NEST - Sunshine in Portmarnock - By Monica Munoz

NEST - Draíocht in Community Locations - 1st of March 2024
23 Brand New Shows Inspired by Dublin 15 Stories
69 Performances - 23 Locations - 39 Theatre Makers - 2400 Audience Members

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On the 1st of March 2024 something extraordinary happened in Dublin 15 ... Draíocht's artists performed 23 brand new Music, Theatre, Spoken Word and Dance shows all over Blanchardstown, in the homes and schools of 23 Dublin 15 children who'd inspired these creations!
23 Brand New Shows.
Inspired by 23 young people or groups from Dublin 15, aged Under 1 year, to 22 years old.
Written, Performed & Directed by 39 professional Theatre Artists & Makers, with Artistic Director Veronica Coborn.
Performed simultaneously in 23 locations, 3 times each, totaling 69 Performances to school & family audiences of 2400 people on 1 Day, 1st of March 2024.
The 23 shows then returned to Draíocht for one week as part of the much anticipated Spréacha Soar Festival for Children & Young People, 11-16 March 2024.

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Sunshine in Portmarnock
A Show for Adam
Created By Monica Munoz
Performed by LA Feeney
Directed by Katie O’Halloran

Adam loves the beach: the sand, the water, the wind, the bubbles …This piece celebrates the sensory, tactile and playful. It takes ordinary objects and makes them extraordinary and magical. Bursting with dance, colours and textures to create a multi-sensory wonderland from a day on a beach; on Portmarnock beach where Adam and his family very often go.

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NEST was a visionary, artistically ambitious project of scale, brought to life through collaboration with 23 leading multi-disciplinary artists - playwrights, theatre makers, spoken word artists, dance artists, and music artists - tasked with producing 23 brand new contemporary works that map our present through the eyes of our children and young people. Led by Artistic Director, Veronica Coburn, NEST's new pieces of work were first performed in homes and schools across Dublin 15, on the 1st of March 2024 to the children’s peer audiences. Then the shows returned to Draíocht for one week as part of the much anticipated Spréacha Soar Festival for Children & Young People, 11-16 March 2024, when the public and wider community enjoyed these new creations on Draíocht's stages.

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NEST was based on HOME THEATRE, an original idea by Marcus Vinicius Faustini (Brazil) and Kerry Kyriacos Michael (UK). Draíocht’s iteration, HOME THEATRE (Ireland), took place in 2018.

NEST was funded by ART: 2023, a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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