On Friday, September 18th, Culture Night will be celebrated all over the country, marking the 21st edition of an event that started small but now permeates so many towns and villages across Ireland. Arts venues, both formal and ad hoc, will keep their doors open late as part of this special occasion.Among the hundreds of events taking place, the Office of the Attorney General on Upper Merrion Street in Dublin will, for the first time, open its doors to the public on the night. It’s a building well-known by name, but probably little seen to date by anyone not connected with the legal profession. Tours will run throughout the evening. At the 15th century Knockelly Castle in Co Tipperary, visitors are encouraged to bring their children to channel our medieval past, and avail of a shield-painting workshop, from 4pm to 6pm. You get to take the shields home.Arklow Library in Co Wicklow will hold a concert of Indian classical music from 5pm to 6pm. For more immersion in Indian culture, Gorey Library in Co Wexford will be the venue for a performance of Indian classical dancing, accompanied by music from the Indian Classical Music Society of Ireland, from 4pm to 4.45pm.Anyone who has ever been curious about the little magazines and booklets that are zines can go along to Tuam Library in Co Galway for a zine-making workshop with Jennifer Cunningham, from 4pm to 5.30pm, while people with an interest in pottery or the rug-making process known as “tufting” may be drawn to an open studio night with demonstrations of both at Dublin Pottery and Tufting. You can also have a go yourself, from 6pm to 10pm.[ Pottery fever: ‘There’s a big demand for something different. People don’t want to go sit in a pub’Opens in new window ]Therese Hanley and Colm Beggan will hold a “banjo social” at the Douglas Hyde Interpretative Centre in Co Roscommon from 7.30pm to 9pm. Bring your banjo and your boogie.From playing the banjo to playing the “paper bag” – yes, there’s an event for that. You’re invited to bring along a paper bag and your imagination to the community garden, An Gairdín Beo, in Carlow town centre, and find out how a paper bag can be transformed into a musical instrument, from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin will hold a bell-ringing demonstration from 5.30pm to 7pm. Be prepared to climb 86 steps of a spiral staircase. After the demonstration, visitors will get the chance to ring the famous bells for themselves. Pop-up choir workshops will take place at no less a venue than the National Concert Hall in Dublin, where there will be three workshops of 45 minutes each over the course of the evening and everyone from the age of six upwards is invited.In Ballaghdereen, Co Roscommon, there is an invitation to come and join in “the Kiosk Conversations” at the Town Square, from 5pm to 7pm. The town hopes to create a community kiosk where “ideas, stories and conversations can unfold”.Representatives of the Quaker community in Ireland will be present to welcome visitors to their Friends Meeting House on Dublin’s Eustace Street. They will explain their tradition in Ireland, and invite visitors to pause for reflection, from 4.30pm to 8.30pm. At the newly opened International Centre for the Image in Dublin’s Docklands, under 12s are invited to partake in a spaceship-building workshop, from 4pm to 7pm. There are no promises of a trip to Mars.All Culture Night events are free, but some must be pre-booked due to limited capacity. Programme details for the evening, which is supported by the Arts Council, can be found at Culturenight.ie with more events to be added in the coming weeks.