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Spraoi International Street Arts Festival

August 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2025

Ireland’s premiere summer street party returns to Waterford City on August 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2025.

Spraoi International Street Arts Festival transforms Ireland’s Oldest City into a giant stage where artists from around the world perform for free. Add Spraoi Festival 2025 to your diary now, let family and friends know too.

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Spraoi Festival 2025

Spraoi International Street Arts Festival is Ireland’s premiere summer street party. Spraoi offers a fantastic feast of imagination and all performances are  absolutely FREE!

Put Spraoi Festival 2025 dates in your phones and diaries now – August 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The festival attracts audiences of all ages with an exciting programme of street performers, contemporary circus, music, dance, fireworks, and the absolutely unforgettable Spraoi Festival Parade. Performers come from all over Ireland and the world, when Waterford City is a vibrant mix of colour and imaginative experiences, August 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

Spraoi Festival No. 33

This year is Spraoi Festival No. 33. Spraoi began life under the wing of Red Kettle Theatre Company before flying on its own. The name was suggested by Dáithí Kimber. The first festival, Spraoi ’93, featured four attractions: Footsbarn Theatre with Romeo and Juliet, Macnas with Noah’s Ark, Waterford percussion project Africa to Aran, and a series of live music Pavement Sessions. In 1994 Spraoi staged Lighting the Walls, it’s first original spectacle production. Bibelot, a one-float parade, followed in 1995.

Since then thousands of performers have featured at Spraoi, audiences numbering hundreds of thousands have delighted in the magic, and Waterford is established as Ireland’s street performance capital. Thanks to every single person who made and make it happen.

Free Classes and Parade Performance

Spraoi offers free dance and movement classes at Garter Lane Arts Centre Dance Room at 6.30 p.m. on February 21st and 28th plus March 7th & 14th.

If you are between 16 and 100 years of age, we would love you and a friend to join us and then participate with Spraoi in this year’s Waterford St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

If interested in having some fun and meeting new people book your free places on Instagram: @spraoifestival or Mail: kathleen@spraoi.com

Spraoi Festival 2024

This year’s Spraoi Festival was a truly international gathering of artists and arts managers from Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, France, Germany, Egypt, Finland, Portugal, Latvia, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, and U.S.A.

Along with vibrant street performances including Irish premieres we presented the Spraoi Parade world premiere, toe-tapping music, plus seminars and showcases that enabled Irish professionals to exchange ideas and plans with overseas colleagues.

Thanks to all the artists, musicians, parade cast, audiences, tech-crews, volunteers, funders, and sponsors who unleashed joyous mayhem on Waterford’s streets for three days.

Here are scenes from Spraoi International Street Arts Festival 2024.

Between Land and Sea

Spraoi artists are planning an exciting biodiversity themed project inspired by the tidal areas of Dungarvan Bay.

The artists are researching the bay’s rich heritage, it’s biodiversity, and it’s oyster growing tradition.

In the early months of 2025 Spraoi will commence this exciting new project, provisionally titled Between Land and Sea. It will involve community participation, and will be presented during Waterford Festival of Food 2025.

This project is partnered by Creative Ireland, Creative Waterford, and led by CALMAST at SETU.     

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Successful Touring

Spraoi is incredibly proud that three street performance shows developed with Spraoi Studios assistance continue to successfully tour worldwide. Tape That by Hands Down Circus is currently touring in New
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Autism Support Dungarvan

Autism Support Dungarvan has partnered with Creative Waterford to create an exciting contribution to this year’s Dungarvan St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The committee and members of Autism Support Dungarvan is
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St. Patrick’s Day Shows

Design and production has commenced at Spraoi Studios on a series of new shows which the company will present in several Irish cities and towns on St. Patrick’s Day. Following
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Be a Spraoi Spirit! Donate today.

Waterford people built Spraoi as an honest expression of our culture, community and sense of fun.

Your donation will be a powerful statement of your belief in the power of the arts in our city and on our streets.

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Spraoi has the capacity to bring joy into people’s lives and places!

If you think we can assist in reimagining your town or city and bring your creative ideas into reality contact T.V. Honan, Spraoi Director, tv@spraoi.com

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Spraoi Festival has become something of an August Bank Holiday institution. For three days, the city devotes itself to a variety of street art and spectacle, featuring hundreds of performers, live music, and an array of new street theatre – Irish and international.

The Sunday Business Post

Spraoi festival is a free urban festival in beautiful Waterford in the south-east of Ireland. It attracts nearly 100,000 people and the city streets act as a stage for acts from around the world”

The Guardian

Over three days the city is host to a plethora of street theatre entertainment, both local and from overseas, serving up what must be the best value and one of the most inclusive festivals on the circuit, with the entertainment being free and open to all.

Cathy