Dublin Sketcher’s Ulysses sketchbook project 2018
Between February and June, Dublin Sketchers will get down
and dirty with James Joyce. We’ll sketch
in some of the places that appear in his big book Ulysses – a 700 page crazy epic that takes place on one day in
Dublin in 1904. That day is celebrated every year as Bloomsday, 16th
June.
The Drawing on
Joyce sketchbook project will take inspiration from Ulysses – the stories, the characters, the rumour and humour. We’ll
sketch pubs, chemists and cafés. Parks, martello towers and cemeteries. The sketchbooks will be a record of time and place,
now and then. They will reveal Ulysses,
one drawing at a time.
If you want to join the Drawing on Joyce sketchbook
project, the dates for the main
Ulysses sketch crawls are below. Extra dates over the
5 months will be added if other locations can be sorted out.
The sketch books will be exhibited during the Bloomsday Festival. If you don’t want to exhibit your sketches, that is totally fine. Just come out with Dublin Sketchers as usual.
Drawing on Joyce Sketchbook Project Dates
Sunday
11th February 2pm – 4pm: Joyce Tower and Forty Foot in Sandycove to dive into
the opening chapter of Ulysses. Bring your swimsuit if you are feeling brave!
Sunday
11th March noon – 4pm: Sketch crawl from O'Connell Street down Grafton Street,
past Davy Byrne’s pub and onto the National Museum. This route follows the
course of the hungry Lestrygonians
chapter of Ulysses and ends up in the
National Library for a heated debate about Shakespeare in the Scylla
and Charybdis episode.
Sunday
8th April noon – 4pm: Sketch crawl from Little Britain Street down to Ormond
Quay and across to Merchant's Arch in Temple Bar, avoiding singing saucies and rampant nationalists. We'll be taking in chapters Wandering Rocks, Sirens and Cyclops.
Sunday
13th May 2pm – 4pm: Swenys Chemist, St Andrew's Church and Westland Row for the
drug-fuelled Lotus Eaters chapter.
Sunday 10th
June 2pm – 4pm: Eccles Street and North Great George's Street for a marathon of
chapters (Calypso,
Ithaca and Penelope).
Full details of each Drawing on Joyce sketch
crawl will be on www.dublinsketchers.com in the week leading up to the event. You can follow the
development of the project on the website, and Twitter @DublinSketchers and @DrawingonJoyce. If
you can’t join the sketch crawls in Dublin, then tweet your related sketch
during the week of the sketch out.
As you are now so once were we – Ulysses, James Joyce.
