Musicians, designers, dancers and writers across Ireland are busy curating arts festivals to energise small towns and villages over the winter season.
Design Kenmare Festival (DKF), Dingle Literary Festival, and Dingle’s Other Voices are some of the festivals kicking off in the southwest this month, as the tourism season closes, while later in December pubs and halls in Gweedore, Co Donegal will come alive with traditional Irish music during Scoil Gheimhridh (winter School).
Eamonn O’Sullivan, a graphic designer who relocated back home to Kenmare from Dublin with his young family seven years ago, has found a vibrant design community there which has curated the inaugural DKF this weekend (November 14th-16th).
“What Dingle’s Other Voices has done for music, we’d like to do for design,” O’Sullivan says. “Kenmare has hospitality and tourism, but we don’t really have factories, so [craft and design] is an area that’s growing a
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