First Fortnight

irst Fortnight has made it to the shortlist of the Charity Excellence Awards 2024 People's Choice Award. Please cast your vote here: https://shorturl.at/nyB6h Founded in 2009, First Fortnight is a charity that challenges mental health prejudice through arts and cultural action. Through our annual arts festival held across the first two weeks of January we aim to make the beginning of each year synonymous with mental health awareness, challenging prejudice and ending stigma. Through our Centre for Creative Therapies and CACtus (Child and Adolescent Creative Therapy Service) we provide the highest standard of free Creative Therapies, art therapy, music therapy and drama therapy to children, adolescents and adults experiencing homelessness and members of vulnerable communities who are at risk. Like to know more about what we do? Visit firstfortnight.ie