Bookville Kilkenny
Bookville, a Kilkenny festival of books for families and children, celebrates its eighth consecutive year in 2024 with events from the 10th to the 16th October.
For the first time in its eight year history there was a pre-Festival launch event held in the Mayfair library in Kilkenny City on Saturday September 14th from 2.30pm to 4pm with a Storytelling puppet to greet visitors, a mega-doodle with top children’s book illustrator Niamh Sharkey, storytelling by Kilkenny library service storyteller in residence, Helena Byrne and local author and Bookville Ambassador, Helena Duggan.
The Bookville Festival 2024 delivered a fabulous programme of free events for school children and the general public.
The Bookville Festival once again featured the hugely popular activity book, which will be delivered to over 13,000 primary school children around the county.
Over the six festival days 60 workshops were given by 27 children’s authors and illustrators, covering creative writing, history, comedy, music, illustration, Gaeilge, drama, music, storytelling and poetry.
There was also a Bookville exhibition and two comedy and theatre shows suitable for the whole family. All events took place in eight libraries across county Kilkenny.
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Bookville Activity Book
Public Events
School Events
Bookville Exhibition
As a taster see below what happened in 2024