posted
Oct 15, 2005
Press Release
The Wild Geese Players of Seattle present a fun-filled evening of
Dueling Poets!
Nobel prize winner William Butler Yeats’ verses will compete with the
verse of New World pretender, Walt Whitman! The Yeats team is in the
capable hands of Dramaturg Ciaran O’Mahony, and includes Bill Barnes,
Lynn Carrigan, Joe Martin, and George Reilly, and Helen Anne ?. The
plucky Whitman team Dramaturg is Scott Mc Kinstry, aided by Michael
Green, Nancy Mills, Kieran O’Malley, Emma Bartholomew, and A.N. Other!!
The poetry and dramatic presentations will be judged by an estimable
panel of experts led by Frank Maloney.
We have invited fencers from the Academia della Spada to begin the event
with a dueling demonstration. The Academia della Spada, formed in
Seattle in 1999 by Academy Master Cecil Longino, teaches 16th century
sword-fighting techniques from early fighting manuals and treatises. For
more information on their rapier and backsword curricula and classes,
see their website at
www.academiadellaspada.com.
All this, and more, will take place on:
Friday November 18th, 2005 at 8pm
University of Washington Faculty Club,
Colleen Rohrbaugh room (formerly Music room)
(Map)
Pre-show musical entertainment by Lyndol Pullen!
Post-show reception, with Guinness, Harp, Irish coffee, and craic!
Donations for the Wild Geese will gratefully be accepted at the door
Feel free to download and post our flyer (1.1MB).
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posted
Jul 30, 2005
In support of the International Joyce exhibition, Suzzallo Library Room
102, August 8-September 30, 2005.
You are welcome to attend a very special film screening and panel
discussion:
Tuesday, August 16, 2005,
Allen Auditorium, 7-8:45pm.
Reception to follow in Suzzallo 102,
8:45-10pm. Admission is free.
Joyce to the World (60 min.)
Director: Fritzi Hortsman; Writer: Diane J. Wyman. Panel Discussion led
by Kieran Darragh O’Malley.
Sponsored by: The University of Washington Libraries,
the Wild Geese Players of Seattle,
and the Irish Heritage Club, Seattle.
Exhibition Acknowledgements:
Cultural Division of Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland,
Seattle’s Irish Heritage Club, and the
Seattle Galway Sister City Association.
For Further Information Contact:
Kieran O’Malley,
425 778-3403, Wild Geese Players of Seattle;
or Special Collections, 206-543-1929, UW Libraries.
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posted
Apr 15, 2005
James Joyce’s novel Ulysses takes place on June 16th, 1904.
It follows the wanderings of Leopold Bloom, a Jewish everyman,
and Stephen Dedalus, a young writer and Joyce’s alter ego,
as they wander the streets of Dublin.
The centenary of Bloomsday,
June 16th, 2004, was celebrated
worldwide.
The Wild Geese Players of Seattle will present staged readings of
chapter 11, “Sirens”, adapted from the 1922 edition of Ulysses.
The readings will take place at the
Brechemin Auditorium,
School of Music, University of Washington
(Map)
(Park in N6):
- Thursday, June 16th, 2005, at 8pm
- Saturday, June 18th, 2005, at 4pm
2005 Rehearsal
Back: Joe Martin, Bill Barnes, Joseph Ryan, Ciaran O’Mahony.
Front: Niall McDonnell, Jim McDermott, Scott McKinstry.
Congressman Jim McDermott
will read the part of Leopold Bloom on Saturday 18th.
Entrance is free, but donations are appreciated.
This is our eighth year of Bloomsday readings.
(Press Release).
Further background information on the Sirens chapter can be found at the
Kennesaw guide to Ulysses
and the Joyce portal.
Or read the text of the chapter here.
International Joyce Exhibit: Central Library, Seattle
We will also be reading at the Central Library of the
Seattle Public Library, as part of the
International Joyce Exhibit,
on Saturday, June 4th, at 2pm. 1000 Fourth Avenue.
Other Events
See our archives for details of our previous readings.
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posted
Apr 15, 2005
The Other Bloomsday 2005 - Press Release
Now that the excitement of the Joycean Bloomsday Centenary has passed
the Wild Geese Players of Seattle still continue their Joycean journey
(as ever kindly supported by the Irish Heritage Club). This is the
eighth year that they are presenting staged readings of James Joyce’s
Ulysses. In this year we find the story at Chapter 11, The Sirens. It is
4 pm on a mid June afternoon and the Dublin characters gather at the
Ormonde Hotel by the banks of the River Liffey. Leopold Bloom joins
Father Cowley, Simon Dedalus, Richie Goulding, Lenehan and Ben Dollard
among others to enjoy an afternoon of songs and music with the divine
Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy setting the scene!
THURSDAY JUNE 16TH, 8PM
SATURDAY JUNE 18TH, 4PM
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC,
BRECHEMIN AUDITORIUM
DONATIONS AT THE DOOR
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