Open call for applications 2025

For four days and nights between Friday 31st October and Monday 3rd November 2025, Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival will present a programme of literary, cultural, contemporary and family events to engage a broad audience in celebration of Bram Stoker.

Once again, we’re holding an open call for ideas for events and activities. These ideas must have a real connection to or be thematically linked to Bram Stoker; his works, his life, his philosophy, Victorian Dublin, all things Gothic, the supernatural or the mysterious.

About the festival

Bram Stoker Festival is one of Dublin’s biggest multi-disciplinary arts festivals, with a broad audience of Dubliners of all ages and backgrounds, united in a love for the unknown, the supernatural and the Gothic.

This year the festival will start on Hallowe’en Night, allowing us (and you!) to present events rooted in Samhain, superstition and terror…

Our programme combines family-friendly adventures with late-night antics for mates, dates and everything in between. We’ve presented interactive art installations, music gigs, comedy, theatre, spoken word, themed parties, food-focused experiences, literary events, outdoor adventures for children, families or grownups, film screenings, exhibitions, talks and lots more… and we’re thirsty for more!

 

Before you apply

It is essential that you download and read our How to Apply guide before applying – it contains everything you need to know before applying as well everything you need to submit.

 

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Have a deliciously dark idea you want to bring to life? We might be able to help. 

Be adventurous, bold and ambitious.

We want hairs standing on necks, horror and terror, devilishly good adventures and unique experiences in interesting locations.

Go on… scare us. 

 

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