Bram Stoker Festival 2015

BRAM STOKER FESTIVAL 2015
October 23rd-26th

Dublin will be treated to Four Days of Living Stories and Four Nights of Deadly Adventures over the Bank Holiday Weekend. By day, the festival programme presents gothic intrigue at family-friendly events, talks and interactive experiences. At night, the city will embrace the darkness as a host of venues deliver deadly adventures for festival goers in search of macabre thrills and late-night parties. Sink your fangs into the programme taking place all over Dublin below!

A major festival highlight sees world-renowned Irish street-artist Maser return to the cityscape of Dublin to create an interactive installation in Smithfield. Macnas close the festival at twilight on Monday 26th October in what is set to be another breath-taking citywide procession from the Galway based spectacle and street performance company.

For families, Stokerland will open its gates to families and the young at heart on Sunday 25th Oct. Located in Wolfe Tone Park, Stokerland is a pop-up gothic theme park in the style of the 1900 world fair, featuring the macabre talents of world- class street performers The Mighty Gareth and Able Mabel who will perform on the hour throughout the day.

The deadliest adventure of all, New Blood, takes place at Projects Arts Centre on Sunday, 25th October. New Blood is a cold, sharp bite of contemporary Irish culture - a progressive Halloween Party for the Bram Stoker Festival filled with bespoke cocktails, art installations, live electronic acts and DJs. Attendees will lose themselves in a futuristic vampire haven and a feast of new blood. Excessive dress-up is essential at this raucous mix of mischief and craic.

Other key festival highlights include:
• Soundings, Bram Stoker Edition- live interviews hosted by Dylan Haskins and Lisa Hannigan.
• Hushed at Marsh's Library - an eerie nighttime vocal ensemble composed by Robbie Blake with Tonnta Choir.
• Total Nightmare- talks and stories covering the themes of frustration panic and horror MC'ed by Michael McDermott & Kate Coleman, Publisher & Editor of Le Cool Dublin.
• Vampire Film Screening at Light House Cinema.
• I Got the Seanchai, I Got the Secret -a bilingual story-telling evening hosted by Una Mullally and Vickey Curtis.
• National Gallery of Ireland will host a series of talks over the festival duration based on the life and works of Bram Stoker.

Dubliners and visitors to the city are invited to follow the fun using #BiteMeDublin and watch out as landmarks and buildings across the city light up in blood red. The festival is an initiative of Dublin City Council in association with Fáilte Ireland.

For more on the Bram Stoker Festival & tickets, see www.bramstokerfestival.com