Paris, 1924.  They Joyce family:  James, Nora, Giorgio, and Lucia.  (From the Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo, with thanks to The Modern Word.

Directory of Finnegans Wake
Reading Groups
A list of local groups meeting in real space and time.
  We invite leaders or members of groups
to send information for the Directory.

 

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Our group meets every other Wednesday night at 6:45; reading starts at 7:00.
We are now reading Stephen Hero the first hour and Finnegans Wake the second hour, taking turns reading the text aloud then discussing it. We and the Santa Fe group celebrate Bloomsday every year with an evening of Irish food, music, Guinness, and readings from Joyce, always ending with a group singing of "Love's Old Sweet Song". More details can be found at: www.elainesjoyce.com
Contact:
Elaine Mingus
(505)301-6723
elaine@elainesjoyce.com
or
emgramma@aol.com

Antwerp, Belgium
Finnegans Wake Leesgroep Antwerpen

Fortnightly on Monday evenings
 in the Antwerp Theatre Hotel
in the Arenbergstraat in the centre of Antwerp
 (near Burla-schouwburg and Theaterplein).
Contact
Liesbeth van Gool

Vorstenhuislaan 23
B2610 Wilrijk/Antwerp, Belgium
Tel 038279768
egevil@village.uunet.be

 
Berkeley, California
Joyce Discussion Society

University of California, Berkeley
under the supervision of John Bishop
oral recitation of Finnegans Wake
focusing on a page per week
Sundays 6:00-8:00 pm
English Lounge, 330 Wheeler Hall
Open to Joyce enthusiasts of all levels,
with drop-in visitors encouraged.
Contact
Lainie Escovedo
510-206-9562
lainiee1@yahoo.com

 

Boston, Massachusetts
Every Tuesday
at the Corrib Pub, 396 Market Street, Brighton
at 7 p.m.
Contact
Richard Cosma

508-877-8241
rcosma@rcn.com


  Brooklyn, New York
Reading FW
a new group in NYC
will meet monthly and hold its initial meeting at a private residence in Park Slope. We'll be discussing Book I (chapters 1 and 2).Future meeting dates will be addressed at this meeting.
Contact
Tara Baltazar
tmb23@columbia.edu
646-251-2150
http://ourexagmination.wordpress.com
  Buffalo, New York
Every two weeks on Tuesday during the academic year
 from 7:30 to
11:00 or so.
 Contact 
Alphonse Kolodziejczak
70 Rollingwood
Williamsville, NY 14221-1834
716-568-0808
akolo55@msn.com
The Poetry Collection
University of Buffalo
716-654-2917
  Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
 Every Sunday night,
September through May.
 Contact
James Hurt

 j-hurt@uiuc.edu

Dublin, Ireland
The James Joyce Institute

 weekly on Tuesdays in the academic year
 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm in the James
Joyce Cultural Centre
North Great George's Street
Dublin 1
Contact
Dorothy Dennis

127 Brian Road
Fairview
Dublin 3
 
 
Dubuque, Iowa
Our Joyce reading group meets every Tuesday afternoon, 4:30 to 6:00, or thereabouts.
We gather at Molly Malone's pub in Dubuque.
We've been meeting for six years, beginning with Ulysses and graduating to Finnegans Wake. We take turns reading by paragraphs. Animated discussion follows a reading aloud.
Currently the group is composed of two English professors who have always wanted to read the book and never found the circumstances to permit it, a nurse, an ex-banker and his wife, a retired engineer, and myself, a religious studies professor. For a few weeks we were blessed with the presence of Daragh Smyth of DIT, Dublin, who read the book with Roland McHugh. Past members of the group include a classics professor, a counselor, a publisher of women's health books, and an investment broker. We are (obviously) open to anyone who is interested, and willing to shape their entire schedule around our time slot.
Contact
Robert Beck
Loras College
Dubuque, Iowa 52001
rbeck@loras.edu
 
