FESTIVAL PARADE
Prospect Hill - Sunday July 18, 3pm Founded in 1986 Macnas have gone from strength to strength creating a mazing street spectacles Uke Gulliver ilnd T1r Faoi Thoinn. This year saw them tour their indoor show Tain all over Ireland to wide critical acclaim and enthusiastic popular response. Then, in May of this year they were invited by U2 to bring the Mncnas magic on tour with the band as part of Eggopolis Alan Patkinson is an arohitect f the ain. Pie btµlds inflatable �al�oes of furn and wonder. � 1S a domed city of brigM fights, aurving passages and iow runnels. ThC?re are ten IDnneoted eggs, the largest the ?eight of a airous big top. Eaah ildiatC?S a different colour with intensity that is purely the �oot of natural light defusing e plastic skin of the struGture. i'our voice bounces back off e intt!rior surface with th� ercussive 11a ttle of a stiGk ating a drum. You could be nah in the belly of the whale, r a baby dinosaur waiting to JC hatched." 'Fhe Hlerald.
their European Zooropa tour, Galway Arts Festival are delighted to have them back in force this Summer with their biggest spectacle to date, Noah's Ark, The show is based on the biblical story of Noah's Ark but with the usual Macnas twist to the tale. The focus of the Parade is the 23 cubit (roughly 50 f oot) long Ark whlch will sail out Galway Bay on Sunday 18th. on the high tide. At the appointed hour, 17.05 Noah, his family and whatever animals have managed
to reach the ark, will take their leave from Oaddagh Quay. Sadly, d u e to their own tardi ness or Noah's obsession with punctuality, a large body of animals and people will still be en route to the quay at this point. The streets of Galway will then be thronged with hoards of animals and people engaged in a wild frenzy of singing and dancing in the rain while awaiting doomsday, Pl1oto of 1992 parade ./Jy Marie Allen.