Turkey will celebrate its first Dalloway Day Wednesday, June 21, at 20:00 (CMT +3) within the Literary Readings section of Holon Academy.
The event will take place with the participation and collaboration of Professor Mine Özyurt Kılıç, one of the creators and organizers of the British Council-supported Virginia Woolf Studies in Turkey project in January 2023.
Students, readers, academics, writers, and artists are invited to join this free online commemoration of Virginia Woolf and her work, held in Turkish.
One hundred years ago, in June of 1923, Clarissa Dalloway took her famous walk through London. This year, DallowayDay celebrations are on the schedule around the globe. Below are just some of them.
Dalloway Day
The Exchange, Twickenham, TW1 1BE
Wednesday 21 June
Gabi Reigh, author of the fascinating anthology of women’s writings, Virginia’s Sisters, will be joined by Cheryl Robson, editor of Virginia Woolf in Richmond. They will discuss the life and legacy of Virginia Woolf – including the successful statue campaign.
Talk: Dalloway Day 2023 with Görel Kristina Näslund & Daniel Ogden
Wednesday 14 June at 19:00
The English Bookshop, Uppsala
Ogden and Näslund will talk about Virginia Woolf, her impact on literature and of course the incomparable novel Mrs Dalloway. Näslund’s recently published biography of Woolf (in Swedish) will be for sale during the evening.
Tea and celebratory cake afterwards!
Tickets 75:- (incl. tea and cake).
Dressing the Part with the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and Hatchards
Saturday 17 June 2023
Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE
Theme: This year’s theme for Clarissa Dalloway’s very own day is Bloomsbury, clothing and dressing up; party wear and everyday wear.
The Italian Virginia Woolf Society’s Dallowaday 2023 – Festa per Virginia Woolf
Spazio Sette Libreria
Libreria Ubik a Roma
via dei Barbieri 7
Aperti tutti i giorni dalle 10:30 alle 19:30
Clarissa Dalloway took her famous walk through London in June of 1923. One hundred years later, you can join the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain for DallowayDay 2023 with its theme of “Dressing the Part.”
Date: Saturday 17 June 2023 Place: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE Theme: This year’s theme for Clarissa Dalloway’s very own day is Bloomsbury, clothing and dressing up; party wear and everyday wear. Tickets: All are welcome, and discounts are available for VWSGB members. Bookings via Eventbrite.
Questions to explore
How did Bloomsbury represent themselves visually, in portraits and photographs? Participants will look at the clothes produced by the Omega workshops, and those in Virginia Woolf’s own wardrobe.
She was accused of being ‘badly dressed’, but what does this really mean? What did it take (other than a glamorous frock) to be a Grand Society Hostess like Sibyl Colefax, Ottoline Morrell, Emerald Cunard and Mary Hutchinson?
And Clarissa Dalloway’s party was a great success, but what kind of hostess was its creator, Virginia Woolf?
3–4 p.m. Wine & sign break
Drinks and nibbles will be served while you mingle with other Woolf enthusiasts and get your books signed by the speakers.
4–5 p.m. Bloomsbury in Society: Parties and Hostesses
A panel discussion with Sian Evans (Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars) and Nino Strachey (Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Reimagined Love, Freedom and Self-Expression), chaired by Mark Banting (Events Manager, Hatchards).
Dalloway Day at the Royal Society of Literature
Get the details about RSL events available on or after June 14.
Tell us about your Dalloway Day event
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Two noted authors will discuss the new editions of Virginia Woolf’s diaries, at the British Library on May 31, and you can listen in by registering to receive the event recording direct to your inbox to watch at your leisure on or after June 14, which is Dalloway Day.
As part of the Royal Society of Literature’s Dalloway Day celebrations, two contributors to the new editions of the diaries join forces to discuss the new volumes and how the diaries reveal Woolf’s unique mind, while also adding rich insight into her life and times.
They are Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Margo Jefferson and author and Royal Society of Literature Fellow and Woolf’s great-niece Virginia Nicholson.
About the speakers
Jefferson was a theatre and book critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York magazine and New Republic.
She is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts and the author of Negroland – which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award – On Michael Jackson; and Constructing a Nervous System her wildly innovative 2022 memoir, was recently announced as the winner of the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize.
Nicholson is the author of the acclaimed social histories How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s, Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War, Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives in the Second World War and Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s.
She is the daughter of the art historian and writer Quentin Bell, acclaimed for his biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf. Her mother, Anne Olivier Bell, edited the original five volumes of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries.
More Dalloway Day events from the RSL
Get the details on more RSL Dalloway Day events. They include the following:
The pulse of a perfect heart Published on the RSL website on June 14. The RSL, in partnership with Peninsula Press, has commissioned three writers to respond to the combined might, maps and meaning of two distinctively London-based novels: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt.
Neil Bartlett and Sarah Ruhl: Working with Orlando Available from June 14. Playwrights Neil Bartlett and Sarah Ruhl come together in conversation to discuss their adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.
Zadie Smith In Conversation: On Virginia Woolf June 14, 7 p.m. Zadie Smith joins Lisa Appignanesi at the British Library for a conversation about the life and works of Virginia Woolf.
Woolfians around the globe celebrated Dalloway Day last week, a day commemorating Clarissa Dalloway’s walk to “buy the flowers herself” in preparation for her party that evening.
The official date, as established in 2018 by both the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and the International Virginia Woolf Society, is the third Wednesday in June, which this year fell on June 15. But events celebrating Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway are not usually restricted to one day, and this year was no exception.
Here is a rundown of some of the events that took place this year, along with a few notable #DallowayDay tweets, some of which share interesting resources.
— Louisa Albani artist (@louisa_albani) June 16, 2022
Today’s the day! For #DallowayDay, we will be releasing the first half of our new issue on Twitter throughout the day. The full issue is going live now! #WritingCommunity#fiction
— L’Esprit Literary Review (@LEspritLit) June 15, 2022
