Saturday 01th February 2025
Location: Butler Gallery
🌱 Imbolg Block Printing with Artist Michelle McMahon and the Brat BrÃde Project at 1-3pm
🎼 WOL Collective Performance at 2pm and 3pm.
FREE Drop-in!
Join us on Saturday 1st February to celebrate the first of Spring, Imbolg and the Celtic goddess Brigid.
Create your own block print with Imbolg themed stamps, female deities and spring biodiversity plants on a piece of fabric to create a Brat BrÃde to take home.
Traditionally, a Brat BrÃde was a piece of cloth, usually red or white, that was left outside the house on Brigid’s Eve to collect dew. The Brat was then believed to have curative powers, particularly against ailments throughout the year, like headaches and earaches.
We will have fabric at the Learning Centre to print on – or you can bring your own piece of cloth, t-shirt or tote bag to up-cycle with Michelle’s Imbolg themed block print stamps.
Please note that capacity at any one time is 8 persons for block-printing.
All ages welcome!
🎼 Accompanying WOL Collective Performance at 2pm and 3pm!
Monica and Dunf from Kilkenny Folk Rock band, WOL Collective, will perform a new song composed for St Brigid’s Day called ‘Brigid Rising’. The song is based on a poem written by Monica Fleming about the spirit of Brigid coming to awaken the natural world from its winter sleep. It is also inspired by the old Irish air, Amhrán na Leabhair. This was then set to an original piece of music composed and played on guitar by Anthony Dunphy(Dunf).
WOL Collective formed two years ago to rework folk songs with an electric psychedelic feel and have played at the Kilkenny Roots Festival and at Yulefest Kilkenny. The members have worked together acoustically for many years, playing traditional Irish music on button accordion, guitar, mandolin, whistles and bodhrán.
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