Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Library Service,
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Meetings
9 July-31 August 2018
The Irish Guild of Embroiderers return to dlr LexIcon this summer with a wonderful new exhibition focusing on the theme of ‘Meetings’, meetings of sea and shore, of people, of colours, of stitches, of media, of home and abroad. Members’ work encompasses all styles of embroidery and textile work from the traditional to the innovative, from handwork to machine embroidery. The selection of textile work on display embraces fabric manipulation and embellishment, dyeing, printing and stitching and is presented in a variety of forms including framed work, wall hangings and 3D sculptures.
Photo: Orla Brady by Hugh O'Conor
Banned Books - Censorship in Ireland, 1929-1967
7 May - 29 July
Level 5 dlr LexIcon
The Irish Free State worked to create an Ireland that it believed reflected the values of the majority of its people. Censorship of books was an important means to this end. The Censorship of Publications Board established in 1929 banned the works of many Irish and international writers among them, Kate O'Brien, Brendan Behan, Aldous Huxley and Marcel Proust. It was only with the Censorship of Publications Act of 1967 that the bans on these books were finally lifted. This display will show how wide and varied were the books denied Irish readers during that time.
Ghostlight: An exhibition of photographs by Mark Granier 24 April-31 May
Mark Granier is an awardwinning photographer and poet. According to Peter Sirr, “Granier is an accomplished photographer drawn to urban scenes, often to the overlooked or underappreciated –overhead wires, bus shelters, the aftermath of a parade, people in all their astonishing variety. The same quality of attention filters through to the poetry.” Granier has published 5 poetry collections, most recently Haunt (Salmon Poetry, 2015) and Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2017). A talk by Mark Granier will be held at 7.00pm on Tuesday 15 May in the Studio Theatre. Image "Cloud Crossing" by Mark Granier ©The ASIAM Autism Experience Exhibition 12-14 April
Level 3, dlr LexIcon
PRISM Dlr in association with Triple A Wicklow are delighted to present the ASIAM Autism Experience Exhibition at dlr LexIcon. The aim of the exhibition is to engage the general public in gaining a greater insight into what it is like to live with autism. How would you feel if you couldn’t communicate with your own voice or were unable to filter out surrounding noise? What if you couldn’t cope with the feeling of certain textures or odours of certain foods. At this exhibition, we will answer these questions and let you experience some of these challenges!
School visits on 12 & 13 April. General admission on 14 April. Talk on ASD, Anxiety and Mental Health will be held in the Studio Theatre, Sat 14 April at 10am (Eventbrite booking only) followed by Autism support and advice drop-in session for families hosted by PRISM...
Maid of Erin, a display of political cartoons by John Fergus O’Hea from the Weekly Freeman, 1887-1889
15 January-30 April The later part of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of new mass movements in Irish social and political life. Taking aselection of illustrations by John Fergus O’Hea in particular, from the Local Studies Collection, this display explores the highlypoliticised imagery used to influence opinion in a period of increasing national awareness. Level 5 dlr LexIcon
16 October - 12 November
'Street Feast' is Ireland's annual day of street parties and community lunches. Communities were invited to host a party with their neighbours and feast together as a wonderful celebration of community. These phots, documenting dlr's Street Feasts were taken by final year students from the IADT Film and Media Department and the Exhibtion is funded by Creative Ireland
Note: from 9-13 October, the exhibition will be hosted in the Concourse, County Hall, to mark Social Inclusion Week 2017.
Final-year architecture students from UCD School of Architecture have generated a series of design projects connected by The Metals. These range from artists’ studios to a local recycling centre on the fringes of the railway line, a Camphill Community garden scheme and a co-housing project on sites in the gardens of existing houses backing on to The Metals, a project for modular emergency housing on the edge of Dalkey Quarry, and two projects on the harbour, a proposal for a public space on Carlisle Pier and a new harbourmaster’s office beside the Irish Lights. Aspects of these seven diverse and speculative proposals may be viewed until Open House Dublin 2017 which takes place from 13-15 October.
Level 4 and 5, dlr LexIcon