Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula will host an Evening of a glass of Wine and music by Harpist Amy Krupski, all highlighting Carmel Artist Elizabeth Wrightman’s enlightening and thoughtful view of Irish Writer James Joyce’s Modernist Novel, “Ulysses.”

Wrightman presented her paintings from “Ulysses” at the International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin on the 100th Anniversary of the novel. She is now sharing the presentation of this very special event with the local community.

“I paint primarily from Irish Literature, so I came inevitably to paint from the astounding imagery of James Joyce. I will share the images which I presented this June, for a particular historical Bloomsday, in Dublin, in the classrooms of Trinity College. Presenters were Professors, Authors and Scholars from all over the world, lecturing as they do each June on Bloomsday. My twelve paintings were an exception among those presentations. I will take us on a brief tour of “Ulysses” from a fun viewpoint…”

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DATE: Sunday, November 13th
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: The Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula, 4590 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Public is invited at no charge

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First published in book form in 1922, “Ulysses” chronicles the events that occur in and immediately around Dublin on a single day in 1904. The three main characters, Stephen Dedalus (the Hero of Joyce’s earlier Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), Leopold Bloom (a Jewish advertising canvasser), and Bloom’s Wife Molly are intended to represent modern counterparts of Telemachus, Ulysses (Odysseus), and Penelope, respectively. The events that take place in the novel loosely parallel the major events in Odysseus’s journey home following the Trojan War. Joyce’s novel is not only allusive, but also imitates the styles of different periods of English Literature with puns, parodies and humor.