Bloomsday @ Pelham Art Center

Bloomsday @
Pelham Art Center

Free and open to all ages!

Saturday, June 15, 2013, 1:30-3:30pm

  

Pelham Art Center
will be celebrating all things Irish on BLOOMSDAY, Saturday, June 15, 2013,
1:30- 3:30pm, part of its Folk Arts Series. Join us for this FREE event inspired
by the work of Irish novelist and playwright James Joyce and learn about traditional
Irish Folk Arts.

 

To celebrate the
event, musicians will play traditional Irish music, dancers will perform Irish
step dancing, and excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulysses will be read.  The
musicians will share the history of traditional Irish folk songs about life,
love and living, with stories about their origins. The dancers will engage the
audience through performance and instruction.

 



The Tradition of Bloomsday


The term “Bloomsday” was coined by friends of the Irish novelist and
poet James Joyce soon after his work Ulysses was published in 1922.
“Bloomsday” refers to June 16, 2004, the day Leopold Bloom’s adventures take
place in Ulysses.  This annual
holiday was first celebrated by Joyce’s publishers in 1929 on the 25th
anniversary of this day in Versailles. On the 50th anniversary,
revelers retraced the Bloom’s route through Dublin and read excerpts from the
novel as a way to commemorate the life, language and literature of Joyce. This
holiday is celebrated around the world with readings, performances, and
re-enactments.