Penguins, Monsters and a Wicked Fairy
7-25 October 2024
Meet TEAM #NEST who will deliver Draíocht's latest ground-breaking project!
17 February - 16 March 2024
Launched on Saturday 17th February, with the opening of two complementary NEST Exhibitions, all artists, performers, directors, stage managers and production teams were paired with a young person from Dublin 15, aged under 1 to 22 years.
- This week the writers will get to know the young person, and begin writing their new work!
- This weekend, the 23 new works will get their very first read-through.
- Next week we rehearse!
- And on Friday March 1st, we'll perform 23 new works simultaneously all over Dublin 15 in the homes and schools of 23 Dublin 15 children.
- The new works will then premiere for the public in Draíocht's Spréacha Soar Festival for Children & Young People (11-16 March), tickets now on sale.
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Draíocht is delighted to deliver NEST, a visionary, artistically ambitious project of scale that will see 23 stories inspired by Dublin 15’s children and young people, aged just a few days old to 22 years old, our youngest citizens, brought to life through collaboration with leading multi-disciplinary performance artists - playwrights, theatre makers, spoken word artists, dance artists, and music artists - to produce 23 new contemporary works that map our present through the eyes of our children and young people.
NEST's 23 new pieces of work will be performed in homes and schools across Dublin 15 on March 1st 2024 to peer audiences and families. Then the project will culminate in the Spréacha Soar Festival for Children & Young People, from 11-16 March, when all 23 works will take over Draíocht’s two stages.
Led by Artistic Director, Veronica Coburn, NEST is about citizenship, alongside the idea of home, both individual and collective, a single house, a familial place, a society. It will mark the Decade of Centenaries by exploring the ideals of our origin state, liberty, equality and equity in a contemporary context.
On Saturday 17th February, a newly commissioned NEST Portrait Exhibition of participant children's portraits will open in Draíocht's Ground Floor Gallery, from artists Zsolt Basti, Sahoko Blake, Una Sealy & Dorothy Smith, Curated by Sharon Murphy.
A response space and photographic exhibition will also be created in Draíocht's First Floor Gallery by Artist Liadh Connolly to accompany the NEST Portrait Exhibition.
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NEST is 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 is 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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