MidSummer In Temple Bar

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MidSummer In Temple Bar

Bring your picnic blankets into Temple Bar as they recreate a green meadow for one day only to celebrate the magic of Midsummer — the longest day of the year! Temple Bar Cultural Trust invites you to experience Temple Bar in a different way by enjoying fire entertainment and an outdoor film screening while sitting on a carpet of grass under the stars! Return the next day to witness the transformation of Meeting House Square into an urban Midsummer Fair hosting a selection of food stalls, flowers, handmade crafts, Punch & Judy and magic show, face painting, music and Maypole dancing!

 

MidSummer In Temple Bar Free Family Events

 

Fire Entertainment 

Drawing on the tradition of building bonfires to mark the summer solstice, Temple Bar Cultural Trust are bringing fire entertainment to Meeting House Square. Brightspark Fire Performers will perform an amazing visual display featuring fire juggling, fire dancing and fire on stilts!

 

Classification Family Event / All Ages

 

Dates / Times

  • Saturday 20 June / Meeting House Square  21.00

 

 
Admission:  Free
 
 
 

Midsummer Fair in Meeting House Square

 

Picnic On The Grass In Temple Bar

Meeting House Square will appear like never before as we cover it in grass for one day only! Stalls will be decorated with flowers and ribbons to create the feel of Midsummer. The fair features Temple Bar’s three outdoor markets brought to you by Temple Bar Cultural Trust along with additional stalls from across the country

 

Food at the Fair

The Midsummer Fair will be the perfect spot for lunch on Father’s Day — follow the scent into Meeting House Square where you will find a roasting hog on a spit, cool down with Burke’s Farm ice-cream made using milk from the family’s own Jersey cows and experience Raclette Irish-style with vegetables and Knockdrinna farmhouse cheese. Malone Fruit Farmers will have everything fruity from fresh strawberries to chutneys, jams and honey. ‘Dinner Jackets’ will serve freshly-baked Irish potatoes from an Edwardian-style baked potato oven and tea, coffee and hot chocolate served by Coffee Angel Ltd. Other foods, available from Temple Bar Food Market on the day include Corleggy Cheese; Llewellyn’s Orchid Produce; St Martin’s Shellfish; Noirin’s Bakehouse and Natasha’s Living Foods.

 

Handmade Jewellery, Hats, Visual Art, Books & Flowers
 
Contemporary jewellery design will be presented by Ann Tyrrell, Raasay Jones, Rebecca Howles and Adam King from Designer Mart at Cow’s Lane. Milliner, John Shevlin, will showcase an array of handmade hats and John O’Connor will exhibit his graffiti-inspired paintings. Iwona Dabek will display her stained glass pieces and handmade soaps alongside Judith Wolff’s fresh flowers, foliage & herbs. Traders from the Temple Bar Book Market will have a wide selection of new and second-hand books, including special interest and rare one-off editions as well as popular children’s classics.
 
 
Music at the fair
 
Drumming beats will hoist you into Meeting House Square with the five-piece samba swinging outfit ‘The Mad Hatters’ with their 3-feet tall flower adorned hats! Musicians Declan Quinn, Fergal Chambers and Gerry Quinn from ‘The Irish House Party’, Dublin’s most unique music and dance show, will perform a series of jigs, reels and hornpipes for a knees-up at 12noon.
 
Children’s Entertainment
 
It will be impossible to miss Mr Whizzy and his friend the Juggling Jester as they take to the streets of Temple Bar from 1pm. At 2pm ‘The One Man Show’ will be bursting with children’s entertainment value. Children between 3-9 years will be entertained with magic, Punch & Judy, games, gags and dancing. They can take away memories from their day at the fair with free face painting and their very own animal shaped balloon!
 
Maypole Dancing
 
Traditionally, Maypole dancing is a custom at this time of year to celebrate the high-point of summer. Drumreilly Community Group from Co. Leitrim are visiting Temple Bar to give a very special performance of their Maypole dance and show us how it’s done at 4.30pm! This is a performance not to be missed!

 

Classification   Family Event / All Ages

 

 

Dates / Times:

  • Sunday 21 June / Meeting House Square 11.00 – 17.00

  • Features on the day:
    11:00   ‘The Mad Hatters’ Samba Drumming Group
    12:00   Trad Music from musicians from ‘The Irish House Party’             
    1:00     Mr Whizzy Walkabout & the Juggling Jester
    2:00     Free Face-painting
    2:30     ‘One Man Show’: Punch & Judy / Magic Show / Balloon Modelling
    4:30     Maypole Dancing by Drumreilly Community Group

 

 

Admission Free

 

Midsummer in Temple Bar 20 – 21 June is brought to you by the Temple Bar Cultural Trust. Entrance to all events as part of the Midsummer Festival are free and do not require tickets. For information and booking details on Midsummer in Temple Bar please contact Temple Bar Cultural Information Centre,12 East Essex Street or telephone the Culture Line on01 888 3610

 

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