Library events to take place across Meath this month as part of Bealtaine arts festival
This year, Bealtaine is celebrating 30 years of the festival running in Ireland, celebrating age and creativity.
Bealtaine is one of Ireland's largest cooperative festivals and the world's first national celebration of creativity in older age.
Highlights of this year's events include the 'Big Bealtaine Book Quiz' open to all Meath book clubs on Thursday, May, 15 where winners will go home with some book tokens
There will be Healthy Ireland events throughout the month with Pilates, chair yoga, chair exercise, and line dancing events.
There will also be creative events such as pressed flower crafts, paint by numbers sessions, mono print art, and art workshops with artist John Carpenter.
Oldcastle Library will welcome celebrated author Seamus O'Rourke on Thursday, May, 22 to discuss his latest book with former Meath writer-in-residence Nicola Cassidy.
There is also a reminiscence workshop on poems and songs learned at school while Trim Library is holding a Poetry Exhibition throughout the month.
A film festival will run once a week throughout the month. And for those who wish to improve their Irish, they can take part in an Irish conversation workshop for beginners in Trim Library on Monday, May, 12.
The partnership festival Bealtaine works on two parallel and interdependent strands, including a strategic programme, curated by age and opportunity's arts team, aimed at addressing key strategic priorities for the festival.
It also has a locally devised and curated national programme made up of hundreds of events organised in each community by a wide variety of groups.
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