Announcing our brand new community space - Meitheal

Dear friends,

We are so excited (ár bís!) to host such an extraordinary line-up of trailblazing guides to our second spiral of Scoil Scairte - Kathy Scott (Host, Creative Director of The Trailblazery), Manchán Magan (Writer, Presenter, Bee Keeper, Documentary-Maker), Mairéad Ní Chonghaile (Presenter, Actor, Múinteoir), Liam Ó Maonlaí (Musician, Singer), Ceara Conway (Performer, Visual Artist and Singer), Diarmuid Lyng (Hurler, Campaigner, Wild Irish Retreats), Bayo Akomolafe (Poet, Philosopher, Professor, Writer and Activist), Clare Sands (Singer, Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer), Seán Ó Tarpaigh (Psychotherapist, Actor), Rising Appalachia (Musicians, Songwriters), Fearghus Ó Conchúir (Choreographer, Dance Artist and Artistic Director), Iarla Ó Lionáird (Singer, Producer), Carmel Winters (Playwright, Filmmaker) and Timmy Creed (actor, writer, theatre-maker).  

There has been a huge response since opening the doors and we look forward to welcoming you from all around the world. 

We’re also thrilled to announce our brand new community membership space - Meitheal, which will be a meeting place, an assembly, for our tuatha, our Scoil Scairte family. Here you can find and connect with participants in your spiral, as well as past and future ones, to build meaningful relationships with like-minded souls during the series and beyond.

In the Irish tradition, a meitheal involves a community of friends and neighbours coming together to help each other out with sowing and harvesting.
Our Meitheal will be a cultural crossroads. Like magpies, we will be gathering a range of resources for you to explore in the form of articles, videos, music, podcasts, stories and much much more.

This will also be a place where you can practice the Irish language with each other in the form of learning circles. We will be hosting beginners and intermediate practice circles every week for the duration of Scoil Scairte Spiral 2, and look out for special pop-up events.

Enjoy this video of two of our guides, Liam Ó Maonlaí and Clare Sands, who are joining us for the upcoming spiral.

Bí in éineacht linn, Join us.
 

Le buíochas agus beannachtaí,

Kathy, Manchán and all at The Trailblazery.