Bealtaine at Irish Arts Center | New York

Presented by Irish Arts Center in partnership with The Hedge School

Bealtaine:
Returning to our Senses | Beo Bríomhar Arís
Féile na Gaeilge / Irish Language Day 2023 brings a dynamic cultural learning experience to the Irish Arts Center, NYC 
Saturday, May 13 2023
1.00pm - 7.30pm

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A chairde / Dear friends,

We are overjoyed to announce Bealtaine: Returning to our Senses | Beo Bríomhar Arís curated by the Hedge School and presented in partnership with the Irish Arts Center in New York for this years’ Féile na Gaeilge/Irish Language Day on Saturday, May 13. If you have friends, family or folk in New York extend the invitation to them, we'd love to see them there.

Join Kathy Scott with special guests including Leah Song (Singer-songwriter, Rising Appalachia) and Brian Crosby (Musician, Composer, Bell X1) for a Hedge School-style day of cultural exploration, conversation and kinship. Tickets to the day-long programme which runs from 1 - 7.30 pm are available now on the IAC’s website.

An Irish drumbeat with a global resonance
 
Buille druma Éireannach a spreagann creathanna domhanda

This bilingual cultural experience will explore the themes of the season of Bealtaine, a turning point on the great Wheel of the Year that was handed down by the ancients This fire festival marks the transition from the dark to the bright half of the year, from giamos to samos. The festival of Bealtaine celebrates the God Belenus (Bright one) and welcomes the “rekindling” of the sun with the promise of summer. 

Returning to our Senses | Beo Bríomhar Arís is a dynamic cultural learning experience, curated by The Hedge School, that weaves creativity, heritage, language, folklore, indigenous wisdom and kinship with individual, social and ecological wellbeing.

Open to Gaeilge enthusiasts of all levels from absolute beginners to advanced, the day's programme includes workshops, conversation circles, a film screening, and a special Hedge School-style immersive closing experience.

Schedule of events:
1:00 – 1:15pm | Welcome
1:15 – 2:45pm | Workshops
3:00 – 3:45pm | Tea and conversation circles
4:00 – 5:30pm | Film screening: Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion
6:00 – 7:30pm | Hedge School/Scoil Scairte's Bealtaine Immram - or "wonder voyage," an ancient Irish storytelling experience - guided by Kathy Scott with Leah Song and Brian Crosby.        
7:30 – 9:00pm | After-party 

If you can’t make the full day’s activities, individual tickets to the film screening and Bealtaine Immram events are available and linked in the schedule above.

Thank you all for your love, support and encouragement as we venture into our fourth live series with our trusted tuatha. 
 
Beannachtaí agus Beir Bua,
 
Kathy and all at The Hedge School xo