5 local experiences you need to check out
Christmas is just around the corner and no doubt you’ll have your office party, dinner or drinks planned by now but if not, here are some great Irish experiences that you can try visit for a couple of hours R&R before returning to the festive madness.
Zero Latency VR
VR is continuously evolving into a more palatable and fun experience. Much like AR applications we’ve lost count of the amount of “Trends” lists it has featured on over the years but when done right, it’s a game changer. We’ve been lucky enough to create a number of VR experiences ourselves for clients who wanted to tell their story through a fully immersive and interactive entertainment environment. Zero Latency takes it up a notch with 8 people entering at the same time and playing together. It’s as if they took a Sega Megadrive (showing my age?!) and Quazar (a solid party staple growing up), mashed them together and pumped it full of digital steroids. Okay not an amazing description but you get the idea. Loads of fun that your teams will enjoy and laugh about later.
14 Henrietta Street
This Georgian tenement building in the North Inner City Dublin is much more entertaining than I had initially expected. You’re brought on a historical tour of Dublin through the characters that inhabited the building from 1720s right through to the final tenants that left in the late 1970s. The tour guides are extremely knowledgeable and the use of projections and audio files in various rooms bring the people of each era to life as Dublin changed through the generations. The final room on the tour is a refurbished room from the last family to leave and you’ll instantly recognise various artefacts and familiar utensils that your grandparents would have had in their homes.
Sing-Along Social
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last few years you’ll have come across Aoife McElwain and the Sing-Along Social crew’s all singing and much dancing nights or performances. Now a staple of the music festival scene you’ll catch them in front of euphoric support who can’t get enough of the cheesey pop anthems, confetti canons, cardboard cut-outs and crowd surfing “Craic Mechanics”. The premise is simple; they pick a theme, play anthems that fit under that heading, hand out sing-long cards with lyrics, everyone sings as loud as they possibly can in spite of their singing ability, everyone dances to Riverdance and goes home with a face sore from laughing or a voice hoarse from performing. It’s the perfect tonic to get people to let their hair down and you’ll find us front and centre at pretty much every gig.
EPIC the Museum
This little beauty punched way above its own weight when nominated as The World Traveller Awards top 14 best tourist destinations in the world this year. And after a visit we can hardly argue, the space in CHQ uses a brilliant mix of video, projection, touch-screen, models, lightboxes and photography to chart the Irish Emigrant story. Irish people who did extraordinary things abroad and the genealogy which our nation has birthed. It’s a really slick and modern museum experience.
Candlelit Tales
If you need to add an element of storytelling, music and a trip through traditional Irish folklore then the team in Candlelit Tales are the ones for you. With a veritable library of old Irish myths and legends at their disposal the team will enchant, scare and entertain your event guests with aplomb.