Cultural Opportunities and Programmes for Community Groups

Our team has worked closely with men’s sheds, groups who do activities together, parent’s groups, youth groups, college students, language groups, community organisations and many, many more. Here are some of the cultural opportunities we offer to community groups:

Our Tea and Chats programme is an ongoing programme of information and open conversations over a cup of tea with people about what matters to them. By listening and connecting, we build relationships, collaborate and suggest ways for people to explore the city’s culture. The information gathered through Tea and Chats helps us to learn what is important to the people of Dublin so that our work across the Culture Company is relevant and responsive to what we hear. It enables us to understand the cultural choices that people make both locally and citywide.

Culture Club is a series of hosted talks and tours that introduce and encourage people to connect with the cultural spaces of the city. We invite people to see, experience and learn about Dublin’s cultural places.

Culture Connects is a year-round programme that invites people in Dublin to try out new things. We offer ways for people to make and create together, to share ideas, and connect through culture and conversation. Culture Connects is located at Richmond Barracks, a building of historical importance located in Inchicore that is also home to a library and garden and cultural programme that celebrates the interests of local communities and people.

Dublin City Historians In Residence work in neighbourhoods across the city to encourage local people to engage with history, and to promote its sources and discussion, especially the historical collections in Dublin City Library and Archive. Dublin also has a Historian in Residence for Children who nurtures children on their journeys of discovery through stories and history. By engaging with local communities and keeping people front and centre of history, our Historian in Residence programme helps the people of Dublin City feel a connection to their local history.

14 Henrietta Street is a social history museum of Dublin life, from one building’s Georgian beginnings to its tenement times. We connect the history of urban life over 300 years to the stories of the people who called this place home. Our guided tours welcome community groups all year round.

If you, or a group you belong to, are interested in participating in a Tea and Chat and being part of ongoing city-wide conversation we would love to hear from you.