It’s an awesome Venice tradition. Always at the end of November to acknowledge the start of the California Gray Whale migration. It’s FREE and family friendly! Drop by for a few chapters or stay a while.

Join us in-person on the beach or virtually through your device. Sign-ups begin the first week of November. Join our email list to be notified.

“The experience is transformative.” says Venice Oceanarium founder, Tim Rudnick. “Retelling this amazing tale on the sand, with waves crashing nearby and salty sea breezes is multi-sensory performance art.”

Check out the 2020 virtual reading on YouTube.

Every year since 1995, the Venice Oceanarium has set up camp on the beach at the Venice Breakwater for our weekend-long, marathon reading of Herman Melvilles’s, Moby- Dick.

Students, literati, celebrities and beach bums alike take turns reading passages from the novel. Join Captain Ahab and the crew of the Pequod on their voyage to hunt the White Whale. Witness the obsessive drive to conquer “the ungraspable phantom of life.”