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Bloomsday Boston 2008: Love Across Boundaries
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| Dates: | Monday, June 16, 2008 |
| Hours: | 4:00 pm- 9:30 pm |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor, Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Lectures/Discussions |
The evening will include a James Joyce expert speaking on the many aspects of love in the novel including the relationship of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and readings from Ulysses that touch on these elemental forces.
A highlight of the evening will be a conversation with notable Bostonians whose love lives extend across boundaries of all kinds. Joyce Kulhawik is the host for the event. She will host both the readings from the novel as well as the conversation with the couples – Love Across Boundaries.
There will be copies of Ulysses available for sale. Music and food will reflect Ireland and beyond!
4:00 pm, music, food and drink for sale under the festival tent on the lawn outside Bapst Library.
The following events are located in the Bapst Library:
6:30 – 7:00 pm, opening remarks and introduction.
7:00 – 8:00 pm, Ulysses on Stage. Readings about love from Ulysses featuring actors
and Boston personalities.
8:00 – 9:00 pm, Panel Conversation, Love Across Boundaries.
9:00 pm Ulysses Finale, Molly Bloom Soliloquy. Excerpts from the famous monologue that ends with the affirmation of life and love.
This event represents the third collaboration between the New Center for Arts and Culture and Boston College. The collaboration reinforces the aims of both institutions to foster creative, thought provoking programming for audiences in Greater Boston.
**Handicap accessible. Parking available. Food and beverage will be served and for sale throughout the evening.
MORE INFORMATION:
Couples Include:
• Maria Karagianis, US Director, Anatolia College, Greece and husband Timothy P. O’Neill, Partner. Hanify & King. Karagianis is Greek and O’Neill is Irish Catholic.
• Paul McLoughlin II, Assistant Dean, Harvard College with partner Jason Shumaker, Asst. Director of Financial Aid, MIT. McLoughlin and Shumaker are an openly gay couple, who were featured in the cover article in the NYTimes magazine –Young Gay Rights, April 27, 2008, about the trend of gay men marrying in their 20s.
• Lakshmi Reddy Bloom, Director, Data for Decisions, LLC with husband David E. Bloom, Chairman, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard University School of Public Health. Lakshmi is Hindu and David is Jewish.
Readers Include:
• Barbara W. Grossman, Chair, Department of Drama and Dance, Tufts University
• Charlie Kravetz, President and General Manager, NECN
• Annette Miller, Actor
• Brian O’Donovan, Host, A Celtic Sojourn, WGBH – FM
• Thomas P. O’Neill III, CEO, O’Neill and Associates, Boston
• Ted Reinstein, Reporter, Chronicle, WCVB-TV
• Rony Yedidia, Israeli Consul, New England
• Robin Young, Host, Here & Now, WBUR-FM
Actors Steven Barkhimer, Ciaran Crawford, Elise Audrey Manning and Elaine Theodore will reprise some of the roles they performed last year.
About the New Center for Arts and Culture
The New Center for Arts and Culture’s purpose is to build community by exploring Jewish culture and the interconnectedness of all cultures, creating a dynamic setting that inspires artistic excellence, welcomes diversity, nurtures creativity and encourages participation in the arts and humanities. Inspired by the differences and commonalities that comprise our pluralistic society, the New Center engages the diversity of world cultures by presenting them through artistic performances, dynamic exhibitions, as well as talks and discussion. The New Center will build its permanent home on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. Based on creative partnerships, it has produced breakthrough events including the highly successful WORDS ON FIRE series in 2003, the first reading of Robert Burstein’s new play SPRING FORWARD FALL BACK in 2004, THE POWER OF CONVERSATION in 2005, KLEZMER MEETS SWING in 2006, BLOOMSDAY BOSTON 2007 and OUT OF DARKNESS in 2008.
The following Bloomsday 2008 events are presented by: The Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College
12:30 pm, Merkert 127 (room location), Bloom (2004). A public screening of director Sean Walsh’s adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses.
3:00 pm, Bapst Library, Joyce’s Dublin. Dermot Keogh, Professor of History at University College Cork and author of Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, will discuss the social history of Joyce’s Dublin
4:30 pm, Bapst Library, A Conversation with Ronan Noone. One of the most important young playwrights in the contemporary theater, Irish-born and Boston-based, Ronan Noone is the author of The Atheist, Blowin of Baile Gall, Brendan, and Lepers of Baile Baste
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Free and open to the public.
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140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467 map
Phone: 617-531-4610
Bapst Art Library, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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