[Marilyn Monroe reading Molly Bloom's great feminist soliloquy
in Ulysses.]
The program for the Forest Grove Bloomsday Festival 2012 appears below. We are especially honored that this year's invocation will be offered by a special last-minute guest: the formidable Molly Bloom herself. Late this afternoon Ms Bloom replied via email to our invitation, sent in March, with an unequivocal: "...yes I said yes I will Yes."
FOREST GROVE BLOOMSDAY FESTIVAL 2012
SHATTERDAY - JUNE 16, 2012
SHATTERDAY - JUNE 16, 2012
- PROGRAM -
12:00-2:00: Honored guest Ms. Molly Bloom, with selected readings on Moorish walls and mountain flowers (from "Ulysses").1:00-5:00 p.m.: Keynote address by Nationalgymnasiummuseumsanatoriumandsuspensoriumsordinaryprivatdocentgeneralhistoryspecialprofessordoctor Kriegfried Ueberallgemein
6:30-9:30 p.m.: International panel discussion on "The Nameless Barbarity which we have been called upon to witness" Panelists include:
Hiram Y. Bomboost10:00-11:00 p.m.: Readings from "Ulysses" by:
Countess Marha Virdga Kisászony Putrápesthi
Commendatore Bacibaci Beninobenone
Monsieur Pierrepaul Petitépatant
Grandjoker Vladinmire Pokethankertscheff
Archjoker Leopold Rudolph von Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler
Count Athanatos Karamelopulos11:00 p.m.-3:00 a.m.: Dramatic reenactments by:
Goosepond Prhklstr Kratchinabritchisitch,
Herr Hurhausdirektorprasident Hans Chuechli-Steuerli
Olaf Kobberkeddelsen3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.: Dissertion by Stephen Dedalus entitled "I fear those big words that make us so unhappy."
Goosepond Prhklstr Kratchinabritchisitch
Señor Hidalgo Caballero Don Pecadillo y Palabras y Paternoster de la Malora de la Malaria
Mynheer Trik van Trumps
Pan Poleaxe Paddyrisky
4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m.: Concluding remarks by Leopold Bloom on the following theme: "I was blue mouldy for the want of that pint."
5:00 a.m.-noon: Traditional Irish breakfast (by special request of Leopold Bloom), including the inner organs of beasts and fowls with thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes and grilled mutton kidneys which give to the palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
Security provided by Constable MacFadden of Booterstown.
Location: Uncertain as of this writing due to the arbitrary denial of the required permits.
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This slideshow, first posted in 2009, is Runes' tribute to James Joyce, with kora accompaniment by the great Toumani Diabaté of Mali. (You may need to pause the show to read some of the longer text entries.)
