Clonmel’s Inaugural Plein Air

With the Suir Blueway running through it and built against the stunning backdrop of the Comeragh mountains, Clonmel awaits your discovery during our Plein Air on 4th and 5th July. Also within easy reach of the rich scenery and oustanding OPW sites in Carrick, Cahir and Cashel, we invite you to join us for Clonmel’s inaugural Plein Air. Come to Clonmel to paint and draw and enjoy the hospitality and cultural programme that the 2026 Clonmel Junction Arts Festival offers. Click here to find out more…

2025 Highlights

2026 Festival

Exchanges

Exploring Cultural Exchanges & Blended Cultures

Our festival theme for 2026 is ‘Exchanges’, exciting conversations about ourselves and our communities, exploring Cultural exchanges and blended cultures. Our brochure and full programme will be launched on Thursday 4th June with tickets for events going on sale on Friday 5th June but, in the meantime, keep an eye on our active social media for our build up to launch day as well as updates on our community development projects and other ways to be involved in the lead up to the festival (3rd to 12th July).

Rebecca Lenehan
Artistic Director

Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, Clonmel, County Tipperary

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A fantastic turnout for our first workshop Cultural Exchange -Commonality and Community with @anniehogg_thewildhedgeinkco . 🧶👩🏻‍🎨🇺🇦🇮🇪 Funded by Integration Grant. #exhanges #community #workshops #commonality #cjaf26
Unlucky in Love? ❤️‍🩹 Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, Cult Collective and The Source are hosting a Networking and Showcase Event in Clonmel on Friday, 13th February in The Platform (Showgrounds Shopping Centre, Clonmel) at 6pm for practitioners of any art form to try out new material onstage. If you’re interested in hearing your work performed on the night, please send a maximum 8-page excerpt of your short story or monologue piece, or 10 pages of your dialogue script in response to the theme ‘Unlucky in love?’. If sending a script, it must have no more than three characters. Please put your name and type of work you’re submitting in the subject line (i.e. Joe Smith - Short fiction). Please be aware not all who apply will be given a space, due to the short timeframe of the event. All writers must be from or based in the south-east. Please email your work to info@junctionfestival.com by 4th February at 5pm. All writers will be notified by 10th February. @sourcearts @showgroundssc @tipperarycoco @cult.collective.kk #shortstorywriter #writersshowcase #cjaf26 #clonmel
Lovely day yesterday welcoming the ETB English language group to The Platform ahead of this Saturday’s first workshop ‘Cultural Exchanges: Commonality and Community’ with fantastic Tipperary artist Annie Hogg at 2pm in The Platform. Join us! @anniehogg_thewildhedgeinkco @showgroundssc #cjaf26 #culturalexchanges #community #workshops #clonmel
As we kick off our new Community and Commonality project this weekend with artist Annie Hogg, we’d love to share a little more about Annie.✨ Annie Hogg is a Tipperary artist, based on the banks of the River Suir. With a studio based practice using sculpture, installation, sound and community engagement, she works with natural materials in traditional and innovative ways. Using fire, tears and spittle as frequently as charcoal, peat and ochre. Her work researches power relations and resources. Aiming to see both human and other than human responses and outcomes in human led situations. Material choices are made with an intention of furthering discourse of the world and Hogg’s place in it. She has recently begun to work through social engagement. Being stimulated with people and their depth of knowledge through conversation, Annie has so far worked with groups in her wider community, and explored their lived experiences of place, time and materials. She utilises sound work through these projects. The first workshop takes place this coming Saturday 17th at 2pm @showgroundssc #cjaf26 #commonality #community #ukranian #workshop
*Meet the Artist* Join us for another evening of inclusive, informal chats at the Junction Platform, this time with local composer/choral director Eamon O’Malley. ✨ 📍 @showgroundssc ⏰ 6pm-7pm 📆 Thursday 5th February 📸 @john_d_kelly_photography @malzo_music @tipperaryartsoffice @tipperarycoco #meettheartist #composer #musicaldirector #cjaf26 clonme
