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Bealtaine Festival 2022 - 10 essential events to catch

In The Picture: National Arts in Care Settings Day

Bealtaine At Home, and the art of In(ter)dependence

Age & Opportunity's Tara Byrne, Arts Programme Manager and Bealtaine Festival Artistic Director, introduces this year's installment of Ireland's national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age. which runs throughout May...

Festivals • 27 Apr 21

Sisters Pam Byrne and Carmel Sullivan, and ballerina Lydia Punch, announce the launch of Cork Cultural Companions

Cork Cultural Companions - connecting older people to the arts

Get Creative • 12 Mar 21

Bealtaine At Home: Carmel and Eileen, by Andy Persons

Bealtaine At Home - creating a virtual portrait project

As part of this year's Bealtaine At Home festival (and funded by the Arts Council's Covid-19 Bursary Award), artist Andy Parsons invited people who were self-isolating to join him in a virtual portrait sitting

Bealtaine Festival • 02 Sep 20

Bealtaine At Home - Songs and Stories, Part Two

Songs and Stories are 3 short works for radio, extracted from hours of conversations which took place over tea and biscuits with Visual Artist John Conway and visitors to Naas Care of the Aged Centre, during his Age & Opportunity Artist Residency there...

Age & Opportunity • 22 Oct 20

Bealtaine At Home - Songs and Stories, Part One

Songs and Stories are 3 short works for radio, extracted from hours of conversations which took place over tea and biscuits with Visual Artist John Conway during his Age & Opportunity Artist Residency in Naas Care of the Aged Centre...

Age & Opportunity • 22 May 20

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