Arts Council Policy Launch
The Arts Council has launched its first Street Performance and Spectacle policy and strategy implementation plan. The document charts a roadmap for these exciting art forms for the coming years.
Would Someone Please Think of The Audiences?
Audiences are the lifeblood of performing arts. Unlike some art forms, live audiences influence and impact art making performances. Research for The Arts Council of Ireland indicates that street arts, circus, and spectacle consistently attract large audiences. They also engage audiences who may not otherwise access the arts. ISACS, in collaboration with Spraoi, introduces a
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Samhain In Waterford
Waterford, Ireland’s oldest city, offers a host of Samhain (Halloween) attractions over October 25th, 26th and 27th Bank Holiday Weekend, presented by Waterford City and County Council in association with
People Have The Power at Spraoi Studios
Mixed Abilities Movement Workshop - Spraoi Studios at Spraoi Festival Waterford Sports Partnership & Active Cities Waterford recently partnered with Spraoi Festival to present a mixed abilities movement session at
Spraoi N.E.S.T Artists’ Call-Out
Spraoi is seeking artists with new work in development. We favour proposals where development groundwork has already commenced and artists require support to advance their ideas and projects to performance-mode. Three artists will be aided; this may be a trio or three individual artists or a two-piece act and a solo artist.
Art, Ideas and You in Paris
Spraoi is offering an Irish street artist a residency by the Seine You can be the artist selected for a one-month street arts residence in Paris in this year. Imagine
FAOIN SPÉIR IN THE OPEN
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
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
A Summer Spraoi
Spraoi Season 2021 returns in August. City Spraoi, Greenway Spraoi, Prism Spraoi and Volunteering Spraoi celebrate Waterford’s sense of fun and community spirit. Of course it’s not exactly ‘the’ Spraoi
Shout-Out! – Spraoi Artists’ Residency
Spraoi is buzzing - applications are open for N.E.S.T. 2021. Artists with part-developed ideas for character inspired street performances are encouraged to apply. Spraoi R&D assets will assist artists to
Spraoi N.E.S.T. Artist Awarded Bursary
Spraoi is delighted Laois street artist Maria Corcoran has been awarded an Arts Council bursary. It maintains professional progression for an artist who remained active last year despite COVID-19 challenges.
Three South-East Towns in December!
Waterford Spraoi toured ten Irish street artists to three south-east towns in December. It was one of the few performance tours by and Irish arts company 2020. The ensemble visited
Joan Català – Pelat
Pelat is silence, expectation, movement, tension, poetry and balance (more…)