Projects

St. Patrick's Festival 2007

• Project Fusion
• Artistic Workshop
• Participants
• Photo Album
• Concert - Polish Movements/chords
• Fusion in the press


Dublin City Council, St. Patrick's Parade and the Polish Embassy in Dublin invited ArtPolonia to facilitate Polish participation in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and in the St. Patrick's Festival.

We said of course "yes" and started to contact the Polish media and all groups of the Polish Community in Dublin to find creative people willing to response to the cordial invitation of our host land and to shape with them a great project for the celebration of the biggest national Irish holiday - St. Patrick's Day.

We knew that the challenge would be enormous; we knew that the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin is part of a five-day festival, with over 500,000 people attending the 2006 parade.

We were also aware that this tradition is so different to all Polish national celebrations, which are either very serious, declamatory or religious.

We decided to try. Our plan became a 4 step action:


• to integrate Polish creative People living in Dublin. We aimed to make them willing to connect with each other and to work together in a creative way to represent the Polish Community in the St. Patrick's Day celebrations.



• to integrate Polish volunteers and the Polish Community (with the kind support of Polish media) with the Irish tradition they are not familiar with as the carnival character of St. Patrick's Day is so different to the Polish national celebration.



• to familiarize Irish facilitators with Polish legends, ideas, way to work and to realise their vision,



• to make Polish Community more visible in Dublin.



What we had to do:
• to work out the concept



• to design and produce the costumes, the props, the choreography



• to organise additional events:
  
  
Concert by Jacek and Alicja Halas in Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Grafton Street, on St.Patrick's Day @ 19.00


• to keep track of our work and keep the media informed
  
  Please follow our record on the artistic workshop, our preparations for St. Patrick's Parade, and press comments about our work.
  
  Please come along to see us in the St. Patrick's Parade on the 17th of March and join during the concert by two great Polish musicians in Bewley's Cafe Theatre at 19.00.
  
  Please share with us your impressions, comments and suggestions.
  
  

Monika Sapielak, ArtPolonia
Phone: +353 86 8412857 Email: sapielak@artpolonia.org
© 2007 ArtPolonia