by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Mar 10, 2016 | Archive
BY SUBMITTED BY HUBERT RADOUX, CO-AUTHOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF GROSSE ÎLE : UNE HISTOIRE CHORALE / ACHORAL STORY PUBLISHED ON: MARCH 9, 2016 – 13:07 In the summertime, my wife (Mary Moseychuck, a proud Cape Bretoner) and I often travel back “home” to Cape...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 15, 2016 | Archive
March 12th and 13th: 50 artists will take the stage at the Palais Montcalm in Quebec City to sing the story of Grosse-Île quarantine station, summer 1847. Projections depict the island and relics of that summer; lighting and period costumes set the mood; first...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 2, 2016 | Archive
TODAY IS JAMES JOYCE’S BIRTHDAY Joyce was born February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and as author of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, proved himself one of the greatest writers in literary history....
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Nov 26, 2015 | Archive
We are currently organizing the fifth annual Festival Bloomsday Montréal that will take place June 12-16, 2016. With readings from Ulysses, world class lectures by Joyce experts, film and storytelling events, Irish walking tours, musical, gastronomic, and Irish pub...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Oct 2, 2015 | Archive
To all our supporters and lovers of Joyce and Irish literature and culture we call on you to help us bring you great new programming for June 2016. This will be our 5th Festival and is now the largest in Canada. Plans are well underway for an exciting series of...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Sep 2, 2015 | Archive
The book Mad Marginal Cahier # 4: I See Words, I Hear Voices, a Book by Dora García will be launched at the Westmount Library on Wednesday, September 16, on the occasion of a group reading of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake organized by Bloomsday, a Montreal organization...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Mar 25, 2015 | Archive
The intrepid Bloomsday team of Miriam, Alex, Yves, Kevin, and Louise proudly hoisted the Bloomsday banner high during the Saint Patrick’s Parade on Sunday, March 22. David and Judith only made it as far as the corner of Fort and Ste. Catherine. The first...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Mar 15, 2015 | Archive
So you bought the book and it’s been sitting in your bookshelf for awhile now. But have you mustered up the courage to finally open up and read James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake? Have no fear! Montreal Bloomsday will be holding our first Finnegans Wake reading...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Mar 1, 2015 | Archive
March 1st, 1914 marks the day in which James Joyce started writing Ulysses. Started is the key word here as the Irish author had other projects to complete in the meantime. These included the Egoist’s publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 23, 2015 | Archive
What does the subject of Kevin Birmingham’s The Most Dangerous Book have in common with the Charlie Hebdo tragedy? Since early January, the murder of the twelve Charlie Hebdo staff sparked debates on the concept of freedom of expression or freedom of speech in...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 3, 2015 | Archive
On his way to work in 1922 Barnett Braverman, a friend of Ernest Hemingway and the first ‘booklegger’ of Ulysses (as Birmingham calls him), took a copy a day of Ulysses into the USA on the Windsor/Detroit ferry. The book wasn’t yet banned in Canada....
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Feb 1, 2015 | Archive
Mary Joyce gave birth to James 133 years ago on February 2nd 1882. We can be sure that neither she nor her husband John had any clue that their little boy Jim would became the famous author of Ulysses (amongst other great literary works) and that a day would be set...
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