Kickstarting the Complex

The Cobblestone, leading venue for acoustic music in central Dublin, announces a special fundraising event at Vicar Street this coming Sunday evening (see poster, left) to launch the Complex, a new open-plan live arts space in Smithfield Square for theatre, run by a professional theatre artists in association with local residents to benefit Smithfield, a part of Dublin which is both deteriorating under economic pressures and has the highest density of mixed cultures among its population.

Many local businesses have donated services and gifts to the Complex; the show is to raise the cost of equipment for the basic infrastructure to get it up and running, when capital funding for the arts from state sources is currently frozen. The organisers affirm:

This is an empowering enterprise where artists are changing the fate of building development, something that would never have existed before the crash. Just one night will get it started.

Tickets @ €28 available from Ticketmaster; tel. 0818719300.