May Day Spectacle (Beltane)
| Apr 30 |
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 |
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< 10 people
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| 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 and 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 May Day Spectacle on top of Dartmoor! Open to Anyone and Everyone who likes home-made costumes, folksongs, giant cardboard vegetables, and wants to celebrate this gorgeous time of year.
SING, DANCE and MAKE at this beautiful celebration!!
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
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, PARTY and camp somewhere if your feeling wild, then wake to the sound of the cuckoo.
WHEN: Wednesday 30th April - Thursday 1st May 2025
SCHEDULE:
Wednesday 30 April
WHERE: 5.30pm meet at School Farm, Dartington for a dress rehearsal P A R T Y
Come head to toe wearing ONE bright colour that represents s u m m e r (this will be your base layer for the spectacle the next morn)
5.30 - 6.30: You will be dressed up even more - headdress - bells - foliage
6.30- 7.30: Learn songs and movements to welcome Summer in!
7:30pm: Spectacle - Full Rehearsal
8.30pm: FEASTING - celebrate our collective work and the last eve before summer with a wholesome risotto, bring a bowl and side-dish for the table if you want!!
Lets relish this turning point in the year with some P A R T Y energy - bring your drinks - instruments and sing yourself silly round fire!
10.30pm: EVERYONE OFF TO BED
Thursday 1 May
Wake Up, costumes on and head for the hills
4.45am: Meet at secret location on Dartmoor (pin to be shared - please be on time so we can make a beautiful procession happen together)
finishing adornments - lighting of candles - begin procession from car park to spectacle location
5:00 AM : The sun rises and the Spectacle begins!!
6.00 AM Nice warm brekkie together ! Clean up ! BYE BYE
Off we trot ready to start the summer
Sink Your Feet in Happy Dew
Fresh leaves are sweet but SO ARE YOU
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