Culture Night is upon us for the people craving cultural sustenance, and on this most sacred of Culture Weekend’s, Dublin has delivered!

There’s spoken word, live hip hop, @districtmusic.ie launching in a Georgian House on South William Street, Earth Rising Festival in IMMA and even a mystery screening in the IFI to round out the weekend.

Thursday 21 September

Rediscover Fashion
Earth Rising, IMMA
11:00 – 19:00
Free

Learn about the Japanese clothing repair method of ‘sashiko’, to create some of the best festival gear out there at this workshop at IMMA’s free sustainable festival. Download the Earth Rising App now to discover the programme of events.

Friday 22 September

District Music Launch: Early
The Grand Social
19:00
€6.00

To celebrate the Launch of District’s newest platform dedicated to Irish music culture, as well as Culture Night we’re hosting two events. The first being an earlier event featuring some of Ireland’s most prominent spoken word artists and rappers. Click here for tickets.

District Music Launch: Late
Farrier and Draper 
23:00
€6.00

The second event of Culture Night, led by District is our late event in Farrier and Draper. Spinning techno, disco, hip hop, and more, boundary-pushing Irish DJs lead the line for our late District Music Launch. Click here for tickets.

Re-Peat: The Moss Pit
Earth Rising, IMMA 
11 – 9
FREE

The Moss Pit is an experimental audiovisual project by youth-led collective re-peat. It is a play-on-words, evoking the act of moshing- a raucous form of dance where people collide with one another until the individuals, though moving separately, can be seen as one entity: the mosh pit; at once, chaotic and in-sync.

Saturday 23 September

Slither x LOST Takeover 
6-8 Wellington Quay
23:00 – 03:00
€6.00

Three unique B2Bs, brought to you by the collaborative effort of Slither and Lost DJs. Being two of the most boundary-pushing collectives in the city, expect the unexpected. Click here for tickets.

Bó Mhór: Exploring Milk Preservation and Cheese Making
Earth Rising, IMMA
11:00 – 12:00
FREE

Bó Mhór is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project that aims to highlight the importance of food waste within the climate crisis debate, exploring milk preservation as a process of preventing food waste.

Sunday 24 September

IFI: Mystery Screening 
13:00
Irish Film Institute 

Head down to the IFI for a secret screening of a mystery movie. It could be anything, from IFI signature flicks to archive footage documentaries.

Leviathan Cycle Screening 
15:00-19:00
Earth Rising, IMMA 
Free

Leviathan Cycle  is a multi-episode film series and part of Shezad Dawood’s ground-
breaking leviathan project. It details a post catastrophic world where our society’s actions have resulted in a solar incident and explores how humans now navigate their barren landscape.

We’ve teamed up with Hennessy to celebrate the launch of our new District Music platform; exhibiting poignant spoken word and hip hop in our Early Launch as well as some of the most exciting DJs in the country for our Late Launch, this Culture Night. To get your tickets before they sell out, click here.