JANUARY
2010
January 31 - Jack Kerouac in Queens Lecture. Where: Weeping Beech, Margaret I Carmen Green Kingsland Homestead (143-35 37th Ave.) Flushing, NY.
Head to Kingsland Homestead this afternoon to hear writer, playwright and Kerouac historian Pat Fenton present a lecture celebrating the famed American writer — and, specifically, how Queens greatly impacted his life and writing. Call 718-939-0647 or visit www.nycgovparks.org for more details.
February 2010
Sunday, February 7- 1st Annual Neal Cassady Birthday Bash,
Sunday, February 7th, 2:00 - 5:00pm,
My Brother's Bar,
2376 15th Street,
Denver, Colorado 80202.
Neal Cassady Birthday Bash in DENVER Sunday, February 7th, 2 PM
If you're in or near Denver you're in for a treat! John Allen Cassady, his sister Jami Cassady Ratto and her husband Randy Ratto will be celebrating their father's birthday at MY BROTHER'S BAR.
Sunday, February 7th, Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA, FIFTH ANNUAL NEAL CASSADY BIRTHDAY BASH - Sunday, February 7th, 7 PM.
Special Guest of Honor will be AL HINKLE, aka BIG ED DUNKEL from "On The Road". Our theme will be "Last Man Standing". Al was actually in the '49 Hudson as it roared across America! He drove the Hudson! He was with Neal when he bought it and suggested Neal buy the radio option instead of the heater! Al worked side by side with Neal at the Southern Pacific Railroad, and, in fact, he's the one who helped Neal get the job! He's been a lifelong friend to Carolyn Cassady and the Cassady children and continues to live in Northern California. Al Hinkle is 83 years old and has stories only he can tell. Al Hinkle - (Big Ed Dunkel) - at the Beat Museum to help us celebrate Neal's birthday.
Click here for details:
http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/feb-events.htm
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March 2010
Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922
MARCH 11-13, 2010 - Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! JACK KEROUAC WEEKEND AND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 11:
Docu-drama: One Fast Move or I’m Gone. Based on Kerouac’s experiences
as described in his novel Big Sur. Website: www.kerouacfilms.com
11:00 a.m.: Soundtrack CD Listening Session with Jim Sampas. Durgin Hall, Room 114. U-Mass., Lowell South Campus. To attend RSVP paul_marion@uml.edu
3:00 p.m. Screening and discussion with producer Jim Sampas. UML South Campus. O’Leary Library Auditorium.
FRIDAY, MARCH 12:
JACK KEROUAC DAY AND 88th BIRTHDAY
Featured Event: Book Release of Jay Atkinson’sParadise Road: Jack Kerouac’s Lost Highway And My Search for America. Web address: www.jayatkinson.com
General: Governor’s Proclamation of “Jack Kerouac Day.”
4:00 p.m. Lowell Blues, a film by Henry Ferrini. Lowell National Historical Park Visitors Center, 61 Market Street.
5:30 p.m.: Paradise Road Reading and Signing With Jay Atkinson and Other Readers.Brew’d Awakenings. 61 Market Street.
7:00p.m. Paradise Road Launch Party. Remarks by Jay Atkinson and David Amram.General Celebration at the Old Court. 29 Central Street.
SATURDAY, MARCH 13:
DAVID AMRAM JAMS
2:00 p.m. Open Mike Readings with David Amram
The Dharma Buns. 26A Market Street.
*David Amram plays behind the readings
*Host: Mary/John Capriole; Moderator: Roger Brunelle
*On the Road Art Presentation by Mary Capriole
*John Capriole discusses the origin of Dharma Buns
*Paradise Road web video (2:30—2:40 p.m.)
