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Thursday, June 16, 2011 marked the 107th anniversary of the day that James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses, took place. The novel is set in and around Dublin, Ireland and follows the adventures of several characters, including Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus through a single remarkable day, June 16, 1904. Fans of the novel celebrate Bloomsday each year by reading from the novel, re-enacting scenes, listening to traditional Irish music, or hoisting their favorite Irish drink to celebrate their favorite literary work.
Featured on WNYC Radio and in the Village Voice, New York Times and the New York Post, BloomsdayNYC is dedicated to providing and maintaining a list of Bloomsday events in the greater New York City metropolitan area and other major events around the world.
We are in the process of updating and reviewing events for Bloomsday 2012. To have your Bloomsday event added to our events calendar, please send an email with all relevant information to us by clicking here.
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BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY XXX
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Date:
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June 16, 2011
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Time:
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12:00PM (Noon)
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Location:
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Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY (SW corner of 95th and Broadway).
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Description:
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On Thursday, June 16th, 2011, Symphony Space celebrate the 30th annual BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY James Joyce ULYSSES marathon, staged by Isaiah Sheffer. It will involve over 100 actors, including some leading stars of stage and screen, and will last over twelve hours, from noon until Molly Bloom's final "Yes!" sometime after midnight. Since the events of June 16, 1904, described in the 18 episodes of ULYSSES also happen on a Thursday, this anniversary will sample ALL 18 EPISODES, giving beginning readers of ULYSSES a sampling of the diverse styles employed by James Joyce, and giving experienced Joyceans a very satisfying literary feast.
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/.
LIVE BROADCAST ON WNYC 93.9FM BEGINS at 8:00pm!
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Symphony Space
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Contact:
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General information can be obtained at http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6725--30th-annual-bloomsday-on-broadway.
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STATEN ISLAND OutLOUD ANNUAL 2011 BLOOMSDAY CELEBRATION
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Date:
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June 16, 2011
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Time:
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7:30PM ET
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(Just 3 blocks from the Ferry Terminal. For directions via public transportation, visit www.hopstop.com or http://www.etgstores.com/bookcafe/index.html)
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Staten Island OutLOUD’s annual community celebration of James Joyce's comic epic. Every year on June 16, Joyceans around the globe gather to read Ulysses. Staten Island is no exception: Staten Island OutLOUD is proud to host this annual gathering.
Music by Caroline Cutroneo and Bobaloo Basey.
Adults only for this event, please.
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Staten Island OutLOUD
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Contact:
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http://statenislandoutloud.org/upcomingevents.aspx
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IABANY BLOOMSDAY CELEBRATION
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Date:
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June 16, 2011
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Time:
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6:00PM ET
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Location:
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Rotunda at 60 Centre Street, NY County Supreme Court
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Description:
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James Joyce did not just give us one of the greatest works of world literature. He also gave us a landmark ruling in First Amendment jurisprudence. This year, the Irish American Bar Association of New York holds its third annual Bloomsday celebration on June 16, 2011, celebrating Joyce’s contribution to the principle of free speech. Keynote speaker, Kathleen Sullivan, former Dean of Stanford Law School, will deliver the John Quinn Memorial Address, named after the famed Irish-American lawyer who repre-sented Joyce’s publishers in their criminal prosecution for obscenity. Her address will be followed by a re-enactment of the argument before Judge John Woolsey in 1933 in U.S.A. v. One Book Called Ulysses, in which Judge Woolsey issued the brave and ground-breaking decision that Ulysses is a work of art not obscenity. The Honorable Gerard E. Lynch, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will play the part of Judge John Woolsey. The Hon. Charles J. Hynes, Brooklyn D.A., will play the role of the (reluctant) prosecutor, Sam Coleman. New Yorker General Counsel Lynn Oberlander will play the role of defense lawyer Morris Ernst.
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Hosted By:
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Irish American Bar Association of New York
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Contact:
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RSVP req'd to [email protected]. Cost of event is free.
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Event Title:
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BLOOMSDAY BREAKFAST IN BRYANT PARK
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Date:
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June 16, 2011
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Time:
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8:00AM - 10:00AM EST
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Location:
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Bryant Park’s Upper Terrace, behind the main branch of the New York Public Library, between 5th Avenue and Avenue of the Americas and between 40th and 42nd Street. In case of rain, the event will take place inside the Bryant Park Grill.
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Description:
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Culture Ireland and Irish Arts Center host A Bloomsday Breakfast, part of the international celebrations of Irish author James Joyce and his famed novel Ulysses, which follows central character Leopold Bloom through the single day of June 16, 1904. Close to five hundred fans are expected to enjoy a free Irish breakfastserved while waltzing dancers in Edwardian costumes twirl around the park to live period music and actors read from the groundbreaking work. 100 copies of Joyce’s Ulysses will also be donated by the Irish government to New York Public Library. A Bloomsday Breakfast is one of several hundred events in Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year of Irish arts in America and is presented in cooperation with Bryant Park and the Irish Arts Center.
Skins’ James Newman, Oscar nominated Terry George, actress Fionnula Flanagan, among others to read.
