Culture Night 2009
Temple Bar Cultural Trust (TBCT) and Lord Mayor Cllr Emer Costello today unveiled an immense programme for Culture Night 2009 at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, which takes place on Friday 25th September. TBCT expect half a million visitors to attend Culture Night across the 11 participating towns, cities and counties.
Renowned for its free mix of events, street activity and ‘All Sorts’ of talent, Culture Night 2009 will transform the participating areas of – Dublin, Cork, Galway, Letterkenny, Limerick, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Tralee, Waterford, Wexford - into an accessible cultural wonderland offering people of all ages the chance to experience culture in various and unusual forms including visual art, architecture, dancing, family fun, music, poetry, street performance, painting, talks, theatre and traditional forms of culture. Culture Night will also take place in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast this year on Friday September 25th.
The Culture Night National initiative is co-ordinated by Temple Bar Cultural Trust and supported by the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism in partnership with the regional arts offices and local authorities.
A full programme of events and participating venues for Culture Night 2009 is now available online at www.culturenight.ie or pick up a copy of the Dublin programme by calling into the Temple Bar Cultural Information Centre at 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. All participating venues in Dublin will carry Culture Night programmes from Tuesday 25th August.
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