Secret Garden Music at The Walled Garden in Mount Juliet
The ever-popular Secret Music Series returns for another year, bringing a stellar (but unannounced) line-up of musicians to some of the city’s most ic…
Migration Sonatina
John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre, one of the most acclaimed dance companies in Ireland, returns to the Festival with explorative new work inspi…
Elaine McCague
Taking place in a secret location and combining film, installation and soundscape, The Detached Project is a new site-specific work that explores the …
Ross Costigan
Ross Costigan was a photographer and artist who framed Kilkenny life and beyond through his own lens.For this year’s Festival Gallery exhibition, cur…
Liane Lang, Deep Time Dip
Butler Gallery, in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival, is very pleased to present Deep Time Dip by Liane Lang, a German-born, London-based visual…
Public Art Programme at the Tea Houses, Kilkenny
We’re delighted to announce that the two Tea Houses, situated by the River Nore, will be activated as visible spaces for public art programmes that in…
Cork Craft and Design
Established in 2005, Cork Craft & Design brings together the very best of Cork’s unique and excellent Irish craft and design tradition. The organisati…
Richard Dawson
Like Syd Barrett or Robert Wyatt, Richard Dawson is one of those maverick English musicians who doesn’t so much throw the rulebook out of the window a…
Martin Hayes & Friends
Martin Hayes rounds off the Marble City Sessions in style with this typically eclectic gathering of leading Festival artists and musicians, including …
Gary O’Neill
Kilkenny-born singer-songwriter Gary O’Neill burst onto the music scene last year when his debut EP, To Those I’ve Missed, garnered over one million s…