Toronto's 33rd annual Bloomsday Festival will be taking place on Saturday, June 16th, 2018. This is a FREE event - all welcome! Come for all or part of the celebration.

"There's something wonderfully mad about celebrating a man who never existed on a day that never was" (Mary Durkan, Founding Artistic Director, Toronto Bloomsday Festival).

Join us as we celebrate Bloom on Beach(es) by recreating Dublin, 1904 with music and dramatized readings from James Joyce's masterpiece: ULYSSES.

SCHEDULE

9:00am: Assemble at the Beaches Library, 2161 Queen Street East

9:30-11:00am: Readings along the Boardwalk, Park, and Bandstand (Kew Gardens)

11:00am-Noon: Readings and Music at Beaches Library

BLOOMSDAY BRUNCH

Noon-2:00pm: The Gastro Pub, 1987 Queen Street East

Our Davy Byrne's with great food, readings, music, a fun Ulysses Quiz, singalong, and merriment.

CLAIRE'S BENCH

2:30pm: Join us on the Boardwalk, as we commemorate dear friends of Bloomsday. We will sing some songs, including Anna Liffey, in their honour.

BLOOMSDAY CAST

Actors: Joe Allen, Pip Dwyer, Des Ellis, Daniel Giverin, Richard Harte, Catherine Hughes, Kevin Kennedy, David Mackett, Billie Jean Shannon, Catherine Vaneri

Musicians: Daev Clysdale, Jacob McCauley, Jennifer Melvin

Dress up in your Edwardian duds, with bonnet or boater, and...

ReJoyce!

Late arrivals, please phone 416-778-8203 for up to minute location.

(If it's raining heavily on June 16, please proceed to Beaches Library for a 10am start)