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Live Art Ireland with p(art)y Here and Now, presents CONVERGENCE A BORDERLESS ROMANCE 2025. from 8-10 of August

An Unprecedented Art and Music Festival Celebrating Global Creative Exchange North Tipperary, Ireland – Live Art Ireland, in partnership with p(art)y Here and Now, is proud to announce CONVERGENCE: A BORDERLESS ROMANCE 2025, a ground-breaking three-day festival taking place from August 8-10, 2025.
This is our 3rd Convergence Festival since 2022 and it takes place biennially. This extraordinary celebration represents an art and music festival like no other, bringing together the latest in live art practice with local and national musicians, complemented by workshops designed to foster creative exploration and cultural dialogue.

At its heart, CONVERGENCE embodies the concept of “A Borderless Romance” – a passionate love affair between artistic disciplines, cultures, and creative voices that transcends geographical, stylistic, and conceptual boundaries. This romance speaks to the intimate connections formed when artists from different backgrounds come together to create something entirely new. The festival’s philosophy embraces the idea that art, like love, knows no borders. It celebrates the magnetic pull between diverse creative practices, the seductive dialogue between sound and movement, between tradition and innovation, between the local and the global. This borderless romance manifests in collaborative works that emerge from the intersections of different artistic languages, creating hybrid forms that could only exist in such an open, boundary-dissolving environment.
Just as romance involves vulnerability, trust, and the willingness to be transformed by another, CONVERGENCE invites artists and audiences to step beyond their comfort zones, to engage with unfamiliar forms of expression, and to allow themselves to be changed by the encounter. The festival becomes a space where creative intimacy flourishes – where Irish traditional music might dance with experimental performance art, where international voices blend with local stories, and where the audience becomes part of the romantic embrace between art forms.

Co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union