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If you’re arriving in Kilkenny on Friday and looking for something to do and a nice way to meet your fellow campers, join a night time photo walk through one of Ireland’s most scenic cities.

Edit: We’ve got a time and a place now!

When: 8 PM
Where: The Lobby at Langton’s Hotel
Who: Look for the people with cameras in hand!
Sign Up: Just add your name to the comments below.

We’re delighted to announce that the delightful Chaos Thaoghaire will be at WordCamp, bringing their bewildering combination of parlour games, judge bribing, story telling, and general mayhem to Langton’s on Friday night.

According to the website,

Chaos Thaoghaire is a live event that features personal stories interspersed with team games. Your hosts are The Chaosettes, a duo drunk on their insatiable desire for power and popularity. The stories are all true (or truthy), and the Google-proof games reward cunning, flippancy, wordplay, underhandedness and generally favour the sort of person who would never be allowed on a table quiz team.

Of course it’s confusing. They didn’t call it Organised And Perfectly Straightforward Thaoghaire, did they? They’d have been sued for sure, and while they’re fine when in front of their own crowd, they always break down in front of a judge. All you need to know is that The Chaosettes live by a belief in the earnest pursuit of ludicrous things.

According to the Irish Times, “It’s as if the Golden Girls were running a bingo night in a mental asylum where everybody had the wrong medication.” How could you not want a piece of that?

To join in the fun, just add your name in the comments here. This event is free of charge, and kicks off at 8 PM on Friday, March 5th in the Tea Room at Langtons. Let the hijinx begin!

We’ll be welcoming (and thanking) all of our speakers and sponsors who’ve made it down to Kilkenny in time with a private dinner at Langton’s on Friday night. The setting (and the food) will be very nice indeed but this is not a formal do by any means. Wear what you like – if you’re jetlagged, you can stumble downstairs in your PJs and we’ll be happy to see you (and give you coffee.)

We’ll be getting firm numbers for this event as we confirm speakers. You can bring your kids; we’ll be asking you about that as well.  Dinner will kick off at about 7:30 or 8 and we’ll update with details as the schedule firms up. Thanks!