Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025
13/14 September 2025 in Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Saturday venue is The Courthouse Gallery
Sunday Venue is Lahinch Beach
The Saturday line up includes a performance workshop with Rachel and Slavek Kwi to which all festival ticket holders are invited to attend.
Then from lunchtime we have performances by the wonderful artists
El Putnam, Olivia Hassett, Joseph Hendel and Aoibhinn O' Dea.
Then to close the day, September p(art)y Here and Now live art event to finish.
On Sunday 14 the Here and Now team present Tide Map- a unique durational participatory live art performance on Lahinch Beach. This is a redeveloped enactment of the June 2023 performance of Tide Map by Rachel Macmanus, a 6.5 hour durational performance on Flaggy Shore Beach, Co Clare. For Tide Map 2025 they invite local residents, Festival attendees and passers by to take part in this unique event, where performers will follow the tide up and down the beach from high to low over a 6.5 hour period. You can join in for 10 minutes or for the entire event, it's up to you! Also to mention if you cannot make the Saturday 13th in The Courthouse they would still hugely appreciate your participation and support on Sunday for Tide Map. Tide Map is not part of the ticketed events of the festival so you can simply show up on the day and participate if it suits.
Festival Funding and tickets message from Her and Now.
This year we tried and failed to secure Arts Council Funding for HANPAF 2025. We applied for funding last January 2025 to run the Festival. The Arts Council funded 10 applicants out of the 174 applications in our category. So you can see how much competition there is!
Therefore this year HANPAF 2025 is supported by local businesses in Clare, without the generous support of whom we would not be able to run this festival. For this reason also this year HANPAF 2025 is a ticketed event. At present tickets are €20, which is the early bird price. A ticket allows you access to ALL events on Saturday. (as mentioned, Tide Map performance on Sunday is a free community event) Tickets can be purchased via eventbrite here and to buy a ticket manually please email us at this address.