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Samhain is the first of four traditional festivals on the old Irish calendar celebrating the arrival of Winter. Traditionally, Winter is celebrated as the first, not the last season of the Celtic year; the darkness from which all light emerges. This was a philosophy that carried into all areas of our lives.
Every people have enshrined in their culture a special time of year when the gates of perception are flung open and otherworldly spirits walk among the living. As a festival of birth, death and ancestral ceremony, Samhain stands on this threshold between worlds. This is also a time when our ancestral wildness has an opportunity to emerge; A chance to engage with and to celebrate the primordial wildness that dwells inside each of us.
Clonakilty Samhain festival is a traditional community festival that celebrates Irish culture, music, folklore, language and myth. The festival culminates with the Samhain Parade in which hundreds of visual artists, performers, composers and musicians explore the roots of our shared Celtic culture in one of Ireland’s largest collaborative art events.
Samhain is a non-profit, community-driven event. The Geata Arts Samhain Project is a traditional festival revival project that began in Clonakilty in 2016 and has since spread across the island. We are determined to continue cultivating this nationwide revival of our community's indigenous seasonal celebrations.
These donations will be contributed towards the following;
Costs of sound and lighting for the Samhain parade: 2500EUR
Annual costs of Samhain workshop, festival office and traditional festival education facility: 5000EUR
Costs of provisions for stewards, first responders and volunteers: 1000EUR
Van hire and community hall provisions: 500EUR
Below is a selection of links to our work.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh.
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