The City Arts Centre in Dublin is a local community arts organization founded in 1973. Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ...
From 1988 until 2001 the City Arts Centre occupied a building on Moss Street near Tara Station. The centre actually owned this building, it bought it in what had been at the time a run-down area, however, the property become rather valuable and the City Arts Centre, under the directorship of Declan McGonagle, decided to not only sell the building, but to close down its on going programmes and engage in what it called the Civil Arts Inquiry, a two year long series of meetings, events and symposia aimed at formulating the future needs and future direction of community art. The conclusions from this process should include a future direction for the City Arts Centre itself, in fact, the Inquiry finished in March 2004 and its report is expected some time in 2005. Declan McGonagle is an Irish art curator. ...
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City Arts Centre own website (http://www.cityartscentre.ie)
The CityArts in Dublin, Ireland, is a local community arts organization founded in 1973.
The Arts Council never fully backed the centre favouring the highly regarded Project ArtsCentre, despite the CityArtsCentre clear leadership profile for community arts.
As of 2005 "The CityArtsCentre" renamed itself as "CityArts" and is based in Merrion Square in Dublin.
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