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Samhuinn Fire Festival 2025: Face the Dark, Find Community

As the nights grow long and the veil thins, Edinburgh gathers to mark the turning of the seasons with Samhuinn Fire Festival. Join us on Friday 31st October as fire, music, and myth usher in the changing of the seasons, and celebrate the beginning of winter.

Samhuinn reimagines ancient Celtic traditions through modern performance, telling of the struggle between Summer and Winter, light and dark. On Calton Hill, you’ll find drummers, acrobats, performers, and a cavalcade of mysterious characters amidst the transformative fires of Samhuinn.

This year, the festival looks to radical connection: the strength we find in each other, the wisdom of perspective, and the courage to face our shadows.

At the heart stands the Cailleach, the divine Crone, who asks:

Have you lived with care and courage? Have you supported your community, and looked with nuance?

Guided by the Cailleach, we’ll walk beside Her deer through the shifting seasons, and witness the Summer and Winter Court as they battle in the turning of the wheel.

Step into the dark this Samhuinn, and find strength in fire, story, and community.