{"id":39672,"date":"2026-01-20T03:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/weaving-words-and-pictures-a-creative-celebration-on-st-brigids-eve\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:02:05","slug":"weaving-words-and-pictures-a-creative-celebration-on-st-brigids-eve","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/weaving-words-and-pictures-a-creative-celebration-on-st-brigids-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving Words and Pictures \u2013 a creative celebration on St Brigid\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A year after launching the community arts project <\/span><em><span>Bringing St. Brigid\u2019s Cloak to Life<\/span><\/em><span>, we are pleased to announce that the Cloak will become part of the County Museum\u2019s permanent collection. The Cloak will formally go on display this St. Brigid\u2019s Eve, Saturday, 31st January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Creative arts facilitators, Morag Donald and Bee Smith, who jointly led the Brigid\u2019s Cloak project, will be holding arts and poetry workshops to celebrate St. Brigid\u2019s Eve this 31st January 2026. Morag Donald will lead a needle felting workshop where participants will create a Brigid symbol like ones on the Brigid\u2019s Cloak on display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Writer and poet Bee Smith will lead a Brigid themed poetry workshop and facilitate printing a symbol on fabric for you to hang as a Brat Br\u00edd that evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Photo: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliecorcoranphotography.ie\/\"><span>Julie Corcoran <\/span><\/a><span>&#8211; Cloak models are creative facilitators Morag Donald and Bee Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanlibrary.ie\/services\/national-initiatives\/creative-cavan\/creative-cavan-archive\/creative-cavan-2025\/bringing%20st%20brigid&amp;apos;s%20cloak%20to%20life\/\"><em><span>Bringing St. Brigid\u2019s Cloak to Life<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> was funded through Creative Ireland as part of Creative Cavan 2025.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":39673,"template":"","class_list":["post-39672","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weaving Words and Pictures \u2013 a creative celebration on St Brigid\u2019s Eve - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A year after launching the community arts project Bringing St.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/weaving-words-and-pictures-a-creative-celebration-on-st-brigids-eve\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weaving Words and Pictures \u2013 a creative celebration on St Brigid\u2019s Eve - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A year after launching the community arts project Bringing St. Brigid\u2019s Cloak to Life, we are pleased to announce that the Cloak will become part of the County Museum\u2019s permanent collection. 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