workshops Kids Kids Kids Please book for each workshop in advance Tuesday 30th October family For bookings, call 085 1480880 Time: 3:45pm Venue: Thurles Library Pumpkin Carving Admission: FREE (Age 8 +) Saturday 27th October HOCUS POCUS FILM 10am - 10.45am Years 9+ Carve and decorate your own It’s all a load of HOCUS POCUS with pumpkin for Halloween! our halloween movie afternoon. Venue: Bookworm After moving to Salem, teenager Cost: €7 Max Dennison accidently frees three Bookings 085 1480880 witches. Now, with the help of a magic cat, his sister Dani and their Pumpkin Painting new friend Alison they must steal the witches book of spells to stop them (Age 4 +) Saturday 27th from becoming immortal. October 11am - 11.45am Wednesday 31st October An alternative to pumpkin family carving, may suit younger Time: 11:30am children. Please book in advance. Venue: Thurles Library THURLES Venue: Bookworm Cost: €7 Admission: FREE Bookings 085 1480880 STORY TIME HALLOWEEN Itsy Bitsy toddler fancy dress story Sponsors Halloween Arts & Crafts Workshop time takes place on Halloween The committee would like to thank the following (Age 4 +) Saturday 27th October morning. This is suitable for all our for their generous support and sponsorship without 12pm - 12.45pm little witches and wizards under 5 whom our festival could not take place: Venue: Bookworm years who can’t stay up too late Cost: €7 trick or treating! Stories, Halloween Tipperary County Council Bookings 085 1480880 colouring and dance. Thurles Credit Union Tim Looby Accountants ARTS Wednesday 31th October Slime Workshop family Air Impact Ltd (Age 7+) Saturday 27th October Time: 3:45pm Mattie Mc Grath TD 2pm - 2:45pm Venue: Thurles Library Make your own slime Brian Crowley MEP Admission: FREE Cost: €7 Senator FESTIVAL Bookings 085 1480880 RECO THE MAGICIAN Ages 6+ Senator Want to be dazzled by the amazing Senator Special FX Makeup magic tricks of Reco the Magician? Senator Martin Conway (Age 7 +) Saturday 27th Be enthralled with magic and fun from October 3pm. And if all that doesn’t keep you Senator Ned O Sullivan 3pm - 3:45pm entertained we have a fancy dress story- Senator time for children ages 6+ this will include Learn how to make cuts, bruises Senator and wounds using special FX Halloween favourite “The Little Old Lady make-up. (Wear old clothes). Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything” Flexiweb Please book in advance 2018 Venue: Bookworm. Wednesday 31st October Cost: €7 Music Bookings 085 1480880 Time: 7pm For Bookings and Thursday 25th October to festival information contact: Venue: Thurles Rugby Club Pavilion Wednesday 31st October Halloween Face Painting Admission: FREE (All ages) Wednesday 31st October 3:30pm - 6pm STRINGS & THINGS 086 2397376 Make your own trick or EMAIL US: Local band, Strings & Things treat bucket. [email protected] Venue: Bookworm are just back from a very VISIT OUR WEBSITE: Cost: €5 per face/ successful tour of America. €10 Special FX make up A concert not to be www.thurleshalloweenfestival.com missed! Bookings 085 1480880 family Thursday 25th October literature Saturday 27th October literature Wednesday 31st October family welcome Time: 7:30pm Time: 2pm Time: 6pm - 9pm Venue: The Anner Hotel Venue: Bookworm Venue: Thurles Rugby Club Welcome to the 11th annual Thurles Admission: Free Admission: FREE Admission: Free Halloween Arts Festival. Once again POETRY READING WITH STREET MARKET we have a wonderful festival line up THURLES WRITERS GROUP Thurles Writers Group will have a special PATRICK MORAN ever, with some of the best national open night in The Anner Hotel. Tea and Food & Craft Stalls coffee will be provided. All welcome. We will be having food and and international acts confirmed Saturday 27th October Music craft stalls on Wednesday 31st to perform this year. Our policy of Time: 3pm of October from 6pm to 9pm at Thursday 25th October literature Thurles Rugby Club. community participation and enjoyment Venue: The Arch Bar Time: If you are interested in 7:30pm Admission: is very much evident again, and with so FREE having a stall please ring Venue: The Anner Hotel many different forms of the arts on offer, MICK HANLY IN CONCERT 086 2397376 there is something for everyone on