Max HeyraudDublin’s lost nightlife will be remembered in a fittingly spooky style this Halloween as the Dublin Halloween Festival launches The Graveyard Exhibition, a tribute to the clubs and underground spaces that have been erased from the city’s cultural landscape.
Described as a wake for Dublin nightlife, the exhibition will mark the loss of venues that once provided a home for live music, electronic music, late-night dancing and the city’s more unconventional creative scenes.
Among those being commemorated are Twisted Pepper, Izakaya, District 8 [Tivoli Theatre], Hangar [Andrews Lane], The Kitchen [Cellar] and Bernard Shaw, all of which occupy a place in the memories of Dubliners who experienced the city’s nightlife in its various forms.
The exhibition will take the form of a series of headstones dedicated to the venues Dublin has lost. The memorials will appear at locations around the city for a day or two before being gathered together at a central venue, which is yet to be announced.
The artwork for this year’s Dublin Halloween Festival was created by Studio Kenya, the creative studio behind much of the festival’s distinctive visual identity. Their illustrations bring an eerie character to the programme, with the artwork for The Graveyard Exhibition helping to capture its themes of remembrance, loss and Dublin’s disappearing nightlife.