7:00 p.m. This is BEAT! Caffe Paradiso 45 Palmer Street.*Readings by David, Tony Sampas, Paul Marion, John Leite, Jerry Bisantz, Richard Rourke. Acoustic Jazz presentation by David Amram with*Stanley Swann, Charles Langford, Adam Amram, Lura Smith of MCC. Lowell Jazz Day Camp: Alyssa Jones, Stanley Swann. Paul Combs and John Harrington. UMass Lowell Classical String Trio.
9:00 p.m. This Song’s For You, Jack! Continuing at Caffe Paradiso.
*Singer/Songwriter Bob Martin
*Singer/Songwriter Alan Crane
*Amy Black and the Red Clay Rascals
*Nolwenn Monjarret
*Special Late Night Guest.
Seating at Caffe Paradiso is limited. Please RSVP to george@copleymedia.com for the 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. shows.
Special thanks to: The Lowell Historical National Park, The Dharma Buns, Caffe Paradiso. The University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Brew’d Awakenings, The Old Court, Middlesex Community College, all the performers; and to George DeLuca for producing the Amram Jams
This schedule is also posted at: http://www.cometolowell.com/KerouacSchedule.htm
The Courtyard by Marriott Hotel of Lowell has set aside 10 rooms for the nights of March 12 and 13 for persons attending the Kerouac 2010 Birthday events. The cost of a room with one king size bed for one night is $67.00 plus an 11.7% sales tax.
The Marriott is located off Exit 3 of the Lowell Connector. The Connector is accessed from Exit 35B on I-495.
To make a reservation call 1-800-321-2211 and reference the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Room Block at the Lowell Courtyard by Marriott to make their reservations at the group rate.
Thursday, March 11, “Jack’s Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac”, Northport, NY. Pat Fenton reading from his Kerouac play at Northport-East-Library. 7:30 pm.
It’s the summer of 1964 and Jack Kerouac is spending his last night in Northport before moving to Florida with his mother. Long after his small going-away party is over, Jack keeps on drinking as he reflects on his youth as a football star in Lowell, Massachusetts, and wonders whether his time has come and gone. As he sums up his life in a bittersweet narrative, he receives a series of soul-searching phone calls
from his daughter Jan.
Join journalist and playwright Patrick Fenton as he reads from his play “Jack’s Last Call” and talks about how he has chased the ghost of Jack Kerouac from Ozone Park to Northport. Mr. Fenton’s play has been featured on more than 50 radio stations across the country since its April 2008 release. No registration required. Northport East Library. 7:30 p.m.
March 12, 2010, The Kerouac Effect 2010, Auckland New Zealand. Bright Yellow Beetle Records presents...The Kerouac Effect 2010
The Kerouac Effect, the annual celebration of Beat Poetry in Auckland City held on the birthday of one of Beat's most recognised proponants Jack Kerouac. It is a celebration of crossovers of music and spoken word/poetry featuring some of the region's finest voices in this genre.
This is our 4th year of running this event and again we have a stirling line up including:
Apirana Taylor, Beautiful Losers, Otis Mace, Anna Kaye & The Engineers, The Literatti, Courtney Meredith. Lee Wallace. Karen Hunter. Murray Haddow,
Boggy Beat & The Lost Poet
Location/venue:
Fordes Bar,
122 Anzac Avenue,
Auckland CBD, 1010.
Cost:
$15.
Entry details:
Doors open at 6pm.
R18 - Door Sales Only.
Contact details:
Email: tabitha@bybr.co.nz
Orlando, FL, March 18, Thursday. Social Fundraiser to Benefit the Kerouac Project
The Kerouac Project in Orlando, Florida, is having a fun fundraiser with a simple premise. Buy a $20 ticket and come drink all the wine (you can) and eat all the flatbread (you want) with your Kerouac pals. All the usual suspects and some unusual ones too… you know who you are.
Thursday March 18, 2010 5:30 to 7:30 at Urban Flats downtown (where the movie theater is).
Buy tickets at the door or mail a check with your contact information to Kerouac Project PO Box 547477, Orlando, Fl 32854 and they will mail some out to you. Or you can use the paypal donation button then shoot me and email at kerouacproject@gmail.com that you paid and tickets will be mailed.
