Location: Studio 9 and 10
Free, drop-in

What If We Were Brilliant? is a hopeful and creative project by Brilliant Ballybunion and artist Lisa Fingleton that explores how communities can be “brilliant not brutal” in the face of biodiversity loss and climate change.  

Through art, film, storytelling, and community collaboration, this co-created space invites audiences at Earth Rising 2025 to envision the future we want to create. 

Community collaborators share their experiences of growing food, protecting nature, and being creative together at The Barna Way in Kerry. 

Brilliant Ballybunion is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: Great Hall
Free, drop-in

Step into the courtroom of climate justice. For the first time in Ireland, the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) comes to IMMA’s Great Hall as part of Earth Rising. This powerful installation reimagines a tribunal where the British East India Company is put on trial for its colonial legacy of environmental destruction. Featuring striking lightbox displays and recordings from the original hearings, the courtroom becomes a space for reckoning and repair. On Saturday 13 September, join creators Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal for a live discussion exploring the court’s radical fusion of law, art, and activism.

Location: IMMA Grounds
Free, drop-in

The Little Library of Lyreacrompane explores the interstitial nature of a place defined not by a village centre but by its dispersed geography and shared heritage. Fifteen editions of the local district journal form the installation’s core, housed within a seating structure that embodies the community’s spatial arrangement. The civic spaces—church, pub, post office, and community centre, are connected by a vernacular mass path along the Smearlagh River. This relational space, with its data sonification soundscape, invites participants to experience the tension between isolation and connection through happenings that engage with documented heritage and rural dynamics shaping this upland community. 

Heather Griffin and Patrick Mulvihill are part of the Dinnseanchas project. Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: Courtyard
Free, drop-in.

Róisín de Buitléar is a multidisciplinary artist known for her poetic sculptures, performances, and site-specific works that explore culture through glass, language, light, and sound.  

During her embedded time for her Dinnseanchas residency, she worked with communities, environmentalists, and farmers in Donegal, concentrating on how transfers of knowledge could continue long- term through lived experiences and demonstrating craft-based activism.  

Engaging with large numbers of the farm community and ecologists, she will trial some of the same methods for Earth Rising, meeting and exchanging with urban and urban based rural people, with hands- on making experiences and dialogues. 

Róisín de Buitléar is part of the Dinnseanchas project. Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: Studio Street
Free, drop-in

Donie’s Land is an audiovisual installation inside a jeep.  

The jeep opens up the threshold between Dublin and Cunnamore, a remote mountain farm in the Borlin Valley, West Cork owned by 84 year old Donie O’Connor and now farmed organically by his nephew Denis O’Riordan. 

William Bock is part of the Dinnseanchas project. Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Meeting point: Main Reception 
Free, drop-in.

Narrative Play—Breaking out of the Echo Chamber—a participative performance with Laney Mannion.

Laney Mannion explores the reductive nature of mainstream narratives around climate action. Laney Mannion is part of Interface Inagh.  Interface Inagh is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025.

Location: IMMA Courtyard
Free, drop-in.

Members of the Interface Inagh group will parade between the Courtyard and upstairs exhibition space with banners made by the Connemara Community.  

Interface Inagh is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: The Study
Free, drop-in

An Scioból creates a threshold between IMMA and Ireland’s upland communities that were visited as part of the Dinnseanchas project.  

This collaborative space allows the dinnseanchas (the lore of place) of these upland regions to unfold through imagery, maps, and conversation with participating artists.  

An Scioból invites visitors to encounter the perspectives and voices of farmers, community activists, and elders across Kerry, Cork, Galway, and Donegal, as shared by the artists, ecologists, and collaborators who have been embedded within these areas. 

Moving beyond narratives of rural decline, discover how these communities are staying with the trouble, navigating complex challenges with creativity, resilience, and place-based knowledge while creating connections across seemingly disparate worlds. 

Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025.

Location: Studio 5
Free, drop-in

Is suiteán fís-fuaime é Fáistineach atá spreagtha ag an tírdhreach de dhóchas ‘s imní phobal Ghleann an Mháma. Ag baint leas as taifeadtaí ón ngort, déanann an saothar machnamh ar ghiúmar casta an cheantair ardtaillte seo, a bhfuil faoi thionchar dinnseanchais, teanga, tradisiúin, staire coilíní, polasaithe nua-liobrálacha, agus an teannais idir ár ndúchas de roinn dáil agus an t-arracht den tionscadal talamhaíochta atá spreagtha ag brabús.

Fáistineach (future-tense/prophecy) is a immersive audio-visual experience inspired by the landscape of hopes and concerns of the Mám Valley community. Using a collage of field recordings, the work reflects of the complex upland zeitgeist that is shaped by the dinnseanchas of our culture, language, tradition, colonial past, neo-liberal policy, and the friction between our communal agrarian society and the industrial agricultural machine driven by profit

Peadar Tom Mercier is part of the Dinnseanchas project. Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025.