The Five Lamps Arts Festival, located in the heart of the community in Dublin’s North East Inner City, was founded in 2007 by Roisin Lonergan, a former teacher from Marino College. Since its first edition, the Festival has grown to become a center for the creation and presentation of locally relevant, artistically ambitious works and is a highly regarded and much-loved part of the community. The 5 Lamps team are hard at work crafting an exciting, inclusive, and accessible programme for this year’s Five Lamps Arts Festival. While l all the details can't be revealed just yet, they’re

Considered one of the most influential British comedians since Charlie Chaplin, (he received the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy 2016 BAFTA/LA) Ricky Gervais is the creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek, and the critically acclaimed Netflix hit After Life. Following the global success of his two previous Netflix stand-up specials ‘Humanity’ and ‘Supernature’, 2023 saw Gervais release a third special and his biggest to date, ‘Armageddon’. It won a Golden Globe, was the global number 1 most-watched show on Netflix, and followed a record-breaking in

FRED WESLEY is THE ultimate FUNK MASTER. Through the many years as musical director with The James Brown Band to the spin off group James Brown and The JB’s to many years with George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic. Fred Wesley and the new JB’s were the biggest funk group of the 90’s and now he returns to Dublin with his award winning project “Generations”. Wesley, already recognised as one of the architects of Funk, uses the project to connect to his jazz roots and to the future. Don’t worry for one moment though, this band is still all about groove so there is no need for a chair