City Fusion

Community participation is central to the aims and activities of St. Patrick’s Festival. As the foremost celebration of Ireland’s national day St. Patrick’s Festival encourages and supports participation from a wide range of groups and communities.  The festival’s two main participation projects are City Fusion and Brighter Futures.

City Fusion is a community arts project which celebrates cultural diversity and promotes ethnic inclusion in the city of Dublin. The project brings together Irish and intercultural groups to create a pageant for the St. Patrick’s Festival Parade.

The project is St. Patrick’s Festival festival’s largest in-house production and an established part of its programme. In the past five years over 1,200 individuals from Dublin representing Irish groups and more than 40 other nationalities have taken part in City Fusion.

City Fusion 2012 will be directed by choreographer Muirne Bloomer and designed by Sabine Dargent. Responding to the parade theme of HOW? WHAT? WHY?  City Fusion will explore the question “How do our senses work?” Investigating the origins of our senses and how they have evolved the pageant will explore the question in a poetic and lyrical way featuring a mythical dragon and an experimental sound machine.

For 2012 City Fusion is delighted to work once again with the Irish Deaf Society, Lithuanian Association in Ireland, Adult Refugee Programme, DCU Japanese Society and Submerge Crew. New to the project for 2012 are MENNI Services St. John of God’s and the Integration Centre.

With the combined talents of all our participants and the artistic team, City Fusion 2012 promises to be a unique and spectacular pageant.

For further information on City Fusion watch this City Fusion video

If you have any queries or would like more information on City Fusion please contact Norma on 01 6763205 or norma@stpatricksfestival.ie

City Fusion participants have come from all over the world in the past number of years:

In Association with Dublin City Council