Bloomsday in Finnish
James Joyce Centre, Dublin.
4th Bloomsday Bathe on the Beach, Malaga – Spain
For the fourth year we are planning a simple reading, swim or paddle off the beach on Bloomsday this year on Sunday, 15th June. What makes our event a little different is that the readers are encouraged to read their pieces in their own language. This is a fun, non intellectual, nor threatening event.And it is FREE. All that is required is that you turn up on time to participate. It will be a memorable occasion. A fun get together!
Where: The Beach, Fuengirola
Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain
Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain
When: 15 June 2014, 7.45AM – 10.30AM
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Roger Cumminskey
W: http://www.rogercummiskey.com/bloomsday-bathe-on-the-beach/
W: http://www.rogercummiskey.com/bloomsday-bathe-on-the-beach/
Bloomsday in Fuengirola
This Spring the University Library City Centre hosts a unique James Joyce exposition. This exhibition, which is part of City2Cities Utrecht International Literature Festilval, will focus on biographican and literary objects and shed a light on the author and person of Joyce.
For the fifth year running the Bloomsday celebrations in Oslo take place at the Ibsen Museum. As in previous years, the proceedings will be officially opened by H E Ambassador Angela O’Farrell. This years programme includes a lecture by Dr. Seán Crosson’s, of the Huston School of Film, Galway, on “Joyce and the Cinema”, a poetry reading by Oslo based poet Jean Kavanagh and a performance in word and music, titled “A Portrait of the Artist’s Mother” performed by Marion McEvoy.
For the fourth year we are planning a simple reading, swim or paddle off the beach on Bloomsday this year on Sunday, 15th June. What makes our event a little different is that the readers are encouraged to read their pieces in their own language. This is a fun, non intellectual, nor threatening event.
And it is FREE. All that is required is that you turn up on time to participate. It will be a memorable occasion. A fun get together!
Come celebrate Bloomsday at the English Department of the University of Basel! You can anticipate the staging of “Wandering Rocks;” live music — featuring Luas, and songs from Ulysses, sung by Michelle Witen; a bring-your-own (meat or veggies) BBQ, and plenty of hijinks to boot! Also, to commemorate the centenary for the publication of Dubliners, we will have a culinary odyssey through all 15 short stories.
The 33rd annual BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY celebrates 100 years of James Joyce’s Dubliners and his masterpiece Ulysses. Performances include readings by Cynthia Nixon, Malachy McCourt, Marin Ireland, National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann, and others of several of the book’s stellar stories, including the beloved final story “The Dead.” Between readings, songs from the stories will be performed by soprano Li.
To celebrate the life of Irish writer JAMES JOYCE and his groundbreaking novel ULYSSES, Wordier Than Thou, StandUpLibrarian.com & Wilson’s Book World present BLOOMSDAY – BYOBook on Monday, June 16th from 7pm – 9pm at Wilson’s Book World, hosted by Stand-Up Librarian Meredith Myers and Jeff Morris, featuring readings & performances honoring Ulysses plus offer a variety of Irish-themed refreshments all with the mission to unite the community in reading JOYCE. The event is completely FREE.
5:30-7:30pm: Guinness, Irish fare and live music
7:30-9:00pm: Dramatic reading
9:00-10:00pm: Guinness, Irish fare and live music.
Taller de Narradores de Santo Domingo will celebrate the Dominican Bloomsday Festival 2014 in Culture Bookstore Atarazana st. #2, Colonial Zone from 19:00 pm. Activities: Writing, Reading, Bloomsday characterizations: Molly and Leopold Bloom snacks and Irish drinks.
Our version of Bloomsday is promoted by the Department of Language and Literature at UNICENTRO, a state university in Irati, south Brazil.
The seminar, Ulysses Lento, with papers by Steve Carey and Philip Harvey, will explore the joys of reading Joyce slowly. 3pm, 16 June.
What’s it all about?
Bloomsday takes place all over the world and is a much anticipated date on the literary calendar. Celebrating the work and life of the famous Irish writer James Joyce, people take turns to read out loud passages from Ulysses, one of the most notorious and much loved novels of the 20th century. A book rich in wit, pun, invention and Homeric references, it has a reputation for being difficult to read, but Bloomsday proves that when read out loud it is accessible, moving and fun!
