Bloomsday in Pittsburgh

Reading of Penelope at The Map Room just added... see below for details!

Twenty-third Annual Celebration
Thursday, June 16

Bloomsday in Pittsburgh in 2011 will be celebrated with readings of four of the most famous episodes of James Joyce's Ulysses. Join us where you can and read along. All readings free and open to the public.

1. 9:00 AM - Crazy Mocha Cafe
   4525 Liberty Avenue, Bloomfield
   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…
2. 12:00 PM - Murphy's Tap Room
   1106 South Braddock Avenue, Regent Square
   Pause with Bloom in Laestrygonians as he eats "strips of sandwich, fresh, clean bread" and "Glowig wine on his palate lingered swallowed...."
3. 5:30 PM - Mullaney's Harp and Fiddle
   2329 Penn Avenue, Strip District
   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....
4. 7:30 PM - The Map Room
   1126 Braddock Avenue, Regent Square
   Molly Bloom has her say in Penelope, yes, and yes, yes, a fitting finale, yes, of Bloomsday... followed by the music of Guaranteed Irish.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. -- James Joyce, Ulysses

Although doing so will endanger our status as Pittsburgh's least-frequently updated website, we must nevertheless inform you that Bloomsday 2011 is only two weeks away (Thursday, June 16). The schedule will be posted here as soon as it's finalized, so please check back soon.

Whether this is your first or your umpteenth Bloomsday, we hope to see you on this mirthful, meandering day devoted to Joyce's Ulysses!

Twenty-second Annual Celebration
Wednesday, June 16
All readings free and open to the public... bring a copy of Ulysses and read along....

Read on for the full schedule, which is also available on the web at http://www.bloomsdaypittsburgh.org/.