The whiff greets us at the door - vodka, Boru Vodka, is on offer. Gillian Murphy, winning designer of the new-look bottle, is here too, looking at the results of her labours. Yes, she admits, she has tasted the liquid. "I was testing it and smelling it for a while. You have to get into the atmosphere."
After the vodka job, Gillian moved on to design the new look logo for the Project Arts Centre. The logo is a small purple disc "asserting Project's name in bold type".
Other guests arrive for the reception to launch the logo and the final performance of Bedrock's one-man show - Night Just Before the Forest is going to Australia shortly, but will first go to in Ennis on Thursday, October 28th.
Before going in, Donncha Dennehy, composer and artistic director with Crash Ensemble, chats to vocalist Natasha Lohan. They tells us that their "new music and multi-media ensemble" work is "quite avant garde." Dennehy adds: "We've always sold out but I don't know would you call it a commercial success. But we've had to turn them away at the National Concert Hall."
Kathy McArdle, the Project's new artistic director, arrives in time to say hello to a few people before the play. Finally, the logo is launched, we finish the vodka and gather to enjoy the last night's performance by Shane Hagan in TCD's Samuel Beckett Centre.