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - In March 2010 until September 5, 2010, the New York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.
"The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in the San Francisco Bay Area at a pivotal time in American history, when the sensibilities of the Beat generation coincided with the spirit of the burgeoning hippie movement. Informally known as author Ken Kesey's house band, the Dead played at the Acid Tests (1965-1966), the communal experimentations with LSD initiated by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and at the first Human Be-In (1967), billed as a "union of love and activism," where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti shared the stage with LSD guru Timothy Leary and the political provocateur Jerry Rubin." Check details here.
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April 2010
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - In March 2010 until September 5, 2010, the New York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.
"The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in the San Francisco Bay Area at a pivotal time in American history, when the sensibilities of the Beat generation coincided with the spirit of the burgeoning hippie movement. Informally known as author Ken Kesey's house band, the Dead played at the Acid Tests (1965-1966), the communal experimentations with LSD initiated by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and at the first Human Be-In (1967), billed as a "union of love and activism," where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti shared the stage with LSD guru Timothy Leary and the political provocateur Jerry Rubin." Check details here.
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May 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 7:00 P.M, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Michael McClure reading from his new collection of poetry Mysterioso published by New Directions.
Michael McClure has long been noted for the popularity of his dynamic poetry performances. He is a poet, playwright, songwriter, and one of the "movers and shakers" of the Beat Generation. He has authored over 30 books. At the age of 22 he gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. Today McClure is more active than ever, writing and performing his poetry at festivals, and colleges and clubs across the country. He has worked extensively with his old friend Ray Manzarek, the Doors' keyboardist.
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - The Beats and Mexico, 7:00 p.m.
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY. Speakers: With Joyce Johnson, John Tytell, and Regina Weinreich
Three authorities on Beat literature will discuss the fascination that the Beat writers had with Mexico, where they sojourned in the 1950s and which fed Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, Kerouac’s Tristessa, and Ginsberg’s Howl. Indeed, Mexico was a site of both creative inspiration and personal tragedy for the Beats. In this panel, which will explore the Beats’ experiences with Mexico, Weinreich (Kerouac’s Spontaneous Poetics) will cover Burroughs; Johnson (Minor Characters as well as the author of a new Kerouac biography) will talk about Kerouac; and Tytell (Naked Angels) will moderate and discuss the appeal Mexico had for the Beats.
Panel discussion in English.
Sun, 05/16/2010 - 3:00pm - Jay Atkinson "Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search For America", Bolton, Massachusetts
Location:
Concord Bookshop,
65 Main Street,
Bolton, Massachusetts
Please join us May 16th at 3 PM as we welcome Jay Atkinson, reading from his latest book, Paradise Road, Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway And My Search For America.
Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with colorful companions Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey today. How much has changed? What has remained the same? The author's experiences offer fascinating insights on American culture and society then and now and illuminate his own quest for self-understanding and discovery.
May 27-29, Beat Surrender, a play about Kerouac, Manchester, UK. A new play about Jack Kerouac - Beat Surrender - will be performed in Manchester, United Kingdom, May 27-29 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester UK.
"Sometimes a force can enter our lives, so primal, so perfect and so powerful that all we can do is bow to its inevitability. Beat Surrender is an exuberant, evocative and highly enjoyable fantasy that conjures up the coffee-house bohemian atmosphere of bygone days. Come along and surrender to your own beat and bring your lacerated soul; you just might need it tonight.
Following the success of On the Road, Jack Kerouac fled to London to reassess his life. London, the late Fifties - a city where youthful rebellion collides with the dead-eyed blandness of a country built by yesterday's men. In a London hotel bar bride-to-be Maggie meets her personal Fate in the form of charismatic writer and poet Jack Kerouac. Maggie fears a future of quiet desperation whilst Jack wants to escape his curse of literary notoriety. The pulse of a new age beats all around them, propelling them into conflicts and decisions that will shape the rest of their lives.