Here is an overview of the Bloomsday events that are taking place all over the world:
Ireland
Bloomsday in Cluainín / Manorhamilton
A very interesting finding occurred. It seems Manorhamilton is mentioned in chapter 15 of Ulysses, “Nighttown”, which as it turns out is what the local theatre practioners unwittingly chose to perform. The mention is in relation to how well a particular woman looked. She is described amongst other things as the “The Dowager Duchess of Manohamilton“. Therefore the winner of our best dressed woman competition will now be honoured this title. We’re now have to find a suitable quote for the title for the best dressed man.
See the full list of events and times in Manorhamilton here: bloomsday program
Europe
James Joyce exhibition in Universiteitbibliotheek Binnenstad Utrecht, The Netherlands
This Spring the University Library City Centre hosts a unique James Joyce exposition. This exhibition, which is part of City2Cities Utrecht International Literature Festilval, will focus on biographican and literary objects and shed a light on the author and person of Joyce.
A chronological route will lead the visitor past highlights of his works, from the becoming of an artist, to the leaving of Dublin, to the writing and publishing of Ulysses (1922), to the controversy and censorship his work caused, his travels to Trieste, Zurich and Paris and with special attention to Joyce’s visit to Belgium and The Netherlands. Especially the beach at Scheveningen was enjoyed by Joyce, who stayed over in the Netherlands for just one month in 1927.
Where: Drift 27, Utrecht
The Netherlands
When: From 3 April – 20 June 2014
- 8.00 am to 10.30 pm (from Monday to Friday)
- 10.00 am to 6.00 pm (Saturday)
- 10.00 am to 10.30 pm (Sunday)
Cost: Free admission
Contact: Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht Binnenstad, Phone: 0031 30 253 61 15
Celebrate Bloomsday in Pula, Croatia!
Think everyday life’s boring and trivial? You’re so wrong. Tired of the uninventive, semiliterate social network correspondence you’re surrounded with? Full of thoughts and feelings of your own, but can’t quite word them out? Go back to the classics. That’s what they’re here for. You’ll find they talk about just the things you need to hear.
What? Bloomsday: lectures, screenings, tours dedicated to the life and works of James Joyce, especially “Ulysses”, discussion, booze, dance. “I ain’t got time for a 900 page book!” That’s okay, we’ll read it for you! Well, parts of it. Public readings of Joyce’s “Ulysses” will be held by the old and the young, the wise and the foolish, those who have read Ulysses several times over and those who have only read parts of it once. All taking part in a global party to honour a slower-paced era when giants like Joyce had the time and will to put effort and care unimaginable today into their work, making it eternal.
The Oslo Bloomsday Celebrations 2014 – Norway
For the fifth year running the Bloomsday celebrations in Oslo take place at the Ibsen Museum. As in previous years, the proceedings will be officially opened by H E Ambassador Angela O’Farrell. This years programme includes a lecture by Dr. Seán Crosson’s, of the Huston School of Film, Galway, on “Joyce and the Cinema”, a poetry reading by Oslo based poet Jean Kavanagh and a performance in word and music, titled “A Portrait of the Artist’s Mother” performed by Marion McEvoy.
Where: The Ibsen Museum
Henrik Ibsensgate 26,, Oslo Oslo
Norway
Henrik Ibsensgate 26,, Oslo Oslo
Norway
When: 16 June 2014, 5pm – 8.30pm
Cost: 105 NOK
Bloomsday Celebrations in Manchester, UK
Join us for a feast of fabulous food, live music performed by harpist Katie Brett, performances by the Manchester Irish Actors and more as we celebrate the wonderful Irish author James Joyce and his most famous publication Ulysses. For more information, click here.
Where: Irish Town Way, Manchester M8 0RB, UK
When: 15 June 2014, 6PM -8PM
Cost: £6 / £5 conc. / Booking required
Contact: Margot Power
E: m.power@iwhc.com
E: m.power@iwhc.com
Bloomsday with Lucia Joyce, Northampton, UK
James Joyces book Ulysses depicts the events of one day when Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom took their epic journey through Dublin.
For millions of people, June 16 is an extraordinary day. On that day in 1904, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom each took their epic journeys through Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses, the world’s most highly acclaimed modern novel. “Bloomsday”, as it is now known, has become a tradition for Joyce enthusiasts all over the world. From Tokyo to Sydney,San Francisco to Paris, Trieste to… Northampton, dozens of cities around the globe hold their own Bloomsday festivities.The celebrations usually include readings as well as staged re-enactments and street-side improvisations of scenes from the story.
