We're very excited about The Bram Stoker Festival this year, with lots happening across the city. We've picked out some of the events which should not be missed.
VampWire
Time: 10am - 5pm
Date: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 24th-26th October
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The Bram Stoker Festival is not only taking over the streets of Dublin but the skies too! The festival is proud to present Dublin’s first ever free city centre zip-wire. The VampWire is a real and slightly scary opportunity to make like a bat and zip over the city.
Don’t just dress up and stay on the ground, register for the opportunity to help fill skies as well as the city streets with goths, zombies and vampires while taking in the view! Suitable for most ages, if not constitutions!
Golden tickets for this event will be allocated by ballot, so book early to make sure you’re in with a chance. Bookings close on the 19 October! For full information visit the booking form here.
Goths v Zombies Dance-Off In Association With Dublin's 98FM
Time: 2pm
Date: Saturday 25th October
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Dress up in your finest bloody threads and choose to dance with the goths or walk among the dead. Join hundreds of participants who have transformed into Goths and Zombies for a thrilling walk through the city. Working with choreographer Megan Kennedy from junk ensemble this will be a dance off unlike anything seen before – arms and legs may go flying as Zombies face off the Goths.
Underground Gothic
Time: 5pm and 6.20pm
Date: Sunday 26th October
We have all heard whispers of a mysterious tunnel under the Phoenix Park but some of us have heard more than we dare let on… Is it real? Where does it go? Now is your chance to find out the truth. The almost mythical Iarnród Éireann train tunnel will take passengers on a journey into the depths to discover the dark side of Dublin’s underground. With music by acclaimed composer Tom Lane and directed by Maeve Stone this unique performance rattles under the city for one night only combining sound, movement and chilling performances. Make your way on board and discover where the train tracks really lead.
Tickets cost €15. Over 18’s only.
Body&Soul presents The Shapeshifters Ball
Time: 7.30pm - 2am
Date: Saturday 25th October
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Turning down the lights this October 25th, Body&Soul is stirring up plans for its own, intimate, slightly twisted, Gothic-themed soirée. Casting its creative shadows throughout the many rooms of The Irish Museum of Modern Art, a very limited number of guests will enjoy a spectrum of live, theatrical and chilling performances by a carefully selected line up, including the open air opera Der Vampyr in the Courtyard, alongside a tightly programmed, music-filled Baroque Chapel and a heady mix of electronica in the more shadowy depths of The Vault. Line up includes East India Youth, DJs Tim Sheridan and Alex Do as well as this year’s Mercury Prize nominees Young Fathers.
In keeping with Body&Soul tradition, guests will be encouraged to arrive in costume, and those that don’t, will be able to rent something suitably ostentatious from the expansive, on-site wardrobes of The Abbey Theatre. Get ready for an evening of a more macabre, veiled mischief, in a darker season.
Ticket price €39.50 plus booking fee.
Macnas presents The Summoning
Time: 5.30pm
Date: Monday 27th October
Macnas take to the streets of Dublin as mercurial tailors with a glee for stitching laughter to darkness, summoning monsters and marvels from drains, lanes and street corners. Creatures , characters, contortions dissolve and are remade and revealed.
Macnas populate this journey with mischief, active imagination, baptism and burial. These new priests and madmen whistle and unleash from the shadows, a haunted air heralding in the slumbering descent of countless agitations on high as they close the night upon the city like a trap door.
The routes are:
1. City Hall towards Capel Street, left at Nealon’s Pub towards Arran Street East and then Mary Street
2. Essex Street winding its way through Temple Bar and Temple Bar Square crossing the Milennium Bridge
3. Moore Street, Henry Street, Wolfe Tone Square
This is a free event and it is not necessary to book.
All information and booking is available on The Bram Stoker Festival website.
