IMMA Earth Rising festival to take place this weekend featuring Negro Impacto, EFÉ, Ispíní na hÉireann and more

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is set to present the fourth edition of Earth Rising festival, taking place across the historic grounds at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin 8, from September 12 to 14.

A festival at the crossroads of climate, culture, and collective action, the festival will present “radical talks, joyful workshops, immersive installations and grassroots activism,” through 50 free events.

It will also include a music programme set to feature performances from Negro Impacto, EFÉ, Sailhymn: Seeds for Songs with Brilliant Ballybunion, Mohammad Syfkhan and Ispíní na hÉireann. Find the full music programme here.

This year’s edition is inspired by Staying with the Trouble, IMMA’s group exhibition based on Donna Haraway’s influential text. The exhibition and festival together are said to “explore how we might live differently in a time of planetary breakdown, not by turning away from complexity, but by staying with it, together.”

Earth Rising 2025 official poster

Earth Rising festival 2025 will include music and art events, workshops, films and talks, such as The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC), presented for the first time in Ireland, an installation created by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, which puts the British East India Company on trial for environmental destruction. Set in IMMA’s Great Hall, the installation runs daily, with a live artist talk on Saturday September 13.

Other events will include Skate + Forage from Samuel Arnold Keane, Elida Maiques & Pablo Marín García, Bearing Witness | Holding Space from Jane Cassidy, Laney Mannion, Marie Louise Heffernan, and Alannah Robins, What If We Were Brilliant? from Lisa Fingleton and Brilliant Ballybunion, and much more.

Commenting, Annie Fletcher, IMMA Director, said: “Earth Rising is a space where difficult realities and radical hope can coexist. In 2025, we’re not only deepening our commitment to these conversations through our festival programming but we’re also taking a clear stand by joining Culture Declares Emergency. IMMA is proud to be the first major Irish institution to do so. This reflects our belief that culture must be central to how we understand, navigate, and respond to the climate and ecological crisis.”

All events are free of charge, with some requiring advance booking.

Full programme details and booking links are now available here.