1st to 31st May 2012

The Bealtaine Festival is a unique and groundbreaking Irish festival celebrating creativity in older age.

Check out the 2012 Bealtaine Festival events at this website
 
May belongs to the Bealtaine festival, celebrating creativity in older age! Thousands of older people now take part in the Bealtaine festival, with 2012 being its 17th year. From dance to cinema, painting to theatre, Bealtaine showcases the talents and creativity of both first-time and professional older artists.  A chance for people to make new and challenging work, a chance to communicate traditions between the generations. It is a chance for the novice to discover a talent until then unseen and a chance for a long-dormant skill to find a new outlet.

Age & Opportunity instigates and supports a number of events each year that are trying something new.  Examples in the past have been bringing Liz Lerman Dance Exchange to Ireland for workshops and performances, nurturing the performance piece Silver Stars to a full production (which has gone on to sell-out performances in the Dublin Theatre Festival and featured off-Broadway in the ‘Under the Radar’ festival in New York) or EnvisAge, a creative project that attempts to re-imagine care settings for older people in a whole new way.

For more information visit www.bealtaine.com, call 01 8057709, or follow the Facebook page.