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REMINDER: Vote for Réalta/ Waterford Healing Arts – PTSB Ireland Community Partners 2025! Deadline Fri 14 Mar, 6pm
Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts has been shortlisted to be a PTSB Ireland Community Partner for 2025, which would mean significant support and a huge injection of funds for our programmes, but we need your vote to get us over the line. Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts is...
Fragments of Motifs in Nature, a new exhibition opens at University Hospital Waterford
Fragments of Motifs in Nature, a captivating new exhibition by artist Rica Shimabukuro, has opened at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) to coincide with the launch of the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing. The exhibition features the Limerick Triptych, a...
Fancy a Lift? – Daily poetry postcards, curated by poet Kerrie O’Brien
A much-loved element of the Well Festival, this poetry strand from Waterford Healing Arts has been curated this this year by the highly regarded poet Kerrie O’Brien, who has chosen an absorbing selection to give us a daily lift. A new poem will be shared each day...
Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2025 Programme Launched
Are you feeling well? Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2025 launches exciting line-up – over 30 FREE local arts events Music, art, dance, poetry and stories to lift people’s spirits Dedicated activities for younger audiences through the Wellies programme...
Beautiful series of photographs unveiled at University Hospital Waterford
This week we unveiled a stunning lightbox installation for patients, staff, and visitors at Orthopaedic 2 at University Hospital Waterford (UHW). The lightbox is part of a wider series of photographs by Tom Quilty that have been installed throughout the orthopaedic...
Summit, an exhibition of photographs opens at University Hospital Waterford
We are delighted to launch Summits, a collection of photography, by Joanna Taraska. This is Joanna’s second exhibition on the Staff Art Wall at University Hospital Waterford. Her work is on show until 11 March 2025. Joanna Taraska was born in Poland but has been...
Open Call for Sunshine: sharing writings to brighten our souls – Well Festival 2025
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...
Menu Of Poems to brighten patient journeys in University Hospital Waterford this November
University Hospital Waterford, in partnership with Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts, is just one of the many Irish hospitals involved in the powerful Menu of Poems project. Poetry will be distributed this November throughout a number of Irish hospital wards, waiting...
Burano, a series of photographs, opens on the Staff Art Wall
Burano, a series of photographs, by Tom Quilty, has opened on the Staff Art Wall at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) and is on show until 14 January 2025. This vibrant collection of digital photographic prints by Tom Quilty depicts Burano, a small island located at...