4th Cyprus BLOOMSDAY Festival, 2025
Source: in-cyprus.com
16 June 2025 – James Joyce, Ulysses
Nicosia Municipality, Rooftop
(11 Eptanisou str, 1-16 Nicosia)
Arrival: 20.00, Start: 20.30
This June, 2025, is the fourth edition of the Cyprus BLOOMSDAY Festival, organised by the Embassy of Ireland in Cyprus together with Ideogramma, a festival that celebrates James Joyce, who was not only a renowned writer but an accomplished musician as well.
This year’s festival is honoured to be working closely with the James Joyce Centre Dublin, that has resulted in bringing us the internationally renowned tenor and actor Morgan Crowley, who will sing accompanying himself on a digital piano. Morgan together with the award-winning Cypriot actress Niovi Charalambous, will read texts (in English and Greek respectively) from the chapter “Sirens” of Ulysses.
The event is curated by Lily Michaelides
It is in Greek and English
Entrance is free
Bloomsday is a day of celebration and remembrance of the life of Irish the writer James Joyce. His novel, Ulysses, takes place on 16 June, 1904. Joyce chose this date, because that is the date that he first met his wife, Nora Barnacle
Bloomsday was first celebrated in Dublin in 1954, on the fiftieth anniversary of the date that the story in the novel takes place, but since it is celebrated in many places in the world, including Cyprus!
James Joyce’s Ulysses is not just an iconic book of world literature. It is a mythical book. And it is mythical not just for those who read it, but for the thousands, millions of readers who get it and then abandon it, frightened perhaps by its dense and riddle-filled pages.
As Joyce himself says, it is “… a book from eighteen different perspectives and in an equal number of styles, which apparently my colleagues neither know nor have discovered.” In fact, the novel consists of eighteen books put together, each in a different style and a different technical narrative, altogether telling the story of a single day in Dublin, 16 June, 1904. The celebration derives its name from the hero of the book, Leopold Bloom.
Sylvia Beach, owner of the Shakespeare & Company Bookstore in Paris, who first published the book in 1922, claimed Bloomsday as her own invention, something that was later revealed to be untrue, and that the American poet Ezra Pound had coined the word in an earlier article.
To register please visit the link https://BloomsdayCyprus25.eventbrite.ie.
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