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Bloomsday at the Rosenbach 2017 Reader Schedule TIME READER | SINGER AFFILIATION EPISODE | SONG PAGES* LINES 11:55 AM Derick Dreher John C. Haas Director of the Rosenbach Welcome 12:00 PM Judy Guston Rosenbach Curator and Director of Collections The Odyssey (Greek) 1-20 12:05 PM Eric Dubin & Abla Lynn Hamza Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) La Ci Darem 12:10 PM Fergus Carey Publican, Fergie's Pub Telemachus 3-4 1-66 12:15 PM Michael Barsanti Director, The Library Company of Philadelphia Telemachus 4-5 67-122 12:20 PM Monica Malpass 6ABC anchor Telemachus 12 389-432 12:25 PM Shai Ben-Yaacov | Corey Bonar Producer, Newsworks Tonight WHYY FM | AVA Telemachus | Ballad of Jokin' Jesus 15-16 545-614 12:35 PM Eileen Cunniffe Director, Governance and Consulting Services, Arts & Business Council Nestor 22-24 118-183 12:40 PM Michael Naidoff Member, Rosenbach Board of Directors Nestor 24-26 199-264 12:45 PM Denise Foley Writer, editor, photographer, co-founder of irishphiladelphia.com Proteus 37-38 294-330 12:50 PM Yolanda Wisher | Abla Lynn Philadelphia Poet Laureate and Member, Rosenbach Board of Directors | Proteus | Who Goes with Fergus? 41-42 434-505 Hamza AVA 1:00 PM Derick Dreher John C. Haas Director of the Rosenbach Calypso 45-46 1-65 1:05 PM M. Thomas Gammarino Novelist Calypso 50-52 243-307 1:10 PM James Murphy Founder of the Irish Studies program at Villanova University Calypso 52-53 308-381 1:15 PM Lenore Steiner, Perry Lerner | Rosenbach Bloomsday Chair, Rosenbach Supporter | AVA Calypso | Seaside Girls 53-54 382-431 Corey Bonar 1:20 PM Musical interlude 1:30 PM Jon McGoran Novelist Lotus Eaters 63-64 239-278 1:35 PM Margaret M. O'Sullivan Executive Director, Nationalities Service Center Lotus Eaters 66-67 338-394 1:40 PM Rebecca Romney Honey & Wax Booksellers Lotus Eaters 70-71 549-572 1:45 PM Sean Hanrahan Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Hades 73-74 37-90 1:50 PM Jonathan Houlon Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Hades 91 839--877 1:55 PM Susan Muller Member, Rosenbach Board of Directors Hades 93-94 960-1005 2:00 PM Lisa Washington Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Aeolus 107-109 464-528 2:05 PM Julie Yeh Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Aeolus 111-113 604-672 2:10 PM Cynthia Affleck Member, Rosenbach Board of Directors Lestrygonians 138-140 650-703 2:20 PM Sean M. Flatley EVP, Sterling Investment Advisors and President of IABCN Lestrygonians 144-145 896-936 2:25 PM Siobhan and Jim Reardon President and Director, Free Library of Philadelphia | Instructor, Scylla and Charybdis 151-153 1-89 Restaurant School Walnut Hill College 2:30 PM Musical interlude; Bloomsday Essay Contest winners announced 2:35 PM Nicola Bell Irish Immigration Center Telemachus 17 615-49 2:40 PM Andy Kahan Director, Author Events, Free Library of Philadelphia Scylla and Charybdis 154-156 141-188 2:45 PM Susan Staggs Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Scylla and Charybdis 170-171 828-878 2:50 PM Jim Averill Member, Rosenbach Board of Directors Scylla and Charybdis 174-175 997-1029 2:55 PM Liza Seltzer Member, Rosenbach Board of Directors Wandering Rocks 180-181 1-75 3:00 PM Arthur Grugan Professor of Philosophy, Holy Family University Wandering Rocks 187 299-336 3:05 PM Janine Utell Chair of English and Creative Writing, Widener University Wandering Rocks 193-194 585-641 3:10 PM Barbara Zimmerman Rosenbach Guide Wandering Rocks 198-199 800-841 3:15 PM David Hamilton Emeritus Professor of English, University of Iowa Wandering Rocks 207-208 1176-1226 3:20 PM Valerie V. Gay Executive Director, Art Sanctuary Wandering Rocks 208-209 1226-1282 3:25 PM Eric Dubin AVA My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl 3:30 PM Daniel Simpson Poet, writer, technical support specialist for the Library of Congress Sirens 211-213 63-132 3:35 PM John Timpane | Corey Bonar Books and fine arts editor & writer, Philadelphia Inquirer | AVA Sirens | The Bloom Is on the Rye 214-215 185-231 3:40 PM Grover Silcox Feature Reporter and Producer, WLVT PBS39 Sirens 