An Grianán Theatre Leads Cross-Border PEACEPLUS Arts Project in Donegal and Border Regions
On Monday 9 February 2026, we officially launched The Viewing Project and the beginning of a massive arts adventure for everyone in Donegal and the border regions—from the age of 10 to 100.
The Viewing Project is a two-year creative arts initiative designed to foster meaningful cross-community connection, dialogue, and reconciliation across Donegal and its border regions. Funded through the PEACEPLUS programme, the project will engage over 300 direct participants and reach wider audiences through public performances, exhibitions, and high-visibility arts events.
Running up until Autumn 2027, The Viewing Project uses theatre, storytelling, music and visual arts to bring people from different social, cultural, and multifaith backgrounds into sustained, purposeful contact. The programme places a strong emphasis on inclusivity, and engagement with local communities across the Northwest and the border counties.
At its core, The Viewing Project is built on a participatory, co-creation mode where artists and facilitators will work alongside communities to shape the work from the ground up, ensuring authentic ownership and creative collaboration.
Excite, Delight, and Unite
The Viewing Project is about making Art with Heart. Working with theatre, music, visual arts and spectacle, An Grianán is looking for individuals and communities to join the Viewing project for a fun, wild, real and surreal artistic adventure. The viewing project is all about making connections across Donegal and the border regions to Excite, Delight, and Unite.
An Grianán Theatre will lead the project in partnership with a broad network of cultural, educational, and community development organisations, youth clubs, artists, schools, and family resource centres across Donegal and the border counties.
By embedding creativity directly into communities, An Grianan Theatre’s aim and mission for The Viewing Project is to make connections and develop cross-community relationships, increase cultural confidence and encourage the next generation of dreamers and schemers, artists and facilitators, and engineers of imagination to shape this work beyond the life of the programme.
For further information you can contact Project Manager Noeline Kavanagh by email here.
The Viewing Project is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