Following Beat Surrender is your chance to hear and, if you want, take part
in a recreation of a 1950s Beat poetry night. The actors and invited readers
will bring to life period poetry as we explore some of the famous and infamous word jazz experiments of the Beats." Can you dig it? Get information here.
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - In March 2010 until September 5, 2010, the New York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.
"The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in the San Francisco Bay Area at a pivotal time in American history, when the sensibilities of the Beat generation coincided with the spirit of the burgeoning hippie movement. Informally known as author Ken Kesey's house band, the Dead played at the Acid Tests (1965-1966), the communal experimentations with LSD initiated by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and at the first Human Be-In (1967), billed as a "union of love and activism," where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti shared the stage with LSD guru Timothy Leary and the political provocateur Jerry Rubin." Check details here.
May 2–September 6, 2010 - Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, May 2–September 6, 2010, Washington, DC.
In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg's photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored. Some 79 works on display will range from the 1950s "drugstore" prints to his now celebrated portraits of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, snapshots of Ginsberg himself taken just before he achieved literary fame, and his later portraits of the Beats and other friends made in the 1980s and 1990s. Ginsberg (1926–1997) started taking photographs in 1953 when he purchased a small, secondhand Kodak camera. For the next decade he captured numerous intimate shots of himself as well as his friends and lovers. He abandoned photography in 1963 but returned to it in the early 1980s. Encouraged by photographers Berenice Abbott and Robert Frank, he reprinted much of his early work and began making new portraits, adding sometimes extensive inscriptions. Although Ginsberg's photographs form a compelling portrait of the Beat and counterculture generation from the 1950s to the 1990s, his pictures are far more than mere historical documents. The same ideas that inform his poetry—an intense observation of the world, a deep appreciation of the beauty of the vernacular, a celebration of the sacredness of the present, and a faith in intuitive expression—also permeate his photography.
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June 2010
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - In March 2010 until September 5, 2010, the New York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.
"The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in the San Francisco Bay Area at a pivotal time in American history, when the sensibilities of the Beat generation coincided with the spirit of the burgeoning hippie movement. Informally known as author Ken Kesey's house band, the Dead played at the Acid Tests (1965-1966), the communal experimentations with LSD initiated by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and at the first Human Be-In (1967), billed as a "union of love and activism," where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti shared the stage with LSD guru Timothy Leary and the political provocateur Jerry Rubin." Check details here.
May 2–September 6, 2010 - Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, May 2–September 6, 2010, Washington, DC.
In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg's photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored. Some 79 works on display will range from the 1950s "drugstore" prints to his now celebrated portraits of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, snapshots of Ginsberg himself taken just before he achieved literary fame, and his later portraits of the Beats and other friends made in the 1980s and 1990s. Ginsberg (1926–1997) started taking photographs in 1953 when he purchased a small, secondhand Kodak camera. For the next decade he captured numerous intimate shots of himself as well as his friends and lovers. He abandoned photography in 1963 but returned to it in the early 1980s. Encouraged by photographers Berenice Abbott and Robert Frank, he reprinted much of his early work and began making new portraits, adding sometimes extensive inscriptions. Although Ginsberg's photographs form a compelling portrait of the Beat and counterculture generation from the 1950s to the 1990s, his pictures are far more than mere historical documents. The same ideas that inform his poetry—an intense observation of the world, a deep appreciation of the beauty of the vernacular, a celebration of the sacredness of the present, and a faith in intuitive expression—also permeate his photography.
July 2010
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - In March 2010 until September 5, 2010, the New York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.
"The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in the San Francisco Bay Area at a pivotal time in American history, when the sensibilities of the Beat generation coincided with the spirit of the burgeoning hippie movement. Informally known as author Ken Kesey's house band, the Dead played at the Acid Tests (1965-1966), the communal experimentations with LSD initiated by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and at the first Human Be-In (1967), billed as a "union of love and activism," where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti shared the stage with LSD guru Timothy Leary and the political provocateur Jerry Rubin." Check details here.