For millions of people, June 16 is an extraordinary day. On that day in 1904, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom each took their epic journeys through Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses, the world’s most highly acclaimed modern novel. “Bloomsday”, as it is now known, has become a tradition for Joyce enthusiasts all over the world. From Tokyo to Sydney,San Francisco to Paris, Trieste to… Northampton, dozens of cities around the globe hold their own Bloomsday festivities.The celebrations usually include readings as well as staged re-enactments and street-side improvisations of scenes from the story.
To celebrate that special day, known as Bloomsday, the Irish Community Arts Project will present a reading by invited literary figures at the graveside of Lucia Anna Joyce who died in Northampton in 1982. Like many of us the Joyce family were part of the Irish Diaspora and as such remember them. The Triskillion Theatre Company will perform in period costume.
Where: At the graveside of Lucia Joyce in Kingsthorpe Cemetery. Location information: Northampton (Kingsthorpe) Cemetery is two miles north of the town centre on the east side of Harborough Road (the A508).
When: 16 June 2014, 7pm
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Peter Mulligan – Project Co-ordinator
The Irish Community Arts Project
Northampton Connolly Association
5 Woodland Avenue
Abington Park
Northampton NN3 2BY
P: 01604-715793
E: caprojects.pm@gmail.com
The Irish Community Arts Project
Northampton Connolly Association
5 Woodland Avenue
Abington Park
Northampton NN3 2BY
P: 01604-715793
E: caprojects.pm@gmail.com
“The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks” – Athens, Greece
For first time in Greece an evening in “Fournos, Centre for Digital Culture” will be dedicated to Bloomsday, presenting the poetical film, based in a multimodal text entitled “The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks”.
Moreover, actors and poets will read works of Joyce in Greek, to celebrate the date on which Joyce set his odyssey.
Where: Fournos Digital Center
Mavromichali 168, Athens 114 72, Greece
Mavromichali 168, Athens 114 72, Greece
When : 16 June, 7PM – 8PM
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Fournos Digital Center
T: 00302106460748
E: info@fournos-culture.gr
T: 00302106460748
E: info@fournos-culture.gr
Bloomsday in Euskadi, Spain
Scanlan’s Tavern Gernika, the Basque regions Irish bar is hosting its annual Bloomsday event.
Where: Scanlan’s Tavern Gernika
Carlos Gangoiti Kalea, 19, Urdaibai, 48300 Gernika-Lumo, Biscay,Spain
Carlos Gangoiti Kalea, 19, Urdaibai, 48300 Gernika-Lumo, Biscay,Spain
When: 15 June 2014, 9AM – 23.30PM
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Scanlan’s Tavern Gernika
E: scanlanp@hotmail.com
E: scanlanp@hotmail.com
4th Bloomsday Bathe on the Beach, Malaga – Spain
For the fourth year we are planning a simple reading, swim or paddle off the beach on Bloomsday this year on Sunday, 15th June. What makes our event a little different is that the readers are encouraged to read their pieces in their own language. This is a fun, non intellectual, nor threatening event.And it is FREE. All that is required is that you turn up on time to participate. It will be a memorable occasion. A fun get together!
Where: The Beach, Fuengirola
Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain
Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain
When: 15 June 2014, 7.45AM – 10.30AM
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Roger Cumminskey
W: http://www.rogercummiskey.com/bloomsday-bathe-on-the-beach/
W: http://www.rogercummiskey.com/bloomsday-bathe-on-the-beach/
Bloomsday in Basel, Switzerland
Come celebrate Bloomsday at the English Department of the University of Basel! You can anticipate the staging of “Wandering Rocks;” live music — featuring Luas, and songs from Ulysses, sung by Michelle Witen; a bring-your-own (meat or veggies) BBQ, and plenty of hijinks to boot! Also, to commemorate the centenary for the publication of Dubliners, we will have a culinary odyssey through all 15 short stories.
Where: Nadelberg 6
Basel, Basel Stadt CH-4051
Switzerland
Basel, Basel Stadt CH-4051
Switzerland
When: 16 June 2014, 5 pm onwards
Cost: Donation, no booking required.
North America
Bloomsday on Broadway XXXIII - Co-produced by Symphony Space and Irish Arts Center
The 33rd annual BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY celebrates 100 years of James Joyce’s Dubliners and his masterpiece Ulysses. Performances include readings by Cynthia Nixon, Malachy McCourt, Marin Ireland, National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann, and others of several of the book’s stellar stories, including the beloved final story “The Dead.” Between readings, songs from the stories will be performed by soprano Li.
