In anticipation for Bloomsday 2023, join us for a screening of the new documentary Left Bank: The Visionary Women Behind James Joyce and Ulysses, which seeks to investigates the important and largely unacknowledged role of the notable women in the realization of James Joyce’s famed masterpiece.
Building on Women and the Making of Ulysses, the 2022 exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities (University of Texas at Austin), curator Clare Hutton joins us for this year’s Bloomsday lecture.
Beginning with Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first acclaimed Black poet after Emancipation, we’ll spend the bulk of our time with letters and first editions of poet Langston Hughes and philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke-including the keystone work of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke’s The New Negro.
As part of Philadelphia’s Welcome America festival, The Rosenbach will is opening its doors for free. Those visiting on June 24 will get to explore an exhibition on presidential history and our museum founders’ collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Join us for a bibliococktails that celebrates the Aesthetic Movement, an artistic style that spanned the second half of the nineteenth century, which aimed to produce beautiful “art for art’s sake” rather than for moral or didactic purposes. Enjoy peacock and sunflower themed cocktails inspired by two of the major decorative motifs of the movement, don your finest dandy apparel, pin on a green carnation and raise a glass to the most famous of aesthetes, Oscar Wilde.
The Rosenbach’s new Biblioventure series will focus on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. We’re taking a deep-dive into the adventures of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, Dr. John Watson, as they battle the criminal forces of London.