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Exhibitions, festivals and goings-on at CHQ

From Wildlife Photographer of the Year to Chinese New Year, the Galleria and Vaults have hosted art, culture, start-up and community events for over a decade. Here's the archive.

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Event · 3 May 2018

Share Your Emigration Story with the Europeana Project

Throughout 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Europeana will run a series of migration collection days and events involving museums, libraries, archives and…

Event · 3 May 2018

Paint with Dad this Father’s Day

2:00pm – 4:00pm, 17 June. Tickets €15 Book Tickets This Father’s Day, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum will be hosting a ‘Paint with Dad!’ workshop in partnership with…

Event · 3 May 2018

A Journey to Relish ; Bloomsday Festival at EPIC

11:00 – 13:00, Saturday 16 June. Tickets €25 – Click here to book This year begin your Bloomsday Festival journey at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum , in association…

Event · 3 May 2018

Tiny Tots Tuesday – Musical Mayhem!

CHQ is collaborating with Irish Family History Centre and EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum with Tiny Tots Tuesday! In our first ever Tiny Tots Tuesday on 15 May from…

Event · 24 April 2018

#MyPortPerspective

Dublin Port are bringing an exciting photography exhibition to CHQ’s Liffey Corner this May! Their exhibition #MyPortPerspective will be showcasing the winners & runners…

News · 17 April 2018

Facebook Christmas Party 2014

Facebook’s 2014 Narnia-themed party set up by Event Fuel.. So much work but what an amazing transformation of The chq Building!

News · 17 April 2018

Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur

Event · 17 April 2018

The Struggle – An Exhibition by Sarah Quick

The Struggle is a large scale painting installation that explores the distinctions we create between being human and being animal. Distinction is the method we use to…

Event · 17 April 2018

“Irish Elements” Art Exhibition by Stewart Duffy

Stewart Duffy is Dublin photographer who specialises in exploring the beauty of Ireland’s lesser known landscapes and capturing their texture and intensity on a grand…

Event · 17 April 2018

Jack & Jill’s Children’s Foundation – ‘Hares on the March’

The 110 specially designed hares were been displayed in different locations around Dublin in January 22nd January and were all gathered here at CHQ. Each 3ft tall hare…

Event · 17 April 2018

Morning Gloryville Dublin

Morning Gloryville is an immersive morning dance experience for those who dare to start their day in style. Nothing wakes you up more than a soul-shaking dance,…

Event · 17 April 2018

Chinese New Year “Spring Festival Fair”

We were delighted to have DCNYF present this year’s two-day Spring Festival Fair in February at The chq Building where you could feast your senses at both indoors and…

Event · 17 April 2018

Google-Dogpatch Labs Partnership Launch

In August 2015 Dogpatch Labs was selected to join Google for Entrepreneurs Partner Network – a global community of best-in-class startup organisations working to grow…

Event · 17 April 2018

World Press Photo Exhibition

The chq Building was proud to host the 2014 World Press Photo exhibition in Dublin, Ireland. The exhibition will open to the public on October 17th 2014 and runs until…

Event · 17 April 2018

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is in Dublin for the first time ever. This world-class annual exhibition, although in its 49th year, has never been on…

Event · 17 April 2018

Whitehall College Graduate Exhibition

This was an eclectic mix of emerging Artists from Ireland, Latvia and Sweden, presenting over 150 pieces of unique Art & Sculpture- from paintings, prints, drawings,…

Event · 17 April 2018

Pigs on Parade

Pigs on Parade is a public arts initiative organised by the Jack & Jill Foundation that will see 100 unique pieces of art in the form of painted and decorated life-size…

Event · 17 April 2018

Marie Greene’s “Dialectics and Dreams” Photography Exhibition

Dialectics and Dreams is a diverse collection of favourite subjects and best work to date. People and portraits, landscapes and photo-manipulations, come together to…

Event · 17 April 2018

Paul Kelly Exhibition “North Wall Series”

Paul Kelly Exhibition “North Wall Series” The photographer Paul Kelly, who has his studio in East wall here in Docklands, brought his North Wall Series exhibition to CHQ.

Event · 4 April 2018

Dublin Painting & Sketching Club 140th Annual Exhibition

Dublin Painting and Sketching Club’s 140th annual exhibition will be held in CHQ, in the IFSC, in Dublin city centre from April 15th to 29th 2018, exhibiting 170…

Event · 4 April 2018

Amy Winehouse photo exhibition comes to CHQ

Amy by Charles Moriarty is a collection of 25 images taken when the singer-songwriter was 19 and on the verge of reaching international fame as a jazz and pop musician.…

Event · 4 April 2018

‘Career Zoo’ event in Dogpatch Labs + CHQ

More than 3,000 people looking for jobs with Ireland’s leading technology companies attended Career Zoo which was held here in Dogpatch Labs and CHQ on Saturday 7th…

Event · 8 March 2018

Kieran Tuohy’s “Dark Shadows” Exhibition

Kieran Tuohy is an Irish artist, working in the medium of bogoak. Abandoning the normal bogwood sculpturing techniques of bringing out the natural forms in the wood into…

Event · 8 March 2018

St. Patrick’s Festival at EPIC

This year’s St. Patrick’s Festival takes place from 15th – 19th March, and EPIC and the Irish Family History Centre have a great lineup of events planned as part of the…

Event · 5 March 2018

Five Lamps Art Exhibition

We are delighted to welcome the Five Lamps Art Festival to CHQ on 7th – 11th March! There will be a number of artists displaying their work within Units 5 & 6 focusing…

Event · 5 March 2018

Irish Whiskey Tasting

This St.Patrick’s weekend ELY BAR & GRILL will be hosting a ‘Single Pot Still Whiskey’ tasting with Peter Dunne of Mitchell and Son. The evening will entail a guided…

Event · 1 March 2018

2017 Docklands Business Awards

A Night that Celebrated Dockland Achievement The 7th Docklands Business Awards was a great success. Over one hundred Docklands companies were nominated for the 2017…

Event · 6 February 2018

A Place Like All Others – David M. Flood

A Place Like All Others An exhibition by David M. Flood, The chq Building – Liffey Corner, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1. February 13th – 23rd , Mon – Fri 9am-6pm, Sat/Sun…

Event · 18 January 2018

Chinese New Year Festival

The hugely popular Spring Festival Fair returns to The chq Building with a jam-packed two-day programme of free family-friendly entertainment on the 24th & 25th February…

Event · 18 January 2018

EPIC; January – April Lecture Series

A number of exciting lectures will be occurring organised by the EPIC team held within Unit 12 of The chq Building. See below for whats coming up: • Thursday 8th…

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