IMMA Outdoors is a vibrant artistic programme that turns the museum inside out and activates the museum’s site, through artist commissions, performances, music, talks, workshops, and tours. This year IMMA presents a new series of events ‘IMMA Nights’ running every Thursday and Friday evening from May to September.

IMMA Outdoors 2022 explores the environment and what it means to be radically public by creating an inclusive meaningful space for audiences of all ages to enjoy. Highlights include a new immersive sonic installation by Cameroonian artist Em’kal Eyongakpa in the Formal Gardens from May, and a stunning painted mural installation by British artist Navine G. Khan-Dossos in the Courtyard from July. The outdoor summer programme will culminate in an Eco Event titled Earth Rising, a weekend celebration of people, place and planet in September.

IMMA Nights presents a wide variety of events including talks, workshops, dance, performances, film screenings, book launches, DJs and live music, across the site on Thursday and Friday evenings. IMMA will also share the site with other cultural organisations, initiatives and artist groups creating a hive of night-time activity in Dublin 8. Highlights include the return of IMMA’s much loved Summer Party taking place on 15 and 16 July; a curated series of poetry and song performances titled More than the Reverb, and a series of free Music in the Courtyard events throughout the summer.

Due to popularity IMMA Outdoors is delighted to bring back the artist collective Forerunner to re-stage its seating structures Y O U N G F O S S I I L across the site, once again offering visitors opportunities to lounge, loiter and reflect.

All this will be enriched by a daytime and late-evening offering, created by IMMA’s Visitor Engagement Team (VET), of bespoke garden tours, art workshops, yoga classes and family activities, that fuse the importance of well-being and engagement with ideas and creativity, offering visitors a space in which to convene, explore and reflect on aspects of the IMMA programme and beauty of the grounds and gardens.

The Flying Dog Café, located in the Courtyard, will open late for IMMA Nights on Thursday and Friday evenings until 8pm.

IMMA Nights is part of a pilot initiative to support the Night-Time Economy, funded by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

IMMA Nights

From music and culture in the Courtyard, to late evening yoga, film screenings, talks, workshops, book launches and readings, to bespoke artists performances and dance, these are just some of the activities happening across the site on Thursday and Friday evenings throughout the summer.

May highlights:

The Ride Away from the Storm: Exploring Youth Arts 
Thur 5 May 2022, 6 – 8.30pm
Discussion, exhibition and music in the courtyard. Book here.

The Piper’s Grip (and other Stories)
Fri 13 May 2022, 6 – 8.30pm
Performance: Eimear Walshe, Djackulate and Seamas Hyland. Book here.

More than the Reverb
Thur 19 May, 6 – 8.30pm
Poetry + Song Event with Special Guests. Drop in. No booking required. Learn More.

Bealtaine Festival @ IMMA
Fri 20 May, 6 – 9pm
Flikkers: The Flashback Ball.  Tea Dance, DJ Set + Record Sale. Book here.

GIRL ONLINE Book Launch 
Thurs 26 May,
Joanna Walsh, Talk + Book Launch. Book here

SPICE Connects: Black + Irish present BIC (Black Inclusive Curriculum)
Fri 27 May, 6 – 8.30pm
Launch and Music event. Booking will be available shortly.