Festival

Our annual arts festival for children and families, that will thrill, engage, excite, create cultural experiences and facilitate learning for young people aged 0-12yrs. In our Centre, in our schools,  outdoors, there will be fun, magic and mayhem...

IN OUR THEATRE

STRONGWOMEN SCIENCE | Sat 09 Oct | 11.30am & 2.30pm | €8 | Age: 5+

Oldbridge Walled Garden
Sunday 26th September 11am-4pm

Join us for a Boyne Valley Food Series event
in partnership with OPW & Oldbridge House
with Drogheda Brass Band 2pm to 4pm

Featuring lots of local food and drink producers along with a whole host of food trucks and stalls, we guarantee you a delicious afternoon!

All welcome. Free of Charge

Circus Gerbola Presents A Celtic Voyage Live at Slane

Friday 08 – Sunday 17 October 2021 Tickets on sale now!

According to legend, Samhain, the ancient Celtic Festival that we now call Halloween, originated here in Co. Meath in the Boyne Valley. Samhain was said to mark the harvest and a time of transition, with feasting and celebration as the long winter nights approached.

The sixteenth edition of Culture Night will take place on Friday 17 September 2021.

Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is brought to you by the Arts Council; it is a national moment, celebrating all that makes up the richness and diversity of culture in Ireland today, connecting people to cultural activities locally and nationally and aims to open up pathways to ongoing engagement. See below for Boyne Valley events in Meath. For south Louth events click here.

The sixteenth edition of Culture Night will take place on Friday 17 September 2021.

Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is brought to you by the Arts Council; it is a national moment, celebrating all that makes up the richness and diversity of culture in Ireland today, connecting people to cultural activities locally and nationally and aims to open up pathways to ongoing engagement. See below for Boyne Valley events in south Louth. For Meath events click here.

We are delighted to share the news that the Púca Festival is back at the end of October! The 2021 event is set to take place 23 – 31 October.

The heart of the Festival remains Halloween weekend when audiences can enjoy a fantastic programme of music, fire, mischief and spectacle across our hub towns of Trim, Drogheda, Slane and Athboy. Come and join us in one of the locations where the origins of Halloween were formed, at Samhain (Irish for ‘summers end’) to return to mischief making!

HINTERLAND 2021 - WE'RE BACK !

Featuring:  

• Two big tents on the lawn of a former secondary school.
• A retired assassin.
• The music of David Bowie,
• The latest adventures of Ross O'Carroll Kelly.
• How to write a detective novel.

National Heritage Week, an initiative by the Heritage Council, celebrates all things heritage. It brings together communities, families, organisations, cultural institutions, academics and enthusiasts, to build awareness about the value of heritage and support its conservation.

Some amazing projects are being undertaken this year when National Heritage week runs from 14th to 22nd August. 

Details of Meath projects can be found here. Highlights include:

A day of free creativity for children and young people on Saturday, 12th June, 2021

Cruinniú na nÓg is Ireland’s national day of free creative activity for children and young people up to 18 years of age.

Over the past 3 years it has become a key date in Ireland’s cultural calendar, providing opportunities for Ireland’s 1.2 million children and young people, to be inquisitive and curious, to be inventive and innovative, and to fulfil a creative ambition or showcase an inner creative talent. In 2021, Cruinniú na nÓg will take place on Saturday 12th June.