Spraoi

2021

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FAOIN SPÉIR IN THE OPEN

July 2021

Spraoi and Waterford City and County Council have been selected to receive In The Open – Faoin Spéir funding from The Arts Council.

With creative partners Garter Lane Arts Centre and WLR FM, Spraoi will install an over-street fabric-based sculptural artwork above Michael Street and the Apple Market, accompanied by online soundtracks.

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City Spraoi

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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Greenway Spraoi

Greenway Spraoi presents an ensemble of top street artists at five sites along Waterford’s acclaimed Greenway: Clonea Cross, Durrow Station, Kilmacthomas. Kilotteran and Carriganore; August 12th to 15th.
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Prism Spraoi

Spraoi’s original production this year is Prism, a large-scale art installation structure and temporary performance space. It will be erected at Waterford Courthouse. The attraction is designed and built at Spraoi Studios.

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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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Volunteering Spraoi  

We need YOU, your abilities and commitment to community. It will be fun and you’ll be pioneering performances on Waterford Greenway which take place at Clonea Cross, Durrow Station, Kilmacthomas,
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Spraoi N.E.S.T. Artists 2021

The Baubo company has been selected as this year’s N.E.S.T. artists. Their residency at Spraoi Studios will further develop Baubo’s concept for a chaotic troupe of not quite human troubadours
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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