May 2–September 6, 2010 - Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, May 2–September 6, 2010, Washington, DC.
In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg's photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored. Some 79 works on display will range from the 1950s "drugstore" prints to his now celebrated portraits of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, snapshots of Ginsberg himself taken just before he achieved literary fame, and his later portraits of the Beats and other friends made in the 1980s and 1990s. Ginsberg (1926–1997) started taking photographs in 1953 when he purchased a small, secondhand Kodak camera. For the next decade he captured numerous intimate shots of himself as well as his friends and lovers. He abandoned photography in 1963 but returned to it in the early 1980s. Encouraged by photographers Berenice Abbott and Robert Frank, he reprinted much of his early work and began making new portraits, adding sometimes extensive inscriptions. Although Ginsberg's photographs form a compelling portrait of the Beat and counterculture generation from the 1950s to the 1990s, his pictures are far more than mere historical documents. The same ideas that inform his poetry—an intense observation of the world, a deep appreciation of the beauty of the vernacular, a celebration of the sacredness of the present, and a faith in intuitive expression—also permeate his photography.
July - December: “ON THE ROAD AROUND THE WORLD”, exhibition of 100 differents copies of On the Road from all over the world. The Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Starting in July and continuing through December 31st, The Beat Museum will be showcasing 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages! Have you ever wondered what “On The Road” might look like in Chinese? How about Italian or Romanian, Chech, Turkish or Serbian? Well, thanks to Horst Spandler, a German collector, translator and friend of The Beat Museum, you’ll have that chance between July and December with our new six month exhibition “On The Road Around The World”. Whether you live in San Francisco or if you’ll be visiting sometime this year this is one exhibition you will not want to miss! “On The Road Around The World” - 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages!
http://thebeatmuseum.org/ontheroad-aroundtheworld.html
The Beat Museum,
540 Broadway,
San Francisco, CA 94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
August 2010
May 2–September 6, 2010 - Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, May 2–September 6, 2010, Washington, DC.
In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg's photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored. Some 79 works on display will range from the 1950s "drugstore" prints to his now celebrated portraits of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, snapshots of Ginsberg himself taken just before he achieved literary fame, and his later portraits of the Beats and other friends made in the 1980s and 1990s. Ginsberg (1926–1997) started taking photographs in 1953 when he purchased a small, secondhand Kodak camera. For the next decade he captured numerous intimate shots of himself as well as his friends and lovers. He abandoned photography in 1963 but returned to it in the early 1980s. Encouraged by photographers Berenice Abbott and Robert Frank, he reprinted much of his early work and began making new portraits, adding sometimes extensive inscriptions. Although Ginsberg's photographs form a compelling portrait of the Beat and counterculture generation from the 1950s to the 1990s, his pictures are far more than mere historical documents. The same ideas that inform his poetry—an intense observation of the world, a deep appreciation of the beauty of the vernacular, a celebration of the sacredness of the present, and a faith in intuitive expression—also permeate his photography.
July - December: “ON THE ROAD AROUND THE WORLD”, exhibition of 100 differents copies of On the Road from all over the world. The Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Starting in July and continuing through December 31st, The Beat Museum will be showcasing 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages! Have you ever wondered what “On The Road” might look like in Chinese? How about Italian or Romanian, Chech, Turkish or Serbian? Well, thanks to Horst Spandler, a German collector, translator and friend of The Beat Museum, you’ll have that chance between July and December with our new six month exhibition “On The Road Around The World”. Whether you live in San Francisco or if you’ll be visiting sometime this year this is one exhibition you will not want to miss! “On The Road Around The World” - 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages!
http://thebeatmuseum.org/ontheroad-aroundtheworld.html
The Beat Museum,
540 Broadway,
San Francisco, CA 94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - In March 2010 until September 5, 2010, the New York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.
