For the first time ever in 27 years of celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses, dozens of talented actors and avid Joyceans performed the complete text of the “Ithaca” episode in an evening called Mr. Leopold Bloom Comes Home. After a musical interlude from Joyce’s “Chamber Music” performed by soprano Judith Kellock, the incomparable Fionnula Flanagan (Lost, TransAmerica) performed the “Penelope” monologue: Molly Bloom’s complete, uncensored nighttime thoughts as she drifts towards that final “yes.”

Couldn't make it to Symphony Space? Check their website for more information on how you can listen to Bloomsday on a live streaming webcast at http://www.symphonyspace.org/. 

General information can be obtained at http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/2129.   

For more information on the Bloomsday Celebration, please visit http://people.morrisville.edu/~loudismj/jjc/index.html. 

President, Paul Dunn at [email protected].    

The Harvard Club of Washington DC and Washington Independent Writers are holding a reading of highlights from James Joyce's Ulysses on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 7:00 PM (with food and drink orders from 6:30 PM) at the Irish Channel Pub located at the corner of H and 5th Streets, NW.  There is no admission charge - there is a cash bar and food arrangement. The public is welcome.

People who wish to volunteer to read or to suggest segments of the novel to be read should contact Bob Kolodney at [email protected] or Donald Graul at [email protected], or offer themselves or post suggestions at the ProBoards website for the event - BloomsdayDC2008, http://bobko1.proboards57.com/.  On the ProBoards site, participants have to register an account with a user name and password, but it is free to use.

There will be a coordinating meeting on Monday, April 7 2008 at 6:30 PM at the the Paper Moon restaurant in Georgetown (1073 31st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007 - the red Circulator bus, the blue/gold Georgetown Connection bus and any of the 30s DC buses stop on M and 31st Streets within feet of this location)

Bob Kolodney at [email protected] or Donald Graul at [email protected]

Arts & Society's Bloomsday celebration (the oldest continuous public celebration of the life and works of James Joyce in the U.S. and perhaps anywhere) has been rebroadcast on cable T.V. in Cambridge and on Martha's Vineyard.  The celebration was featured in Newsweek Magazine on June 14, 2004.  Tickets:  $15 general, $12 senior & student.  Sold at the door. 

John Crelan, Artistic Director at [email protected].  General information can be obtained at (508) 696-0539 or at http://www.artsandsociety.org/.   

The Wild Geese Players of Seattle an amateur group who present readings of Irish literature will present a staged reading of chapter 14, "Oxen of the Sun", adapted from the 1922 edition of Ulysses.  Now that the excitement of the Joycean Bloomsday Centenary has passed the Wild Geese Players of Seattle still continue their Joycean journey (as ever kindly supported by the Irish Heritage Club). This is the eleventh year that they are presenting staged readings of James Joyce's Ulysses. In this year we find the story at Chapter 14, Oxen of the Sun. It is 9pm on a mid-June evening. Leopold Bloom attempts to visit an old friend at a maternity hospital, and somehow manages to make a tour through every English literary style before the twentieth century.

George V. Reilly, Acting Director at [email protected].  More information can be obtained at http://www.wildgeeseseattle.org/.   

We begin the 104th Anniversary of Bloomsday at Books and Books with readings from Ulysses by professional actors.  Then we march to John Martin's Irish Restaurant led by a piper and flag bearers and celebrate in earnest.

More information can be obtained at http://www.emeraldsocietysfl.com/Calendar.html or by calling (305) 273-0118.   

Every odd numbered year, the International James Joyce Society sponsors an American conference on and around Bloomsday, June 16, known as the North American James Joyce Conference. In 2009 it will be hosted by the University at Buffalo, whose holdings of manuscripts and papers are the largest in the world. Eire on the Erie will combine scholarly presentations and civic events centered in the City of Buffalo. Gown and town will intersect at crucial moments, including Bloomsday itself, Wednesday, June 16. By and large, the conference venue will be downtown Buffalo, with its abundant civic space and urban hospitality – restaurants, bars, cafes theaters.

Sign in and registration would take place Friday and Saturday, June 12th and 13th, at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Buffalo, where most of the conference will be housed.  The conference proper will take place on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, the 14-16th, culminating in one or more Bloomsday events, to be held at the Burchfield-Penny, the Albright-Knox, and Delaware Park.  The Buffalo conference will be a 3-day conference and should attract about several hundred attendees from the scholarly community. Public activities outside the conference organized around the traditional Bloomsday, should attract another 400-500 members of the Buffalo community.

For further information, contact conference director Mark Shechner at [email protected].  To submit panel and paper proposals, watch for the Call for Papers panel on which the CFP will be issued in August. 

Join hundreds of Rosenbach friends and neighbors and gather under the giant shade trees of Delancey Place to hear dozens of notable Philadelphians and Joyce enthusiasts bring the novel to life.  Along with the main event - the June 16 public reading of Ulysses - the Rosenbach will be featuring an exhibition of selections from the original Ulysses manuscript, "A Nation Is the Same People Living in the Same Place: Joyce and Jews," as well as other special programming.  Rosenbach is also celebrating with a month-long exhibit that invites guests to picture what Ulysses would look like in illustration or as a graphic novel.  From June 3-29, 2008, the Rosenbach's orientation gallery will house selections of Joyce's hand-written manuscript, illustrations of Ulysses, and drawings of Joyce.  In conjunction with this exhibit, graphic artist Robert Berry will also give a talk abotu Ulysses Seen, his graphic novel adaptation of Ulysses.  Robert will discuss the inspiration, process, and goals for this anticipated 10-year project.

For more information please contact (215) 732-1600 or http://www.rosenbach.org/.    

Renee Gibbons, Oonagh Kavanagh, Robert Aryes and guest actors will present dramatic readings from Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Portrait of An Artist As a Young Man, Pomespennyeach, stories from Dubliners; and songs sung by James Joyce, to express the brilliant, bawdy, and tender sides of this literary genius.  Dress your Irish best!  A special Bloomsday menu will be available throughout the evening.  Members Free, Public $10.

More information can be obtained at http://www.milibrary.org/events.html or by calling (415) 393-0101.   

RE-NASCENT JOYCE: XXIst INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM

The biannual International James Joyce Symposium, held in a European city to mark the anniversary of Bloomsday, is an occasion for Joyceans from all over the world to take stock of the latest research and methodologies in their field.  It has been over thirty years now since the last International Symposium took place in France. With an inaugural address by Jacques Lacan at the Sorbonne, the 1975 Paris Symposium marked an important step in the spread of what is now called “Post-Structuralism” in English-speaking countries.  The Tours Symposium will feature a full range of social events in the evenings, where scholars can meet informally and enjoy the beautiful landscapes of Tours and the Loire Valley. There will be a boat ride down the Loire and a concert of Madrigal music. On Bloomsday itself there will be a reception and banquet hosted by the Mayor of Tours. There will also be a closing banquet at the Château d’Amboise. And the organisers are planning to treat the Symposium’s participants to a range of local cuisines and wines.  The Symposium is offering scholarships to a few young scholars from Eastern European countries in addition to the scholarships funded by the International James Joyce Foundation. The amount is 300 Euros and registration fees will be waived (or reimbursed if already payed). Send applications with CV and abstract of proposed paper to: [email protected]

For more information pleave visit http://joyce2008.univ-tours.fr/.   

For a detailed listing of events listed by the Joyce Centre, please visit http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/detail.asp?id=109  

For more information please visit http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/detail.asp?id=109.