You could argue that The Literacy Project in Greenfield single-dhandedly reawakened a lust for all things James Joyce.

Six years ago, when the organization brought “Bloomsday” to the Pioneer Valley, it started as a donation-only event held at The People’s Pint.

On June 16 at 7 p.m., it will be held in the Arts Block on Main Street in Greenfield, and there will be everything from a cheese and dessert bar, with drinks available for purchase, to people dressing in period costumes to win prizes.

Bloomsday is actually a worldwide event commemorating Joyce’s ecstatic literary novel, “Ulysses,” but The Literacy Project puts its own spin on it.

The event will benefit The Literacy Project and its programs. The cost is $10 at the door (cash or check). 

There will be readings by passionate lovers of protagonist Leopold Bloom, and organizers say this monster-size tome has blossomed into a true cultural event.

This year’s Bloomsday event is titled, “Joyce’s Dublin in Ruins.” It’s a musical and literary performance created by Wilde Irish Women’s Rosemary Caine. It considers the landscape that would have influenced Joyce’s imagination while he was writing “Ulysses.”

Caine and her musicians, actors and singers will weave music, song, images and stories of Irish rebellion with stories of Joyce’s literary rebellion with the publication of the novel in 1922. 

Boomsday grew out of an experiment eight years ago. One of The Literacy Project’s instoructors introduced a novel idea – have beginning readers tackle passages from “Ulysses.” 

He had all of his students read the novel, and the task captured students’ imaginations, giving them tremendous pride to be reading sections of a book taht even skilled readers struggle with, he said.

The Literacy Project Executive Director Judith Roberts said, “Bloomsday has turned into an annual event because it makes sense that a nonprofit, whose mission is to ensure that its citizens are readers and writers, should want to celebrate all things literary. And who better to help with our plea for support than a public who deeply appreciates the joys of reading and literature?”

The Literacy Project provides education in basic skills for adults at five locations in western Massachusetts: Greenfield, Ware, Amherst, Northampton and Orange.