Artistic Director: Veronica Coburn

Creative Producer: Emer McGowan

Line Producer: Paula Quinn

Set & Costume Designer: Deirdre Dwyer

Lighting Designer: Sarah Jane Shiels

Composer & Sound Designer: Jennifer O’Malley

Production Manager: Barry O’Donovan

Stage Managers: Ruby Collin, Michaela Conley, Erin Fitzgerald, Eoin Harrington, Laura Murphy & Órla Kelly Smith

Directors: Jim Culleton, Wayne Jordan, Louise Lowe, Joy Nesbitt, Dominic O’Brien, Katie O’Halloran & Claire O’Reilly

Theatre Makers: Dafe Arugbo, Luke Casserly, Amy Conroy, John Doran, Kwaku Fortune, Eimear Hussey, Fionntain Larney, Brigid Leahy, Stephen Marriott, Paul Mercier, Pippa Moloney, Monica Munoz, Clare Monnelly, Little John Nee, Farah El Neihum, Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng, Madi O’Carroll, Darragh O’Donnell, Terri Jade Donovan, Jody O’Neill, CN Smith, Matt Szczerek & Samuel Yakura

Performers: Dafe Arugbo & Ryan McCann, Luke Casserly, Hazel Clifford, Amy Conroy, Samuel Coyle, Emma Rose Creaner, Sorcha Curley, John Doran, LA Feeney, Kwaku Fortune, Fionntain Larney, Brigid Leahy, Callum Maxwell, Pippa Moloney, Clare Monnelly, Little John Nee, Farah El Neihum, Madi O’Carroll, Terri Jade Donovan, Jody O’Neill, Kate Stanley Brennan, Matt Szczerek, & Samuel Yakura

Mentor: Davey Kelleher

23 Shows

Inspired by 23 young people or groups from Dublin 15, aged Under 1 year, to 22 years old

Performed simultaneously in 23 locations

3 times each

totaling 69 Performances

Spréacha Soar Festival for Children & Young People is an exciting week of 23 brand new shows inspired by young people from Dublin 15, aged just days old to 22 years old, the culmination of months of work and our project NEST.

NEST is 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 - who will produce 23 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 will first be performed in homes and schools across Dublin 15, on the 1st of March 2024 to the children’s peer audiences. Then the shows return to Draíocht for one week as part of the much anticipated Spréacha Soar Festival for Children & Young People, when the public and wider community can enjoy these new creations.

On Saturday 17th February, two complementary NEST Exhibitions will open to the public:
In the Ground Floor Gallery, a newly commissioned series of portraits and still life's from leading visual artists Zsolt Basti, Sahoko Blake, Una Sealy RHA & Dorothy Smith RHA, featuring the children and young people participating in NEST, Curated by Sharon Murphy.

In the First Floor Gallery, a photographic and text installation will be the focus of an exhibition featuring self portraiture and testimonials made by children and young people from Dublin 15 schools participating in NEST. Created and led by artist Liadh Connolly.

Runtime: ~40 minutes.

Draíocht Blanchardstown

11-16 March, 2024.