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26th-28th October 2013
www.bramstokerfestival.com
This October Bank Holiday
weekend Dublin City will
celebrate all things ghoulish for the
second Bram Stoker Festival.
Taking the legacy of Dublin horror novelist Bram Stoker and his
gothic novel ‘Dracula’ as inspiration, the festival will celebrate
all things macabre, strange and paranormal mixed with some
good-old fashioned Halloween fun.
Dublin City Centre will come alive with events for all ages
including; spine-chilling street performances, sinister
sounds, a city-wide Vampire Hunt, spooky movies in the
open-air, blood curdling literary happenings, terrifying
theatre, haunted walking tours, a fearsome fire garden
and a supernatural banquet.
Events that display a red circle
Funded by
are suitable for families.
THE PLEASURES
OF DRACULA
Date: Sat 26 Oct. Time: 14.00
Where: The Grand Social, Liffey St, Dublin 1
Admission: €5
Bookings: www.entertainment.ie/bramstokerfestival
Like today’s Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, Dracula
was a bestseller, one that cast women as victims of
a monster’s thinly veiled sexual desire. Journalist
and bestselling author Martina Devlin discusses ‘The
Pleasures of Dracula’ with Trinity College’s Dr. Jarlath Killeen, author
Caroline McCall and crime writer Jane Casey.
Projections of Peril
Hammer Films’ Appropriation of Bram Stoker
Date: Sat 26 Oct. Time: 20.00
Where: The United Arts Club,
3 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, Dublin 2
Admission: FREE (pre-registration is essential)
Registration: www.entertainment.ie/
bramstokerfestival
In this annual Stoker address film historian and archivist Robert J.E.
Simpson will explore Hammer’s long relationship with Stoker. From
the expansion of the original novel’s characters to the tension between
cinematic icon and literary construct, Simpson will look at Hammer’s
appropriation and evolution of Stoker’s writing for film.
Haunted - The Enduring
Allure of The Ghost Story
John Boyne & Diane Setterfield in
Conversation with Sinead Gleeson
Date: Sat 26 Oct. Time: 17.30
Where: The Sculpture Room,
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin 1
Admission: FREE
(pre-registration is essential)
Registration: www.entertainment.ie/
bramstokerfestival
These bestselling authors will read
& discuss their new novels, This
House is Haunted and Bellman &
Black with Sinead Gleeson. What is
it that inspires the fascination for
the ghost story, for feeling the fear
and reading it anyway?
Dracula In
The Cathedral
Date: Sat 26 Oct. Time: 19.30
Where: St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
St Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8
Admission: FREE
- first come first served basis
An atmospheric evening of gothic
readings and music by candlelight
with actors Laurence Foster,
Michael James Ford and exciting
choral group, Crux Ensemble. A
show mixing the words of Bram
Stoker with some superb music all
set within the gothic milieu of St
Patrick’s Cathedral.
SON OF STOKER
Darren Shan In Conversation with Anna Carey
Date: Mon 28 Oct. Time: 14.30
Where: Werburgh’s Church, Werburgh Street, Dublin 8
Admission: €5
Bookings: www.entertainment.ie/bramstokerfestival
“I’m the illegitimate grandson of Bram Stoker, and
proud of it,” says bestselling young adult writer Darren
Shan. Few writers declare their influences so
enthusiastically and in this event, Darren will be discussing his literary
debt to Stoker. A must for all teen fiction fans and horror fans in particular.
note: no toilets
Inspired by Stoker
Date: Sun 27 Oct. Time: 14.00
Where: Smock Alley Theatre, 6/7 Exchange
Street Lower, Dublin 8
Admission: FREE (pre-registration is essential)
Registration: www.entertainment.ie/
bramstokerfestival
Three of Ireland’s most talented young voices take up the stake to create
writing inspired by Stoker. In specially commissioned works, Elizabeth
Reapy, Stephen James Smith and Kerrie O’Brien will continue what
Dracula started. Accompanied by singers & instrumentalists from
Rathdown School Choir whose haunting arrangements with key readings
from Dracula will set your spine tingling.
Citizen Dracula
Bats in the Belfry
Date: Sun 27 Oct. Time: 16.00
Where: Smock Alley Theatre, 6/7
Exchange Street Lower, Dublin 8
Admission: FREE (pre-registration is essential)
Registration: www.entertainment.ie/
bramstokerfestival
Date: Mon 28 Oct. Time: 12.30
Where: IFI, Eustace Street,
Dublin 2
Admission: FREE (pre-registration is essential)
Registration: www.entertainment.ie/
bramstokerfestival
Bram Stoker’s political and economic
ideas for its betterment of Ireland
remained constant throughout his
life. Chaired by Stoker’s biographer,
Paul Murray, Professor Cormac
O’Grada (UCD) and Dr Ciaran O’Neill
(TCD) will explore the origins of his
horrific masterpiece, Dracula, rooted
in the Ireland of the 1860s and 1870s.
