STRANGE CREATURES (2023)

St Patricks Day 2023 saw the first performance of our Strange Creatures parade production commissioned by St Patricks Festival Dublin. The parade featured 3 large character props and 120+ performers from across Donegal including dancers from Fusion Events Letterkenny and Aislingi Dance, Ballybofey and students from Carndonagh Community School Transition Year (and some visiting American students).

“Strange Creatures” is inspired by the diversity on planet earth, the weird and wonderful creatures that emerge from the undergrowth, evolving in response to the challenges and bounties of their own particular environment. One freak natural event, one chance mutation, leads to the evolution of some unique and unusual lifeforms. In homage to the weirdness, wonderfulness and endless possibilities of planet earth, Inishowen Carnival have created some exotic creatures of their own, fierce and furry, winged, spiky and gnarly, evolved on some fictitious undiscovered island on a planet bursting with uniqueness and life.