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2012 Schedule

Twenty-fourth Annual Celebration
Saturday, June 16

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

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  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. 10:30 AM - Central Catholic High School - Rear Steps
    Enter parking lot from S. Neville St, Oakland
    In Nestor Stephen Dedalus drills his pupils in Roman history and literature, suffers Mr. Deasy’s lecture on Irish nationalism, while waiting for his wages in sovereigns that “fell, bright and new, on the soft pile of the tablecloth.”
  3. 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 "Glowing wine on his palate lingered swallowed...."
  4. 2:00 PM - Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
    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...
  5. 3:00 PM - Sculpture Garden, Rear of Carnegie Museum of Art
    4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland
    Lured by the sweet song of different Sirens, Bloom and Boylan go their separate ways along the Liffey while from the saloon of the Ormond Hotel emerges a fugue of music and song and “a call…long in dying…”
  6. 5:00 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....
  7. 8:00 PM - The Map Room
    1126 Braddock Avenue, Regent Square
    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.”