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Beltane Fire Society

Formed in 1988, Beltane Fire Society is a community arts performance charity that hosts the Beltane Fire Festival and Samhuinn Fire Festival in Edinburgh.

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    Category: Personal Experiences

    Behind The Pictures: Both parties would be moving, me backwards

    This is the fourth of our Behind The Pictures series, where photographers and performers talk about some of their favourite images from last Samhuinn. Today, Neil from… Read more “Behind The Pictures: Both parties would be moving, me backwards”

    October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 by Beltane Fire Society

    Behind The Pictures: Changes and darkness are important parts of life

    This is the third of our Behind The Pictures series, where photographers and performers talk about some of their favourite images from last Samhuinn. Today, Bleu from… Read more “Behind The Pictures: Changes and darkness are important parts of life”

    September 26, 2016 by Beltane Fire Society

    Behind The Pictures: It is more merciful to quickly kill

    This is the second of our Behind The Pictures series, where photographers and performers talk about some of their favourite images from last Samhuinn. Today, Raini from… Read more “Behind The Pictures: It is more merciful to quickly kill”

    September 20, 2016 by Beltane Fire Society

    Words from our Cailleach: Water

    Our Samhuinn 2016 Cailleach, Diana, has been musing on the element of water and would like to share her thoughts with you… As I’ve been imagining myself… Read more “Words from our Cailleach: Water”

    September 18, 2016 by Beltane Fire Society

    Behind The Pictures: Unbridled, rampant joy

    Welcome to our new Behind The Pictures series, where photographers and performers talk about some of their favourite images from last Samhuinn. Today, Martin from Photopoint shares… Read more “Behind The Pictures: Unbridled, rampant joy”

    September 16, 2016 by Beltane Fire Society

    Strangers came closer, danced to our music and stopped being strangers

    I rarely start blog posts here with “I”. My name is Tanya and I’m Online Communications Coordinator for Beltane Fire Society, which is a fancy way of… Read more “Strangers came closer, danced to our music and stopped being strangers”

    May 15, 2016May 15, 2016 by Beltane Fire Society

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