Bealtaine Festival in Tipperary - Age and Opportunity - and the fun of making a bun!

Bealtaine in Burncourt

Bealtaine Festival is an initiative by Age & Opportunity, funded by The Arts Council and the HSE.

Bealtaine is a pioneering national arts festival that fosters creativity among older people across Ireland through intergenerational collaboration, showcasing older artists, and promoting skills and experiences that can lead to a rich, creative life.

In Burncourt, you are invited to join in this project of social sharing and creativity through baking and painting this May at Burncourt Community Hall. The project is being facilitated by Bernadette Doverman and Aisling Fitzgerald.

The project is entitled “Buns and Brushes”. Nowadays, the craft and tradition of Baking can get lost in our fast-moving world.
Wednesday, May 15 - 10am-12pm - Recipe Sharing Morning.

Participants will gather over a cup of tea / coffee to chat about recipes and baking bringing a baked good and their recipes, whether in a tattered cookbook, scraps of paper, inside of book covers, from magazines and newspapers and all those written on the back of envelopes or indeed with a need to be written down.

Friday, May 24 - 10am-12pm - Watercolour illustration workshop. No experience necessary, all are asked to bring their baking books and artist led will paint utensils and cakes from them.

Wednesday, May 29- 10am-12pm - Baking Classroom and Tea Party. All will bring their apron and be paired with a pupil from 5th & 6th classes, (maybe your own grandchild) to teach them at the hall in a baking classroom - scones, queen cakes and soda bread.

As numbers are by necessity limited, bookings must be made in advance. Phone 0876967661.