Do you like birthday cake and cookies?
If so, join us at the Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke Street West, on February 2, 2020 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM to celebrate James Joyce’s 138th birthday with readings and storytelling.
Free and open to the public!
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2018 Performers, Storytellers, Authors and Scholars
Reading and storytelling performances, panel discussions, walking tours, live music, food, theatre and much more.
Take a look at the 2018 program. Registration opens May 1.
Festival Bloomsday Montréal Newsletter
What is Bloomsday?
Bloomsday marks the day — June 16, 1904 — that Leopold Bloom walked through Dublin in James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. Our festival takes place this year from May 30 through June 16.
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Where, the mile end
Ou quand le vent boréal souffle une influence sur le poète. Du premier poème ‘Steel skin’ où on y regarde un hiver qui s’étend de Dublin jusqu’au bord du Mississipi et encore, au second poème ‘Looped’ où le fil du nord laisse des traces de vent glacial.
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A Review of Paul Auster’s 4321
It was by happenstance that I picked up a copy of Paul Auster’s latest novel 4321 (2017) a couple of weeks ago at a McGill University “take a book leave a book” site. As expected from Paul Auster, the novel is hilarious, genius, meta and highly readable. But what was unexpected was that I found myself reading a re-imagined version of Ulysses.
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Posset—The Perfect Dessert To End The Old Year
By the time New Year arrives you are bound to feel food fatigue — both in the making of, and the eating of… the thought of another heavy dessert is intolerable. So, lets consider a posset – light and delicious and so easy to make it’s ridiculous.
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Ulysses Alive: a Find and a Challenge
The quest to understand Joyce’s Ulysses continues! And our new year’s resolution: to start our own weekly reading of the great novel at Hurley’s. All we need is a great leader. Could it be you? Email us at bloomsdaymontreal@gmail.com if you’re interested in leading the group.
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Memory and Memorials: Commemorating the Irish Famine
Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College, Dublin addresses the challenge of how we choose to remember an event that has been called everything from an unfortunate tragedy to mass murder.
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Festival Bloomsday Montréal in Photos
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Festival Bloomsday Montréal 2018
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2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Irish In Canada
2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Irish In Canada
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-16 Bloomsday Molly Bloom Soliloquy
(Photos by Thomas Bock – Thomas Bock Creative)
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With Love From Dublin: Bloomsday Montréal Greeting
In 2016 Montreal’s Mayor Coderre declared Montreal and Ireland as ‘twin cities’. In this spirit of fellowship the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Dublin City Council, have gifted us at Festival Bloomsday Montréal 2017 with this lovely video greeting.
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