Bloomsday in Melbourne is thrilled to announce our brand new play, Samuel Beckett And The Rainbow Girl, the moving story of James Joyce’s talented daughter Lucia, her desperate passion for dance and her doomed love affair with Samuel Beckett.
Tickets on sale from Saturday 11 April 2024. You are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.
| ABOUT THE SHOW It’s late 1920s Paris and Lucia, muse and only daughter of notorious banned novelist James Joyce, is poised to succeed as a daringly original dancer. Into this dysfunctional artistic household arrives alluring young Dubliner Samuel Beckett – enigmatic, hypereducated, a writer seeking his own literary voice. He finds himself drawn into the older writer’s web… and at the same time becomes the reluctant subject of Lucia’s increasingly obsessive amorous gaze. A series of romantic misunderstandings, at first comic but increasingly tragic, strip Lucia of her nascent career and, her family and love interest both lost to her, she spirals into madness. In addition to the centrepiece of the festival, the play, Bloomsday in Melbourne will also host a seminar and lunch. Follow Bloomsday in Melbourne at https://www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au Subscribe at top right corner of website for news and information. |
Last Day of National Celtic Festival Port Arlington, 7-10 June
More information: https://www.nationalcelticfestival.com
Upcoming Events at the Celtic Club
The Celtic Club has settled into its new venue (Wild Geese, 29 Sydney Road, Brunswick) with a very busy programme of events.
As mentioned earlier, our own Matt Harriage is running monthly set dancing workshops. There’s a traditional music session and singalong every Friday from 1:00-6:00 p.m. On Tuesday mornings there’s a games morning with member lunch special. There are also ukulele sessions and a pub choir as well as the Celtic Connection Series.For more information: https://www.celticclub.com.au/
Celebrate this Bloomsday at The Wild Geese, home of the Celtic Club!
Come and enjoy an afternoon of readings and a celebration of Bloomsday with Professor Ronan McDonald, Stephen Regan and Jasper Harrington at the Celtic Club Members’ bar on Sunday 16th June from 3.00pm until late.
Pinot Noir and Gorgonzola Sandwiches $12 will be available throughout the afternoon. If you are coming earlier for lunch, we would recommend you book in advance on the link below:
The Wild Geese (nowbookit.com)A prize will be awarded to the best-dressed person on the day, so come in your favourite Bloomsday costume!On Bloomsday 16 June,
For more information: https://www.celticclub.com.au/
Melbourne Rare Books Week Festival in July
Poking the Bear
The impact of censorship and the Obscenity Trial on Joyce’s revisions of Ulysses
Speaker: Honorary Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass
James Joyce was notoriously resistant to bending to censorship, even when it was demanded by friendly patrons like Ezra Pound, and much more so when he was institutionally punished. Ulysses’ publication in 1922 in Paris, following the high-stakes affray in the US courts which started in 1921, was a miracle. This presentation looks at Joyce’s response to his critics as he revised the novel, and argues that censorship delivered a radically different, and more daring, novel from what we might have had.
Presented by Bloomsday in Melbourne Inc. at the Celtic Club at The Wild Geese, Level 1 Members’ Lounge, 29 Sydney Road, Brunswick.
It is essential to register for this free event: trybooking.com/CRWNU.
A Samuel Beckett Event for Melbourne Rare Books Week
Fizzles: Existentialism and Pop Art Collide
Convenor: Susan Millard
Archives and Special Collections, The University of Melbourne
Join a discussion by experts around the iconic collaboration between Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American artist Jasper Johns. This beautiful artist book Foirades/Fizzlesdelves into themes of duality, contradiction, disintegration and the demise of artistic expression. See Fizzles and other Beckett material in the exhibition in the adjacent gallery.
Date And Time
25-07-2024 @ 12:30 PM
Location
Leigh Scott Room, 1st floor, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Parkville
Event Types
Event Category
Comhaltas Events (Melbourne)
Monthly Monday Around the Circle Zoom –Monday 24 June
Our next Monthly Monday Around the Circle Zoom Sessions continue, with our next one on
Monday 24th June from 8:00-10:00p.m.
Sing a song, play a tune, recite a poem or just listen in and enjoy the craic. All welcome.
Login details are the same each month.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/Around-Circle-Comhaltas
MeetingID: 89756122339 Passcode: 557148
Christmas in July at Gaelic Park, Sunday 21st July
Melbourne Comhaltas is happy to be joining forces with our friends at Gaelic Park, the Irish
Australian Support & Resource Bureau and the Celtic Club for the 3rd annual Christmas in
July. A full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings is on offer, along with music, dancing,
craic and, if rumours are to be believed, a special visitor from the North Pole!
This very popular event always sells out, so book early to avoid disappointment.
Details to follow!
Comhaltas Bacon & Cabbage Night–Saturday 31st August
Mark your calendars! Our very popular Lughnasa Bacon & Cabbage Night is tentatively
scheduledfor Saturday31stAugustatSt.Philip’s.Moredetailstofollow.
Lughnasa Bacon and Cabbage Night 31 August
Comhaltas Bacon & CabbageNight–Saturday31stAugust
Mark your calendars! Our very popular Lughnasa Bacon & Cabbage Night is tentatively
scheduled for Saturday 31 August at St.Philip’s. More details to follow.
Melbourne Claddagh Dancers, 23 June
The Melbourne Claddagh Dancers have their next meet up on Sunday 23rd June at St. George’s Anglican Church, Warncliffe Rd., E.ast Ivanhoe from 2:00-5:00 p.m. Try once for free – no charge the first time (except for live music ceilis when we have to pay the band).$10/$15 (members/non-members) for all regular workshops.
Their July dates are Sunday 14th and 28th.
For more info: Kirsty 0434 354 948 or kirstyjgreenwood@gmail.com
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