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In Your Corner
In Your Corner
October 3, 2023 @ 10:00 am – October 17, 2023 @ 5:00 pm IST
Exhibition of photographs by Matt Spalding taken in the Dublin Docklands Boxing Club
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No Booking Necessary. Exhibition open 10am-5pm (closed 1-2pm) Monday to Saturday only.
Artists
Matt Spalding, photographic artist
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Photographic artist Matt Spalding has been embedded with the Dublin Docklands Boxing Club Seville Place for a year. Spalding has been taking action shots and also works in the National Stadium. His images are striking and very strong. He was awarded funding from the NEIC ARTS DEPARTMENT
“This exhibition gives the boxers a voice and the rightful opportunity to view themselves as positive role models for their community, to soften the image of boxing to the wider public and critically, highlight the enormous amount of voluntary work, love and pride delivered gratis to our local club Dublin Docklands Boxing Club by coaches and parents alike.
DDBC, an all inclusive club, has steered, and continues to steer local boys and girls – kids who could just as easily slip through the cracks and onto a very different path – into an arena that teaches them manners, humility, grace, honour, courage, respect and discipline.
I am truly humbled by them.”
– Matt Spalding
Five Lamps Arts Festival
The Five Lamps Arts Festival primary commitment is connecting the north inner city of Dublin with the arts and we achieve this through inclusivity, participation, environmental enhancement, and the creation and presentation of locally relevant, artistically ambitious work. Through this we aim to contribute to the development of the perception of the Five Lamps area as a positive and creative place in which to live and work.
We are best known for our flagship event The Five Lamps Arts Festival, an award-winning annual community-based arts festival which has taken place each spring in the North East Inner City.
Today, in addition to the annual festival, we run community arts programmes, guided walking tours across the area, workshops, and events throughout the year. We also provide project management consulting to several volunteer and community groups.
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