Following our warmly received opening festival in 2020 and our successful third and fourth editions, we’re back with our fifth festival. Over the first weekend in February 2025 we invite audiences to explore contemporary artistic interpretation and reimagining of the literature, arts and ideas of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. The festival will highlight the rich tradition of Irish writers and playwrights reflecting on Ireland through the Classics, which goes back centuries.
Whether you loved Greek and Roman mythology as a child, learned some Latin at school or have a passion for Roman history, politics and architecture, there’s something here for you.
We will have a strand that will appeal to young audiences too, with creative events for secondary school students, enabling them to discover what the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome has to say to us today.
Full programme information will be available here from January 2025.
ClassicsNow is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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Festival Curator Helen Meany
Designer Ronan McDonnell, A Worthy Cause
Project Manager Leah Johnston
ClassicsNow has been developed by a steering committee with representatives from the Classics departments of University College Dublin, Maynooth University, Trinity College Dublin and the Classical Association of Ireland.
Martine Cuypers Trinity College Dublin
Helen Meany culture writer and arts consultant
Eoghan Moloney Maynooth University
Louise Maguire Chair of Teachers’ Branch: Classical Association of Ireland – Teachers
Alexander Thein University College Dublin
Partners for 2024 include the National Concert Hall, Dance Ireland, Dublin City Gallery: the Hugh Lane, Irish Film Institute, Italian Cultural Institute and the Classical Association of Ireland.
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