this Admission: Free Mick Hanly is an Irish guitarist, Wednesday 31st October family year’s programme. OLIVE COLLINS singer, and songwriter, who Time: 6:40pm and 8pm Delighted to have Thurles author Olive specialises in interpretations Collins talking about her new book at the of traditional Irish songs. He is Venue: Thurles Rugby Club I would like to thank my hard working one of Irelands leading artists Anner Hotel on Thursday 25th of October Admission: Free committee for all their time and efforts at 7:30pm. Admission free and has performed all over the world. JACK WISE STREET SHOW over the last number of months. I Friday 26th October dance Street Performer Jack Wise’s festival show is a rollercoaster ride of course, would also like to show of magic, sword swallowing and hilarious ventriloquism! Think Time: 7pm Sunday 28th October family my appreciation to all our sponsors, David Blaine and Tommy Cooper in some sort of a comedy Venue: Thurles Town Park Time: 2pm - 6pm car crash and you’ve got the idea. Jack is the only Irish festival volunteers and festival partners for their entertainer to win the coveted Street Performance World Admission: Free Venue: The Monks, Mitchel St. Championship. generosity and help, without whom this Admission: €20 per table festival could not take place. DANCE Wednesday 31st October family PERFORMANCE TABLE QUIZ & KARAOKE Time: 5pm til late This year we have a wonderful Finally I hope that everyone who Thurles Community Panto Society presents Family Venue: Thurles Rugby Club dance performance from some of participates in our festival will both enjoy the towns best dance schools. Karaoke & Table Quiz. Tables €20.00. Fancy Dress, Spot Admission: Free Prizes, Competition. and remember it. Our aim is to have a FUNFAIR Friday 26th October drama Monday 29th October festival that is open to everyone and family We will have a small number of funfair rides, water zorbing Time: 8pm and bungee trampolines at Thurles Rugby club one that will place Thurles on the map as Time: 12pm - 6pm Venue: Source Arts Centre a town with an Arts Festival to envy. Venue: Thurles Town Park October 25th - 31st Admission: €40 family Admission: €3 Time: Duration of festival Paul Brady acclaimed singer, Cllr. Jim Ryan (Chairman) songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist is one GHOST TRAIN Venue: River Suir & Town Park of Ireland’s most highly regarded artists. Crossing musical All aboard our Halloween ghost Admission: Free boundaries again and again, he incorporates the traditions of train which will take you on a spooky journey around the folk, rock, blues traditional Irish & classic pop styles into his work. town park in Thurles. Dress up in your Halloween costumes GERRADINE WISDOM but be warned there will be a scare or two during the Friday 26th October entertainment journey. Rush works display Time: 7:30pm Wednesday 31st October film Venue: Thurles Town Park Time: Wednesday 31st October Admission: FREE 8pm family Johnny Phelan Venue: Source Centre Time: From 6pm onwards Admission: €9 & €5 Venue: Thurles Rugby Club Street Show Johnny the Juggler is Ireland’s favourite and most entertaining juggling Admission: 1993, 120 min. Jane Campion’s Free but donations welcome performer. The show is suitable for all the family. The Piano triumphant masterpiece about a mute woman’s rebellion Members in a newly colonized, Victorian-era New Zealand. FIREWORKS DISPLAY Committee 7Saturday yrs+ 27th & Sunday 28th October Our fireworks display will take place at Thurles Rugby club. Chairman: Cllr. Jim Ryan Time: 8pm Wednesday 31st October entertainment Come along dressed in your Halloween costumes and enjoy Secretary: Cllr. David Doran the night. Fireworks display at 9pm. Venue: Source Arts Centre Time: 7 - 9pm Treasurer: Pat Dunican Admission: €28 Events on the night include: PRO: Ellen Dunican Venue: Thurles Rugby Club • Funfair rides delivers a peculiar take Admission: Pat Shortt Free • Stalls on modern life that only the unique • Bungee Trampoline imagination of Pat Shortt could conjure up. FIRE PERFORMERS • And much much more... A show not to be missed! We have some of Irelands best fire performers. This is an event not to be missed and as it will be performed in the dark.