Cork County Council’s Library and Arts Services launches Bealtaine Celebrations.
Cork County Council’s Library and Arts Services is marking Bealtaine this Month with an extensive range of creative activities to commemorate the festival that celebrates arts and creativity as we age. Taking place across the entire month of May, the Bealtine festival provides opportunities for all older people to meaningfully take part in and express their creativity and be represented by their work to highlight how our creative potential can grow as we age.
| Bealtaine Schedule: | Activity: |
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| Friday 10th – 31st May |
The Road Less Travelled: exhibition by Anna Groniecka |
Opening: 6pm 7pm then Mon – Fri 9am – 5.30pm |
LHQ, CorkCounty Hall. |
| Saturday 11th May | Eleanor O’Kelly-Lynch Creative Writing | 2.30pm – 4pm | Fermoy Library |
| Tuesday 14th May | Down MemoryLane Concert | 11am- 12pm | Mallow Library |
| Tuesday 14th May | Down MemoryLane Concert | 2.30 – 3.30pm | Fermoy Library |
| Thursday 16th & 23rdMay |
Paddy O’Brien: Men’s Storytelling Group- |
11am – 12pm | Dunmanway Library |
| Thursday 16th May |
Siobhán O’Connor: Art & collage workshop |
11am – 1pm | Kanturk Library |
| Friday 17th May | Shannon Forde | 2pm – 3.30pm | Carrigaline Library |
| Friday 17th May | Amanda Wright: Macramé Art | 11am – 12.30pm | Millstreet Library |
| Friday 17th May |
Cormac O’Connor: the Art of Living film screening |
1pm – 2.30pm |
MISA, St. James’ Hospital, Dublin 8. |
| Wednesday 22nd May | Ann Lambe: Paper Art | 4pm – 5.30pm | Mitchelstown Library |
| Thursday 23rd May | Eleanor O’Kelly-Lynch: Creative Writing | 11am – 12.30pm | Kinsale Library |
| Thursday 23rd May |
Melissa Shiels: Regency Dance classfor beginners |
11am – 12pm | Bandon Library |
| Thursday 30th May | Melissa Shiels:Regency Dance class for beginners | 12pm – 1pm | Cobh Library |
| Friday 31st May | Shannon Forde | 11am – 1pm | Passage WestLibrary |