Long Island, New York
Narcolepts on the Lakes of Coma

Twice monthly on varying schedule
at the Mastic Moriches Shirley Public Library
off exit 68 South of the Long Island Expressway on William Floyd Parkway.
Contact
Joe Vignola

631-399-4596
promryder@aol.com
 

Madison, Wisconsin
Madison Joyce Reading Group

Currently reading Finnegans Wake
Weekly Sunday meetings
5:30 to 7:30
Contact::
Mary McLees

doublinexistents@tds.net

 
New York, New York 1/3
The Wake Watchers of 
The Finnegans Wake Society of New York

Meeting monthly on the fourth Wednesday, 6 -- 8 pm.
You are reading this on our web site
http://www.finneganswake.org
where our present reading point is posted on the index page. All are welcome to join the group at any time.
Contact:
Murray Gross

212-226-8903
thewakeny@gmail.com
for details and meeting place
  New York, New York 2/3
FW101

A new group for newcomers to the Wake. Regular meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m.
Contact:
Patricia Berger

212 489 5644
for more information.
  New York City 3/3
Reading FW

under Brooklyn.
 

New York/Philadelphia
Finnegans Wake Reading Group
The bi-city group meets once a month, alternating between Philadelphia, hosted by Janine Utell, and New York, hosted by Gregory Erickson.
Readers don't have to come to every meeting—these will be informal gatherings of people interested in working their way through Finnegans Wake with a friendly group. Feel free to join us in Philly, NYC, or both!
Bring your copy of Finnegans Wake —any edition will do.
Contact
Janine Utell

Janine.Utell@gmail.com
or
Gregory Erickson
gte1@nyu.edu
for more info.

Riverside, California
 at Notre Dame High School
Contact 
Eric Robert Wagner

EWagner382@aol.com
 

San Francisco, California
meeting every Tuesday at 9 pm
at Haight & Pierce in the Lower haight,
reading 20-30 pages per week.
"Our focus is on covering ground and enjoying the act of reading and hearing the book aloud."
Contact
Brett Lockspeiser

blocks@gmail.com


Santa Fe, New Mexico
Meets Saturday mornings, 9:30 a.m. to noon-ish. Contact
Tamar Stieber
tamar.stieber@comcast.net

 

 

 

Seattle/Tacoma, Washington
Allforabit Funferall
Second Sunday of every month in University Place
We've been meeting since November 2005, and read just a few pages a month. Our emphasis is on extracting all the heady goodness we can from the Wake while having fun doing it. Bring your laptop -- Fweet, Google, and Wikipedia are your friends. So-called "fanciful" interpretations are welcome!
Contact
Ron Hale-Evans

rwhe@ludism.org
 

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Last Tuesday of every month at the Six Acres Restaurant in Gastown, oral recitation of Finnegans Wake focusing on three pages per month (to last for 17 years)
Contact
Kevin Spenst

#303- 2295 Pandora Street
Vancouver BC
V5L 1N6
Tel 604-805-6333
k.spenst@shaw.ca

  Venice, California
Marshall McLuhan/Finnegans Wake Reading Club at the Venice Library. Meets the first Monday of each month to read amd discuss two pages of Finnegans Wake in the light of McLuhan's work
Contact
Gerry Fialka

310 306 7330
website: www.venicewake.org
 

Waynesville, North Carolina
Nestled in our cozy town of in the Smoky Mountains we spent the proper seven years on Ulysses and now are meeting the third Saturday of each month reading the Wake one paragraph at a time.
Contact
Steve Wal
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828 452 7171
s222t@yahoo.com

 

Zurich, Switzerland
 two continuing groups
1) Thursday evenings, 7 - 8.30
2) Thursday afternoon 4.30 - 6
 Contact
Fritz Senn

Zurich James Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefoundation.ch
Augustinergasse 9
CH-8001 Zurich Switzerland
Phone: ++41 1 211 83 01 Fax ++41 1 212 51 28joyce@es.unizh.ch