Where: Symphony Space 2537 Broadway at 95th
New York, New York 10025
United States
New York, New York 10025
United States
When: 16 June, 7PM
Cost: $18 when using promo code IAC, no booking required.
Contact: Kim Rossi email: kim@irishartscenter.org
BLOOMSDAY – BYOBook, Florida St. Petersburg
To celebrate the life of Irish writer JAMES JOYCE and his groundbreaking novel ULYSSES, Wordier Than Thou, StandUpLibrarian.com & Wilson’s Book World present BLOOMSDAY – BYOBook on Monday, June 16th from 7pm – 9pm at Wilson’s Book World, hosted by Stand-Up Librarian Meredith Myers and Jeff Morris, featuring readings & performances honoring Ulysses plus offer a variety of Irish-themed refreshments all with the mission to unite the community in reading JOYCE. The event is completely FREE.
Where: Wilson’s Book World
2394 M L King St N, Florida St. Petersburg, 33704
United States
2394 M L King St N, Florida St. Petersburg, 33704
United States
When: 16 June 2014, 7-9PM
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Meredith Myers Meredith@MeredithMyers.com
Kirkland Bloomsday Celebration, USA
A participatory Irish Cultural Celebration celebrating James Joyce and Irish culture – its literature, poetry, music and dance.
Where: Parkplace Books, 401 Park Place Center, Park Place, Kirkland, WA 98033, USA
When: 14 June 2014, 2PM – 8PM
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Parkplace Books
walt@kruegerbecklaw.com
walt@kruegerbecklaw.com
Wilmington’s Bloomsday Marionette Show, US
This year Old Books on Front Street have a very special treat: A marionette show! Local puppet artists Nina and Bryan Cournoyer are creating hand-made original marionettes to preform a section of the play-within-the book. As always we will have food and drink for making merry to commemorate this fabulous day for literature!
Where: Old Books on Front St.
249 North Front Street, Wilmington,
NC 28401, USA
249 North Front Street, Wilmington,
NC 28401, USA
When: 16 June 2014, 7.30PM – 9.30PM
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Old Books on Front St.
E: oldbooksonfrontst@gmail.com
E: oldbooksonfrontst@gmail.com
Hammer Presents: Bloomsday Los Angeles, CA
Elegant language once denounced as obscure, unintelligible, and nonsensical is delivered by a talented cast of actors and interspersed with cheerful live music at Hammer’s 5th annual Bloomsday celebration. The finale – for a mature audience – will feature selected racy parts of Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy. Organized by bonafide Joyce fanatic Stanley Breitbard.
5:30-7:30pm: Guinness, Irish fare and live music
7:30-9:00pm: Dramatic reading
9:00-10:00pm: Guinness, Irish fare and live music.
Where:Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90024 United States
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90024 United States
When: 16 June 2014 from 5.30pm – 10pm
Cost: Free, but booking required
Contact: For booking please use link: http://hammer.ucla.edu/
Dominican Bloomsday
Taller de Narradores de Santo Domingo will celebrate the Dominican Bloomsday Festival 2014 in Culture Bookstore Atarazana st. #2, Colonial Zone from 19:00 pm. Activities: Writing, Reading, Bloomsday characterizations: Molly and Leopold Bloom snacks and Irish drinks.
Where: Culture Bookstore
Calle Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo 10108,
Dominican Republic
Calle Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo 10108,
Dominican Republic
When: 16 June, 6PM – 9PM
Cost: Free, no booking required.
Contact: Culture Bookstore
E: hectorsantanap@gmail.com
E: hectorsantanap@gmail.com
South America
Bloomsday in Fortaleza, Brazil
Wine,music and readings of Ulysses, fragments in English, Portuguese and other idioms. A meeting of psychoanalysts and fans of James Joyce and his books.
Where: indie café bistro
rua vila bachá 5, Meireles Fortaleza
Brazil
rua vila bachá 5, Meireles Fortaleza
Brazil
When: 14 June 2014 from 7PM – 10PM
Cost: Free, but booking required.
Celebrate Bloomsday in Irati, Brazil
Our version of Bloomsday is promoted by the Department of Language and Literature at UNICENTRO, a state university in Irati, south Brazil.
For this forth edition we’ll have two days of celebration: starting on june 5th (8 AM), a 24 hour reading of selections from James Joyce’s Ulysses; on june 6th (7 PM), a night of live perfomances by students, local artists and literature lovers. Join us for these moments of poetry and music!
