Open Call: Sunshine: sharing writings to brighten our souls… Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2025 invites readers to share their favourite feel-good poetry and prose
Do you reach for a poem to be inspired? Does a good book lift your spirits? If yes, then the Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2025 would love to hear from you! The festival is calling on literature lovers to submit their favourite piece of writing (not self-written) for consideration for Sunshine: sharing writings to brighten our souls*… the ever-popular event to celebrate the joy of reading, taking place at The Book Centre, Waterford on Friday 21 February. Submissions should be emailed to info@realta.ie by Tuesday 04 February with “Sunshine” in the subject line. Successful applicants will be invited to share their selections with the public at this uplifting evening of readings and music. Click here for further details about the Well Festival. The 2025 festival programme will be available from the end of January.
The Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing champions and celebrates how the arts help us to feel good. Taking place from 17-22 February 2025, the festival features an exciting line-up of fun, free, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages, with musicians, artists, poets, storytellers and dancers, in addition to a programme of Wellies, the festival’s events for younger audiences.
Announcing details of this year’s Sunshine: sharing writings to brighten our souls.., Claire Meaney, Director of Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts, said “We’re so excited to present ‘Sunshine’ again this year in The Book Centre, Waterford. This lovely event is inspired by AA Milne’s ‘Winnie the Pooh’, when Eeyore says “It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine”. This is what ‘Sunshine’ is all about: sharing writing that helps us to feel good. It’s a place where we re-connect with old friends and meet many new, all of whom have in common their love of reading and their desire to share their favourite poems or other pieces of writing in a relaxed and friendly setting. We are delighted to welcome once again Catherine Drea as our Guest MC, and musician Bill Stuart. Artist, photographer and writer, Catherine has a wonderfully warm way of bringing the audience together for this very special evening. Bill is one of our Healing Sounds musicians and his resonant tones soothe audiences wherever he performs. We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to The Book Centre, Waterford, for their continued kind and loyal sponsorship of Sunshine.”
The Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing is funded by the Arts Council, the HSE and Waterford City and County Council. The festival is presented by Waterford City and County Libraries and Waterford Healing Arts (part of Réalta). The full festival programme will be launched on 28 January and will be available then at www.wellwaterford.com See the Well Festival also on Facebook and Instagram @wellwaterford
Photo: Catherine Drea at ‘Sunshine’ during last year’s Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing. Photo by DGM Photographic.
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