Arts
The first of a four-part series featuring interviews, stories, poems and songs from members of the Beltane Fire Society (BFS). Beltane Fire Festival, held annually at the end of April, celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of summer. Normally this involves a huge event on Edinburgh's Calton Hill with hundreds of performers and thousands of spectators. Such an event is not possible under the current Covid-19 restrictions and so members of BFS are involved in online or socially distanced activities to help celebrate in whatever way possible. Over the next four episodes, Stage Blether is hosting members of BFS as they recount their experiences of the festival. This episode features a poem describing Beltane Fire Festival, a conversation between three of its volunteer organisers and a song written in Gaelic in honour of two of its members.