Finnegans Wake–End, 3rd – 5th May at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin
The James Joyce Centre and Waywords and Meansigns are delighted to host “Finnegans Wake–End”, a weekend celebrating this outrageous epic of 20th century literature.
Throughout the weekend, director Gavan Kennedy will be filming readings of Wake in various locations across Dublin. Everybody will have the opportunity to read a page of Wake for inclusion in the Finnegans Wakes Film Project. (Some of you will remember this project from Antwerp last summer!)
The “Finnegans Wake–End” also offers musical and theatrical performances, a reading group led by Joyce scholar Terence Killeen, and a panel discussion with Joycean academics and artists lead by Derek Pyle.
Finnegans Wake at 80 Symposium, 11-13 April at Trinity College Dublin
And don’t forget to join us for the the Finnegans Wake at 80 Symposium at Trinity, organized by Sam Slote. The weekend includes a roundtable of Wake translators, a number of fascinating presentations, and an afternoon dedicated to Lucia Joyce. And we’re curating an installation, with support from the James Joyce Centre:
Joyce’s Octogenarian – The birthday gifts they dreamt they gabe her.
As Finnegans Wake celebrates its birthday, we must pause to reflect on its death. What happens when the Wake ceases to be a book? Featuring interactive elements, this installation explores Finnegans Wake as music, and music as translation; the role of the Wake as a form of open source, participatory technology; and the message of Finnegans Wake in eras of globalization and the upcoming space age.