Age & Opportunity’s Arts programme invites applications for the Bealtaine Hero Award and National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award. Applications and queries can be submitted to the Arts Programme Administrator at arts@ageandopportunity.ie Bealtaine Hero Award 2023 Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival wishes to recognise two innovative grass roots arts projects through the Bealtaine Hero Award. We invite applications […]
Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to provide evaluation services for the Arts & Creative Charter for Older People Pilot project as part of our Arts Programme 2022/2023. Since 2019, Age & Opportunity Arts has been developing a national Arts & Creative Charter for Older People with a wide […]
Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to provide social media and PR support for Bealtaine Festival 2023. This includes managing social media for the festival, including planning, creation and scheduling/publishing of different types of content across all social channels through our Hootsuite platform, and monitoring, reacting and engaging with […]
Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to provide design support for Bealtaine Festival 2023. This will include the creation of a suite of materials for the website and social channels, and design of the printed programme. This will be confirmed in January 2023. Bealtaine Festival takes place in May […]
The Age & Opportunity Creative Ageing Writing Bursary aims to generate discussion, debate and knowledge about the arts and ageing in Ireland. The bursary is intended to afford time and space for an artist or writer to reflect on their practice as it relates to the arts and ageing. This reflection can include the learnings, insights but […]
Ireland’s first national Arts Charter for the greater participation of older people in the arts was published today by Age & Opportunity, after a three year process of consultation and development. The Charter sets out the arts sector’s commitment to promoting key values and guiding principles in engaging with older people. The Charter also demonstrates a […]
The Gathering is the annual networking event for the community of event organisers, artists, partners and supporters of Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival. Bealtaine Festival takes place throughout the month of May each year, and celebrates the arts and creativity as we age. In our first in-person Gathering since 2019, we’re bringing the Bealtaine community […]
Have you got your ticket for The Gathering 2022 yet? We’re looking forward to welcoming Ed Watts, the Head of Civic Engagement and Education at the Whitworth, part of the University of Manchester. Ed will be talking about older men’s participation in the arts. This interest in the traditionally under-represented audience of older men within […]
Get your tickets for The Gathering 2022 on November 15th! Join us in Project Arts Centre for the annual Bealtaine Festival networking event for our community of event organisers, artists, partners and supporters. Featuring keynote speaker, bestselling author Patricia Scanlan, this year’s event will look at different issues of diversity as it relates to older […]
We are excited to announce Patricia Scanlan, author of The City Girl trilogy, A Time For Friends, and many other novels, as the keynote speaker for The Gathering 2022. As one Ireland’s best-known and most popular authors, we can’t wait to hear about Patricia’s reflections on writing and ageing. In our first in-person Gathering since […]
