Meeting Point: Farm Gate, IMMA Courtyard 
Free, booking required. Book here. 

Created by Zoë Rush, this rich immersive soundwalk opens a portal to Corca Dhuibhne. Listeners walk through deep time as they explore stories of these mountains interwoven with the voices of local farmers. 

This audio piece was developed as part of the Dinnseanchas residency and brings together place-based knowledge and interdisciplinary research through an artistic response that considers how the stories we tell interact with the climate and biodiversity crises. 

Zoë Rush is a member of the Dinnseanchas project.  Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Meeting Point: Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, finishing at IMMA
Free, booking required. Book here.

We invite all forms of skaters and sliders for a forage weaved through the city on our way to IMMA, stopping at various derelict green spaces and community gardens dotted within the cityscape. To record our ‘commute’ to Earth Rising this year, we illustrate our experience, flipping the conventional map that marks ‘places of importance’ as buildings, statues, and streets; we now give our attention to the green slices of wilderness between. All the while the act of foraging and skating adds joy and playfulness into how we collect food + medicine. Blurring the lines between play and quotidian chores, one fistful of seeds at a time. 

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

Meeting point: Main Reception 
Free, booking required. Book here.

Discover how art can shape our understanding of the climate crisis in this special Earth Rising tour of Art as Agency. Highlighting works from IMMA’s Collection that address ecology, migration, and planetary change, this tour explores how artists challenge dominant narratives and offer new ways to see, feel, and respond to a changing world. Through storytelling, memory, and material innovation, the tour invites audiences to consider art’s role as a powerful force for awareness, connection, and environmental action. 

Meeting point: Main Reception 
Free, booking required. Book here.

Step into a slower rhythm with this mindful tour of Staying with the Trouble. Guided by the principles of slow looking, we will take time with just a few key works, allowing space for reflection, curiosity, and deeper connection. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s call for “tentacular thinking,” this gentle experience invites us to notice, feel, and imagine differently, embracing complexity, interconnection, and care in uncertain times. 

Location: Lecture Room
Free, drop-in

Showing Up is an experimental audio-visual performance centred on an intimate conversation with Tim O’Donoghue of Lyreacrompane. This narrative collage explores response-ability through Tim’s years of protecting North Kerry’s last breeding pair of Curlew, his endurance of rural hardships, and his deep love of place. The sonic and visual landscape invites audiences to witness the entangled futures of human and more-than-human worlds, held together by the fragile work of care and conservation. 

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. 

Meeting point: Main Reception 
Free, booking required. Book here.

Join IMMA curators for a special Earth Rising tour of Staying with the Trouble, an exhibition inspired by the radical thinking of Donna Haraway. Encounter over 40 artists who reimagine our relationships with nature, technology, and each other. This tour explores how the exhibition’s themes, like Making Kin, Composting, and Sowing Worlds, have shaped the vision for Earth Rising 2025. Discover how art can help us live with uncertainty, embrace interconnection, and imagine new futures together. 

Meeting point: Main Reception 
Free, booking required. Book here.

As part of the Earth Rising festival, this special curator’s tour explores the powerful intersection of art, resilience, and ecological care in Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend. Discover how these extraordinary textile works, crafted from recycled materials by African American women in rural Alabama, speak to themes of regeneration, community, and resourcefulness.  

Location: Dublin City Gates on Cook Street, Dublin 8 
Free, drop-in

Join The Liberties Community Project in exploring the intersection of urban nature and local storytelling through a special two-part experience. You will begin with the In Our Shoes Walking Tour, led by local guides sharing the rich social history, humour and hidden gems of the Liberties, and end with a beekeeping demonstration at Bee8, where you’ll learn about pollinators, biodiversity, and climate action in the heart of Dublin 8. Together, these two experiences offer a grounded, place-based journey. 

Please dress for the weather and wear comfortable flat shoes, as the tour will take place outdoors and may involve walking on uneven ground. 

Location: People’s Pavilion
Free, drop-in

Join Change Clothes for a fun and fuss-free Swap & Upcycling Station! Bring along up to five good-quality items of clothing and take what you need—no money, no tokens, just simple sharing. While you’re here, get creative at their upcycling station where you can customise, repair, or reinvent clothes with guidance from our team. Whether you’re adding a patch, learning to sew, or turning an old tee into something new, there’s something for everyone. 

Meeting Point: Farm Gate, IMMA Courtyard 
Free, booking required. Book here. 

As part of the Dinnseanchas project, seven artists spent a year immersed in upland coastal communities, exploring the future of these lands through deep listening and witnessing. 

Their brief was to open conversations about adapting to climate change and biodiversity loss, but through engaging with the complex relationships between landscape, lifestyle, farming practices, and tradition, they discovered there is much to learn and share.  

Ár dteagmhálacha le Dinnseanchas / Our encounters with Dinnseanchas invites you to join this ongoing conversation through an interactive guided tour of the installations presented at Earth Rising. 

Meeting Point: Farm Gate, IMMA Courtyard 
Free, booking required. Book here. 

Uncovering the spirit of Dinnseanchas in Dublin city, a multilingual walk exploring ideas of naming the land with artists William Bock and Róisín de Buitléar. 

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