Welcome to Bookville!
Bookville 2023, our 7th consecutive festival is now over...
The festival delivered a fantastic programme including in-person workshops, virtual workshops, the Bookville book, an exhibition and videos. Featuring some of the best contemporary children’s authors, illustrators and entertainers from Ireland and the UK the festival reached an audience of almost 20,000 children and families over five days.
A huge thank you to all the authors, illustrators, library staff, teachers, children, Khans Books, the Kilkenny Book Centre, St Canice's Credit Union, CBS primary school, the Kilkenny Education Centre & Music Generation Kilkenny & everyone else who contributed to making Bookville the success it was.
We look forward to bringing you our 8th Bookville festival in October 2024. Meanwhile, you can watch our videos until November 28th 2023.
Follow us on social media and keep up to date with all things Bookville!
Bookville 2023, our 7th consecutive festival is now over...
The festival delivered a fantastic programme including in-person workshops, virtual workshops, the Bookville book, an exhibition and videos. Featuring some of the best contemporary children’s authors, illustrators and entertainers from Ireland and the UK the festival reached an audience of almost 20,000 children and families over five days.
A huge thank you to all the authors, illustrators, library staff, teachers, children, Khans Books, the Kilkenny Book Centre, St Canice's Credit Union, CBS primary school, the Kilkenny Education Centre & Music Generation Kilkenny & everyone else who contributed to making Bookville the success it was.
We look forward to bringing you our 8th Bookville festival in October 2024. Meanwhile, you can watch our videos until November 28th 2023.
Follow us on social media and keep up to date with all things Bookville!
Here is a short video of the Bookville Festival 2023 - enjoy!
Thank you to everyone who has supported the Bookville Festival in 2023. Here is a flavour of school children enjoying Bookville...
Bookville is brought to you by Kilkenny Arts Office and Kilkenny Library Service supported by the Creative Ireland programme.
This festival would not exist without our audiences and the support that you give to the festival.
We hope that Bookville will inspire children of all ages to become critical thinkers with curious minds.
This festival would not exist without our audiences and the support that you give to the festival.
We hope that Bookville will inspire children of all ages to become critical thinkers with curious minds.
