{"title": "James Joyce's Finnegans Wake", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "price": "", "price_from": "52.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading group at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation that engages with James Joyce's Finnegans Wake together. The 1939 text is Joyce's most experimental, challenging and hilarious work, which some say is impossible to read – so instead it is played together. Martin Mühlheim is involved, and the group can be joined at any time without prior knowledge. It is made possible by the Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/james-joyces-finnegans-wake-59696/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d4921e6a261a2a79ca006aaf52c512f2b3471b8b0e1db581c4e9b6c9a9b2e59-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Dubliners in 17 Sessions", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zurich James Joyce Foundation", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "\"Dubliners in 17 Sessions\" is an English-language reading group at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation in Zurich. 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It is staged by the Zurich authors' group die aus zürich, whose members read, with musical interludes on the flute by Ivan Denes. The stories carry listeners from the workplace to the South Seas, and from the dream academy to an apple paradise. Entry is free with a collection, and a book table is on hand.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/traumlesung-59390/", "official_url": "https://die-aus-zuerich.ch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49b5a1820b5d36d43fa3694f3e06183e25af82786cba018d7f0582e4b714be0f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Silent Reading Rave", "start": "2026-11-06T22:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei, keine Anmeldung notwendig", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A silent reading rave: a crowd reads side by side in the reading room of the Literaturhaus, a space otherwise open to members only. It is run by the Zurich association Silent Reading Rave, which brings people together to read all over Switzerland. You bring your own reading matter – comics, Goethe, pulp fiction – or pick a book from the book table provided by the Literaturhaus. Admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-reading-rave-642/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/silent-reading-rave-4/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c07644628ed4260b208c95661665d124d8f30469d39ddf866a6459de19697e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "unlesbar", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Strauhof", "address": "Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "«unlesbar» is a special exhibition with 42 documents from the Swiss Literary Archive that are barely legible, distorted, encrypted, blacked out or crossed out. It asks what happens when we cannot read characters straight away: the illegible irritates, but also awakens curiosity and the allure of decipherment. Each document carries a riddle waiting to be solved, while at the same time developing a visual aesthetic of its own. The exhibition is a journey through time and space, from ancient writing systems via graphic design and unreadable classics to the whirl of signs in today's fast-moving present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/unlesbar-59603/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ece1da2b3c056751ee3e1a4f5c1ea26b7d9a1adc143d443c1e75e5a6c0231a6e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Silent Book Club", "start": "2026-11-05T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The Silent Book Club is a get-together where everyone reads quietly in their own book, as there is no prescribed reading. It is run by the Self-Access Center (SLZ) of the Language Center of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. We just meet and share our silent reading for an hour, and at the SLZ we help participants to find the ideal reading for their desired language, level and interests. Register online or just drop by!", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-book-club-8318/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesegruppe Altstetten", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "PBZ Pestalozzi-Bibliothek Altstetten", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Lesegruppe Altstetten is a reading group of the Pestalozzi-Bibliothek Altstetten library. It is run by PBZ Pestalozzi-Bibliothek Altstetten. At this meeting the group discusses the book «Leidenschaft» by Irene Nemirowsky. 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You bring your own reading material; some books from the publisher Kein&Aber are available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-reading-rave-20703/", "official_url": "https://www.silentreadingrave.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6a8e46abb2170401788d74886c77b648b981c38a3e48c01c57a10d6443fe5f7-600.webp"}]}