It is our aim to provide opportunities for people of all ages to express their creativity, and to find opportunities to partner and collaborate with other arts and community organisations wherever possible.

The studio provides technical and developmental support to events and festivals around the county, including the Social Inclusion Unit’s annual multi arts event “Celebration”; and “NOISE Moves”, South Dublin County’s youth dance festival. CONTACT Studio is a member of the creative partnership that has developed “Unwrapped”, the annual winter celebration, since it’s inception. Gerry has been it’s Musical Director, live sound technician and main composer since 2012

CONTACT Studio works closely in partnership with Alternative Entertainments to deliver Sub Sounds, a music education programme that is funded by Music Generation South Dublin. Sub Sounds takes place in RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre in Tallaght & Áras Chrónáin in Clondalkin. There is also a Sub Sounds Schools programme which takes place in secondary schools around South Dublin County. You can find out more about Sub Sounds on the NOISEdublin.ie website. (NOTE: this is the link http://www.noisedublin.ie/programmes/suburban-sounds/)

The Big Picture TV is a creative digital media programme initiated by CONTACT Studio that is run in partnership with Foroige. The participants are young people aged 14 - 18 years from South Dublin, who work under the guidance of television producer Elton Mullally of Southpaw Pictures to film and edit the videos that are featured on the channel.