The Beltane Fire Society is a charity run by a board of volunteers, who oversee the year-round operation of the organisation responsible for the
Beltane Fire Festival
Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual, held on 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Historical background
The modern Beltane Fire Festival is inspired by the ancient Gaelic festival of Beltane which began on th ...
. The society is funded entirely by donations through its membership, from Beltane Fire Festival ticket sales, and from merchandising. It receives no donations from any public funds.
The Beltane Fire Society organises the Beltane Fire Festival on
Calton Hill and the
Samhuinn Fire Festival on the
Royal Mile
The Royal Mile () is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The term was first used descriptively in W. M. Gilbert's ''Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century'' (1901), des ...
, both in
Edinburgh,
Scotland. The society was formed in 1988 for the second Beltane Fire Festival (the first on Calton Hill). The Beltane Fire Society also organises events for the other
Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
cross-quarter day
The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them. While names for each festival vary among dive ...
s, i.e.,
Imbolc and
Lughnasadh and
Samhuinn.
Gallery
File:Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival 2012 - National Monument.JPG, The Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival
Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual, held on 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Historical background
The modern Beltane Fire Festival is inspired by the ancient Gaelic festival of Beltane which began on th ...
in front of the National Monument of Scotland
File:Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival 2012 - Procession.JPG, The May Queen leads the procession
File:Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival 2012 - Red Beastie Drummers.JPG, The Red Beastie Drummers
File:Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival 2012 - Bonfire.JPG, A Bonfire lit to welcome the Beltane morning on Calton Hill
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