| Where: | Standedge Tunnel and Visitor Centre, Marsden - starting at the old goods yard. |
| When: | 1st Saturday in February |
| Time: | 7pm |
Imbolc is a pagan festival marking St Brigid’s Day and the end of winter ; this relatively recent event started in the 1990s as a community celebration to embrace the turning of the year. There is a procession, dance performances, stilt walking, lanterns, pyrotechnics and, of course, fire! Jack Frost and the Green Man battle for supremacy in a mummers play symbolising the triumph of spring over winter. All are welcome – the festival is popular with all ages and attracts large crowds.
Helpul Hints
In 2013 the festival will be on Saturday February 2nd.
Click here for the festival’s Facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=28897413498
Photo by Steven Earnshaw.