UniTS, together with the Municipality of Trieste, is the organiser of Bloomsday 2025 - A celebration of Joyce, scheduled from 13th to 16th June.

The organising committee includes professors Laura Pelaschiar, lecturer of English Literature, and Paolo Quazzolo, lecturer of the History of Theatre.

Each year, the festival focuses on a part of Ulysses, which the University dramatises in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia. 

This year's show, entitled Eumaeus. Ovvero: misteri, marinai, tatuaggi e tazze di caffè (Eumaeus: mysteries, sailors, tattoos and cups of coffee), will be held in the Sala Bartoli on Sunday 15th June at 9:00, with a repeat performance on Monday 16th at 19:00. The cast includes actors from the Compagnia del Teatro Stabile: Riccardo Maranzana, Francesco Godina and Emanuele Fortunati. They will be joined by students from the DiSU Department and the authors of the text, Pelaschiar and Quazzolo. 

The theme of the sixteenth edition of the Bloomsday festival is Eumaeus. The Shelter, the sixteenth chapter of James Joyce's novel Ulysses. 

As is now tradition, the festival includes a series of events such as animations, exhibitions, shows, concerts, food events, guided tours, conferences and book presentations, including the new Forse che sì. Joyce fra Pascoli e Gadda (Maybe so. Joyce between Pascoli and Gadda) by Andrea Cortellessa, guest of honour at the Festival.

The 2025 edition of the event will have a new venue: the LETS - Letteratura Trieste museum, in Piazza Hortis, the Joyce Museum’s new premises. Without abandoning its nomadic nature, this year the festival will take shelter in the Forum room of the LETS Museum, where most of the activities will take place and where the exhibition of ink and watercolour works Pigment and Parable. Eumeo - Il rifugio by Croatian illustrator Tea Jurišić will also be open to visitors (free admission until 15th September). This is accompanied by an exhibition of figurative works by Frank Ritmeester inspired by Joyce's work, on display at the Antico Caffè San Marco. The artistically inspired events are rounded off with the Poppysmic plopslop collage workshop, based on Joyce's onomatopoeia, curated by Susan Petri.

As always, the programme is a dense interweaving of new features and returning favourites. Once again the festival will feature some of the traditional events such as the Eumeo in mezz'oravademecum, an introduction to this year’s theme conducted by Laura Pelaschiar, the immersive breakfasts animated by the dialect theatre company L'Armonia, the walking tours of the literary city led by Riccardo Cepach and the tour of Joycean places curated by Francesca Scarpato and Paolo Quazzolo. 

Bloomsday is organised by the Joyce Museum, managed by the Municipality of Trieste in collaboration with the Department of Humanities at the University of Trieste, with the support of the Regional Tourism Promotion Office and the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Administrative management: Gloria Deotto and Paolo Quazzolo

Scientific management: Laura Pelaschiar

Artistic management: Riccardo Cepach

 

Discover the Bloomsday 2025 programme https://lets.trieste.it/bloomsday-2025/