Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 programme announced by Réalta, the national resource organisation for Arts + Health in Ireland Keynote Speaker: Dr Tony Bates Réalta has published details for Arts + Health: Check Up Check In 2025 and is thrilled to reveal that Dr...

This April, two workplace choirs will come together for a special public performance in Waterford, promising a real musical treat. We invite you to join us for an evening of song featuring the SETU Staff Choir and Cór Chroí Waterford HSE Staff Choir, set in the...

We are pleased to launch a lovely new collection of artworks by Marley Irish on the Staff Art Wall at University Hospital Waterford. Her work is on show until 20 May 2025. The collection is called, Mothers’ Love. In it, Marley’s exuberant use of colour, applied with a...

YUTORI: leeway; room; allowance; latitude; time to spare; ease Yutori is a unique ambient sound art installation by Patrick McGlynn/Dr Mindflip. It has been unveiled at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) to coincide with the launch of the Well Festival of Arts &...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...