SPRAOI PRODUCTIONS & SERVICES
The Spraoi organisation produces work throughout the year. Spraoi provides acts, services, and spectacles for events and festivals throughout Ireland.
Services available include:
- Parade design and construction.
- Special event planning.
- Festival programme planning and act management.
- Float and costume hire.
- Theatrical set design and construction.
Events
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- ‘Awakening’ Spraoi staged the opening event for Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture.
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- ‘Tosca’ Spraoi designed and created dramatic outdoor settings and costume for the opera.
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- ‘Speaking Stones’ Spraoi created a dramatic visual and musical celebration of the historic Reginald’s Tower.
Shows
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- ‘Spraoi Parade’ creatures seem lifelike in the annual Spraoi Parade creating real experiences for real communities.
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- ‘Stones & Bones’, in association with Fadó, Spraoi created an alternative historic city tour for Halloween.
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- ‘Late Late Show’ Spraoi produced a special medieval pageant for R.T.E.’s the Late Late Show Toy Show.
Community
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- ‘Me In The Park’ Almost 2,000 young people and their parents created paintings at ‘Spraoi In The Park’
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- ‘Fitzgibbon Cup’ Spraoi designed and created a temporary Sculpture celebrating the All Ireland Third Level Colleges Hurling finals.
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- Junior Drummers’ Spraoi’s Junior Drummer programme has now introduced hundreds of young people to playing drums.
“Spraoi’s work includes the dramatic, the eccentric and the completely insane”
The Examiner
“Around 85,000 wide eyed spectators thronged the river banks to watch the amazing Awakening spectacle”
The Sun: “Awakening”, Opening ceremony for Cork 2005, European Capital of Culture.
“Packed with good things, felicitous images and creative effects to beguile the eye.”
The Irish Times
