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Upcoming Events: Joyce-athon, A 10-hours reading marathon

12 years ago

Joyce-athon
A ten-hour reading marathon to celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses on Bloomsday

HONG KONG – The Hong Kong International Literary Festival is organising a 10-hour reading session of readings from James Joyce’s Ulysses. As well as readings, there will be Joyce music, Joyce chat and Irish whiskey.

The one-day only event will take place on 16 June 2012. The date is significant as the events of Ulysses take place in Dublin on this very day, in 1904. The Festival hopes to raise funds from the event. One of the sponsors of the event is Pernod Ricard, who has sponsored Jameson Irish Whiskey, an important element in making the event a truly Irish celebration.

Date: Saturday, 16 June 2012
Time: 12noon to 10pm
Venue: Culture Club, G/F, 15 Elgin Street, SoHo

To take part, readers will each read a section of the book for up to 20 minutes. Sponsored readers need to raise HK$2,000. For non-readers, a small admission fee of HK$50 will be charged.

Taking Part
To take part, either as a reader of a listener, email [email protected] or call 28779770.

About James Joyce
He is the author of Ulysses, a classic which has been called the greatest literary masterpiece of the 20th century. He is known for his works like Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake. Exiled from Ireland, he continued to return to his homeland in his stories and novels – with characters who experience epiphanies, universal truths, and Ulysses-inspired journeys.

About Bloomsday and Ulysses
Ulysses is the record of a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom. The day, 16 June, 1904, is significant to Joyce because it was the day when he first met Nora Barnacle, who was to become his wife.

Bloomsday is a celebration of the life of James Joyce. It takes place every year on 16 June, the date (in 1904) during which the events of his novel Ulysses are relived.

For Press Enquiries, please contact:
- The Festival Office at 29779797 or
- The Festival’s Press Officer Kate McDonald
Tel: 96491616/Email: [email protected]

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