Category: Ostend

  • BLOOMSDAY IN OOSTENDE 2024

    BLOOMSDAY IN OSTEND 2024 Bloomsday in Ostend 2024: The Joyce Family Holiday in Ostend Bloomsday – the festival in honour of writer James Joyce, his novel Ulysses and its protagonist Leopold Bloom – is celebrated worldwide on 16 June.  And also in Ostend, because Joyce and his family enjoyed a long holiday in the city during the

    Read more...

  • Souvenirs of Bloomsday in Ostend 2023

    Click on the arrows to view a selection of photographs by Jef Van Eynde celebrating the event on 16 June 2023.

    Read more...

  • BLOOMSDAY IN OOSTENDE 2023

    ‘Bloomsday in Oostende’ returns on Friday 16 June! The Portiers van de Oceaan have organised a special Joyce programme for this year’s celebrations and the venue is KAAP on the promenade by the ‘Drie Gapers’.. FRIDAY 16 JUNE 2023 AT 16.00 Geert Lernout, James Joyce and the Sea Joyce’s last book was supposed to be ‘about

    Read more...

  • Un Ostendais par semaine: James Ensor, 1908

    Xavier Tricot, author of the catalogue raisonné on James Ensor, draws this anonymous text about the artist to our attention. Written 114 years ago, it’s a fascinating read… Source: Anon., « Un Ostendais par semaine », L’Écho d’Ostende, Supplément Illustré du Dimanche 26 janvier 1908, p. 1. L’Ostendais de cette semaine ne nous appartient pas exclusivement

    Read more...

  • Souvenirs of Bloomsday in Ostend, 16 June 2022

    Bloomsday in Ostend was a huge success and we thank everyone who participated: you made the day! Click on the Bloomsday menu above for a slideshow of Jef Van Eynde’s photo reportage of the proceedings. Enjoy!

    Read more...

  • ‘DE STANDAARD’ FEATURES BLOOMSDAY IN OSTEND

    Bloomsday in Ostend was featured in ‘De Standaard’ on Saturday 11 June. Article by Koen Peeters. Read the text here or visit the newspaper’s website: De Standaard.

    Read more...

  • BLOOMSDAY IN OSTEND

    Full programme! Only ten more days until we celebrate Bloomsday in Ostend. Join us on 16 June as we celebrate the centenary of Ulysses in the city where James Joyce spent his summer holiday in 1926. Dress up! We’ll be celebrating in the sartorial style of 1926. There’s an exhibition of eighteen original prints based

    Read more...