West Cork Feel Good Festival 2025: News & Updates

The WCFGF printed brochure is out now - there are some updates to the print version. See online programme https://www.musicalive.ie/west-cork-feel-good-festival for the most up to date listings.

See below also for more last minute updates/informaton about events:

Three years ago, during the West Cork Feel Good Festival, we gathered to screen Anua / A New Way. This year, we feel called to share the film once more — this time as a private online offering, in honour of Manchán Magan, whose passing has left such a deep silence in Ireland and beyond.

Anua is an experimental film and sonic journey that weaves land, language, dinnseanchas, and the Otherworld. Narrated by Manchán alongside Carmel Winters, and created in collaboration with Aoise Tutty Jackson, Kevin McNally, Kevin O’Shanahan, and Maggie Ryan, the film explores how Irish words, myth, and sound open thresholds into new ways of experiencing place and belonging.

This online release is part of the 2025 West Cork Feel Good Festival — a festival dedicated to creativity, community, and connection. Alongside the film, we are also sharing written tributes from Aoise Tutty Jackson, as well as Kevin McNally and Kevin O’Shanahan, each reflecting on Manchán’s legacy and the making of Anua.

If you would like to watch the film, please sign up through the link below to receive your private screening link and password:

👉 Sign up here to watch Anua / A New Way

https://mailchi.mp/6714118e201a/watch-anua-a-new-way

This offering is shared as both tribute and prayer.

Updates to the printed programme:

BANTRY

An introduction to Therapeutic Horse Riding, Hairy Henry, Ballylickey Upper Bantry

NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME FROM: Tuesday 28th October to Wednesday 22 October at 11am

BEARA

Tue 21 October 11-12.30pm

Making Flower Brooches will take place in Lauragh Community Centre V93HR98

On Wednesdays  at 11am Party Piece  will take place in Adrigole Arts, Hungry Hill Gallery, Droumlave, Adrigole.  P75HF10

Additions to the Programme

3 Singing for the Brain taster sessions

Dunmanway Library - Wednesday 15th @ 11am

Skibbereen Library - Tuesday 21st @ 2pm

Bantry Library – Tuesday 28th @ 2.30pm

Come along and try out this taster session of Singing for the Brain.

When you leave feeling nurtured, uplifted and energized from the power of group singing, you can seek out a local group to join!

SFTB participants experience social connection, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging, all of which are integral to maintaining mental and emotional well-being.