{"id":37414,"date":"2025-08-07T03:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/the-spooks-parade\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:03:22","slug":"the-spooks-parade","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-spooks-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spooks Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>It\u2019s time for chaos and craziness to descend across the \u201cWild, Wild West\u201d streets of Drogheda as the Spooks Parade 2025 launches the L\u00fa Festival of Light this October. Everybody Needs Somebody &#8211; our colourful pageant takes to the ancient thoroughfare, watch out for the Headless Skeletons chasing their bobbing about Body-less Skulls, as they all try to catch the last ghostly train to Ghoulishtown before the winter\u2019s dark nights descend upon us all!&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>A participative collaborative cross community arts project, with six primary schools,180 children, across Drogheda and East Meath. The Spooks Parade is produced and co-ordinated by Droichead Arts Centre, with Artistic Direction by artist\/musician Kieran Gallagher (Kada Ka Boom Arts).&nbsp; The artistic team consists of: Breda Marron (sculptor), Yvonne Dowd Gardiner (Visual Artist), Darrin Finnegan (Grafitti Artist), Vivienne Byrne (Mixed Media Artist) and choreographer Tracy Martin (Kidkast). Additional singers and musicians will participate as well as members of Droichead Youth Theatre, and another 200 children will join the back of the parade on the day with their families, combined with over 1000 people lining up across the town to view the parade.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37415,"template":"","class_list":["post-37414","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Spooks Parade - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s time for chaos and craziness to descend across the \u201cWild, Wild West\u201d streets of Drogheda as the Spooks Parade 2025 launches the L\u00fa Festival of Light this October.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-spooks-parade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Spooks Parade - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s time for chaos and craziness to descend across the \u201cWild, Wild West\u201d streets of Drogheda as the Spooks Parade 2025 launches the L\u00fa Festival of Light this October. 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