Featuring

Ulysses Program

3:30 PM Introduction (with Telemachus passages) - Bob Kolodney

4:05 PM Proteus reading - Robert Aubry Davis

4:30 PM Cyclops reading - Michael Groden

5:00 PM Circe reading - Walter Kamiat

5:25 PM Ithaca Reading - Christopher Griffin

5:55 PM Penelope Reading - Dee Mahan

6:10 PM Film Screening - Ulysses (1967 directed by Joseph Strick)

Highlights of selected Ulysses Episodes (chapters) will be read.

Times for this Zoom-Facilitated Program are Eastern Standard and Approximate (The program is expected to end at 7:40 PM)

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Our Readers:

Bob Kolodney is a Study Group Leader at OLLI-DC

Robert Aubry Davis is the host of the Around Town PBS show, as well as the creator and host of the the Millennium of Music program (featuring music before Bach). A native Washingtonian, he is a Joyce guru, music authority and accomplished actor.

Michael Groden is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Western University. His most recent book is The Necessary Fiction: Life with James Joyce's Ulysses.

Walter Kamiat has been a star reader in Bloomsday by OLLI celebrations

Christopher Griffin has been a professor of Irish literature at various universities - he is an Irish expert for Smithsonian journeys and currently teaches a course on the later episodes of Ulysses at Politics and Prose

Dee Mahan has lent her considerable talents to Bloomsday by OLLI and Joyce Birthday Celebrations

Birthday Fireworks Courtesy of Japan and Joe Biden

Ulysses Map of Dublin

1. Leopold Bloom's home at 7 Eccles Street – Episode 4, Calypso, Episode 17, Ithaca, and Episode 18, Penelope

2. Post office, Westland Row – Episode 5, Lotus Eaters.

3. Sweny's pharmacy, Lombard Street, Lincoln Place (where Bloom bought soap). Episode 5, Lotus Eaters

4. the Freeman's Journal, Prince's Street off of O'Connell Street Episode 7, Aeolus And – not far away – Graham Lemon's candy shop, 49 Lower O'Connell Street, it starts Episode 8, Lestrygonians

5. Davy Byrne's pub – Episode 8, Lestrygonians

6. National Library of Ireland – Episode 9, Scylla and Charybdis

7. Ormond Hotel– on the banks of the Liffey – Episode 11, Sirens

8. Barney Kiernan's pub, Episode 12, Cyclops

9. Maternity hospital, Episode 14, Oxen of the Sun

10. Bella Cohen's brothel. Episode 15, Circe

11. Cabman's shelter, Butt Bridge. – Episode 16, Eumaeus

From Wikipedia