Easter Festival

Five Community Groups to each receive 1,000 euro grant thanks to generous support from Kerry Group

The Samhlaiocht Easter Arts Festival, which is celebrating 15 years of bringing the Arts to the street of Tralee, has issued a call for entries for its upcoming Easter Arts Festival Parade.

The Samhlaiocht Easter Arts parade is always a wonderfully lively and colourful event featuring over twenty groups from all over the county as well as samba bands, other professional street artists and on one memorable occasion a host of bikini clad Brazilians!

"The parade is always one of our most vibrant events," said Jason O' Mahony, Artistic Director of Samhlaiocht. "The streets of Tralee come alive, full of colourful characters, colourful costumes and with a real festival atmosphere. You need only watch the parade to realise the spirit of the Arts is very much alive in Kerry."

This year the theme of the Samhlaiocht Easter Arts Festival is 'Stars' and the Festival will feature all aspects of the Arts from music, tradition, craft, culture, food and film to literature.

The Parade will take place on Saturday 7th April at approximately 7.00pm and groups that are interested are encouraged to apply to take part in one of two programmes.
We've had a fantastically high calibre of community groups taking part in previous years," said Trish Thompson, Samhlaiocht, "and the interest has been huge even at this early stage, so I'd really encourage interested groups to get in touch as quickly as possible."

The two programmes are:
Kerry Group Five Community Project - Five groups will be selected from numerous applications. Each group will receive funding of 1000 euro to provide artists fees, prop building, costumes and transport.

Individual Groups - Any groups from play schools to active retired groups are welcome to apply. These groups will receive funding of 150 euro to assist towards expenses incurred.

For More Information please contact Trish Thompson of Samhlaiocht on 066 712 9934 trish@samhlaiocht.com