Dale Treadwell of Naturally Wild has
become a regular feature on RTÉ
and TV3, his energy and irrepressible
humor making him a huge success
with youngsters. Dale’s illustrated
talk will reveal the secret life of bats,
covering Irish native species and the
truth about Vampires.
- Bram Stoker and Ireland
- The Truth About Vampires
STREET & OUTDOOR
DRACULA’S FIRE GARDEN
Come journey into the world of Stoker’s
imagination, where the darkened castle
backdrop gives way to a mesmerising fiery
lair. Wander through flame lined paths, trees tipped with flames,
past monstrous flowers and blazing bushes that scorch the air. Amidst
the spine tingling music beware the ghouls & nightwalkers that spring
into life as you enter the depths of Dracula’s spectacular Fire Garden.
Installation created by outdoor arts experts Walk The Plank with chilling
antics from street theatre specialists, Spraoi.
Date: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Oct.
Admission: FREE (pre-registration essential)
Where: Dublin Castle – entrance is
via Palace St. only (Dame St. gates/
opposite the Olympia Theatre)
Registration: www.entertainment.ie/
bramstokerfestival
Times: 18.30*, 19.00, 19.30, 20.15
*Families are encouraged to attend earlier
admissions. It is advised to allow 30-40 mins
to enjoy Dracula’s Fire Garden.
Vampire Hunt
Date: Sat 26 Oct.
Time: 10:00 – 17:00 (It will take circa 1 hr 20mins
for mini Vampire Hunt & 1hr 40 mins for Vampire Hunt)
Registration:
On the day from 10.00 – 13.00 or pre-register
on www.bramstokerfestival.com
Start point: City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2
Admission: FREE
Dublin’s history-laden streets and buildings hold many secrets......and you
might discover a little more than you bargained for on the Vampire Hunt!
With chilling team tasks, bloodcurdling surprises and winning team prizes
and spot prizes, this is a completely unique city adventure. A special mini
hunt is available to families with vampires in training - dress to impress!
*4 people per team
Spine Chilling Sights
& Sounds in the City
Date: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Oct.
Where: Barnardo Square 14:00 - 18:00
South King Street 12:00 - 16:00
Pricing: FREE
Watch out as you walk the streets you might meet the sleeping Mina, a
giant skeleton or fall in to a bath of
blood - all while listening to some of
Ireland’s spookiest bands!
CULTURE BITES
VAMPORTRAITS
Presented with The Gallery of Photography
Date: Fri 25 & Sat 26 Oct.
Time: Portraits taken between
10.00 – 15.00
Where: Temple Bar & Dame District
Watch out for the costumed photographer and his spooky assistant
who will take to the flesh filled streets and transform you from human
to horror. Portraits will be screened in Meeting House Square over the
weekend.
Dracula’s Bram Stoker
Directed by Sinead O’Brien, produced by
Noel Pearson and Anne Marie Naughton
Date: Sat 26 Oct.
Times: 12:00; 14:00; 16:00
Where: The Kane Room, The Coach
House, Dublin Castle
Admission: FREE (pre-reg. essential)
Registration: www.entertainment.ie/
bramstokerfestival
This documentary examines the
complex life of one of Ireland’s most
elusive novelists and the bizarre
parallels between the writer and his
most famous creation.
le cool Experience
- Bram Stoker special
Date: Sat 26 Oct.
Time: 14.30
Where: Location will be revealed within
24 hours of walk via e-mail or mobile
Admission: FREE (pre-reg. essential)
Registration: [email protected]
le cool Dublin delve into the macabre
as they create a unique themed take on
their unusual walking tours.
CULTURE BITES
DER VAMPYR
BY MARSCHNER
Date: Sat 26 Oct. Time: 20.00
Where: Werburgh’s Church,
Werburgh Street, Dublin 8
Admission: FREE (pre-registration is essential)
Registration:
www.entertainment.ie/bramstokerfestival
Dublin City Council’s Opera in the
Open presents this classic “vampire”
opera, originally penned in 1827 by
Marschner. Premiering for the first
time in English, “Der Vampyr” tells the
tale Lord Ruthven, who is informed by
the Vampire Master that if he cannot
sacrifice three virgin brides within the
next 24 hours, he will die.
