August 2nd, 3rd, 4th 2024
Spraoi
Spraoi Productions
Spraoi is best known for its annual Spraoi International Street Arts Festival. Spraoi is also active throughout each year as a producer of high-quality spectacle events. The company is regularly commissioned to create spectacle attractions for festivals and events throughout Ireland. During 2023 Spraoi productions were seen by large audiences in Clonmel, Cork, Dublin, Longford, and Waterford. Spraoi works successfully with arts organisations, local authorities, and private sector companies to create memorable creative experiences for audiences of all ages.
For information and enquiries, please call: 051-841808
Spraoi artists are planning a trip to the seaside.
Dungarvan Bay is our team’s destination during this year’s West Waterford Food Festival.
The artists are researching the bay’s rich heritage, it’s biodiversity, and it’s oyster growing tradition. Spraoi is exploring a new project, provisionally titled Between Land and Sea. It will unfold over the next twelve months, will involve community participation, and will be presented during West Waterford Food Festival 2025.
This project is partnered by Creative Ireland, Creative Waterford, and led by CALMAST at SETU.
Ireland’s premiere summer street spectacle event The Spraoi Parade takes place at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday August 4th, 2024. Join thousands of spectators as spectacular floats, hundreds of costumed performers, live musicians, light, sound, and special effects weave through Waterford’s medieval streets at night. The parade is a magical imaginative feast of the senses that climaxes the annual festival. A spectacular finale of fireworks launched from the River Suir at the quays follows the parade.
The theme of this year’s parade will be announced in June. For now put this free spectacle in your phone. The Spraoi Parade is a must-see summer event in Ireland.
For three days each summer Waterford hosts a spectacular summer street party, Spraoi International Street Arts Festival. This year’s Spraoi Festival unfolds over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
All entertainment is free. There are performances every afternoon and evening. Around every city centre corner audiences will experience contemporary circus, daring spectacle, music, dance, sights and sounds of summer carnival.
Waterford’s medieval streets and squares create fantastic atmospheric settings as audiences of all ages soak up energy radiated by performers from around the world.
Spraoi extends a warm Waterford welcome to you!!!
Led by Artistic Director Mike Leahy, Spraoi’s creative team devised and realised a vibrant new Samhain Procession which was performed in Waterford’s city centre on October 27th. Titled Scáthanna the production originated with themes inspired by the seven deadly sins, and it evolved to embrace Celtic Samhain tales and traditions. A talented community of performers assembled to present Scáthanna to an enthusiastic, if somewhat damp, audience of all ages. The procession led performers and audience to Waterford’s Mall where fire, light, dance and stunning music by Rob O’Connor combined to create a fantastically atmospheric finale. The procession and a programme of companion events were produced by Waterford City and County Council and co-ordinated by Arts Officer Conor Nolan. The event was supported by Failte Ireland, with national facilitators Milestone Inventive.
Spraoi International Street Arts Festival is recruiting volunteers now! We are looking for people over sixteen years of age from all backgrounds. Volunteering is an amazing way to experience Spraoi Festival from the inside. You will learn, have fun, and help to create an amazing festival. We will meet you, a fantastic new member of the Spraoi family. Please reach-out to us today. Contact: vicky@spraoi.com or 051-841808 (Office Hours). Plus see us on Instagram and Facebook.
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Southern Regional Assembly partners the 2023 edition of Street Talk at Spraoi International Street Arts Festival. Street Talk is a seminar featuring topics of common interest for Irish and European street arts practitioners. In addition to being a major public event, Spraoi International Street Arts Festival showcases Irish artists to international festivals.
Spraoi has the capacity to bring joy into people’s lives and places!
If you think we can assist in reimagining your town or city and bring your creative ideas into reality contact T.V. 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.
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”
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.