On Sunday 10th June from 2pm, Dublin Sketchers are going to sketch around Eccles Street and St George's Church on Temple Street. We will be inspired by James Joyce's epic book about Dublin - Ulysses.
At 4pm we will gather in the James Joyce Cultural Centre at 35 North Great George's Street for an exhibition of the Ulysses Sketch Book project that Dublin Sketchers have been participating in. Bring along your Joyce inspired sketch books / single leaf sketches.
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Note: this will not be a sketch crawl, but feel free to move around the area to explore - it's the setting for three chapters of Ulysses - known as Calypso, Ithaca and Penelope.
Fictional characters Leopold and Molly Bloom lived at number 7 Eccles Street, there's a plaque to mark the spot.
If it's your first time out .... bring your own paper and pens/pencils, turn up, say hello to anyone who looks like a sketcher and get stuck in! You'll meet everyone at 4pm in the James Joyce Centre.
Ulysses sketchbook project 2018
Between February and June, Dublin Sketchers have got down and dirty with James Joyce. We’ve sketched 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. Here's an 18 minute intro to the whole book.
The Drawing on Joyce sketchbook project took inspiration from Ulysses – the stories, the characters, the rumour and humour. We sketched pubs, chemists and cafés. Parks, martello towers and cemeteries. The sketchbooks are a record of time and place, now and then. They reveal Ulysses, one drawing at a time.
The sketch books will be exhibited during the Bloomsday Festival in the James Joyce Cultural Centre at 35 North Great George's Street. There will also be a Drawing on Joyce exhibition at the Olivier Cornet Gallery opening at 3pm on Sunday 10th June.
If you don’t want to exhibit your sketches, that is totally fine. Just come out with Dublin Sketchers as usual.
If you don’t want to exhibit your sketches, that is totally fine. Just come out with Dublin Sketchers as usual.
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.