The Bram Jam
Presented in partnership with The Ark
Date: Sun 27 Oct (Ages 7+)
Time: 12.00 - 15.00
Where: The Ark, 11a Eustace Street,
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Admission: FREE - first come first served basis*
Recommended for children learning music.
Come and play in a popular music jam session inspired by the spookiness
of Bram Stoker! Bring your instrument and drop-in to this special
Halloween themed, FREE and friendly open jam session led by talented
musicians.
*Places in the music jam will be allocated on the day based on availability.
Please note during busy periods some waiting may be required.
Raise Your Spirits
Date: Fri 25, Sat 26, Sun 27 Oct.
Time: 19.00 – 01.00 each night
Where: The Dame District: Bankers,
4 Dame Lane, Sweeneys, The Stags Head,
The Mercantile, The Dame Tavern, Odessa,
The Globe, Exchequer, Sam’s Barbers.
Admission: FREE
For further info see
www.raiseyourspirits.ie
The Dame District will host more than
30 FREE events over the course of the
weekend. Expect fortune tellers, live
music, zombie dress up zone, historic
ghost tours, wax museum characters,
cabaret, burlesque!
CULTURE BITES
Toejam & The Beatyard
presents:
Bram’s Triptych
Date: Sun 27 Oct.
Time: 18.00 til late
Where: Bernard Shaw Bar
Backyard, 12 Richmond Street,
Dublin 2
Admission: FREE
Toejam present an evening of gothic live art as you watch artists Mick
Minogue, Steve McCarthy and Fatti Burke create a large scale 3 - paneled
Triptych, from found objects and salvage yard gems.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Date: Sat 26 & Sun 27 Oct.
Time: 21.00 (Show 60 mins)
Where: The Printworks, Dublin Castle
Admission: FREE (pre-registration is essential)
Registration:
www.entertainment.ie/bramstokerfestival
Fast Intent theatre company will blend live music,
video and performance to bring Bram Stoker’s
Gothic classic to life as we follow Jonathan
Harker deep into the wild Carpathian mountains,
to a Transylvanian castle where he will meet
the most famous anti-hero of them all; Count
Dracula.
Expect a dark and immersive theatre experience.
Please note: This event is over 12’s
Swing into Samhain
Date: Mon 28 Oct
Time: 19.00
Where: Culture Box
Admission: €5
Dublin celebrates the annual New
Orleans Halloween Music Experience
with jazz, blues, swing and samba.
Join the party with vocalist Melanie O’Reilly and US pianist
Frank Martin, on one of their Dublin dates in their highly
anticipated upcoming Irish tour.
Bookings: www.entertainment.ie/bramstokerfestival
The Addams Family
Presented with Happenings in
partnership with Christ Church
Cathedral.
Date: Sun 27 Oct. Time: 18.00
Where: Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin 8
Admission: €5
Registration: www.entertainment.ie /
bramstokerfestival
Start your night with some serious fancy
dress fun, with this classic comedy horror in
spectacular surroundings. Expect whacky pop up
performances, spooky games & very creepy vibes!
Please note: This is an over 15’s event
BRAM’S BANQUET
Presented with Queens of Neon in partnership with Christ Church Cathedral.
Date: Sun 27 Oct. Time: 20.30
Where: The Crypt at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8
Admission: €20
Booking: www.entertainment.ie/bramstokerfestival
Deep in the belly of the city, beneath the footpaths and gutters something
is rumbling, something is stirring… the oldest structure in Dublin, the 12th
century Christ Church Crypt, will be transformed in to a magical
and otherworldly dining location.
Guests are invited to Bram’s five-course candlelit gourmet
feast, celebrating wild Irish foods, by Wildside Catering.
The Crypt will be decorated with outlandish props and a
mischievous troop of mystical hosts will add strands of music
and theatre bringing Bram Stoker’s famous story alive.
STOKER ON THE SQUARE
A selection of films curated by Kim Newman
Kim Newman is an award-winning author and well-known
and respected movie critic. He writes regularly for Empire.
His new novel, Johnny Alucard, is the long-awaited next
installment in his award-winning Anno Dracula series.
Date: Sat 26, Sun 27 & Mon 28 Oct.
