The Bram Stoker Festival is just around the corner with plenty of fangtastic activities planned.
The festival, hosted by Dublin City Council, is set to celebrate one of Ireland’s most internationally recognised authors and offers devilishly fun experiences for all ages, including free events for families, fascinating tours, reimagined movies with live scores, comedy, freaky cabarets, live podcast recordings, themed events at national cultural institutions and even a trip through a Victorian graveyard for Dublin’s bravest souls.
The Bram Stoker Festival, which is running from Friday to Monday, October 30, is inviting Dubliners to embrace the macabre and have fun this Halloween. Macnas are set to come back with a spooktacular Halloween Parade Cnámha La Loba on Monday, October 30.
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Additionally, Abbey Theatre will be hosting a live reading of Dracula: A Journey Into Darkness - A Staged Reading of Dracula Chapters 1-4, read live by Andrew Bennett (The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin) as Johnathan Harker and Barry McGovern (Apocalypse Clown) as the unseen Dracula and directed by Joan Sheehy (The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin).
Stoker’s great-grand nephew and custodian of the Stoker Estate, Dacre Stoker’s Dissecting Dracula with Dacre Stoker will take place at Stoker’s old place of work, the eerily enchanting Dublin Castle. At this interactive literary workshop, the secrets of Dracula's creation will be unlocked as Dacre dissects rare, replica papers borrowed from esteemed libraries and archives worldwide.
Families can enjoy Stokerland, a free annual pop-up Victorian fun park that will host a mix of storytelling and draw-alongs, bands, discos and dance parties, street theatre and walkabout performers, art workshops, spooky science shows, magic shows and circus workshops.
You can find a full list of the exciting events taking place this bank holiday weekend on the website.
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