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2023

Spraoi 2023

Spraoi St. Patricks Day 2023

Spraoi Studios in Waterford are humming. Steel is being sculpted, costumes constructed and welders are sizzling as Spraoi preps. for parades on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a buzz to be back entertaining audiences on Ireland’s national day.

Spraoi plans simultaneous performances in Waterford, Cork and Dublin on March 17th. Behind the scenes Spraoi artists and production staff are fashioning floats, music, sound, visuals and performances aiming to bring magic to Ireland’s streets.

Spraoi is excited to work with its imaginative partners St. Patrick’s Festival, Dublin, Waterford City and County Council, Cork City Council, WAMA and Every Event. We look forward to meeting hundreds of thousands of you nationwide on St. Patrick’s Day.

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Centre Culturel Irlandais
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Spraoi Paris Residency

Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, Ireland’s leading European cultural centre, has just announced its spring artists’ residencies. Spraoi is delighted that street artist Will Flanagan is one of those selected.
Spraoi Parades and Spectacle
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Spraoi Twisted Lane

Twisted Lane

Spraoi MentoringPlus is excited to support creative development programmes being pioneered by Twisted Lane Productions, based in Tullycross, County Galway. Over the coming years Twisted Lane has ambitious plans to create a forest located circus experience. In November 2022 they hosted artists from all over Ireland for a series of creative explorations and Spraoi was delighted to participate. We hope to welcome our Twisted Lane colleagues, Aoife and Mark Carry, to Spraoi Studios early in 2023.
Spraoi Red Hat Volunteers

Red Hat Returns

Spraoi Festival is delighted to welcome Red Hat’s return for 2023. With our partners, Red Hat, Spraoi fosters a spirit of community participation. The festival’s volunteer programme, inspired by Red Hat's own open source community ethos, invites young people to contribute to their city. It also offers them a structured space in which to learn, led by leaders who have come through the ranks themselves. In this environment they gain portable skills such as teamwork and leadership. These are Spraoi’s future leaders as well as being leaders within their workplace and community. Volunteers also strengthen Waterford’s arts infrastructure. They frequently progress to other city organisations, contributing to capacity-building across music, theatre and dance.
Residency in Scotland

Residency in Scotland

2023 Spraoi N.E.S.T. (New Emerging Street Talent) artists have just completed a week-long residency in Scotland. Our picture shows Waterford artist and musician David Duffy presenting to fellow artists from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. Other participating Spraoi sponsored artists were Kesenia Parkhatskaya, Edeain Samuels and Peter Moran. Spraoi Artistic Director Mike Leahy attended and mentored at the sessions. The residency commences this year’s Four Nations partnership between Spraoi Festival and similar UK events. The programme enables artists from all locations to be mentored by their home festival before performing at all participating events. The residency in January was hosted by SURGE Festival, Glasgow. It will also co-present a large-scale spectacle event titled Beautiful Bones at this year’s Spraoi Festival, August 4th, 5th, 6th.

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Mayor Visits Spraoi Studios

Mayor Visits Spraoi Studios

Mayor of Waterford, Councillor John O’Leary, recently visited Spraoi Studios. The Mayor was videoed for a promotional campaign relating to 2023 St. Patrick’s Day festivities. Mayor O’Leary met and chatted
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The Waterford Credit Union parade entry is a giant mobile honeycomb accompanied by a swarm of musical bees.

60th Anniversary Celebration

Waterford Credit Union celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. It plans an array of events marking the occasion, including performances in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parades in Waterford and Tramore.

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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.

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