Celtic Calling Gathering 2022 Schedule

Celtic Calling is now accepting submissions of original Celtic-themed plays, vignettes, or one-acts, not to exceed thirty minutes, to be performed during the weekend of the Sixth Celtic Calling, March 4-6, 2022, at a location to be determined.

The deadline for submission is December 31, 2021, and the winning submission will be announced approximately January 15, 2022. A $100 stipend will be provided to the writer(s) of the winning entry.

1. All proposals and scripts must be typewritten and emailed to TipJarTheatre@gmail.com by December 31, 2018, at 11:59pm. PDFs preferred. Your subject line should be the title of your play. 

2. Multiple submissions are permitted, as are collaborations between writers.

3. The submission must be original, and the entrant must have the rights of performance and broadcast prior to submission. Celtic Calling will be granted exclusive rights of performance within a 250 mile radius of Charleston, WV, from the time of contest close through March 31, 2022. Celtic Calling will be granted the right to stream the performance of the winning submissions, all or in part.

4. The play should not exceed thirty minutes. 

5. The play must have at least two characters with speaking roles.

6. Celtic Calling may charge for tickets to the performance, which will go to offset the costs of production of the play(s) and/or festival. 

7. The submission must have a ‘Celtic’ theme, which is solely up to the interpretation of the reading committee.

8. The play(s) will be selected by a committee, whose decisions are final, including the decision not to decide, should the entries not meet the requirements or other standards. .

HIGHLIGHTS - The foundation we build on and add to every year.

Celtic Calling started in 2016. The 2021 Gathering was cancelled .

FOOTMAD Centerpiece Traditional Music Concerts have featured  Irish and Scottish Groups, Daimh, Teada, Skippers Alley,  Heron's Valley and The Jeremiahs.

Mountain Stage has featured Seamus Egan Quartet and   

The Jeremiah's.

Local and Regional Music Artists: Father Son and Friends, Bastard Bearded Irishmen, Mountain Thyme, Tim and Maggie, Pepper Fandango, Company Stores, Contrarians, Jenny Allinder and Jim Mullins, Patrick O'Flaherty, Beni Kedem Highlanders Pipe Band, Dina Hornbaker, Beeswing, Plaid Clash, Appalachian Celtic Consort, John Doyle, Wild Ones, Kanawha Valley Pipes and Drums, Modock Rounders, The Charleston Rogues, Wild Ones, Almost Heaven Dulcimer Group, Sarah an Joe Marchio, George Daugherty, Poor Mans Gambit

Films: The Commitments, Brown Willy, Song of Granite, The Camino Voyage, Bait

Heritage and Cultural Programs – Travelogues to Orkney Isles, Irleland, Galicia, Irish Fairy Folk Lore, The Campbells of Canna, Dr Mick Moloney connecting Appalachia,  

Spinning/ Weaving and Sheep Display, 

Highland Cows, Clydesdale

 Irish and Scottish Dance Performance and Workshops

  Tall Tales Storytelling       

Kirkin of the Tartans 

 Music Sessions - 5K Kilt Run/Walk Playwright Competition - Theater,  Fire Artists - Family Cycle, National Guard Rockwall Hymnsing - Cooking  Workshop  Guinness Cooking Competition

Calling all Gardeners !
Plant a winter garden now to enter your produce a new event - The Flower and Veg Show
Categories :
- Largest Leek
- Best 6 Leeks
- Largest Cabbage
- Best 6 Daffodils
- Garden Picked Flower Arrangement
- Best Shortbread
- Best Soda Bread

Venue, Prizes, Judges TBA in New Year.

Leeks and Daffodils are the National vegetable and flower of Wales.

If you are an individual, music or dance group, business or orginization, clan or crafter, that would like to help sponsor,  put on, help at or be involved in an event in 2022, please contact: celticcallingwv@gmail.com

Thank you to our sponsors and business partners for  supporting the Festival in 2020. Special thanks to, Beattie-Firth Inc , Guinness, McKinley Carter Wealth Services, WV Demolition,  Meyer, Ford & Glasser, PLLC, Pat Knows Ireland, Charleston Main Street, Taylor Books and The City of Charleston.

Thank you to those who host, help put on and promote events during the weekend, Charleston Convention and Visitor Bureau, Kanawha County Main Library, Friends of Old Time Music and Dance -FOOTMAD, Charleston Area Alliance, WTSQ 881.1FM, Kanawha United Presbyterian, Adelphia Sports Bar, Rock City Cake Company, Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF, Charleston parkrun, Uncork and Create, WV Irish Road Bowling, Boulevard Tavern and The Empty Glass.

Thank you to our presenters, performers musicians and dancers.

Thank you to the Volunteers who organize and help run Events.

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