Welcome to Imagine Arts Festival 2025

This October, Waterford comes alive with theatre, music, dance, literature, visual art and spectacle. The 2025 programme celebrates bold new voices and much-loved traditions, with highlights including Festival Artists-in-Residence Ksenia Parkhatskaya & David Duffy, our commissioned composer Phil Christie (The Bonk), and Waterford’s own Keith Dunphy with his acclaimed one-man show Word Against the Word.

Join us as artists from near and far transform the city into a stage for creativity, conversation and celebration.

Festival Programme
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Our Values :

  • We value that communities and individuals are empowered through creative exploratory collaboration and experience

  • We value the importance of access to creative space for collective participation and appreciation in and of the arts

  • We value the ability of collaborative, collective and participatory Arts as a means for social and cultural preconceptions to be challenged

  • We value diversity as a source of vibrancy

  • We value excellence, best practice, quality research and evaluation to ensure the highest quality of service to our audiences

  • We value the important impact that making visible the work of individuals, collectives and communities has on audiences and participants alike

  • We value the importance of public space as a democratic forum to give voice, expression and visibility to the creativity of all

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For more information contact us by email at imaginefestmanager@gmail.com