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prime Project Development Bursary 2020
Details on the projects the 2020 recipients are working on
The Floors is Yours! 2020
A networking event for dance artists, companies and organisations working with older people, which aims to strengthen and provide visibility for the sector. The event offers workshops, discussions and presentations from those working in the field nationally and internationally.
Family Carers Writing Project with Shaun Dunne
New online Creative Writing project for family carers living in Fingal
Save the Date - Tar Isteach Roundtable Discussion
Towards Creative Hospitable Practices
Mad, Bad & Dangerous - New Episodes Premiering for Bealtaine At Home!
A celebration of 'difficult' women
The Bealtaine Gathering 2020 - Now open for booking!
The annual networking event for the Bealtaine community of event organisers, artists, partners and supporters - now online!
Bealtaine At Home October: Tar Isteach
A series of events as part of Bealtaine At Home: October
September 7th - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
August 20th - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
August 5th - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
Invitation to Tender for Research
We are seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to conduct a piece of research in the context of our initiative Artist in Residence in a Care Setting
Conversations: A (virtual) Portrait Project with Andy Parsons
Andy Parsons talks about his remote work with older people around the country
Minister Catherine Martin T.D. announces €500,000 investment in Creativity in Older Age Programme
As part of this, Age & Opportunity will deliver a series of creative residencies in six care settings around the country.
15th July - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
Arts Council's Equality, Human Rights & Diversity Consultation
New initiative launched today!
29th June - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
16th June - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
Bealtaine Book Club - Blog Post 2 - Bealtaine At Home
Authors Catherine Dunne and Neil Hegarty share their thoughts on their work.
Bealtaine Book Club - Blog Post 1 - Bealtaine At Home
Authors Catherine Dunne and Neil Hegarty share their thoughts on their work.
15th May - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room.
Bealtaine At Home – celebrating creativity as we age
We are bringing a taste of the festival to you online for the entire month of May – Bealtaine At Home.
1st May - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room.
My Inspirational Older Person Competition
We are asking all kids, big and small, to tell us what an older person in your life CAN do!
17th April - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
30th March - Resources for Arts and Creativity & Online Event Listings
List of online opportunities across a range of activities – from making art at home to attending live events from your sitting room!
prime Platform 2019 - Participants Announced!
Irish Theatre Institute in partnership with Age & Opportunity announces prime Platform 2019
Age & Opportunity brings the benefits of arts participation to over 250 older people in care settings nationwide
Announcing six artist residencies
The Bealtaine Gathering 2019 - Now open for booking!
A day for Bealtaine organisers and supporters to be inspired, reflect and connect.
The Floor is Yours! - Booking now open through Dance Ireland
A networking day for dance artists working with older people
Age & Opportunity Visual Arts Residency at Cow House Studios, Wexford
Richard Gorman, Tamsin Snow and Eithne Jordan have been selected as the Age & Opportunity Visual Arts Residency artists.
New Bealtaine Art Commission Announced in Mid West
Ground Up Artists Collective
Liminal States
Ageing Provocateur
An online conversation about creative ageing
Bealtaine @ Temple Bar - 18th May 2019!
Join us for an action packed day of creative and cultural events in Dublin's Temple Bar Quarter..
Donegal, Laois, Mayo and Tipperary publish exciting programmes for Bealtaine 2019!
Download a county specific brochure here..
Sing Out Loud with Bealtaine & St. Patrick’s Festival 2019
Join us this St. Patrick's Weekend for pop up singing and fun!
Artist's Residency in a Care Setting
Applications for Care Settings are now open!
Visual Arts Curator - Call Out
Tenders invited for Bealtaine 2020
Bealtaine Get Creative!
More details about our Bealtaine Get Creative Week running from 11th-19th May.
Bealtaine Festival Flagship Choir 2019 Announced
We are pleased to announce Aspiro Choir as the Bealtaine Festival Flagship Choir 2019
Bealtaine Residency Call Out
Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre in partnership with Age and Opportunity/BEALTAINE and Cork County Council invite submissions for a studio residency from an artist aged 50 and over to take place from 6 April to 4 May 2019.
Call out for Bealtaine Festival Volunteers
Join the 2019 Festival Team!
Bealtaine Festival announces Emma O'Grady as the recipient of 2019 Touring Award
Laois playwright and performer Emma O’Grady will bring her critically-acclaimed theatre show about her grandfather’s secret tape-recordings to 5 venues as part of Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival.
Call out for Participants in Cycling Project: Velo-City
Would you like to get involved in a cycling art project for Bealtaine 2019?
Bealtaine Mega Gathering
One week to go
Pouring a cup of creativi-TEA
Artist in Residence Programme to provide access to the arts for older people in care settings
Call out for Bealtaine Festival Flagship Choir
Is your choir the Bealtaine Festival Choir 2019? - (Deadline extended to 31st January 2019)
Bealtaine Festival Interns 2019
Age & Opportunity is offering two internships as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2019
Touring Support Available - Bealtaine 2019
Are you looking for an opportunity to participate in the Bealtaine festival? Our open call out for tours of all artforms could be your chance to join us in celebrating the arts and culture as we age.
Festival Blog by Patrizia Perugini
I wish there were a Festival like Bealtaine in the city where I live
Bealtaine @ Temple Bar
Bealtaine @ Temple Bar is an exciting new leg of the Bealtaine calendar with a series of arts and cultural events running across Temple Bar’s cultural quarter from the 3rd to the 7th of May.
Tender for Evaluation Consultant for Age & Opportunity's Bealtaine Festival
We are looking for a researcher/writer/thinker/evaluator to identify and explore the impact and influences of the Bealtaine festival to its funders, participants, partners and other stakeholders in Ireland.
Call Out for Participants: Everybody Sings
Everybody Sings is a new theatre project by artist Shaun Dunne examining the relationship between intimacy and ageing. The project is commissioned by Age & Opportunity as part of the nationwide 2018 Bealtaine Festival and will be produced by Brokentalkers Theatre Company.
Bealtaine Nationwide Gatherings
Bealtaine depends on the thousands of events run by our partner organisations, arts offices and libraries around the country and we very much hope you might be free and interested to come to one of our Bealtaine Gathering meetings this Autumn and if you can, help us spread the word!
Be Our Guest
From 2018 through to 2020, in response to ongoing, international, globally transformative events, Bealtaine will adopt the theme of hospitality, hosting, welcome and generosity, as a broad and multi-layered festival theme
Joanna Hopkins awarded the inaugural Bealtaine Artist's Residency in a care setting
The Bealtaine Festival, celebrating the arts and creativity as we age, has awarded visual artist Joanna Hopkins the inaugural Bealtaine Artist’s Residency in a care setting. Bealtaine, working with Azure, Creative Exchanges and in association with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), have developed this artist’s residency within a care setting that specialises in caring for older people with dementia.
#Alltogethernow
Throughout the month of May, the annual celebration returns for its 22nd year with events hosted nationwide to promote activity in the arts and creativity as we age.
