All those fans of bloodsucking vampires...your day has come, when you can dance and prowl the streets of Ireland with your favourite bloodsuckers.
Gothic ghouls, marauding vampires and dancing zombies are just some of the creatures that will prowl the streets of Dublin, Ireland during the Bram Stoker Festival in October (24–27), when the city takes a look at its darker side. Inspired by the Dublin-born horror novelist and his creation — Count Dracula — the annual festival returns this year with the aim of awakening the city’s Gothic heart. The festival offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor events — from large-scale spectacles to intimate performances in unusual places to satisfy your Gothic heart.
Jo Mangan, Artistic Director of Big House Productions (organisers of the festival), said: “The focus of this year’s festival is to take the events out into the public domain with street spectacles and ‘happen-upon’ events. Expanding on the vampire themes that Dracula and Bram Stoker inspire, the festival this year focuses on the Goth and the Gothic, with film documentaries, concerts, and premieres exploring the 1980s’ Goth music era.”
Those who love a good scare will enjoy being grabbed by ghouls and spooked by spectres as they walk through Dublin’s streets. There will also be an unusual dance-off between Zombies and Goths. There will also be film and literary presentations. In the world famous Literary Death Match, four authors pitch their words and wits in literary battle and comedic irreverence in front of a panel of three judges.
Junior vampire fans are invited to Dracula’s Basement Spooky Sounds Laboratory and to the Minnie & the Illywackers Family Halloween Concert featuring Dracula inspired songs, sounds and gothic pumpkins.
And other events in the festival's macabre menu includes: Gothic Masquerade Ball, Blood Food cookery classes and trips into the Underworld of Dublin City.
The Bram Stoker Festival is the perfect run-up to Halloween, cloaking Dublin’s streets, churches, castles, libraries, galleries, cinemas and squares in a highly enjoyable programme of Gothic and Dracula-inspired events. It is also a ‘super’natural kicker for the wide-ranging and super cool Dublin Festival Season, Ireland. So, if you like me love Ireland and if you like me, love Count Dracula then you would be booking your flight tickets....right about...NOW!
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