Tue 18 & 25 Jan, 1 & 8 Feb @ 10.30am - 12.30pm Get hands on with this pottery workshop!Over four mornings learn to work with clay and enjoy the discovery of new skills. Using many techniques including the potter’s wheel you will learn to make a mug, a variety of bowls, a plate and more items like egg-cups and coasters. All the pieces are fired and glazed making them strong and ... (click to read more)

2- 4pm The theme of this class is making bowls. Use different techniques to make and decorate unusual bowls, which will then be fired to make them strong and durable. Learn something new and use your souvenir of the course to make breakfast time more exciting in the future.

SOLD OUT   Explore the wonderfully versatile medium of wool with artist Joanna Kidney and leave at the end of the day with your own hand-made felt bag! Using the process of wet felting, participants will work with a variety of wools and fibres to explore surface details and textures, creating a finished small bag. All materials are provided. This workshop is suitable for both complete ... (click to read more)

Tickets Limited to 4 per family until the 4th April Children from Bray, Greystones and Wicklow Town aged 3-13 stage a wonderful variety show full of drama song and dance. This year’s production features Disney songs and dances including Mary Poppins. Also an original script, written by director and founder Hazel Lowry, will be presented which includes songs from Wicked, Hairspray and ... (click to read more)

This is the 1970s musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and Toto are transported to a mysterious land, where adventure abounds with witches, wizards, scarecrows and lions. This beautifully presented motown classic has it all: song, dance, an astounding array of local talent and even a Tin Man! Proudly presented by Sunshine Stage School, Greystones.

Thursday 16 June @ 3 – 5pm Live performance on streets of Bray       This performance forms part of Denis Buckley's "Searching for the Unimagined Conscience of my Race" residency at Mermaid Arts Centre A five-week investigation into perceptions of national identity with DENIS BUCKLEY (click to read more)

Bray Lakers bring their fifth annual show to Mermaid this year with Gleesical the Musical. Expect a high energy performance throughout with a talented cast of actors, dancers, drummers and musicians who really know how to get the party started. Come and join the fun. Sing along to the well known tunes and you can be sure your feet won’t stop tapping!

So good we’re screening it twice! East is East, writer Ayub Khan-Din’s semiautobiographical story of a mixed-race family in Salford in the early 70s won a BAFTA for Outstanding British Film. West is West takes up the story eight years on with youngest son Sajid the resident teenager in trouble. He’s playing truant to avoid the bullies at school and aggravating his father with ... (click to read more)

Exhibition Opening at 6pm marking the start of Denis Buckley five-week long engagement investigating perceptions of national identity in Ireland following the loss, last year, of fiscal sovereignty. Followed by a Free Film Screening of Rocky Road to Dublin at 7pm  and artist in conversion with Antony Farrell founder of The Lilliput Press.    ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN is a provocative ... (click to read more)

Gráda musicians have always drawn on their melting pot of influences from New Zealand to Ireland. One of Ireland’s most successful touring bands they perform over 150 concerts across the globe annually. Their sound is deeply rooted in the Irish tradition, but also layered with fresh, jazzy tones and strong rhythmic grooves. Think Irish music blended with Americana, jazz, and a ... (click to read more)

Forever pushing the boundries of experiences for it#s students and audiences,backstage presents a show of Blood, Sweat and Fears. Previous Backstageshows have covered Motown and Broadway and even some Stand Up Comedy.

Una McKevitt makes theatre from everyday life. In this special double bill she brings her Absolut Fringe sell out show, Victor and Gord, and 565+, seen at The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2011 to Mermaid. A combination to make you laugh and break your heart. Growing up Victor and Gord (aka Vickey Curtis & Aine McKevitt) had only one thing in common - each other. Sneaky cans, sneaky ... (click to read more)

Mon 4 – Fri 8 July, 10 – 1pm (9-12 years)   Join professional artist Joanna Kidney for a week of art camp workshops. These workshops will be about experimenting and enjoying a variety of approaches and mediums. We will explore the areas of monoprinting, drawing, mixed media, collage and feltmaking. Engaging with each process, the focus will be on getting stuck in, enjoying the ... (click to read more)

Thursday 7 July - 8pm   It is estimated that between 1939-1969 some £2.2 billion was sent back to Ireland from men and women working in the UK. That money kept the Irish economy on its knees if not on its feet during the lean years of the infant Free State. That generation who gave back are now disappearing and with it Irish London. Mixing film and audio archive, personal testimony ... (click to read more)

Workshop: Crochet & Loom Flowers Date: Sat 9 July Time: 3pm – 5pm Capacity: 12 Ticket Price: €20 (includes all materials)

‘Seomra an Cheoil’ (The Music Room) is all at once a Ceilidh, a concert, and a session. Discover the richness, diversity and history of the Irish tradition through performances and explanations of our music, our instruments, and our dance traditions.   Listen to and be guided through the complex rhythms of the Bodhran, the unique sounds of the Uilleann Pipes and the intricate ... (click to read more)

Please note prebooking for this event will close 4 hours before the event.  All remaining tickets will then be sold at the door.    19:30 - 20:30 pm Across the Lite Boards Once upon a time a band of actors came together to create the ultimate sketch show. A sketch show so funny it was banned forever. So we put this together instead. It's pretty darned amazing too.   Actors ... (click to read more)

Can you handle a boomwhacker? No, it is not a snake!  It is a brightly coloured plastic tube tuned by length to a musical note. Easy to play, people with virtually no musical or rhythmical ability find they are able to make music with ease. Join master percussionist Robbie Harris in the ultimate interactive musical experience and help turn chaotic sound into beautiful music to create a ... (click to read more)

Please note prebooking for this event will close 4 hours before the event.  All remaining tickets will then be sold at the door.    Suitable for 8years+ A workshop in the creative art and respect of fire - activity alongside fire sculpture! This event will take place outside the Arts Tent on Bray Seafront

The night Barack Obama was elected US President, Abie Philbin Bowman exclusively interviewed the Ku Klux Klan. “I hate the Nazis, but I'd love to have interviewed Hitler, just as the Allied tanks rolled into Berlin”. Direct from Los Angeles and Edinburgh, ‘Sex, Lies & the KKK’ is the latest show from the creator of ‘Jesus: The Guantanamo Years’. Abie is ... (click to read more)