Enniscorthy Arts & Culture Festival

What to Expect

Enniscorthy comes alive each September as the Enniscorthy Arts & Culture Festival returns for a weekend built around the town’s creative community. The programme spans music and dance, storytelling, workshops and visual arts, with events spread across venues in the town rather than concentrated in one hall. The festival’s centrepiece is the Annual Open Call Exhibition, open to entries from artists connected to the region, which gives local and emerging talent a public platform alongside more established names. Expect a mix of ticketed performances and free-to-attend exhibitions and family activities, in keeping with the festival’s aim of putting Enniscorthy’s artistic life on show for residents and visitors over the same weekend. The festival draws on the town’s existing arts infrastructure, in particular the Presentation Arts Centre, which hosts the exhibition strand of the weekend, alongside pop-up use of other town venues for music and performance.

Good to Know

• Runs Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September 2026 across venues in Enniscorthy, County Wexford.
• The Annual Open Call Exhibition is hosted at the Presentation Arts Centre; other strands, including music, dance, storytelling and workshops, take place at additional venues around the town.
• Pricing varies by event: exhibitions and some family programming are typically free to attend, while ticketed performances are priced individually, so check each listing before travelling.
• This is an annual September fixture on the Enniscorthy calendar, distinct from the town’s separate Enniscorthy Visual Arts Festival, which runs earlier in the summer.
• Local accommodation providers, including the Riverside Park Hotel, promote festival weekend packages, a sign of how established the event now is on the town’s calendar.

Getting There

Enniscorthy sits on the N11/M11 Dublin-to-Wexford road, roughly 85km south of Dublin, and Enniscorthy railway station on the Dublin Heuston to Rosslare Europort line is a short walk from the town centre. The Presentation Arts Centre and most festival venues are within walking distance of each other in the town centre, with several public car parks nearby.