Samhuinn Fire Festival 2023
The Samhuinn Fire Festival marks the changing of the seasons and rise of Winter by bringing ancient Celtic stories alive with a modern and fiery twist.
Samhuinn Fire Parade is an immersive, storytelling experience inspired by the Celtic tales of the turning of the wheel. Witness the epic battle between the Summer and Winter Kings unfold as the Cailleach prepares for transition into winter.
The Samhuinn Fire Festival marks the changing of the seasons and rise of Winter by bringing ancient Celtic stories alive with a modern and fiery twist.
Samhuinn Fire Parade is an immersive, storytelling experience inspired by the Celtic tales of the turning of the wheel. Witness the epic battle between the Summer and Winter Kings unfold as the Cailleach prepares for transition into winter.
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00:00 [Music]
00:04 [Drumming]
00:25 The festival started as a celebration and it was Beltane that was the first festival the community did
00:31 back in the 80s and it was a mixture of bringing back the traditional celebrations of the turning
00:37 of the season. Beltane is the one that brings in the summer, the one that we're going to celebrate
00:41 for Samhain is the section of the wheel that is bringing in the winter. Samhain or Samhain or
00:46 there are various different ways of saying it depending on which culture you're coming from
00:49 is the more traditional and kind of old rooted version of what we now know today as Halloween.
00:55 And this celebration is partially honouring that veil getting thin at this time of year and perhaps
01:01 that it's a time that you think of those that have passed, it is that time where things get a little
01:06 bit maybe a little more spooky but it's also we're as a community collecting together to be ready for
01:11 the winter. So the festival itself is also a celebration of a community who have like,
01:19 it's important that we mark these parts of the year and it's important to us as individuals to
01:25 be ready for the winter and feel like we're prepared as a community. What that looks like
01:29 on the night, well that will look like a procession with the Kaliakris goddess at the head
01:34 and then there will be the summer and winter king. So they actually enact the battle between summer
01:39 and winter and no spoilers but I'm really sorry winter normally wins. And so the two kings are
01:47 the embodiment each year everybody represents that differently but the two kings are an embodiment of
01:52 the summer and the winter and it's those two things going head to head and summer realising
01:58 that it's time to to be done and it's winter's turn to step in.
02:02 [Drumming]
02:05 [Screaming]
02:07 [Cheering]
02:09 [Splashing]
02:11 [Screaming]
02:13 [Screaming]
02:15 [Screaming]
02:17 [Music]
02:19 (upbeat music)