Where: Centro Cultural Clube do Comércio e Empório São Luiz
Rua 15 de Julho, 310 Irati
Brazil
Rua 15 de Julho, 310 Irati
Brazil
When: 5 and 6 June 2014
Cost: Free, no booking required
Contact: Centro Cultural Clube do Comércio e Empório São Luiz
Asia & Australia
Bloomsday in Melbourne Festival 2014
Ulysses Prestissimo and Lento.
The Bloomsday festival in 2014 comprises three events: a play, a seminar and a dinner.
The Bloomsday festival in 2014 comprises three events: a play, a seminar and a dinner.
The play, ‘Ulysses Prestissimo’ is an adaptation of the whole of the novel and will be exuberant and vaudevillian, and is directed by Wayne Pearn. (11-16 June, 8pm; 15 June at 2.30pm)
The seminar, Ulysses Lento, with papers by Steve Carey and Philip Harvey, will explore the joys of reading Joyce slowly. 3pm, 16 June.
A dinner at The White Rabbit restaurant, 16 June 5.30pm for 6.00pm.
The dinner features a Dublin entertainer. 5.30pm, 16 June
The dinner features a Dublin entertainer. 5.30pm, 16 June
Where: Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre
Wilson St., Victoria Brighton 3186
Australia
Wilson St., Victoria Brighton 3186
Australia
When: Events will take place from 11 June 2014 till 16 June 2014
Cost: $30 full; $25 conc. for health and student card holders, booking essential!
Contact:
Laneway Learning Bloomsday- Read Out Loud, Sydney
What’s it all about?Bloomsday takes place all over the world and is a much anticipated date on the literary calendar. Celebrating the work and life of the famous Irish writer James Joyce, people take turns to read out loud passages from Ulysses, one of the most notorious and much loved novels of the 20th century. A book rich in wit, pun, invention and Homeric references, it has a reputation for being difficult to read, but Bloomsday proves that when read out loud it is accessible, moving and fun!
Where: Sydney, L3 Central Park
George Street, NSW Sydney
Australia
George Street, NSW Sydney
Australia
When: 16 June 2014, 7pm – 9.30pm, booking required.
Cost: $15
Bloomsday in New Zealand
Grey Lynn musical maestro and entertainer Hershal Herscher will be doing his Leopold Bloom number again on June 16.He’ll be appearing in the annual June 16 Bloomsday musical literary razzle dazzle at the Thirsty Dog on Karangahape Road in Auckland, New Zealand, the southernmost Bloomsday happening. Here in New Zealand Bloomsday has been celebrated for the past dozen years in a unique Hibernian-Hebrew cabaret featuring Linn Lorkin and Hershal and the Jews Brothers Band.
Grey Lynn musical maestro and entertainer Hershal Herscher will be doing his Leopold Bloom number again on June 16.He’ll be appearing in the annual June 16 Bloomsday musical literary razzle dazzle at the Thirsty Dog on Karangahape Road in Auckland, New Zealand, the southernmost Bloomsday happening. Here in New Zealand Bloomsday has been celebrated for the past dozen years in a unique Hibernian-Hebrew cabaret featuring Linn Lorkin and Hershal and the Jews Brothers Band.
XENA STARS REUNITED FOR BLOOMSDAY
Lucy Lawless and Michael Hurst, stars of the epic sandals & skirts TV soapXena, Warrior Princess, will be re-united in a K Rd pub for Auckland’s annual Bloomsday cabaret, The Jews Brothers’ Bloomsday. They’ll be part of a tribute to James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, celebrated in pubs the world over on June 16, the world’s sole annual commemoration of a totally fictional date—June 16, 1904—a date in which something happened only in a book.
Lucy Lawless will be making a guest appearance as Molly Bloom, faithless wife, reading from Molly’s extraordinary and explicit 50-page soliloquy.Top stage star Michael Hurst will be playing Joyce’s alter ego, Stephen Dedalus.Linn Lorkin and the Jews Brothers’ Band, backed by Jean McAllister, will be providing music: Motown, Mozart, ABBA, The Doors, klezmer, Edith Piaf, Dominic Behan, Marian hymns, Broadway musicals.
And there’ll be a surprise appearance from Dame Sister May Leo, dropping in from heaven.
Where: Thirsty Dog Tavern, Karangahape Rd, Auckland
When: Monday night, June 16, 7.30pm-10.30pm
Cost: Unknown
Contact: Dean Parker at dean@pl.net
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