcome so many of you into the space to share this amazing & immersive work. The launch was marked by a durational performance with dance artist Róisín Harten. Continues until 7 Feb 2026

Join us at Rua Red TONIGHT for the launch of Junk Ensembles' Patient Labyrinth! The opening will be marked by a durational performance with dance artist Róisín Harten, starting from 18:00!

Join us for the December Intercultural Artists' Network meet up at Rua Red on Saturday 13 December from 12:00. Connect with fellow South Dublin creatives, hear about the ICAN bursaries now open and get a look at next year’s plans. New faces welcome. Event link: www.eventbrite.ie/e/south-dubl...

The next Intercultural Artists' Network gathering takes place Sat, 29 Nov, 12:00—13:00! Come join us & meet fellow creatives based in South Dublin County. There will be plenty of discussion on shaping the future of the network, and the opportunities and events that are to follow! shorturl.at/RsUFL

Xchange: Experimental Live Art Jam and Performance Session is back this Saturday 29, 14:00-16:00! A space for collaboration among live art practitioners, dancers, poets, activists, and sound artists. If you are interested in taking part contact: [email protected] Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou

From 12 Dec - 7 Feb, Rua Red Gallery transforms into PATIENT LABYRINTH by Junk Ensemble, a living maze of myth and memory exploring the boundary between two worlds: the one where we lose our way, and the one we find our way out of. Launch 12 Dec, RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1974681350...

CALL FOR ARTISAN MAKERS & CRAFTERS 🎄✨ Tallaght Winter Wonderland Market on Friday 5 Dec, running 12h to 20h at Parthalán Place, Tallaght SDCC Subsidised stalls available! Pitch fee: €45 + VAT Bring your own gazebo, furniture and weights. Interested? Email [email protected]

Join us Nov 8th. Director Maolíosa Boyle will be in conversation with artist Domnick Sorace as they reflect on his artistic practice in general, recurring themes, influences, and the development of his current solo show When Stars Collide, following a residency in Assisi, Italy. shorturl.at/7og5w

Many thanks @ruaredgallery.bsky.social for selecting two of my works for their Right Here, Right Now group exhibition, opening on 3rd October. #RightHereRightNow

Join us Sat 25 Oct, 14:00–16:00 for the next South Dublin Intercultural Artist Network meeting! 🎨 Dr Ebun Joseph will speak on “What is Black Culture?” — exploring how it’s defined, shaped, and shared. All welcome to connect + celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth tinyurl.com/5n8mus6r

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...

‪@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

🎨 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

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/...

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...

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.

🚨🚨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... www.ruared.ie/.../rua_red_...

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! www.eventbrite.ie/e/1498978688...

📣 #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...

‪@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

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! shorturl.at/ccbLB

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...

🚨 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

🌿 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.

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...

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...

🚨 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? ➡️ shorturl.at/SWzrC

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. shorturl.at/bOoJ2

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] www.ruared.ie/media/pages/...

🚨 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...

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

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... www.eventbrite.ie/e/1410407439...

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!

Join us at Rua Red for NCAD Works: A Curator’s Response, Wednesday, 11 June, 3–4.30pm. Walk-through of the MFA Grad Show with @immaireland.bsky.social's Georgie Thompson + exhibiting artists. Free & All welcome. www.eventbrite.ie/e/1387655407...

Throwback to Cruinniú na nÓg 2020, a year when creativity went fully online. Rua Red hosted Resilient/Resilience with Joe Caslin, empowering young people to express pandemic experiences through street art. Watch the @news.rte.ie piece: shorturl.at/TcdJu

We’re delighted to see the @ncad-ireland.bsky.social MFA Graduate Show featured in @dublininquirer.com's 'Things to Do' this week, alongside some of the accompanying events that will be on during the week here! Have a read, it’s a great round up of what’s on... www.dublininquirer.com/things-to-do...

Lots happening tomorrow at Rua Red! We have some special events running for Cruinniú na nÓg, incl. Monster Hat with Seiko Hayse! We're also delighted to launch @ncad-ireland.bsky.social MFA Graduate Degree Show in our Galleries from 3pm! See the full day of events below. Admission Free

Don’t miss the 𝗠𝗙𝗔 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 opening tomorrow, Saturday 7th June at Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght, 3 pm. Everyone welcome! 👁Visit us in person or explore the digital exhibition at 2025.ncad.works. #NCADWorks2025 @ruaredgallery.bsky.social

Rua Red, in partnership with the NCAD, proudly presents NCAD Works 2025, MFA Graduate Show. Opening 7 June, the exhibition showcases the work of 7 graduating artists from NCAD’s Master of Fine Art programme. Get the full details ---> ncad.works/courses/mfa-...

Rua Red is seeking an Intercultural Artists Network Coordinator to lead the development and delivery of the South Dublin Intercultural Artists Network. Find the full details through the link below. The deadline to apply is 5pm on Tuesday 27th May 2025. www.ruared.ie/media/pages/...

Screening | Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland at Rua Red Join us for a screening of ‘Wholly Trinity’ followed by a chat and Q & A with Dr. Emma Campbell, Array Collective Artist and co-convenor of Alliance for Choice, and Dr. visualartists.ie/events/scree...

Are you an aspiring poet, an activist interested in experimenting with creative ways to respond to injustice, or looking to try something new, using words as your toolkit? Come along for an evening poetry workshop with acclaimed writer and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social shorturl.at/lCdan

We're currently seeking an enthusiastic, warm, and cheerful Welcome Team member. The Welcome Team are the public face of the organisation, actively meeting and greeting people and setting the tone for everyone’s experience. Check out the full job description: shorturl.at/fCa6H

“This is a safe space to share experiences and connect with others in similar, often isolating situations,” - Deirdre McNally, one of the co-founders of The Carers’ Café in Rua Red, a group for carers who support people living with dementia. Read more about the group -> www.echo.ie/carers-cafe-...

Got home to a great surprise in the post. A book of poems and a letter from a talented young poet Noah Petit Navarro from Galway... Big fan of Array Collective too... @ruaredgallery.bsky.social

Reminder- The Goose and The Common runs at Rua Red @ruaredgallery.bsky.social until 3 May 2025. An invitation to rest, resist, & rise in solidarity. Free to attend, open to all. More info via the link in our bio. Images by Ste Murray. #TheGooseAndTheCommon #ArrayCollective #RuaRed #art #karaoke

Delighted to announce Junk Ensemble’s new residency at Rua Red. Junk Ensemble will use the new Residency Studio to embark on the research + development of a new multidisciplinary initiative that explores cultural traditions of fortune reading, divination, and healing within the Traveller community..

A glimpse into our recent Art Trolley class with the talented artist and facilitator, Dania! She guided our group of 7-12 year olds in exploring textiles, creating vibrant fabric collages rich in texture, colour, and personal expression. Join us again this Saturday for another fun workshop!

‪📅 Deadline: Monday, 24 March, 5pm 📢 Rua Red is actively seeking someone to be Treasurer to the Rua Red Board of Directors who has experience in financial management, budgets, accounting, bookkeeping, and SORP, preferably within the not-for-profit or arts sector. 🔗 shorturl.at/v3ZXo