WELCOME - fáilte
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
- Arts Office Grants Scheme 2013 - Recipients (pdf - 13kb)
- Call for Singing/Choral Directors
- Call for Community Based Dance Project August 2013 - December 2015
- A Story about the history of Dun Laoghaire - County Hall - From 24th May 2013 (pdf - 358kb)
- Creative Practitioners Call Out 2013 - 2015
- Call for Expressions of Interest - dlr Fine Art Print Exibition 2013
- Public Event - What's the Story? - Putting the Short Story in the Spotlight
- Call for Writer in Residence for dlr Mountains to Sea Book Festival 2013 (pdf- 29kb)
- dlr Open Submission Exhibition 2013
- Tyrone Guthrie Bursaries 2013
- Arts Office Grants Scheme 2013
- Free Creative Writing Course in Dundrum Library
- Mountains to Sea Book Festival 2013 - Invitation for Tenders for Event Management
- The Sport of Writing: Meet the Sportswriters! (pdf - 885kb)
- Open Submission Exhibition, Concourse, County Hall, Dun Laoghaire - Call for Submissions from Artists (pdf - 144kb)
- Cinemobile, The 100 Seater Mobile Cinema Programme (pdf - 852kb)
- dlr Writer in Residence 2012 - 2013
- STOP LOOK LISTEN dlr Youth Arts Festival 2012: 25 Oct - 3 Nov (pdf - 1MB)
- FIELDWORKS - New Views of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Photographs by Michael Durand and Dara McGrath
- FIELDWORKS - Mediation Programme, A Free Series of Talks and Workshops (pdf - 94kb)
- FIELDWORKS - Mediation Programme: Marlay Park Photo Treasure Hunt Clue Sheet (pdf - 153kb)
- Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012
- Mill Theatre announces appointment of Theatre Practitioner in Residence and series of acting workshops (pdf - 363kb)
- Creative Practitioners Call Out 2012 (pdf - 70kb)
- Shortlist announced for Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2012
- Call for Theatre Practitioner in Residence - Mill Theatre, Dundrum
- Central Library and Cultural Centre Per cent for Art Tender
- Call for Writer in Residence
- Reignite the Spark: a snapshot of an Arts and Health Partnership 2007-2011
- Grants awarded under Arts Office Grants Scheme 2012
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.
Subscribe to DLR Arts E-Bulletin
If you are interested in being kept informed by email of dlr Arts events and opportunities please subscribe to the e-bulletin by emailing your name, address and email to arts@dlrcoco.ie