Earth Rising 2025 Festival Weekend at IMMA this September!
Earth Rising Festival 2025
Join us for Earth Rising 2025, a vibrant free festival of art, ecology, and ideas. Running from 12 to 14 September, this year’s festival is inspired by Staying with the Trouble, IMMA’s major group exhibition based on Donna Haraway’s influential text. From radical talks to joyful workshops, restorative installations to grassroots action, Earth Rising 2025 features over 50 free events designed to inspire, connect, and activate. Explore the programme – Art, Talks, Music, Screenings, Workshops and Tours & Activities – in the below panels.
IMMA is also thrilled to share that it has officially signed up to Culture Declares Emergency, becoming the first major cultural institution in Ireland to do so. This global movement calls on the cultural sector to respond to the climate and ecological crisis.
The festival opening hours are Fri 12 Sept from 5pm to 9pm; Sat 13 and Sun 14 Sept from 10am to 7pm. Full programme details and booking links are available at the link below. Some events require advance booking. All events are free admission.
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Art Installations
All Weekend / Drop-in & Booking
Experience climate action through art, storytelling, and collective memory with this year’s Earth Rising Art installations. Step inside The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, presented in the Great Hall this powerful installation reimagines a tribunal where the British East India Company is put on trial for environmental destruction. Drop by Donie’s Land, an audiovisual experience set inside a jeep linking to a remote farm owned by 84 year old Donie O’Connor. Or catch the Interface Inagh group’s playful parade with banners made by the Connemara community.
Music
Sat & Sun / Drop-in
Curated by Hen’s Teeth, the Earth Rising music programme showcases a wide range of genres. Join us on the Greenhouse Stage in IMMA’s Courtyard for performances from 25-year-old Dublin artist EFÉ, known for blending indie rock, synths and fun; Irish based Kurdish Syrian singer and bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan; dynamic trad-rock collective Ispíní na hÉireann; independent Irish alternative RnB duo Negro Impacto; and Galway-based artist, singer-songwriter and street musician Sailhymn.
Talks
All Weekend / Drop-in & Booking
The talks programme explores the bold, creative, and collective responses to the climate crisis with talks on climate justice, sustainable fashion, civic imagination and ecological care. Contributors include author Jon Alexander; climate justice advocate Seán McCabe (Bohemians FC); climate expert Fionnuala Moran; ecologist and surfer Easkey Britton; and artist john gerrard. From post-growth economics to rewilding our habits, from intergenerational justice to the wisdom of beans, birds, and the Cailleach, these conversations offer space to reflect, connect, and reimagine what comes next.
Workshops
Sat & Sun / Drop-in & Booking
This year’s Earth Rising workshops invite you to explore climate action through creativity, care, and collective imagination. From fused plastic and poetic policy to systems thinking and printmaking, these hands-on sessions offer space to make, reflect, and reimagine. Led by artists, designers, and community changemakers highlights include The Wind Laboratory a nomadic natural dyeing workshop with artist Alex Cecchetti; Bearing Witness a wood printing workshop with Interface; and create your own wearable art with Shock of Grey’s jewellery workshops.
Tours & Activities
Sat & Sun / Drop-in & Booking
Explore climate action through place, memory, creativity and care with Earth Rising’s tours and experiences. Take part in the joyful and subversive Skate + Forage tour through Dublin’s edible greenways; join a SoundWalk that opens a portal to the mountains of Corca Dhuibhne; swap and mend your wardrobe at Change Clothes; and uncover the spirit of Dinnseanchas in Dublin city with a walk that explores ideas of naming the land. Enjoy in-depth themed tours of IMMA’s exhibitions and Biodiversity tours of IMMA’s site.
Screenings
All Weekend / Drop-in
Enjoy daily outdoor screenings on Living Canvas at IMMA. Artist screenings will take place each day from 10am to 5.30pm; followed by feature film screenings each evening in partnership with the Dublin International Film Festival. On Friday we are excited to present the Irish premier of Black Butterflies; Saturday screenings are Éiru the story of an Iron-age child, and the award-winning much loved animated film Flow; while on Sunday we present a visual feast the cult visual masterpiece Koyaanisqatsi.
Culture Night Events
Friday 19 September
IMMA is excited to partner on These Walls, a multiphase street art initiative rooted in the heart of Dublin 8. Founded by the Guinness Storehouse in partnership with Dublin City Council, IMMA and The Digital Hub, Phase 1 launches on Culture Night with a street art tour featuring works by Alice Rekab, Thais Muniz, Venus Patel and Farouk Alao, alongside an immersive exhibition by Deirdre Breen and Owen de Forge. Bookings open 1 Sept, learn more here.
Also on Culture Night, the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) partners with IMMA as part of Living Canvas at IMMA to present a specially curated programme of short films from 6pm to 8pm, learn more here.
IMMA’s exhibitions Staying with the Trouble and IMMA Collection: Art as Agency will open late until 8pm.
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