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Closing date for Bealtaine event registration is 14 February

February 14th is the closing date for registering your events for the Bealtaine festival 2010. Bealtaine is our month-long festival that celebrates creativity in older age. This will be our fifteenth Bealtaine and it's already shaping up to be another exciting year.

A number of organisations have already sent back their registration forms. This is just a gentle reminder that you have until 14th of February to send us your completed registration form. If we get it by then, we can include your event in our Bulletin. The Bealtaine Bulletin gets distributed all over the country so we try to list as many events as possible.

You can still submit forms after that date but they may not make it to the Bulletin's printed listings. They will, however, go on our late listing on the Bealtaine website. The registration form is available from the Bealtaine website.

What's New

Playing flute at Bealtaine 2010 launchThe dust is settled and the numbers are crunched. Bealtaine 2010 was our biggest  festival ever! We estimate over 101,000 people took part this year.

Read more about our findings.

 Lawn Toss inchicoreGo for Life trains 17 new  Physical Activity Leaders as Dublin becomes EU Capital of Sport.

 Read more about the workshops.

Minister Aine BradyÁine Brady TD, Minister of State with responsibility for Older People, acknowledges the role and contribution of older people to society.

Hear what else she had to say about the work of Age & Opportunity

Ann Healy from the Southside Partnership talks about running Ageing with ConfidenceThe Southside Partnership have run a number of Ageing with Confidence programmes.

Listen to what Ann Healy says about her experience of taking part.

Visible Lives is a research project exploring the lives, experiences and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Ireland who are aged 55 and over.

Read more about Visible Lives.

A major independent evaluation of Bealtaine has been conducted by the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG), National University of Ireland, Galway.

Read more on the Bealtaine evaluation.

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