Advertisement
We are planning Wheeling's first foray into the Global Bloomsday celebration on June 11 from 11 AM to 2 PM Eastern daylight time!The event will be partially funded by our friends at Wheeling Heritage!
We are bringing in Joyce scholar, Dr. Patrick Hastings (curator of the website ulyssesguide.com and author of the book, THE GUIDE TO JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES), who will lead a virtual tour of 1904 Dublin Ireland in Leopold Bloom's footsteps.
Patrick is the English Department Chair at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of Washington & Lee University (2005) and Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English (2012), Patrick has studied, written about, taught, and conducted research into Joyce and "Ulysses" since 2003, when he lived and worked at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore on the Left Bank of Paris (the current iteration of the literary institution that first published "Ulysses" in 1922). He had some of his work published in the James Joyce Quarterly in 2015. https://www.ulyssesguide.com/
Dr. Hastings will also lead a discussion of "Ulysses" as the capstone of a reading group, started in February, called "Wheeling Reads Ulysses."
This event will also feature 1904 historic clothing and dress, through local costuming company, Stages.
Period food inspired by the novel -- only not quite so severe -- and prepared by local Chef Melissa Rebholz - Midge's Kitchen:
Instead of giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes, and grilled mutton kidneys as mentioned in the book, our menu will include:
Marinated Mushrooms with garlic and herbs
Irish Soda Bread with an English Pea & Mint "hummus"
Deviled Eggs with Crab
Caramelized Onion and Gorgonzola Grilled Cheese
Caramel Pudding
Period Irish music performed by local group Faire May, a traditional music band specializing in enjoyable folk music from the near and distant. https://www.facebook.com/fairemay
Dramatic readings from the novel presented by:
West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman
Actor Michelle Duffy
Actor Brigitte Mazure
Actor Jamie Hamilton
Attorney Patrick Cassidy
A James Joyce look-alike contest.
There will also be a talk, presented by a local historian, on Wheeling in 1904 as well as a talk on the city's reaction to the publication of the novel in 1922.
The event will be livestreamed on facebook and YouTube.
We humbly hope to promote this event internationally to make Wheeling part of the Bloomsday international family. We hope to draw literary experts and Joyce fans from all over the state and region. Our city hasn't done anything quite like this before. It will be fun and educational.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/402044805637849
Library Calendar: https://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/calendar/lunch-with-books-bloomsday-in-wheeling/3447
Advertisement
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
52-16th Street, Wheeling, WV, United States, West Virginia 26003
