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2021

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Spraoi For Carlow Arts Festival 2021

ARP 2021

Spraoi is delighted to announce we are returning to work with colleagues and friends at Carlow Arts Festival in June this year.

Spraoi Artistic Director Mike Leahy and CAF’s Jo Mangan have safe and cunning plans for Spraoi to transform Tullow Street. The festival also has exciting ideas for the vast former Braun factory which will host a multi-media filmed event titled Woman in the Machine, which Spraoi will participate in.

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We would like to thank all the acts who have worked so hard in assisting us plan and develop this years programme. They too are frustrated that our plans to entertain you could not be fulfilled.
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SpraoiTime2020 still hopes to create a series of street instillations in city centre locations that we hope will bring some colour and joy as you shop, dine and enjoy the streets of Irelands oldest city.
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Due to COVID-19 restrictions, it is not possible for Spraoi to bring you the magic of the parade, the spectacle of the fireworks and variety of international street and music acts that you have supported over many years.

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COVID-19 has not been kind to grandparents, parents, children, schools, businesses or communities. Neither has it been kind to artists, technicians nor Spraoi. In fact, we’ve never needed each other more. Waterford people built Spraoi as an honest expression of our culture, community and sense of fun.

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Red Hat Volunteering Programme

Spraoi and Red Hat are delighted to announce volunteering will return this year. Spraoi Festival will have a new look at an array of novel venues. At the heart of
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Production services

Even in these uncertain times, Spraoi maintains a capacity to bring joy into peoples lives.

If you think we can assist in bringing your creative ideas into reality contact TV 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