Temple Bar Cultural Trust is excited to bring Dublin’s first ever Chocolate Festival to Temple BAR! This festival of FREE events will appeal to everyone who has a love and appreciation of high quality chocolate.

This passion for chocolate will be experienced not only through sampling, tasting and discovery of chocolate but also explored through the various media of film, literature and the visual arts.

This festival is a celebration of chocolate in many senses of the word. Join us for a weekend dedicated to one of the world’s most revered delicacies which will inevitably bring you to a happy place!


FRIDAY JULY 25TH

WORKSHOP
SENSORY ANALYSIS AND TASTING OF CHOCOLATE
Irish Film Institute (upstairs Meeting Room) Eustace Street, Temple Bar
1pm – 2pm
Presenter - Ivan Caprioli, Food Product Development Centre, DIT, Cathal Brugha Street

Sensory analysis is the science of describing products by certain defined and relevant attributes. The importance of evaluating chocolate with the human senses will be explored in this workshop. It will be an introduction to different types of chocolate, direction as to how to taste its properties and the practical aspect of sampling many types!

PLEASE NOTE – Spaces are limited and booking is essential for this event. See booking details.

TALK
FAIRTRADE AND THE COCOA BEAN
Smock Alley Café, Old City Temple Bar
6pm – 7pm
Speaker – Ian Callanan, Global Action Plan Ireland

This talk is concerned with cocoa production, cocoa producing nations, the control of the cocoa bean market and the fluctuation of prices of this valuable crop.

FILM
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (115mins)
Tim Burton (2005)
Meeting House Square
10pm

Charlie Bucket wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

PLEASE NOTE – This screening requires collection of a FREE Golden Ticket. See ticket details.


SATURDAY JULY 26TH

MARKET
TEMPLE BAR FOOD MARKET CHOCOLATE CARNIVAL
Meeting House Square
10am – 4.30pm

The Temple Bar Food Market will be extra sweet this Saturday as chocolate and cocoa tasting from some of your favourite weekly traders including Chez Emily’s Fine Chocolates, Sabores des Mexico, Crepes in the City, Ariosa Coffee, Sheridans Cheese and Chocolates and Nóiríns Bakehouse.

MUSIC AND DANCE
TEMPLE BAR FOOD MARKET, MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
12noon – 1pm

Put down your shopping bags at this Saturday’s market and get ready to dance as percussion and vocal group CACHIMBO take to the Square bringing their Spanish, Carribbean and African sounds to the great outdoors at the Temple Bar Food Market.

TALK AND TASTING
THE CHOCOLATE REVOLUTION!
Filmbase (Basement) Curved Street
1pm – 2pm
Presenter – Natasha Czopor from Natasha’s Living Foods, Dublin

Contrary to popular belief, chocolate contains some of the highest nutritional values found in a plant and chocolate producer Natasha Czoper is going to reveal all! Through discussion on the wondrous power of cacao, its positive effects on the body, the process of extraction and its venerable history, Natasha will conduct this interactive discussion on all things chocolate with tasting included!

PLEASE NOTE – Spaces are limited and booking is essential for this event. See booking details.

READING
CHOCOLATE THEMED BOOK AND POETRY READING
Connolly Books, East Essex Street
5pm – 6pm
Readers – Harry Walsh, Chloe Doody
Poets - Catherine Ann Cullen, Oran Ryan

In an afternoon of all things literary the Temple Bar Book Market present two readers Harry Walsh and Chloe Doody to read specially chosen excerpts from books where chocolate is the dominant theme.
Guest speakers include Dublin poet Catherine Ann Cullen reading her poem ‘In Defence of Chocolate’ in addition to a newly commissioned poem composed especially for Temple Bar’s Chocolate Festival.
Novelist, poet, playwright and screen writer Oran Ryan will conclude our reading with his poem ‘Ode to Chocolate’.

PLEASE NOTE – Spaces are limited and booking is essential for this event. See booking details.


SUNDAY JULY 27TH

CHOCOLATE FAIR IN MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
12noon – 4pm

Get ready for the largest gathering of chocolate artisan producers on Meeting House Square this July as 12 of the country’s finest producers come together to sell, display, taste, sample and celebrate handmade chocolate.

Chocolate Artisans taking part are –

Chez Emily, Co Meath, Dublin and Temple Bar Food Market, Natasha’s Living Foods, Dublin, Skellig Chocolate Co & Cocoa Bean Chocolates, Co Kerry, Wilde Irish Chocolates, Co. Clare, Glenstal Abbey, Co Limerick, O’Conaill Chocolates, Co. Cork, Chocolate Heaven, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Celtic Chocolates Ltd, Co. Meath, Gallweys of Waterford Ltd, Lorge Chocolatier, Co. Kerry, Lily O’Briens, Co. Kildare, Amnesty International – Fairtrade, organic chocolates

Special features on the day

Visual Arts Display – Newly commissioned work from Designer Mart at Cow’s Lane artists – A display of handmade jewellery, clothing and visual art all inspired by chocolate!

Artists taking part include – Naoimh Tuohy (photographer), Deirdre Griffin (glass sculptor), Simon Bradley (photographer), Ann Tyrrell (jewellery designer), Katharine Quin (clothing designer and illustrator), Raasay Jones (jewellery designer), Mark Lynch (print maker), Iwona Stefanczuk (painter), Carol Eakins (painter), Fiona Archibald (designer), Jennifer Duggan (jewellery designer) and John O’Connor (graphic designer).

Chocolate Mould Display – ‘Tracing the Chocolate Mould: 1920’s to the present day’ – Hailing from O’Conaills Chocolate Shop in Cork, Lola O’Conaill presents her personal metal collection of chocolate moulds retained from a long family tradition of chocolate making.


TEMPLE BARS CHOCOLATE RECIPE COMPETITION

The chocolate stakes are high as chocolate recipes from The Clarence Hotel, Chez Emily, Crepes in the City, Smock Alley Café and Sabores de Mexico go head to head to be crowned the Temple Bar Chocolatier!
Irish Film Institute (Reception/Mezzanine area)
6pm – 7:30pm


OTHER GREAT EVENTS

Children’s Project Display – ‘Tracing the history and tradition of chocolate making’
In association with St Michael’s College JS, Ballsbridge and St Laurence O’Tooles SB, Seville Place Temple Bar Cultural Information Centre
July 21st – 27th

Chocolate Themed Menus available from Temple Bar restaurants and cafes throughout the festival.


TICKET AND BOOKING INFORMATION

All Festival events are FREE but some are ticketed or require advanced booking.
Tickets for the film screening are FREE but require collection from the Temple Bar Cultural Information Centre at 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 from Friday July 11th.

Alternatively you can send a SAE to Chocolate Festival Tickets c/o Temple Bar Cultural Trust, 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 clearly stating how many tickets you require (max 4 tickets per person), for receipt no longer than one week before the event.

Spaces are limited and booking is ESSENTIAL for the workshop and talk on the 25th and the talk and reading on the 26th. To book your place please contact the Temple Bar Cultural Information Centre on 01 888 3610.

TEMPLE BAR CULTURAL INFORMATION CENTRE
Opening Hours:
Mon – Fri 9-5.30pm
Sat – 10-6pm
Sun 12-3pm
(open throughout lunch)
http://www.templebar.ie