This May, DDF shares dance that takes a stand, ditches convention and claims its strength. Dance that embraces the lows, celebrates the highs and welcomes our future. This year, dance demands to be heard. It’s time to DANCE OUT LOUD. The Dublin Dance Festival believes in the power of dance to move, connect and inspire change. With so much of Ireland’s culture tied up in language and the past, dance has a unique power to explore and express what it is to be human, right now.

Bealtaine is Ireland’s national festival which celebrates the arts and creativity as we age. The festival is run by Age & Opportunity, the leading national development organisation working to enable the best possible quality of life for us all as we age. This year Age & Opportunity unveils an all-new festival theme, ‘Lust for Life’, which reflects a familiar experience for many older people. To celebrate the theme Bealtaine Festival has commissioned a new essay, ‘Lust of Life’, by writer, former Labour TD and Bealtaine Festival ambassador, Liz McManus, which explores the n

Renowned and award-winning Gardiner Street Gospel Choir and its band collaborate with Mayo Concert Orchestra to bring their new high-energy ‘Spirit & Soul’ concert to The Helix . Combining talents will produce a wonderfully powerful, stirring and resonant sound, and this will be something of a groundbreaking collaboration for the two groups, both of which are acclaimed in their own right. Presenting a mix of wonderfully uplifting, energetic and spirit-filled songs, with the vibrant sounds of orchestral arrangements, will certainly be an amazing treat for the senses – an unmissable