Bloomsday is June 16th!

Cover – James Joyce’s Ulysses

BLOOMSDAY IN PITTSBURGH 2014
MONDAY, June 16, 2014
Twenty-sixth annual celebration

All readings free and open to the public…bring a copy of Ulysses and read along…

10:00 a.m.
1.  BLOOMFIELD—Crazy Mocha Cafe, 4525 Liberty Avenue

We begin with Telemachos as “Stately plump Buck Mulligan” ascends the stairs of the Martello Tower in Sandycove, looks out over the “snotgreen sea”, and the events of Bloomsday are set in motion…

11:30 a.m.
2.  HOMEWOOD CEMETERY, South Dallas & Aylesboro Avenue, Point Breeze

Reading from Hades we’ll accompany “poor Paddy Dignam” on his final journey to Glasnevin Cemetery with gossip and memories and dreams of immortality…

1:00 p.m.
3. MURPHY’S TAP ROOM, 1106 South Braddock Avenue, Regent Square

In Laestrygonians pause with Bloom in Davy Bryne’s “moral pub” as he eats “strips of sandwich, fresh, clean bread” and “Glowing wine on his palate lingered swallowed…”

3:30 p.m.
4. THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland

Steer a safe path through Scylla and Charybdis with John Eglinton the “Quaker librarian” and talk of Hamnet Shakespeare and Hamlet’s ghost at the National Library where Dedalus and Bloom pass each other, unnoticed…

6:00 p.m.
5.  THE MAP ROOM, 1126 South Braddock Ave, Regent Square
Alan Stanford

In Cyclops the Citizen and his mangy mongrel Garryowen wait “for what the sky would drop in the way of drink” and politics, patriotism, religion and Bloom are the targets of his vitriolic verbosity…

8:30 p.m.
7.  THE MAP ROOM, 1126 South Braddock Ave., Regent Square
Susan McGregor-Laine

And finally, from her jingling brass bed, Molly Bloom, her Leopold/Ulysses returned from his wanderings, draws us into Penelope, her ‘amplitudinous curvilinear’ stream-of-consciousness soliloquy to bring Bloomsday to a close with its final, great, life-affirming “Yes.”