Bloomsday

The Hammer Museum gets all literary June 16 with its third annual celebration of James Joyce's classic novel "Ulysses." A cast of seasoned actors, including Bairbre Dowling, James Gallo, Kevin Kearns, and Colin Simon, re-enacts the "Aeolus" chapter of the massive tome, in which Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus almost encounter each other in the offices of a Dublin newspaper. Whether or not you're brave enough to join in and read aloud, you can still enjoy live Irish music by the Sweet Set and, perhaps best of all, a Guinness happy hour. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. 4 p.m. Free. www.hammer.ucla.edu.