EVA functions as a perfect marriage of the local and the global — Matt Packer

Director Matt Parker says that this year’s EVA festival has been two years in the making, writes Marc O’Sullivan Vallig

Matt Packer, EVA director/CEO It Takes a Village is the title of the Guest Programme in the latest edition of EVA, Limerick’s biennial festival of the visual arts, which opens on Friday.

'It Takes a Village' is the title of the Guest Programme in the latest edition of EVA, Limerick’s biennial festival of the visual arts, which opens on Friday. 

The expression usually relates to the rearing of a child, but in this context, it could very well describe the organisation of the festival by Director/CEO Matt Packer and his small team of curators.