If you were in the Old Town in the early afternoon of Saturday 21st June, it would’ve been pretty difficult to miss the loud and proud Pride… Read more “Beltaners at Pride Scotia 2014”
Category: In Pictures
No fire, just rainbows and paint
Beltane 2014 Torchbearers and friends will be marching at Pride Scotia 2014 on Saturday 21st June. To prepare for the event, they gathered at St Margaret’s House… Read more “No fire, just rainbows and paint”
Articles from the archives
Dillon MacEwan—fire arch builder, puppet creator and coordinator of Earth Point in the mid-1990s—shared some fabulous newspaper articles from 1996. Here are two blasts from our shared… Read more “Articles from the archives”
Drummers keep drumming
Jason from the Processional Drummers shared some photos and a few words about what the drummers are getting up to post-Beltane… The festivals organised by BFS have… Read more “Drummers keep drumming”
The Watchers of the Sacred Fire are collecting fuel for the Beltane bonfire
Our bonfire is lit every year by the May Queen, at roughly midnight, when May Day begins at the start of summer. In Celtic times, livestock was… Read more “The Watchers of the Sacred Fire are collecting fuel for the Beltane bonfire”
Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd
An update from Tanya, GO of Torchbearers about recent rehearsal The thing with rehearsing in public places is that you suddenly become very interesting. You become a… Read more “Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd”
Beltane Fire Society 