FEBRUARY 2011

Inishowen Carnival Group Seeking Recruits

Inishowen Carnival Group are set to stage another spectacular at this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin and are looking for new recruits. The designs for this year's parade are based on different chapters of a story that has been specially commissioned by St. Patrick's Day Festival from one of Ireland's top writers.

The Inishowen section depicts a scene which takes place in Dublin Zoo and features a suitably exotic and fabulous blend of burlesque style pink flamingo dancers, leopard skin clad dancers, some stilt walking giraffes, lions tigers and a fair amount of monkey business.

If you'd like to get involved in this exciting event there are a number of ways in which you can do so. Dancing classes are currently taking place every Tuesday at 8.00pm in Studio 47, Buncrana and are led by local dance tutor Elizabeth O'Donnell. The carnival group are hoping to find 12 dancers to perform in the Dublin parade either in the leopard or pink flamingo sections of the production. However if you'd prefer not to wear a burlesque style flamingo costume and the like there are still plenty of other ways to get involved.

Volunteers can help in making costumes and props and can perform on the day of the parade - even without joining a regular rehearsal before hand. Local muscle is also urgently required to help push some of the larger mobile carnival structures in the parade - which include a 12ft zoo entrance, a large elephant, a polar bear island and a large peacock phoenix sculpture.

Those taking part in the parade will stay over in Dublin on March 16th and travel, accommodation and food expenses will all be provided. The group will then arrive back in Inishowen by 9.00pm on St. Patrick's night. Anyone interested can also call into the Carnival Office in Tul na Ri, Carndonagh at any time where a team of local artists will be busy working away over this month. Or you can contact the project manager Kevin O'Neill on 074 93 73375 or email: inishowencarnival@hotmail.com.

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