Live Art have their upcoming art and music festival entitled Convergence, happening on 8-10 August 2025. We have our own Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025 scheduled for 13-14 September, once again happening in Ennistymon, Co Clare. (more details on this coming soon)
To promote these festivals and to support each other as performance organizations located in the mid west of Ireland, we are holding CON/p(art)y, our pre-festival event featuring a curated afternoon of performance art. This will be a fabulous event and we would love to see you there!
WIth thanks,
Rachel, Slavek and Laura Jane.
Details about CON/p(art)y:
When: Sunday, 15th June 12 - 4pm
Where: The People's Museum of Limerick- Coach House and Gardens.
CON/p(art)y will be held in the Coach House and Gardens of The People's Museum.
Georgian House, 2 Pery Square, Prior's-Land, Limerick, V94 HF53
Parking: There is parking and accessible parking in Pery Square outside the building. Please note the buildings not accessible from the front entrance. If you need accessible entry please let us know and we will assist you. There is accessible entry from the coach house at the back of the museum.
Tickets: Tickets can be booked here
Please note tickets are priced at €12 but you can also attend by paying a donation amount of your choice.
The Lineup:
Cerberus is a performance collective of 3 artists – Deej Fabyc, Olivia Hassett, and Rachel Macmanus. As with Cerberus, they exist in the in-between liminal space, of this world, and the netherworld, neither in nor out of either, but at the edge of both, forever on duty as the gatekeepers. They are three individuals who join as one, bound together as the three heads
Renn is an arts producer,dj/writer, photographer, archivist & anti disciplinary artist and cultural curator. Renn is the founder of Origins Eile a Black Queer community collective. With years of creative work behind them, they are empathetic in their approach to community work through arts and dedicated in their focus on inclusion and the uplifting of marginalised voices.
Shirani Bolle is a self-taught, multi-heritage, neurodivergent artist. Through textiles, performance, and sculpture, her practice explores identity politics, race, and trauma, drawing from personal and cultural history
Laura Jane Allis and Slavek Kwi
Laura Jane Allis is owner of BreakThrough Dance Company in Ennis, has dedicated her career to providing a space for creative expression through dance, musical theatre, and performing arts.
Slavek Kwi is a sound-artist, composer and researcher whose main interest lies in the phenomena of perception as the fundamental determinant of relations with Reality.He has been fascinated by sound-environments for almost 30 years, focusing on electroacoustic sound-paintings.
b.h. Yael is a Toronto based filmmaker, video and installation artist.
Yael’s work has exhibited nationally and internationally and has shown in various settings, from festivals to galleries to community and activist groups. She will be showing a preview of her film 'Letter to my Tribe'
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we would like to invite you to CON/p(art)y- a collaborative curated performance event between p(art)y Here and Now and Live Art Ireland.
Live Art Ireland are running their Biennale performance Art Festival Convergence, 8-10 August 2025
Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025 will take place at The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, on 12/13 September 2025
To support and highlight each other's festivals, we are merging together to run a curated pre-festival event in The People's Museum, Limerick city, 15th June.
See poster attached for details. To learn more about Live Art Ireland click here: https://www.live-art.ie/convergence/
We will be issuing more information and an event brite link for tickets to CON/p(art)y next week.
Please email us back here with any questions about the above information (its a lot, we acknowledge) and one more really important date for your diary:
As mentioned above, we are delighted to confirm that Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025 will take place at The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, on 12/13 September 2025. We will issue more information on this event as soon as we can.
Thanks to you all and wishing you a very nice weekend
Archive of Sonic Imprints & Memory Debris of p(art)y Here and Now Live Performances and related activities.
(Project co-founded and hosted by Laura Jane Allis, Rachel MacManus & Slavek Kwi)