A little more information on renowned podcaster Siobhan McHugh.. Siobhán is a seminal podcast studies scholar and multi-award-winning producer of narrative journalism podcasts, who founded RadioDoc Review (2014-) the first journal of expert criticism of narrative podcasts/audio features. She has published widely on the affective power of audio storytelling and the impact of podcasting as a new medium. Her book, The Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories Through Sound (Columbia University Press 2022) analyses the aesthetics and production practices of acclaimed narrative podcasts, is a set text in universities from Europe to the US - and even got a mention on OPRAH. Narrative podcasts Siobhán co-produced include The Greatest Menace about a gay prison experiment in Australia, which has won 17 major awards, including a Walkley. Her other investigative podcasts have won six gold awards at New York Festivals. “Audio is a such an intimate, honest medium! I can’t wait to hear these deeply personal stories of loving – and leaving – Clonmel,” said Siobhán. Clonmel Junction Arts Festival and Tipperary Museum of Hidden History are asking local writers to apply to be part of the project by Friday 30th January 2026 at 5pm via a google form: link in our bio! #podcast #clonmel #immergration #tipperary #cjaf26
Exciting Project for CJAF 26! Clonmel Junction Arts Festival and the Tipperary Museum of Hidden History announce callout for Tipperary writers for new podcast project ‘The Clonmel Exchanges Podcast Project’ for 2026 festival. The Clonmel Exchanges Podcast Project, a partnership project with Clonmel Junction Arts Festival and the Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, is an exciting new podcast project forming part of the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival looking for Tipperary writers who would like to develop their interview skills through masterclasses with renowned podcaster Siobhán McHugh We are asking local writers to apply to be part of the project by Friday 30th January 2026 at 5pm via a google form, link in our bio!☺️ #cjaf26 #podcast #clonmel
An exciting project for Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2026, ‘Commonality and Community’ is beginning soon. The festival is inviting participants from the Ukrainian and local community to engage in a new project working with Tipperary artist Annie Hogg, supported by the Integration Fund. The workshops with Annie will centre around a knowledge of plants, their uses and folklore, searching for our commonality through our use of plants. Participants will make materials from Tipperary hedgerows and create textile artefacts linked through embroidery in both Ukrainian and Irish traditions on linen. Stories surrounding the plants and folklore will be recorded during the sessions and assembled into audio to accompany the linen installation to be sited in the centre of Clonmel during the 2026 festival. The first meeting will take place on Saturday 17th January from 2pm-5pm in The Platform in The Showgrounds Shopping Centre. If you have an interest in crafting, please register via our google form to take part in the project, link in our bio. Перша зустріч відбудеться в суботу, 17 січня, з 14:00 до 17:00 на Платформі в торговому центрі Showgrounds. Якщо вас цікавить рукоділля, будь ласка, зареєструйтесь через нашу гугл-форму, щоб взяти участь у проєкті: https://forms.gle/YgUvC8ifdeUB8xXs7 Первая встреча состоится в субботу, 17 января, с 14:00 до 17:00 в The Platform в торговом центре The Showgrounds. Если вы интересуетесь рукоделием, пожалуйста, зарегистрируйтесь через нашу форму Google, чтобы принять участие в проекте: https://forms.gle/iG6UidvV13yyGmaF9 #community #commonality #ukranian #cjaf26 #clonmel
Looking back at the video highlights from this year’s Junction Arts Festival has us excited for what 2026 will bring.🙌🏼 Stay tuned for updates, and don’t forget to keep an eye out for our monthly newsletter. Wishing you all a healthy and peaceful year ahead, From all the Junction Team 💛 ✨🎭 📽️ @wearebearfoot @tipperaryartsoffice @tipperarycoco #clonmelarts #cjaf25 #cjaf26 #clonmeljunctionfestival #tipperary
As friends and families gather over the Christmas period, we’d love to hear your nominations for our initiative with the Tipperary Museum of Hidden History for 2026: the Clonmel Exchanges Podcast Project, hearing the stories of those who’ve left Clonmel for new lives around the world. Please check with your nominee first and then apply here: https://forms.gle/kKkSDqPCJqv9X55G6 We can’t wait to hear your stories in 2026! #podcast #memories #remeniscing #clonmel #cjaf26
From us all at the Junction Team🥰🎄🎅🏻🕊️
We had a lovely morning/ afternoon for our Christmas workshops, thanks to everyone who popped in. 🥰 A special thanks to @bryonyclassicalsinger for entertaining us with some festive songs 🎄🎶 Wishing you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas 🕊️ @tipperaryartsoffice @showgroundssc @bryonyclassicalsinger #clonmelarts #cjaf25 #clonmeljunctionfestival #christmasworkshop #thearts
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