217-219 337-418 3:45 PM Kostis Kourelis Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Sirens 220-221 444-497 3:50 PM Irène P. Mathieu, MD | Corey Bonar Pediatrician and poet | AVA Sirens | M'Appari 225-226 663-716 3:55 PM Christopher Taylor | Corey Bonar President, The Clay Studio | AVA Sirens | M'Appari 226-227 717-755 4:00 PM Peter Nalle Member, Rosenbach Board of Directors Sirens 233-234 1028-1076 4:05 PM Ted Howell | Abla Lynn Hamza Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Instructor | AVA Sirens | The Last Rose of Summer 236 1151-1195 4:10 PM Edward Pettit Rosenbach Sunstein Family Manager of Public Programs Sirens 237-239 1234-1294 4:15 PM Musical interlude 4:25 PM Mark Moore Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Cyclops 242-243 118-167 4:30 PM Charles McMahon Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Lantern Theater Company Cyclops 255-256 679-719 4:35 PM Tom Reing Artistic Director and Founder, Inis Nua Theatre Cyclops 266-267 1192-1238 4:40 PM Bill Kunze Director, Pennsylvania Nature Conservancy Cyclops 268-269 1258-1295 4:45 PM Jenée Chizick-Agüero | Eric Dubin Founder, Motivos magazine & Free Library Board of Trustees | AVA Cyclops | Sinn Fein Amain 271-272 1393-1437 4:50 PM Cynthia Gouw Award-Winning Journalist Cyclops 273 1465-1501 4:55 PM Kelly Lee Chief Cultural Officer, City of Philadelphia Cyclops 276-277 1621-1675 5:00 PM Jennifer Summerfield Actor Nausicaa 285-286 78-122 5:05 PM Michael Swanwick Science fiction writer and fantasist Nausicaa 295-296 505-567 5:10 PM Sara Davis Rosenbach Manager of Marketing and Communications Nausicaa 299-300 674-714 5:15 PM Inga Saffron & Ken Kalfus | Corey Architecture Critic, Philadelphia Inquirer | Author I AVA Nausicaa | The Moon Hath Rais'd 300-301 715-771 Bonar & Abla Lynn Hamza 5:20 PM Jack Noonan Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Nausicaa 301-302 772-821 5:25 PM Margaretta Noonan Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Nausicaa 312-313 1246-1306 5:30 PM Nathalie Anderson Poet, Swarthmore College Oxen of the Sun 315-316 60-110 5:35 PM Richard Goldberg Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Oxen of the Sun 344-345 1379-1406 5:40 PM Carolyn Killion Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Oxen of the Sun 346 1440-1464 5:45 PM Thom Collins Executive Director and President, The Barnes Foundation Circe 401-403 1752-1817 5:50 PM Ernest Hilbert Poet, essayist, Senior Literature Specialist at Bauman Rare Books Circe 421-422 2478-2514 5:55 PM Paul Saint-Amour Ulysses Reading Group Instructor, U. of Pennsylvania Professor Circe 469-472 4023-4150 6:00 PM 5-minute break 6:05 PM Suzanne Simons Chief Academic Officer, Literacy Design Collaborative Circe 473-475 4151-4245 6:10 PM Christina Doe Rosenbach Facilities Manager, Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Circe 494-497 4865-4967 6:15 PM Judith Freedman Rosenbach Ulysses Reading Group Graduate Eumaeus 501-502 1-59 6:20 PM Arthur Spector Chair, Rosenbach Board of Directors Eumaeus 508-509 320-366 6:25 PM Miriam Spector Member, Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation Board of Directors Eumaeus 509-510 367-421 6:30 PM Andrew Frishkoff Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Eumaeus 540-541 1770-1806 6:35 PM Karen Heller National features writer, The Washington Post Eumaeus 542-543 1866-1894 6:40 PM Michael Toner & Mal Whyte Professional Actor, founding Bloomsday reader | Professional Actor Ithaca 7:05 PM Musical interlude 7:15 PM Drucie McDaniel Actor Penelope 610-644 102-1610 Abla Lynn Hamza Academy of Vocal Arts Love's Old Sweet Song Pianist: Michele Scanlon. Many thanks to Gary Galván, Curator of the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music for the Free Library of Philadelphia, who organized the musicians this year. We thank Ed Lawler for his 24 amazing years at Bloomsday and hope to see him here again. *Page and line numbers reference Ulysses: The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, et al. (New York: Random House, 1986.) List accurate as of June 13, 2017. .
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