A History and Experience of Bloomsday in Lisbon 2012-2022

This text is an account of “Bloomsday”(a celebration the day in which James Joyce’s Ulysses set) Lisbon years 2012-2022, from perspective director event. I have always tried to interweave Ireland, Portugal and Brazil encounter with Joyce ourselves our sounds language music, diverse locations, different translations Ulysses. The vision has been combine entertainment a subversive joy via performative readings remarks on Ulysses, together diving deep into philosophical panorama profound possibilities experimenting through everyday characters experience life death within simple story that encompasses “chaosmos.” Crucially, it reading hearing aloud where one enters literature as reality vivid experience. also brings up two fascinating reviews were inspiration for Bloomsday 2022: 1922 by Shane Leslie (the son protestant Anglo-Irish landlord, who converted Catholicism) he referred book “literary Bolshevism”; other 1935 Karl Radek (a Bolshevik leader Russian Revolution 1917) called “a heap dung, crawling worms.” In their negative critique opposite ends political spectrum, they nevertheless capture revolutionary spirit “epic human body” we are still learning catch flourish.