"The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in the San Francisco Bay Area at a pivotal time in American history, when the sensibilities of the Beat generation coincided with the spirit of the burgeoning hippie movement. Informally known as author Ken Kesey's house band, the Dead played at the Acid Tests (1965-1966), the communal experimentations with LSD initiated by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and at the first Human Be-In (1967), billed as a "union of love and activism," where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti shared the stage with LSD guru Timothy Leary and the political provocateur Jerry Rubin." Check details here.
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September 2010
May 2–September 6, 2010 - Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, May 2–September 6, 2010, Washington, DC.
In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg's photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored. Some 79 works on display will range from the 1950s "drugstore" prints to his now celebrated portraits of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, snapshots of Ginsberg himself taken just before he achieved literary fame, and his later portraits of the Beats and other friends made in the 1980s and 1990s. Ginsberg (1926–1997) started taking photographs in 1953 when he purchased a small, secondhand Kodak camera. For the next decade he captured numerous intimate shots of himself as well as his friends and lovers. He abandoned photography in 1963 but returned to it in the early 1980s. Encouraged by photographers Berenice Abbott and Robert Frank, he reprinted much of his early work and began making new portraits, adding sometimes extensive inscriptions. Although Ginsberg's photographs form a compelling portrait of the Beat and counterculture generation from the 1950s to the 1990s, his pictures are far more than mere historical documents. The same ideas that inform his poetry—an intense observation of the world, a deep appreciation of the beauty of the vernacular, a celebration of the sacredness of the present, and a faith in intuitive expression—also permeate his photography.
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - In March 2010 until September 5, 2010, the New York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the University of California Santa Cruz, Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society, will chronicle the history of the Grateful Dead, its music, and phenomenal longevity through an array of original art and documents related to the band, its members, performances, and productions. Exhibition highlights from the archive will include concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.
"The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in the San Francisco Bay Area at a pivotal time in American history, when the sensibilities of the Beat generation coincided with the spirit of the burgeoning hippie movement. Informally known as author Ken Kesey's house band, the Dead played at the Acid Tests (1965-1966), the communal experimentations with LSD initiated by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and at the first Human Be-In (1967), billed as a "union of love and activism," where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti shared the stage with LSD guru Timothy Leary and the political provocateur Jerry Rubin." Check details here.
July - December: “ON THE ROAD AROUND THE WORLD”, exhibition of 100 differents copies of On the Road from all over the world. The Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Starting in July and continuing through December 31st, The Beat Museum will be showcasing 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages! Have you ever wondered what “On The Road” might look like in Chinese? How about Italian or Romanian, Chech, Turkish or Serbian? Well, thanks to Horst Spandler, a German collector, translator and friend of The Beat Museum, you’ll have that chance between July and December with our new six month exhibition “On The Road Around The World”. Whether you live in San Francisco or if you’ll be visiting sometime this year this is one exhibition you will not want to miss! “On The Road Around The World” - 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages!
http://thebeatmuseum.org/ontheroad-aroundtheworld.html
The Beat Museum,
540 Broadway,
San Francisco, CA 94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
September 30--October 3, 2010 - The Jack Kerouac Literary Festival & Lowell Celebrates Kerouac's 25th Anniversary - See October for events
The Jack Kerouac 5K Road Race on September 26 at noon. Begins at Hookslide Kelly's Bar at 19 Merrimack Street. Further info at www.JackKerouac5k.com
Please
email your Kerouac and beat event to: Kerouaczin@aol.com or write to: A. Gyenis, DHARMA beat, PO
Box 5174, Eureka, CA 95502-5174. I also appreciate copies of any publicity
information for the DHARMA beat archive. Please include date, time, address, and
contact. We try to maintain a complete list of Kerouac events. Thanks.
