Welcome
HearSay Encounters is a self-discover festival of sonic sculptures, soundworks, art, impromptu music, and deep listening in public spaces around the mountain town of Kilfinane, that evokes a sense of place and reminds us to let life love us once more.
A very special twist on the HearSay Audio Arts Festival:
A giant gramophone sparks the imagination and memory playing commentary from matches, festivals of yesterday and Kilfinane choirs.
A Giant Elk strides the square frozen – its bellow the fractured fragments of now stilled sounds of Kilfinane collective life that grow harder to remember.
Benches play audio Haikus, the sounds of the Amazon meld with Kilfinanes birdsong, films screen in windows, craft groups showcase their work accompanied by a pre-pandemic radio feature, self-guided walks discover hidden corners with sonic surprises.
HearSay is a unique live event that since 2014 has brought audio makers of all disciplines from all over the world together, with the people of Kilfinane, who host the festival and share their town, welcoming HearSay onto their streets and into their pubs and homes since 2014. World class audio in an Irish mountain village. Two communities discovering each other. A love of place. A love of sound. A shared space for new ideas and unexpected connections. HearSay is a kind of magic you can’t find anywhere else.
With support from the Arts Council and Limerick Council.
Events Schedule
Please Note: All times below are Irish/UK times.
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Distance Measures (film)
Alexandre Iseli (Switzerland/Ireland) & Jazmin Chiodi (Argentina/Ireland)
Heffernan’s Window, The Square
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Emergence (artwork)
Veronica Santorum (Ireland)
McCarthys, The Square
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Flickerings (film)
Andrew O’Gorman (Ire)
DJ Hayes Window, West End
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Ghost Anvil
Danny McCarthy(Ire)
Lower Main Street
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Gramaphone (sculpture with soundworks)
Donnacha Cahill (Sculpture) with Soundworks by Diarmuid McIntyre, Mary McDonnell & Kilfinane Musicians
Sunken Garden (Ballyhoura)
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Haikus @ The HearSay Sonic Bench
Damien Fitzpatrick (US) John Delore (US) & Brendan Francis Newnam (US) & Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland)
The Square, Kilfinane
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Invasive Specials (sound work)
Slavek Kwi (Czech Rep/Ire)
Entrance to Mountain View, Lower Main Street
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Lost notes (music/poetry)
Poetry: Deirdre Carr, Music: Conor Ryan, Sarah & Padraig, Liam Flanagan, Niamh O’Brien & more
The Square & Spaces Around It
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Megaloceros Cill Fionáin (sculpture with sound works)
Donnacha Cahill (Ire) with Soundworks by Diarmuid McIntyre (Ire) & Mark Vernon (Scotland)
By Market House, The Square
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Soundscape Cartographer (self-guided walk)
Daniel Lewis (USA), Johannes Bech Dalsgaard (Denmark), Maria Dønvang (Denmark)
Pickup in Shops
8th-9th May & 28th-30th May -
Thinking of a Place (sound work)
Alex Lewis (USA)
Sculpture at Radharc Cillín
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00 -
Woven (exhibition)
Kilfinane Arts, Craft & Traditional Skills Group & Recordings by Daniel Clancy
Ballyhoura Arch, The Square
Sat 29th & Sun 30th, 10:00 to 19:00
