An Grianán Theatre to Lead Cross-Border PEACEPLUS Arts Project

“The Viewing Project” is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).

This is a major two-year creative arts initiative in collaboration with An Grianán Theatre Letterkenny and is 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.

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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.

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 dreamer and schemer, artist and facilitator and engineer of imagination to shape this work beyond the life of the programme.