(AGENPARL) – ven 14 ottobre 2022 Autumn Events at the James Joyce Centre
Autumn Events 2022
THE CENTENNIAL OF TRILCE AND ULYSSES: César Vallejo and James Joyce
A conversation between Professor Sam Slote and Professor José Antonio Mazzotti
Thursday, 20 Oct 2022, 6pm
Free Event – Booking required
As part of our Ulysses 100 programme of events, the James Joyce Centre, Dublin and the Peruvian Embassy in Ireland would like to invite you to a unique celebration of 100 years of two masterpieces of modern literature – Trilce by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, and Ulysses by James Joyce. Professor Sam Slote and Professor José Antonio Mazzotti will discuss the significance of these writers and the importance of their extraodinary works.
Cesar Vallejo (Santiago de Chuco, March 16, 1892-Paris, April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet and writer considered one of the greatest exponents of literature in Peru and one of the most innovative in twentieth-century poetry. In 1922, he published his famous work Trilce, one of the most important works of the Latin American avant-garde. His poems revolutionized poetics in the Spanish language and conveyed many emotions as they addressed childhood, the absence of the mother, love, and prison, highlighting the importance of solidarity and empathy with the suffering of others.
José Antonio Mazzotti is Professor of Spanish Culture and Civilization & Professor of Latin American Literature Department of Romance Studies, Tufts University. Sam Slote is Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin.
Dancing in the Dark:
Re-mythologising James Joyce’s bat-like souls.
Monday 24th October at 7pm
Free Event – Booking required
In anticipation of Halloween, the James Joyce Centre is hosting a collaborative exhibition and talk by Drs. Caroline Elbay and Joyce Garvey. The exhibition will run from 24th October to 7th November and will feature original art and film by Joyce Garvey inspired by the myriad references to bats across the Joycean oeuvre and also by Lucia Joyce’s illustrations
The theme of this composite artistic event is concomitant and Caroline Elbay’s talk on the 24th October will address how, from the ‘bat-like soul’ of A Portrait of the Artist, to the ’little bats [who] don’t tell’ in Ulysses and the ‘bawk of bats’ in Finnegans Wake, Joyce’s alignment or connecting of the bat with female characters essentially debunks negative stereotypes thus placing the bat in its rightful place as a symbol of the creative spirit and positioning women in an environment of growing self-empowerment and liberation in the modern world.
OF THYME AND ROSEMARY: JAMES JOYCE AND MARCEL PROUST. A One-Act Play by Debbie Wiess
Thursday 27th October at 7.30pm
Free Event – Booking required
Friends of the James Joyce Tower and the James Joyce Centre present OF THYME AND ROSEMARY:A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JAMES JOYCE AND MARCEL PROUST. A One-Act Play by Debbie Wiess
On May 18th 1922 James Joyce and Marcel Proust had the occasion to meet at a private dinner party at the Hôtel Majestic in Paris celebrating the premiere of Stravinsky’s new burlesque ballet Le Renard (The Fox) by Les Ballets Russes. They were two of the five special guests that night, which also included fellow icons of Modernism Diaghilev, Stravinsky and Picasso. This play depicts their second meeting, in which the authors are at last able to have a true meeting of minds over some white wine.
Halloween Children’s Cabaret
October 22nd 3pm-4pm
Tickets 5 Euro
Join us in the James Joyce Centre for creepy tales and spooky songs for little ears with actor and storyteller Wren Dennehy, singer Klara McDonnell and pianist Bryan Mullen.
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