We are K-FEST, Kerry’s infamous independent Arts festival, situated in the quaint, meandering town of Killorglin, county Kerry. Since 2013 the festival has gone from strength to strength and now welcomes some of the most prolific emerging and established Irish/International Artists to this small charismatic town.

Our focus primarily lies on promoting and exhibiting emerging Irish art. We want invited artists to use our festival as a stepping stone for their creative careers. K-FEST is a place to showcase their talents and promote their work, a time to share ideas and interact with like-minded individuals as well as lending their vision and originality to the festival community. We embrace all forms of Art, and equally, all types of people. Nobody gets left behind as the festival caters for a wide audience including adults, teenagers and kids.

The festival origins trace back to an unfortunate but very real Irish recession. A time of empty streets, abandoned buildings and bare concrete walls! However, the K-FEST project saw that grass was greener and imagined something original and unique, engaging and beneficial. Artists and Musicians alike were invited into these unused dwellings, given complete creative control and, in doing so, instilled a much needed glowing pulse back into the empty buildings of Killorglin.

The K-FEST Arts Festival is committed to the principles of fairness, consistency and equality of opportunity. No persons involved as a volunteer, professional performer or audience member will be discriminated against, regardless of their age, colour, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, race, religion or belief and/or sexual orientation.