First Fortnight Festival

Various Locations, Sunday 5th January – Tuesday 14th January

The First Fortnight Mental Health Art & Culture Festival has announced the programme for the 2025 edition, with over 60 events taking place nationwide from January 5th – 14th.

First Fortnight challenges mental health prejudice and stigma through arts and cultural action, programming events that create spaces for conversations around mental health with their annual festival every January – venues include theatres, beaches, music venues, and cafés nationwide.

This year’s First Fortnight programme includes a series of especially comissioned works; composer, musical director, and musician Norah Walsh has composed a new choral piece, inspired by the vision and aims of First Fortnight – to end the stigma associated with mental ill health.