Bloomsday

Bloomsday is celebrated on June 16th by admirers of Irish writer James Joyce and his most famous book, Ulysses. A day dedicated not to a grotesque monarch, idiotic megalomaniac, or some war sending humans to death; but rather it is a day dedicated to a fictional revolutionary book, an experimental story set on a single day in Dublin following the peregrinations of Mr. Leopold Bloom — a ‘new womanly man’, where ‘Jewgreek is greekjew’, where kindness and multiplicity are the ruling power of nowhere in a bible of universal homelessness, and where we are always on the way, out there trying to make our way home, never fully reconciled but nonetheless somehow transformed.

This year, under the theme The Incertitude of the Void, Bartholomew Ryan brings together misfit actors and musicians to celebrate the magical-interpenetrating words from the modernist masterpiece Ulysses by James Joyce, where and how we are ‘ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void’ or, as one may say in Portuguese: ‘inelutavelmente construídos sobre a incerteza do vazio’. The event will take place at Livraria-Bar Menina & Moça on the pink street at Cais do Sodré in Lisbon, at 6:30 pm on 16 June, in an initiative supported by the Irish Embassy.

With
Bartholomew Ryan
Amanda Booth
Mick Greer
Shortsleeve Conor
Jonathan Weightman
Adrienne Thomas
William Greer
Ricardo Quintas
Maya Booth
Mariana Costa