Tipperary will celebrate Bealtaine with a record number of 150 events supporting creativity in older age this May.
Lust for Life is the theme for Bealtaine 2025
Each year in the month of May, Bealtaine is presented as an annual nationwide festival celebrating the arts and creativity as we age. Tipperary County Council Arts Office and Tipperary Library Service have once again worked together to deliver an extensive and varied programme of events and activities right across the county. The vast majority of events are provided free of charge.
Speaking about the 2025 Tipperary Bealtaine programme, Tipperary County Council Cathaoirleach, Cllr Declan Burgess said: “Tipperary County Council is proud of its long association with Age & Opportunity in presenting an all-county, creative and accessible Bealtaine programme curated by our Arts and Library Services with opportunities to discover, celebrate and enjoy our creativity at all stages of life”.
Tipperary Arts Office, with support from the Arts Council, puts out a call each year to professional artists to propose projects or events targeted at older people. In 2025, these events include a range of performances, open mic events and even a mini festival, as well as longer-term engagement projects based in community and care settings, each of which will culminate in a showcase during the month of May.
A new focus of the Arts Office in 2025 is the wider programming in care settings with performances and workshops being delivered in 12 centres. The much-loved Music on Tour programme will see 10 professional musicians performing in hospitals, day care centres and nursing homes. A new programme strand – the Memory Box supported by the Tipperary Museum of Hidden History - will travel to five day care locations and a new one-woman Poetry Play will be performed in two day care centres in association with Festival in a Van.