The Festival of World Cultures is an annual international arts and culture festival celebrating the diversity of artistic traditions from all over the world.
The Festival focuses on innovative and developing artistic practice. The Festival brings performances and activities directly to many who would normally be unable to encounter international arts practices and opens up new and alternative experiences to many who would not normally seek them.
Responding to the changing demographic of Ireland , the Festival aims to enhance artistic expression and integration for Ireland 's newer communities by providing a platform for intercultural creative exchange.
The Festival challenges preconceptions, expanding the arts experience of both national and non-Irish-national audiences, broadening perceptions of international artistic culture.
The dynamic programme focuses on the representation of indigenous and traditional to innovative and developing artistic practice from around the world. The programme features concerts and club nights, theatre and dance performances, fairs and markets, exhibitions, talks, workshops and master classes.
With over 70% of the programme free to the public and through an extensive marketing campaign that focuses on developing new community audiences, the Festival undertakes to provide accessible performances and activities for all ages.
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and its Arts Office initiated the annual Festival of World Cultures in 2001. The work of the Arts Office is regarded as exemplary within local authority arts development in Ireland . The Arts Office produce, amongst others, the International Poetry Now Festival, Dublin Youth Dance Festival and The Concourse Installation Programme. The office has also nurtured the building developments of the Grainstore Youth Arts Centre, Pavilion Theatre and Dance Theatre of Ireland studio at Bloomfields .
Arts Office: www.dlrcoco.ie/arts
Festival Staff: Contact Details
- Access Cinema
- Akidwa
- Amigos do Brasil
- Amnesty International
- Aoife
- Arts Council
- Baha'i Family Forum
- Belfast Community Circus
- Bernardos
- Brasil for All
- British Council
- Canadian Embassy
- Calypso Productions
- Chester Beatty Library
- Children's Books Ireland
- Chinatown Radio
- Choice Cuts
- Comhlamh
- Concern
- Crawdaddy
- Cultivate
- Dance Theatre of Ireland
- DIT
- Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown Libraries
- Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown Tourism
- Dublin Youth Dance Theatre
- Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology
- Dún Laoghaire Refugee Project
- Dún Laoghaire VEC
- Edinburgh Mela
- Educate Together
- Embassy of Brazil
- Embassy of India
- Embassy of Iran
- Embassy of Korea
- Embassy of Mexico
- Embassy of Poland
- Embassy of the Republic of China
- Fáilte Ireland
- Fair Trade Mark Ireland
- FeileAfrica
- First Music Active
- Foras na Gaeilge
- Football Association of Ireland
- French Embassy
- Fusebox
- Grainstore Youth Arts Centre
- Instituto Cervantes
- Instituto Italiano di Cultura
- Integrating Ireland
- Ireland Poland Cultural Foundation
- Ireland Vinayaka Temple
- Irish Refugee Council
- Irish Sikh Council
- Irish Writers Centre
- Islamic Cultural Centre
- Mayfield Arts Centre
- Médicins Sans Frontières
- Melange Network
- Metro Eireann
- National Arts Council Singapore
- National Consultative Committee on Racism and Integration
- National Gallery of Ireland
- National Museum of Ireland
- Oficina da Capoeira
- Oxfam Ireland
- RTÉ
- Roma Support Group
- Southside Travellers Action Group
- St Patrick's Festival Company
- Stag Travellers Group
- The Chinese Information Centre
- The European Forum of World Music Festivals
- The Goethe Institute
- The Pavilion Theatre
- Tower Records
- Turkish Embassy
- USIT
- Voluntary Services Overseas
- Volunteering Ireland
- Western Union
- Where's me Culture?
