May Day Spectacle (Beltane)
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Wed 30th Apr 2025, 3pm – Thu 1st May 2025, 8am BST (UTC +01:00)
- Dartmoor National Park, United Kingdom
- https://dandelion.events/e/beltane
| Hosted by | Brown Bread Choir |
| Enquiries to | brownbreadchoir@gmail.com |
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#1 BEST BELTANE IN THE BUSINESS
Celebrate our drop-dead-gorgeous Green Earth and the coming of the May.
Create a participatory pageant with us to welcome in the Summer!!
This celebration is for singers, dancers and performers of every level to be part of a 40-strong May Day Spectacle on top of Haytor, Dartmoor.
SING, DANCE and MAKE at this beautiful celebration high up on magnificent Dartmoor.
On May morning, dressed to the nines in elaborate and colourful lo-fi costumes , the spectacle will begin with a procession of flags and animal heads to a hundred twinkling bells, we‘ll trot out a stick-dance high up on the moor, and bawl our choral folksongs out over the good people at Haytor.
Once it’s all over we’ll have a giant vegetable relay race.
The night before… we’ll learn folksongs round the fire (the good ones that are older than time), gallop through the stick dance, EAT, camp overnight (if you’re feeling wild), then wake to the sound of the cuckoo.
WHEN: Wednesday 30th April - Thursday 1st May 2025.
COST: Sliding scale
WHO CAN APPLY: Anyone and Everyone who likes home-made costumes, folksongs, giant cardboard vegetables, and wants to celebrate this gorgeous time of year.
SCHEDULE:
30 April
3pm: Arrive, settle in
5pm: Beltane flag making and costume fitting - (details of what to wear to follow)
6:30pm: Song- practice
7:30pm: Spectacle - Full Rehearsal
8.30pm: Dinner served (bring a bowl)
1 May
4:45am: Wake Up
5:15 AM : the Spectacle begins
8am: Nice warm brekkie !
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