The Summoning by Macnas – Bram Stoker Festival

The Summoning...

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. Macnas energise audiences with interactive performances at festivals and celebrations around the globe, bringing stunning large-scale images and brilliant chaos to the streets of the world. Macnas are ambitious, contemporary and utterly unpredictable.

Macnas energise audiences with interactive performances at festivals and celebrations around the globe, bringing stunning large-scale images and brilliant chaos to the streets of the world. Macnas are ambitious, contemporary and utterly unpredictable.

 Watch The Macnas Halloween Parade in Galway last year

Macnas Halloween Parade Campaign from Macnas Ireland on Vimeo.

“Exhilarating, Stylish, Exciting” The Irish Times

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.