Dear all,
While the symposium has had to be postponed this year, the International James Joyce Foundation will hold a special one-hour Bloomsday Zoom event on 16 June. The event starts at 5pm CEST / 11am EDT. We invite you to sign up and join Geert Lernout, Claire Culleton, Colleen Jaurretche, Ronan Crowley, Katherine O'Callaghan, Laura Pelaschiar, and John McCourt as we commemorate John Bishop, look forward to the 2021 symposium, Omniscientific Joyce, and celebrate the evolving story of Joyce and Trieste, Trieste and Joyce. Joyceans all over the world are welcome to join us, but please register before the 16th to receive the meeting's Zoom link. Sign up here:[*URL]
Wishing you all a positive Bloomsday,
Ronan, John, Katherine, and Laura.
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Ronan Crowley, John McCourt, Katherine O'Callaghan, and Laura Pelaschiar
Omniscientific Joyce Organising Committee
Omniscientific Joyce: The 27th International James Joyce Symposium (14-18 June 2021)
Omniscientific Joyce: XXVII International James Joyce Symposium
Speakers :
Valerie Benejam, University of Nantes, France
Catherine Flynn, UC Berkeley, USA
John McCourt, University of Macerata, Italy
Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The official site: ULYSSES, PANDEMIC, AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
(Wed, 17 June 2020 04:00 - 06:00 JST) hosted by Paul O'Hanrahan, Balloonatics Theatre Company.
Humid Nightblue Fruit, an evening of performances and communal readings from Ulysses, was first presented in Buswell's Hotel in 1995. It has since become associated with its regular central Dublin venue, Wynn's Hotel, and is now a fixture on the Bloomsday scene. This year, due to the social restrictions arising from the current pandemic, Balloonatics is presenting the event virtually, at 8 p.m. on June 16.
This interactive occasion will consist of readings from Joyce by Paul O'Hanrahan and others interspersed throughout the evening. As usual, the audience will be encouraged to participate and so if you wish to read yourself, prepare a short piece from Ulysses (of a maximum four minutes). Otherwise feel free to come along and listen or even share your reflections on Bloomsday. The evening will last for two hours and will conclude with a rendition of the Bloomsday anthem, 'Love's Old Sweet Song', so please download the words attached here so you are ready to join in. [Extracted by the official site of "eventbrite"]
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He approached Larry O'Rourke's. From the cellar grating floated up the flabby gush of porter. Good house, however: just the end of the city traffic.
Baldhead over the blind. Cute old codger. No use canvassing him for an ad. Still he knows his own business best. There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves.
Simon Dedalus takes him off to a tee with his eyes screwed up. Do you know what I'm going to tell you? What's that, Mr O'Rourke? Do you know what? The Russians, they'd only be an eight o'clock breakfast for the Japanese.
Stop and say a word: about the funeral perhaps. Sad thing about poor Dignam, Mr O'Rourke.
Turning into Dorset street he said freshly in greeting through the doorway:
BLOOM -- Good day, Mr O'Rourke.
LARRY -- Good day to you.
BLOOM -- Lovely weather, sir.
LARRY -- 'Tis all that.
Where do they get the money? Coming up redheaded curates from the county Leitrim. Then think of the competition. General thirst. Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub
Hi, Dan Schiff here, I'm trying to make something cool for John Bishop, and seeing that Bloomsday is happening on a Tuesday, that we fuse everything together in a joint Zoom session with The Berkeley Tuesday Night Finnegans Wake Group and the Oakland Monthly Wednesday Night Ulysses Group to have a Zoomsday 2020 Electric Eclectic Joycean Better-Wake-than-Never Revue, The Berkeley and Oakland groups with SPECIAL GUESTS former members of The Berkeley Tuesday Night Finnegans Wake Reading Group. It will be a Bloomy Zoomy blast from the past as the group celebrates our 34th year anniversary (Though neither John Bishop or I were present, a graduate student named Jeffery started this whole Tuesday night thing on Bloomsday, 1986!) We got a sponsor for the program to underwrite the slideshow and Zoom costs, out of Southport, England: Plumtree's Home Potted Meat. They are offering a free signed Potted Meat postcard for anyone who wants it. You can email your snail-mail addresses, and I will get them off to you ASAP. They seem legit--I got some postcard from a vendor outside the James Joyce Cultural Center in Gardiner Street during Bloomsday 100 celebrations in Dublin Ireland, 2004.
The readings/singing start officially at Tuesday Evening June 16th 2020, at 8PM PDT, but the plan is to have a 7:30 PM PDT slideshow of John Bishop and fun stuff in a slideshow with some music John would like. If you have any pictures of John, even ones that are not great, I might be able to fix them up. Don't stress, just point an iPhone at them, get the whole picture in the shot, then send it to me as email attachments. I will do my best to work them in.
As for the event on the 16th, a slideshow with music and images related to John will start at 7:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, and live Celebrations start at 8 PM PDT. People can simply come, put themselves on Mute and enjoy the readings and performances. For those people who want to perform something, pick anywhere in Joyce you want, (or write something Joycean). Make the passage only about 4-5 minutes long however, as we may have a LOT of readers, and we don't want fatigue to set in. At the end of the live readings we will run the slideshow again with different music.
Through Facebook initially and whatever way you have to contact other former Tuesday Night Wake readers. Pass on the message (checking in with me, Dan Schiff [*e-mail address] or on Facebook Messenger ( I am Dan Schiff there too) to give me the passage and line numbers (or a description of your piece) you are doing your short reading from.
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233.15: For he faulters how he hates to trouble them without.
233.16: But leaving codhead's mitre and the heron's plumes sinistrant
233.17: to the server of servants and rex of regums and making a bolder-
233.18: dash for lubberty of speech he asks not have you seen a match
233.19: being struck nor is this powder mine but, letting punplays pass
233.20: to ernest:
233.21: -- Haps thee jaoneofergs?
233.22: -- Nao.
233.23: -- Haps thee mayjaunties?
233.24: -- Naohao.
233.25: -- Haps thee per causes nunsibellies?
233.26: -- Naohaohao.
233.27: -- Asky, asky, asky! Gau on! Micaco! Get!
233.28: Ping an ping nwan ping pwan pong.
233.29: And he did a get, their anayance, and slink his hook away,
233.30: aleguere come alaguerre. like a chimista inchamisas, whom the
233.31: harricana hurries and hots foots, zingo, zango, segur. To hoots
233.32: of utskut, urqurd, jamal, qum, yallah, yawash, yak! For he could
233.33: ciappacioppachew upon a skarp snakk of pure undefallen engelsk,
233.34: melanmoon or tartatortoise, tsukisaki or soppisuppon, as raskly
233.35: and as baskly as your cheesechalk cow cudd spanich. Makoto!
233.36: Whagta kriowday ! Gelagala nausy is. Yet right divining do not
234.01: was. Hovobovo hafogate hokidimatzi in kamicha! He had his
234.02: sperrits all foulen on him; to vet, most griposly, he was bedizzled
234.03: and debuzzled; he had his tristiest cabaleer on; and looked like
234.04: bruddy Hal. A shelling a cockshy and be donkey shot at? Or a
234.05: peso besant to join the armada?
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