Bealtaine is coordinated by Age & Opportunity, the Irish national organisation working to promote greater participation by older people in society. Check out the Age & Opportunity web site.
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The following Bealtaine events are running in this county:
Arts / Culture / Heritage
Office of Public Works
Bru na Boinne Visitor Centre, Donore, Co Meath.
Wildflower Walk and Making your Mark!
Celebrate Bealtaine with a wildflower walk and learn to make a miniature monument in clay
20th
Wildflower walk to celebrate National Biodiversity Day and Bealtaine. Identify common wildflowers and learn their uses - meet in carpark - all welcome - 2pm.
Bru na Boinne
24th
Making your Mark! - make a minature monument in clay. From 11.30am to 1pm. Booking essential. Places limited to 15.
Bru na Boinne
Clare Tuffy
+353 (041) 988 0300
Solstice Arts Centre
Railway Street, Navan, Co Meath.
Bealtaine Film Tour
access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute present the 2012 Bealtaine Film Tour screening of 'My House in Umbria'.
23rd
'My House in Umbria'
Solstice Arts Centre
Solstice Arts Centre
+353 (046) 909 2300
Libraries
Meath County Council Library Service
Railway Street, Navan, Co. Meath
A Variety of Events in Meath Libraries
Our events include: music; art; genealogy; aromatheraphy; storytelling; computer i-mac workshop and much more.
1st - 31st
Contact any Meath Library for further information or email Sharon at sflanagan@meathcoco.ie.
Libraries in Co Meath
Sharon Flanagan
+353 (046) 902 1134
Active Retirement / Community Groups
Dunshaughlin Friday Club
St Patrick's Hall, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath
Songs from the Musicals and a Little Bit of Irish
Our 'Bealtaine Choir' will entertain with songs from the musicals familiar to all, along with well known Irish songs and a little bit of poetry.
4th - 18th
Songs from the musicals and a little bit of Irish. We will host this event on two Fridays in May i.e. May 4th and May 18th.
St. Patrick's Hall, Dunshaughlin
Yvonne McEntaggart
+353 (087) 783 9858
Trim ALPS (Adult Learning & Leisure Programme)
c/o Trim Family Resource Centre, Mornington, Trim, Co Meath.
Drama and Young at Heart Garden Party
ALPS will meet in Trim Library and perform a drama to let people know what ALPS is; garden party with drama; singing; dancing; arts and crafts display
8th
Weekly get-together with drama performance, from 10.30am - 12.30pm
Trim Library
19th
'Young at Heart' Garden Party
Trim Family Resource Centre
Brigid Madden
+353 (046) 943 6214
Care Centres
Knightsbridge Nursing Home
Knightsbridge Village, Longwood Road, Trim, Co.Meath
Bealtaine at Knightsbridge Village
Poetry with The Boyne Writers; Bealtaine summer garden party featuring live music; heritage trip to Belvedere House, Garden & Park
9th
Poetry with The Boyne Writers
Knightsbridge Nursing Home
10th
Bealtaine Summer Garden Party featuring live music
Knightsbridge Village
11th
Trip to Belvedere House, Garden & Park
Belvedere House & Gardens, Mullingar
Lohi Ako
+353 (46) 948 2700
Millbury Nursing Home
Commons Road, Navan, Co. Meath
Millbury Celebrates Creativity
Musical afternoon with local musicians; social morning for residents and their families and friends; opening of a three week long photography exhibition compiled by residents and staff at Millbury.
6th
Musical afternoon with local musicians.
Millbury Nursing Home
9th
Social morning for residents, their families and friends
Millbury Nursing Home
24th May - 10th June: A-Z photography exhibition.
Millbury Nursing Home
Silverstream Healthcare Group, Ratoath
Ratoath Manor, Ratoath, Co. Meath
Be Creative!
Musical afternoons; party with members of local community; flower arranging demo; flower arranging by residents; art exhibition; tea party; outing; fashion show and drama.
1st
Fashion show
Ratoath Manor
8th
One Woman Show with Nora Connolly as Lady Lavery
Ratoath Manor
Art Exhibition. Date to be arranged
Ashbourne Library
Alzheimers Tea Party. Date to be arranged
Ratoath Manor
3rd - 31st
Professional musicians every Thursday during May from May 3rd
Ratoath Manor
15th
Flower Arranging and Demonstration
Ratoath Manor
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Age & Opportunity, Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, Ireland
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