Education

Daily Highlights Tour

This tour offered a 45 minute look at some of the showstoppers at Dublin Contemporary.
These tours took place at 3pm Mon-Fri and 2pm and 6pm Saturdays and Sundays.

Free with exhibition admission.

Tour, Talk & Tea

Visitors were encouraged to relax and enjoy a tour and informal discussion, followed by a cup of tea or coffee. Each week, we explored a different theme by looking at and discussing different works in the exhibition.

Tour, Talk & Tea sessions took place on Wednesday afternoons at 4pm.
Free with a valid exhibition ticket, alternatively, €6 if you just wished to join us for Tour, Talk & Tea.

Ten Minute Talks

Perfect for visitors who were short of time, or simply wished to learn more about a particular art-work, these short talks gave visitors a quick insight into a different work each day.

Ten Minute Talks took place at 1.30pm and 5.30pm daily.
Free with exhibition admission.

Dublin Contemporary Described

We invited blind and partially sighted visitors to join us for Dublin Contemporary Described, which explored some of the highlights of Dublin Contemporary using audio-description and touch.
These tours took place on 22nd September 2011 and October 20th 2011 at 6.30pm.
Tours cost €5, or is free with a valid exhibition ticket. Booking is essential.
For more information, or to reserve a place contact Bairbre-Ann (Access Officer) at (01) 678 7920 or bairbre-ann@dublincontemporary.com.

Irish Sign Language Interpreted Tour

Dublin Contemporary welcomed visitors who use Irish Sign Language to an ISL-interpreted tour on Saturday September 10th 2011 at 3pm.
The tour costed €5, or was free with a valid exhibition ticket.

Discovering Dublin Contemporary

Dublin Contemporary invited people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia and their family members to join us for a specially tailored interactive programme where participants explored and talked about some of the highlights of the exhibition.
These tours took place on Tuesday 27th September 2011 and Tuesday 18th October 2011 at 2pm
This programme was free of charge but advanced registration was required.

Assistive listening devices

Assistive listening headsets and loop devices were available for selected Highlights Tours, Ten-Minute Talks, Tour, Talk & Tea, Discovering Dublin Contemporary and Dublin Contemporary Described events.

Dublin Contemporary partnered with a number of galleries and institutions city-wide to offer a wide range of talks and seminars, all talks were free of charge and open to the public. For details of these partnership events, click here to see our Events Page.

An Introduction to Contemporary Art

Would you like to find out more about Contemporary Art? Join us for this drop-in series of lectures and discussions for those new to Contemporary Art.
Eight sessions, one per week aimed to facilitate the learner in looking at Contemporary Art through direct engagement with the Dublin Contemporary 2011 exhibition, lecture-theatre based talks and artist talks.
Tuesday evenings at 6pm
Free of charge

The Art of Contemporary Collecting

Have you ever thought about collecting a piece of art? This series of drop-in seminars aimed to demystify the art of collecting contemporary art. Seminars discussed both financial and artistic considerations and were open to all. 
Wednesday evenings at 6pm
Free of charge

The Poetry of Vision: Earlsfort Terrace Revisited

The Poetry of Vision: Earlsfort Terrace Revisted took a look at the past incarnations of Ealrsfort Terrace and explored, through a series of public discussions and talks, the history ROSC and UCD at Earlsfort Terrace.
September 19th at 6pm, October 3rd at 1pm, October 19th and 28th at 6pm, November 6th at 3pm
Free of charge

For information on all lectures within the series above, please see our Events page.