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    Macnas Parade 2013

    Macnas announces that after months of negotiations the Galway Arts Festival have made a decision not to programme the Macnas Parade due to financial reasons. Macnas has presented parades in collaboration with Galway Arts Festival since 1987 and had been in discussions with the Festival to put a more realistic funding model for the annual parade [...]

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    A St. Patrick's Weekend Bonanza of International Performances!

    A St. Patrick’s Weekend Bonanza of International Performances!

    St. Patrick’s weekend will be our busiest yet with shows in Moscow, Sydney, Brisbane, Cork and Limerick. I know, you must be thinking HOW can this company scale such impressive new heights by simultaneously performing a hat trick of shows across this earthly ball we call ‘globe’? Well, thanks to a mass of energy and [...]

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    Ringing in 2013 in Beijing

    Ringing in 2013 in Beijing

    In another first for the company, Macnas debuted their brand new show, Chaosmos, at the Chaoyang Spring Carnival in Beijing to welcome the Year of the Snake. Twice a day, from 9th to the 15th February, the troupe wowed the hundreds of thousands who attended the Festival with their ethereal, alchemical guises and movements. This year Ireland was awarded [...]

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    The Boy Explorer is Aran-bound!

    The Boy Explorer is Aran-bound!

    The Boy Explorer and his friends from Macnas set sail on Thursday 6th December 2012 to the Aran Islands as he continues his Quest for Brilliant Ideas. The Boy Explorer is a 15ft high, eight year old boy who is on a quest to walk across Ireland asking children for brilliant ideas on how to [...]

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    Macnas present 2 street shows in the 2012 ABSOLUT Fringe Festival in Dublin

    Macnas present 2 street shows in the 2012 ABSOLUT Fringe Festival in Dublin

    RUMPUS ‘Under the light of the moon a mistress and her merry wanderers spring along. Music, mayhem and frivolity fill the air. Their magic will cast a spell on the city and its inhabitants, who roam the streets looking for night-time adventures.’  The Cockroach and the Inventor A giant Cockroach Inventor and his troupe of [...]

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    Macnas and IADT Dun Laoghaire join forces for Summer Parade 2012

    Following on from a very successful collaboration in 2011, Macnas have invited three students from IADT Dun Laoghaire to join the Macnas creative team for a three week period in the lead up to the largest Macnas event of the year. The three students will be working under the direction of Artistic Director Noeline Kavanagh [...]

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