Dear friends,
The Samhuinn Open Meeting will take place on Saturday August 30th at Nicholson Square Methodist Church, Doors open from 12.30 with the meeting starting at 2pm sharp. There will be a session for first-time attendees from 1.15pm to welcome them to the Society and give them a little context to what we do.
Coming soon to a Hill near you…
As the dust settles from a very successful GO Training Weekend at Kings Buildings, and with a long wait until the open meeting on the 30th August, we find ourselves completely unable to contain our excitement about these first glimpses of the coming festival.
As such, we’ve decided to share these little snippets of what we’ve seen taking shape….
Open Groups
Reds invite you to get in touch with your wild side
Photopoint hope to lean into into some creative and playful shoots
Suail will sing, sound and move with the sea
A’bruadar will host a fiery, transformational, dream-space on the hill
Stewards will be dipping a toe into performance…or was that a hoof?
Bog Point will be celebrating all things muddy, magical and monstrous
Tech will be building, lighting and making us safe
Obsidian will erupt onto Calton Hill with fire and acro
We will witness The Dance of the Falling Light
Remoria will curate a space for members and witnesses to remember
Please note that we would still love to hear from you if you have an interest in helping to organise Tech and Torchies.
Closed Groups
The Heralds of Winter will drum in the new season in style
Projects
The festival will be supported by members hosting a variety of Projects taking place in the runup or on the night:
Sarah Barr and Charlie Farley will welcome us home at Bat Hearth
The Fabric Sharing project will run the popular stash-swap sessions
Ann Russell invites community members to help co-create an art installation
Hannah Smith will continue the Kindling series to help people get comfortable with fire
Kaelin Furnish and Violette Rose’s band Runach will play on the Hill
Mary Roche offers support to groups with Consent training
Ann Landmann will host cloak-making workshops
Lindsey Bell invites you to a Grove Gathering or two
C’tri and Caity Oddy will be offering Radio Training to interested members or groups
Yours in anticipation…
Your Board and Blues
Beltane Fire Society 
Hi – is this open meeting for people who want to volunteer to help out for the first time? Sounds like you maybe need to be a member of the Beltane Society?
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its open to all – people who take part become members!
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