The 31st annual Arts and Society Bloomsday Celebration — of music and drama based on the text of James Joyce — will be performed Tuesday, June 16, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. Curtain time is 8 p.m.

James Joyce once declared that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be wholly reconstructed from the text of his famously impenetrable opus, Ulysses. On Wednesday night, or Bloomsday night rather, the Dublin of Joyce was thus faithfully restored in Vineyard Haven.

Bloomsday

James Joyce didn’t name Bloomsday, a worldwide celebration of music and drama based on his work, but he did choose the date. It’s June 16, the day his most famous book, Ulysses, takes place, and the date of his first romantic liaison with his future wife, Nora Barnacle.