Festival of Brigit Dublin: Spirit of Brigit in the Earth, Air, Fire, Water.
Saturday February 3rd – 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Kilnamanagh Recreation Centre, Treepark Rd, Kilnamanagh, Dublin 24
In the Irish calendar, February marks the beginning of Spring, the festival of Imbolc or Lá Féile Bhríde. This year our festival is inspired by the Weaver’s version of Brigit’s cross. Weavers are those who nurture and spin the fragile threads of community. The points of the cross represent the four elements corresponding to the four directions: Earth/North; Air/East; Fire/South; Water/West. Throughout our festival we will be focussing on those themes, discerning how community weavers can best protect those crucial supports to all life on earth by preventing waste and encouraging sustainability in all our daily practices.
We invited children of schoolgoing age to come to this event (in the company of responsible adults), along with women and men — homemakers, craftworkers, students, healers, storytellers, community activists, poets, therapists, musicians, artists, writers, theologians, folklorists, and dancers. We drae on Brigit’s wise traditions, using sound, music, movement, and ritual, to spin new stories, images, and poems, and imagine a different future for all earth’s children.
Resource Persons
Nóirín Ní Riain, musician, singer, theologian, author:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B3ir%C3%ADn_N%C3%AD_Riain
Mary Condren, director of Woman Spirit Ireland and author of The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland. https://tcd.academia.edu/MaryCondren;
Ruth Marshall, storyteller, craftswoman, folklorist; https://ruthmarshallarts.weebly.com
Nellie Curtin: Psychotherapist and member of LSA.
Admission €20 | Concession €15 | Kids Free Admission
Jointly sponsored by Woman Spirt Ireland and Kilnamanagh Family Recreation Centre.