[Local events] POSTPONED! Saturday's Wake performance

[David Abel]

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Due to the winter storm expected to hit Portland this weekend, Saturday 
night's /Finnegans Wake/ performance by Neal Kosaly-Meyer has been 
postponed. *

Please see below for details.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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/
Works on Paper presents /

*Neal Kosaly-Meyer
performing* <https://www.facebook.com/events/706228361608177>

***/Finnegans Wake, Part II, Chapter 2/* 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/706228361608177>/

**/*NEW DATE: Saturday, March 16, 2024*

*5:30 pm*: Doors open
*6:00 pm*: Lecture and discussion, followed by a short break
*7:00 pm*: Performance (2.5 hours without a break)

/Finnegans Wake, Part II, Chapter 2 is performed in darkness/

NO LATE ENTRY

*$5-20* suggested donation; no one turned away

*Passages Bookshop* <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665

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Since 2014 Neal Kosaly-Meyer has been performing the chapters of James 
Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, from memory and with close 
attention to the music Joyce himself claimed to be the most important 
characteristic of his book.

The chapters of Part II are especially noted as being the most difficult 
and obscure things Joyce ever wrote, with Chapter 2 by common consensus 
the most formidable. The chapter is presented as a textbook, complete 
with footnotes, and also right and left hand marginal notes. There is 
substantial agreement (with important confirmation from the author 
himself), that the footnotes and marginal notes should be understood as 
the voices of the three children of the pub-keeper HCE, locked in their 
room with their textbook to do their homework.

In performance the rather forbidding page transforms to a comic quartet 
acted out between the staid overserious schoolbook on one hand, and the 
constantly mocking and interrupting students on the other.

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Neal Kosaly-Meyer is a Seattle-based composer and performer. His current 
projects include /A Finnegans Wake Project/ and the long-term piano 
composition /Gradus: for Fux, Tesla and Milo the wrestler./

A /Finnegans Wake/ Project online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HumFP8dLffk
/Finnegans Wake/ Project Facebook Group 
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/1520972724852770>
/The Stranger <https://tinyurl.com/pbwake23a>
/NPR <https://tinyurl.com/pbwake23b>
CBC Radio <https://tinyurl.com/pbwake23c>

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*Works on Paper *supports activities that use concepts, characteristics, 
and histories of the book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for 
exploratory practice across the arts.

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