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Dear
Fellow Bloomers,
We’re delighted to announce that we will celebrate the 24th annual Toronto
Bloomsday Festival in the
ritualistic manner to which you’ve become accustomed
Founded in 1986, the festival has had many
incarnations. Here’s what we’re planning
for this year…
BILL
OF FARE
for
Bloomsday 2009
Tues. JUNE 16, 2009
8.30am
– noon:
BLOOM ON THE BEACH(ES)
A re-enactment of scenes from ULYSSES when the Beaches becomes Dublin for a day
8.30am:
Assembly: TTC loop at Neville
Park (Queen St streetcar #501)
9.00am:
Readings with music along the Boardwalk, moving westwards
10.30am:
Singalong, respite, and raffle at Bandstand Kew Gardens
10.50am:
Readings at library and eastwards along Queen St. E.
12noon:
BLOOMSDAY BRUNCH
Whitlock’s, 1961 Queen St. E. – Great food, music & reading.
416.691.8784
8.00pm
– midnight: BLOOMSDAY HOOLEY
For the second year, P.J.O’Brien’s,
the famous Irish hostelry, will generously host the Hooley.
The
festivities will include dramatized readings by actors from the Bloomsday
cast, a singalong, musical interludes, and general merriment.
*A special pre-show Bloomsday
menu will be
available. Reservation advisable
Venue:
P.J.O’Brien’s (Pat Quinn
Room),
39 Colborne St. (behind
King Edward Hotel, King St E)
www.pjobrien.com
416.815.PJOB
(7562)
Time:
8.00pm – midnight.
Admission:
(PWYC) Pay What You Can.
General seating so come
early to avoid disappointment.
Join
us for all or part of the entertainment
Dressing up in bonnet or boater
is encouraged!
Mary Durkan, Festival Director
Anna Livia Productions
Festival
information: 416.365.7877 or email: livia
AT pathcom.com
ReJoyce!
Yours in the affirmative,
Mary
Anna Livia Productions, founded in 1984, is a charitable organization
and will issue tax receipts for all donations. Charitable Tax No:
11878.7423.RR0001
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WHAT IS
BLOOMSDAY?
Bloomsday
is a kind of literary Holyday celebrated around the world. It is a
celebration of James Joyce's novel Ulysses in which Leopold Bloom, a
Dublin Jew, goes about his life in the city of Dublin on June 16th, 1904
The
date Joyce chose for Bloom's perambulations was a tribute to his wife and
muse Nora Barnacle. Joyce first encountered Nora, who worked at a
nearby hotel, outside Trinity College. She originally mistook him for a
Norwegian sailor but did agree to meet him, and so June 16th
marks their first rendezvous.
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The
festival is dedicated to the memory of the late, much-loved Bloomsday
actor
Claire
Crawford Guinn
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BLOOM
BITES
The
Bloomsday cast will include
Actors:
Joe Allen; Mary Durkan; Desmond Ellis;
Richard Harte; Ingrid Heming; Kevin Kennedy;
Deirdre Kirby; Sean Mulcahy; Dennis O’Connor; Isolde ONeill;
with a guest appearance by Barbara Taylor at Bloom
on the Beaches
Singer:
Kevin Kennedy will be our Singalong Maestro
Musicians:
Debbie Quigley; October Brown; Loretta Reid
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Our
generous Sponsors for BLOOMSDAY
2009 to whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude are
Irish
Canadian Cultural Society
Owen
McCreery
Dr.
Joe Allen
Philip
Turk
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Next year’s
festival BLOOMSDAY 2010 will mark our 25th anniversary. Any suggestions you
might have about how we might celebrate this auspicious occasion will be
welcome.One event we’ve decided on is to install a bench along the Boardwalk
at the Beaches dedicated to the late actress, our beloved Claire Crawford Guinn
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If you would like to become involved in the BLOOMSDAY
FESTIVAL, please get in touch. Volunteers in all departments are most
welcome.
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The
TORONTO BLOOMSDAY FESTIVAL
has been described by film maker Fritzi Hortstman,
director of Joyce to the World, as “glorious…wonderful…with
amazing actors….
in the top two Bloomsday celebrations anywhere.”
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We are proud to be twinned with the
Glasthule/Sandycove Bloomsday Festival
which takes place in Caveston’s of Glasthule and Fitzgerald’s of Sandycove
in the shadow of the Martello Tower immortalised in the opening
chapter of Ulysses.
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(Many
thanks to artist Catherine
Crowe for assembling
our webpage this year.)
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