16 June: On the Beach.
Photographs by Dolores Cummiskey: CLICK HERE.
17 people from 5 countries turned up at 08 AM on Fuengirola beach, 5 took the Bloomsday dip and readings were done from Chapter one of Ulysses in 4 languages – English, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish. The weather obliged. It was foggy like Dublin!
Mijas 340 TV covered the event on News and Views during their afternoon show.
Written George Prior. Photograph Dolores Cummiskey
Photographs by professional photographer, Philip Magee.
Hola/Hello
This is the penultimate reminder of the first ever Costa del Sol/ Southern Spain celebration of Bloomsday on Thursday 16th June on the beach in Fuengirola.
In years to come your children and grand children will speak about their forefathers and mothers being part of the inaugural cultural event.
It requires an effort on your behalf but no expense.
The importance of Spanish speaking participants should not be underestimated. Joyce set Molly Bloom as a young girl in Gibraltar and the only statue to Molly in the world stands proudly in the Alemeda gardens in Gibraltar today.
“Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle. M. B. loves a fair gentlema. Li Chi Han lovey up kissy Cha Pu Chow. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs VErschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen. Mrs Norman W. Tupper loves officer Taylor. You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everybody. ”
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
— James Joyce (Ulysses)
Bloomsday Báñese en la playa, Fuengirola.
Únase a nosotros para un baño Bloomsday en la playa: BAÑO! O CHAPUZON!
Fuengirola, a las 8 de la manana
Jueves, 16 de junio
Seguido por las lecturas informales de Ulises en Inglés y Español y un desayuno continental.
Este evento consistirá en un no-intelectual,
diversión informal y reunión que proporcionara la oportunidad de divertirse y darse un chapuzón en el agua del mar.
Este evento es GRATIS. Si quiere comer o beber dependerá de usted!
Jueves, 16 de junio 1904 fue la fecha del primer Bloomsday !
Si usted piensa que un amigo o compañero Joycean le gustaría recibir esta invitación, por favor, no dude de transmitírsela.
Si usted tiene alguna sugerencia para hacer nuestro evento, mejor por favor háganoslo saber aquí o
artroger@gmail.com
Detalles de la ubicación exacta (direcciones) se enviará a los interesados tan pronto como este aprobada
Bloomsday - 16 de junio - es una celebración anual entre los fanáticos de Joyce en todo el mundo, desde Fuengirola a Melbourne. Se celebra en sesenta países alrededor del mundo, pero en ninguna parte tan imaginativamente, por supuesto, como en Dublín. La novela Ulisses, de James Joyce, narra los acontecimientos hora a hora de un día en Dublín - 16 de junio de 1904 - como un ordinario Dubliner, Leopold Bloom, serpentea su camino a través del paisaje urbano, la odisea de un moderno Ulisses.
Bloomsday in Spain
Join fellow Joyceans in Fuengirola for a Bloomsday Bathe on the Beach: SWIM! or DIP! followed by informal readings from James Joyce Ulysses in both English and Spanish and a Continental Breakfast.
Join us for a Bloomsday Bathe on the Beach: SWIM! or DIP!
Fuengirola, 08:00 AM
Thursday, 16th June
followed by informal readings from James Joyce Ulysses in both English and Spanish and a Continental Breakfast.
This event will consist a non-intellectual, fun get together providing the opportunity to become fully immersed in – sea water.
This event is FREE. You want to eat or drink? – That´s up to you!
07.45: Beach assembly.
08:00: Divest and dive into “the snot green scrotum tightening sea” – heated by the Spanish summer sunshine.
08:30: Readings lead off followed up by voluntary readings by like-minded female and male participants in English and Spanish wearing varieties of various costumes and hats.
09:00- 9:30: Had enough? OK, then lets Swim or Dip again before adjourning to a local Chiringito (La Cepa Playa) for toast, olive oil and coffee.
Sur in English 10 June 2011.
George Prior - Sur in English.
1. Why did you organise this event? and what is the history behind the Bloomsday celebrations? how many years have you done it here in Fuengirola?
2. How many people attended? Did they all it enjoy it? feel free to add any other relevant details/anecdotes from the day. eg the weather, the reaction of passers-by
3. What is it about James Joyce and this work that remains so timeless/popular?
4. Will you be repeating the event next year?
Dear George
The answers may be too longwinded like their author. Take your scalpel to them, cut and enhance as you wish. The photo selections are as follows. Take your pick. I hope you can access them If not then drop me a note.
Photographers – Philip Magee
http://andaluz-fotografias.blogspot.com/2011/06/bloomsday-dip-in-fuengirola.html
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and Dolores Cummiskey.
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I am a James Joyce fan. I have been since around 1960 as I lived in Dublin and swam at the Forty Foot bathing hole regularly with my friends Jim, Sean and Johnnie. We discussed what the Martello Tower, now the James Joyce Museum, was all about and I therefore had a curiosity. At that time the Tower was inaccessible. In 1962 Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare & Co on the Rue de l´Ódeon in Paris and first publisher of Ulysses, came to Dublin to officially open the Tower. They put in a steel stair case so that one could enter the Tower about 16 feet off the ground. Things have changed now. You can walk in from street level.
I organized the Bloomsday Bathe on the Beach in Fuengirola for the first time this year because there were no focused Bloomsday events in Spain happening on 16th June – Bloomsday. I subsequently learned that there were three other events scheduled under the same banner elsewhere in Spain on 18th June – in Barcelona, Madrid and Marbella – a swim, a music evening and a lunch.
Our event attracted 17 people at 8 am. They were from Finland, Sweden, Columbia, Spain, UK, and Ireland. Of this group five swam and ten paddled!
This was necessary in my opinion for the symbolism of chapter one of Ulysses – Telemacus.
We then did readings concentrating on the first chapter in English, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish. Everybody got the opportunity to read and it was fun trying to follow where people were in the different languages. What struck me particularly was the interest by all of the participants and their concentration levels on their own tomes as others read.
The weather obliged as it was a foggy misty morning – a bit like Dublin in June without the rain! There were no passers by as we were located at the sea shore but the guys putting out the sun beds did look curiously and try to listen particularly to the Spanish readings.
James Joyce´s Ulysses was voted the number one novel of the 20th century by Random Press some years ago. I think that as a comic novel it is easy for people to identify with it and fun to read. There is plenty in it!
I first became involved in organizing Bloomsday outings among friends in Dublin many years ago and we always had a great day out. The event will remain free of charge and will attract more people maybe next year. There is plenty of room for expansion and improvements to the formula that we used. Next year Bloomsday falls on a Saturday and it will be the first year that Ulysses will be out of copy write. Dublin will go mad and maybe Fuengirola and other Spanish towns will organize their own little swims and readings.
From my point of view I would like to have more Spanish readers and participants next year. However, the International flavor this year made it a great low key Cultural event and a first for Fuengirola.
Bloomsday – June 16th – is an annual celebration among Joyce fans throughout the world, from Fuengirola to Melbourne. It is celebrated in at least sixty countries worldwide, but nowhere so imaginatively, of course, as in Dublin. The novel, Ulysses, by James Joyce recounts the hour-by-hour events of one day in Dublin – June 16, 1904 – as an ordinary Dubliner, Leopold Bloom, wends his way through the urban landscape, the odyssey of a modern-day Ulysses.
Irish Club Marbella Bloomsday Lunch.
Phil Magee Photographs
Blog: andaluz fotografias
Entrada: Bloomsday in Marbella with the Irish Club
Enlace: http://andaluz-fotografias.blogspot.com/2011/06/bloomsday-in-marbella-with-irish-club.html
