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SPRAOI FOR CARLOW ARTS FESTIVAL 2021

APR 2021

Waterford Spraoi returns to Waterford Courthouse, for all the right reasons, this coming August.

We are delighted to announce that facilitated by the Courts Service Spraoi will perform the world premiere of Prism on the grounds of this historic urban landmark.

The planned event echoes good memories of a previous 2008 Spraoi performance of Hydromania at Waterford Courthouse. Prism is being created at Spraoi Studios and will raise hearts, minds, and spirits thanks to a community-centered Courts Service partnership.

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Performance artists will energise Spraoi 2021. In rehearsal rooms nationwide Waterford is circled on wall planners. By August artists’ movement, shape, style, and swagger will connect with you, our audience, our Spraoi Spirits.
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Spraoi and home place are interwoven. This August we explore Waterford as never before on a magical creative mystery tour across the city and county. Right now spots are being chosen, discarded, added, and mapped – an old-school Spraoi vibe of re-inventing everything every day.
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The Spraoi 2021 summer season of performances and events will be presented guided by Government and relevant agencies’ recommendations and directions. Our planning incorporates a range of potential contingencies pertaining in August.

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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.

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 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