Time: see below
Where: Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Admission: €6.00 Adults, €4 children & Concessions (Seniors/Students/Unemployed)
Bookings: www.entertainment.ie/bramstokerfestival
The Monster
Squad (1987)
Dracula
Hotel Transylvania
Sat 26 Oct - 19.30
Sat 26 Oct - 21.30
PG / 75 min
Director: Tod Browning
Starring: Bela Lugosi,
Helen Chandler, David
Manners.
Sun 27 Oct - 18.30
U / 91 min / Director:
Genndy Tartakovsky
Starring: Adam Sandler,
Kevin James, Andey
Samberg, Selena Gomez
Tod Browning’s early talkie
is an essential horror
movie, spotlighting Bela
Lugosi’s star-making turn
as the vampire Count.
A sweet, inventive, gag-fest
with amusing rethinks of the
classic monsters.
The Brides of
Dracula (1960)
Blood for Dracula
Sun 27 Oct - 21.30
12’s / 85 min /
Director: Terence Fisher
Starring: Peter Cushing,
Martita Hunt, Yvonne
Monlaur
Sun 27 Oct - 12 midnight
18’s / 106 min / Director:
Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro,
Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica
Dracula Pages
From a Virgin’s
Diary (2002)
This splendidly gothic
follow-up to Hammer’s 1958
Dracula pits Peter Cushing’s
stalwart Van Helsing against
Baron Meinster, who
persuades winsome heroine
to unlock the silver chain
his devoted mother uses to
keep him in check.
Morrissey’s elegant yet
gruesome vampire pastiche
has Dracula so desperate
for virgin blood that he
travels to Italy for fresher
victims.
PG / 82 min /
Director: Fred Dekker
Starring: Andre Gower,
Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht
Dracula, Frankenstein,
Wolf Man, the Mummy
and the Creature From
the Black Lagoon begin a
reign of evil, and a group of
kids try to stop them.
(1931)
(1974)
(2012)
Mon 28 Oct - 20.30
PG / 73 min / Director:
Guy Maddin
Starring: Wei – Qiang
Zang, Tara Birthwhistle,
David Maroni
Guy Maddin’s ballet
version is at once among
the most bizarre Dracula
adaptations and the most
faithful to the letter of the
novel.
OTHER EVENTS IN THE CITY
IFI presents
Horrorthon
Date: 24 – 28 Oct
Where: IFI, Eustace St,
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Time: see IFI for full
programme
As always, IFI Horrorthon
is a must-attend event
for any genre fan. With
over 30 screenings over 4
days, IFI Horrorthon will
not disappoint.
For details checkout
www.ifi.ie/horrorthon
Pat Liddys Walking Halloween
Mid-term Music
Tours present
Week at The Ark
Dublin’s
Macabre Side
- a legacy that inspired Stoker Date: Sat 26 Oct & Sun 27 Oct
Where: Start: Outside the
Discover Ireland Offices,
Suffolk Street
Time: 14.00
Date: 26 Oct – 2 Nov 2013
Where: The Ark
Time: See ark.ie for
Price: €10 Adults; €8 Senior/
For info: Don’t miss The Ark’s
week of popular music
Stoker’s imagination was
events with a Halloween
fuelled by Dublin’s gory history. flavour!
In this walk around city streets
Pat will bring many Gothic
tales including Dracula to life.
Students. Under 16’s free with
See ark.ie for details
an adult.
Booking: www.walkingtours.ie
Ha’penny
Grow Your Own
Date: 25 Oct – 19 Jan 2014
Flea Market Halloween Special Where: Science Gallery,
Trinity College Dublin, Pearse
Street
Time: 12.00 - 20.00 Tue to
Fri, 12.00 - 18.00 Sat & Sun,
Closed Mondays
Admission: FREE
Would you make if you
could design living things?
Check out the famous
Indoor Flea Market! Survey GROW YOUR OWN... will
be an unprecedented
its wide range of Vintage
exploration of the emerging
& Retro Clothes, Vinyl
field of synthetic biology,
Records, Crafts, Bric a
brac, Art, Jewellery, Books as artists, designers,
plus DJ’s spinning old vinyl scientists, and biohackers
open up the debate about a
to get you in the authentic
possible future where our
mood.
machines live and die.
Weekly Saturday Market
Date: Sat 26 Oct
Where: The Grand Social,
35 Lower Liffey St, Dublin 1 Time: 12.00 – 18.00
www.thegrandsocial.ie
details.
www.sciencegallery.com/
growyourown
The Dublin Ghost
Bus Tours Dublin
Let Dublin’s Oldest
Ghostbus put you at
your unease as it brings
Dublin’s haunted past
to life.
Book now:
www.dublinsightseeing.ie
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