Thousands flock for frightful finale of Derry Halloween 2024

The festivities finish tonight with a colourful carnival & parade 👻 🎇

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 31st Oct 2024
Last updated 31st Oct 2024

2024's Derry Halloween festivities draw to a close tonight with dazzling Halloween Carnival Parade and fireworks over the Foyle.

The City Walls are once again a stage for magic and mayhem this year, and visitors will witness all sorts of spectacles in the Witchy Wonderland created by In Your Space Circus. The ramparts will provide the perfect atmospheric backdrop for some dazzling fire performance and ghostly goings on.

The Guildhall Production Studio, part of the famed Guildhall School of Music & Drama, make a welcome return animating two of the city centres famous landmarks, the Austins Building and the Bishop Street Courthouse, with some bespoke installations bringing to life some well-known Derry ghost stories.

Then cross the Peace Bridge to enter the ethereal Elemental Garden, an ambient and mesmerising celebration of darkness and light, as visualised by landscape spectacle specialists LUXE.

Hundreds of local performers from local clubs, schools and community organisations, who are now working with the North West Carnival Initiative to bring this year’s ‘Festival of the Dead’ theme to life.

It all culminates in a blaze of colour over the Foyle as the annual Halloween Fireworks display brings the festival to a close.

You can find out more about all that’s going on this year at Derry Halloween at derryhalloween.com

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