Seasonal & Holidays

Dublin Splatter Festival: What To Know

Dublin's festival is right around the corner, offering everything from a World Craft Bazaar to a dance party to a drone show.

Dublin's festival is right around the corner, offering everything from a World Craft Bazaar to a dance party to a drone show.
Dublin's festival is right around the corner, offering everything from a World Craft Bazaar to a dance party to a drone show. (City of Dublin)

DUBLIN, CA — Splatter, Dublin’s annual multicultural end-of-summer festival, will offer music, shopping, dancing, and everything from kung fu performances to art exhibitions to a 250-light drone show. Here’s some information about the festival, which will take place Saturday, Sept. 13 at Emerald Glen Park from noon to 6:30 p.m.

Here’s everything going on that day. For more information, visit dublinsplatter.com.

Music & Performances

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Main Stage:

  • 12-1:30: Sun Kings, Beatles tribute band
  • 2-3:30: Cisco Kid, War/Lowrider tribute band
  • 4: You Should Be Dancing, Bee Gees tribute band
  • 6: Emerald High School band
  • 6:30: Grand finale 250-light drone show and dance party from Boombox Heroes

The Emerald Glen Park Amphitheater Stage will feature culturally diverse performances from:

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  • Riar Academy of Performing Arts
  • Kung Fu USA
  • WeDance
  • Lars & In Charge, featuring Nicole Maria

Side Yard Stage:

Music, dance, poetry, and other performances including:

  • Madison Lauren
  • Sairaj Parva
  • Midnight Reruns
  • The August Reed Band

Food/Drink

  • Food vendors will be everywhere,
  • Culinary marketplace
  • Rose Lounge VIP Experience: Private, velvet-roped lounge with interactive food stations, elevated wine and beer tastings, roaming entertainment, a private dance floor, front-row seat to the drone light show. See here to purchase tickets for $49

Art

  • Enjoy international food and crafts at the World Craft Bazaar
  • “High Life” art exhibition featuring exceptional high school art will take place at The Wave from 1-6 p.m. Submissions will be accepted through Sept. 6. Email events@dacarts.org.

Park Opinions

  • From 3-6 p.m. in Sponsor Row, residents can weigh in on design concepts or a new two-acre linear park in the future Dublin Centre development.

Parking

  • Limited parking in the south parking lot along Central Parkway behind The Wave. Street parking on Central Parkway and Gleason Drive. Offsite parking available at the East County Hall of Justice lot, 5151 Gleason Drive. A free, continuous shuttle will run every 30 minutes.

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