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Hosted By:
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Culture Ireland and Irish Arts Center
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Contact:
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http://irishartscenter.org/literary.html#bryant. RSVP required to: [email protected]
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BROOKLYN LYCEUM BLOOMSDAY CELEBRATION
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Date:
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June 16, 2011
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Time:
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8:00PM ET
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Location:
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Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue (R Train to Union Street), Brooklyn, NY 11215
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Description:
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You are welcome to join resident Joycean scholar Emmet Mc Gowan in a casual celebration of this great day. The evening will be dedicated to "The new york society for the suppression of vice", who in 1920 objected to the books content and took action to keep the book out of the USA. Ulysses was banned until 1933.
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Hosted By:
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Brooklyn Lyceum
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Contact:
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www.brooklynlyceum.com
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ULYSSES' FOLK HOUSE BLOOMSDAY CELEBRATION
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Date:
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June 16, 2011
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Time:
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11:30AM ET through Midnight
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Location:
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Ulysses’ Folk House (bar), 95 Pearl Street, New York City
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Description:
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Ulysses' Folk House located in the financial district does a great day of events to celebrate James Joyce and Bloomsday. We have readings from the novel which is hosted by Column McCann. Bloomsday also marks the birthday of the bar, so there are drinks specials and live music throughout the day.
There will be a Carvery Lunch (11:30-3:00), Special Literary Guests, Complimentary Drinks (4:00-5:30), Just A Song at Twilight (5:30pm), and more complimentary drinks! (midghtning till 1:00am)
Adults only for this event, please.
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Ulysses’ Folk House
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Contact:
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For more information, please call 212-482-0400.
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RADIO BLOOMSDAY 2011: A 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
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Date:
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Time:
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7:00PM – 2:00AM ET
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WBAI 99.5 FM & WBAI.org
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Description:
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Radio Bloomsday, the 30th annual, 7-hour broadcast of excerpts from James Joyce's Ulysses and related works, will be heard coast to coast on Thursday, June 16, 2011 on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York, 7 PM - 2 AM. To celebrate Bloomsday, the day on which Ulysses takes place, the broadcast will feature artists from New York, Los Angeles, London and Dublin. The show will be streamed live on wbai.org. Featured artists include Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Jerry Stiller, Garrison Keillor, Wallace Shawn, Kate Valk, Paul Dooley, Bob Odenkirk, Paul Muldoon, Anne Enright, T. Ryder Smith, Jim Fletcher, Marc Maron and Caraid O'Brien as Molly Bloom.
Radio Bloomsday brings together contemporary artists to make Joyce's text fresh and accessible to modern audiences. Highlights include Alec Baldwin reading Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses plus an excerpt from the Wandering Rocks episode. Booker-Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright narrates the entire Calypso episode with quintessential New York playwright and actor Wallace Shawn as Leopold Bloom. Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon reads an excerpt of the Proteus episode. Garrison Keillor reads another excerpt from Wandering Rocks. Jerry Stiller reads Bloom's thoughts about Passover.
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Radio Bloomsday is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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Contact:
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General information can be obtained at www.radiobloomsday.blogspot.com and on twitter @mollyinbed.
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BLOOMSDAY IN BROOKLYN
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Date:
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June 18, 2011
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Time:
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2:00PM ET
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Location:
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Black Sheep Pub on Bergen Street in Brooklyn
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Description:
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Dublin comes to Park Slope on Saturday, June 18. Joyce fans travel to five Brooklyn pubs. At each pub different actors will do readings from Ulysses while at each stop musicians will play traditional Irish standards.
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Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick (contact [email protected] for additional details)
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A RAP TRIBUTE TO JAMES JOYCE FOR BLOOMSDAY 2011 (PODCAST PROJECT)
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Date:
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Location:
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Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue (R Train to Union Street), Brooklyn, NY 11215
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Author and former BBC broadcaster and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney (www.frankdelaney.com) offers up a weekly podcast in which he deconstructs James Joyce’s Ulysses line by line, with insight, eloquence, and humor in 5-minute free episodes. The project launched on Bloomsday 2010, and is expected to last about 25 years—until every last reference in the book is unpacked. For Bloomsday 2011, Delaney will summarize Chapter 1, as well as release a video for James Joyce rap. You can listen to the Re:Joyce podcasts on Delaney’s website and iTunes.
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Contact:
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[email protected]
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A BLOOMSDAY INVITATION: ULYSSES MEETS TWITTER 2011
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Date:
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June 16, 2011
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8:00PM ET
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Twitter Handle: @11ysses
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Description:
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Readings of Ulysses pop up all over the world. But what would happen if the experience of hearing this great novel read live was instead shoehorned into the fractured new media that is Twitter? That is what the “Ulysses Meets Twitter 2011” experiment is designed to find out.
We propose a recasting of the reading experience of this novel, start to finish, within the confines of a day-long series of tweets from a global volunteer army of Joyce-sodden tweeps. Can you imagine such a thing? Would it be horrific? Beatific? Hence this experiment.
We are in need of volunteers with the imagination and social media know-how to tweet Ulysses on our @11ysses Twitter account. No audition required. As a volunteer tweader, all you need to do is chose a section (or several) of Ulysses that you’d like to tweet then thoughtfully, soulfully, fancifully compose a series of 4-6 tweets to represent that section. We’ll take care of the rest.
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Contact:
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Twitter Handle: @11ysses
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