October 2010
Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969
September 30--October 3, 2010 - The Jack Kerouac Literary Festival & Lowell Celebrates Kerouac's 25th Anniversary
Thursday, September 30th
3:30 p.m. Reading by Alan Lightman, Novelist and Physicist (MIT) - The author of "Einstein's Dreams" will read from "Meg: A Novel About the Creation". Alumni Hall, UML North Campus, One University Avenue
4:00 p.m. "Lowell Blues" A film by Henry Ferrini. Lowell National Historical Park (LNHP) Visitors Center--246 Market St. (This is a daily, ongoing program of the LNHP.)
5:00 p.m.--7:00 p.m. Historic Kerouac Pubs Tour - Honoring the Spirit of Jack Kerouac on His Lowell Streets. Begins at the Old Worthen Tavern at 141 Worthen Street near City Hall. With Stops at: 5:45 - 6:15 Ricardo's Trattoria (Nicky's Bar) 110 Gorham Street; 6:30 - 7:00 Majors Club - 34 Jackson Street, 7:00 Break for Russell Banks Talk or Dinner;
7:00 p.m. Opening Presentation: Russell Banks - Noted American Author and Writer. ("Continental Drift", "The Reserve") Will talk about Jack Kerouac and read
from his own fiction. A book signing will follow. UML Inn and Conference Center. (Formerly the DoubleTree Hotel) Adminision $10.00 (Free to Students and Seniors)
Contact Paul_Marion@uml.edu for reservations.
8:30 p.m. Music and Readings at Cappy's Copper Kettle. 245 Central Street--About a five minute walk from the UML--CC. Musician and composer David Amram, and Alan Crane, will perform along with Kim Jennings (www.KimJenningsMusic.com), Andrew Greene, Colleen Nicholas, and Jon McAuliffe (www.JonMcAuliffe.com). Readers: Nancy Herbstman Richard Scott, Roger Brunelle, Pater Eliopoulos and his daugter Mimi. Event coordinated by John McDermott
Friday, October 1st
9:30 a.m. Poetry and Short Prose Competition - Lowell High School Freshman Academy Theater, 43 French Street
10:00 a.m.--8:00 p.m. Ongoing Children's Book Illustrators Program Brush Art Gallery. Next to LNHP Visitors Center. 246 Market St. Exhibit, receptions, artist talks, book signings featuring six illustrators: David Macaulay, Chris VanAllsburg, David Wiesner, Christopher Bing, Kelly Murphy, Matt Tavares. Also involves third grade Lowell students' work influenced by these artists.
Check the Brush Gallery for further details and additional information.
12:00 Noon UML Campus Presentation: "Jack Kerouac and the American Bohemian Tradition." Dennis McNally, author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation and America and A Long, Strange Trip: The Inside History of The Grateful Dead. UML O'Leary Library. Room 222.
3:00 p.m. A Walk in Doctor Sax's Woods. Led by Margarita Turcotte. Lowell/Dracut/Tyngsboro State Park. Directions available at earlier events.
(Sorry, not handicapped accessible.)
4:00 p.m. Lowell Blues. LNHP Visitors Center.
6:30 p.m. Kerouac Literary Walking Tour: "Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night"
A tour of some of the sites of Jack Kerouac's Doctor Sax. Led by Roger Brunelle. Begins at Cumnock Hall, 31 University Avenue. *Suggested donation of $5.00.
8:30 p.m. Urban Village Artist Series (UVAS) Event. Performers: Antje Duvekot, Poet and Folk Singer. A winner of Boston Music Awards "Outstanding Folk Act of the Year."
Andrew Schelling, Poet/Essayist/Writer. Instructor at the Naropa Institute/Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Samkhann C. Khoeun, Editor and translator of the honored "Cambodian Book of Poety" and "O' Maha Mount Dangrek" Upstairs at the Old Court Bar. 29 Central St. Admission free
Saturday, October 2nd
8:30--11:00 a.m. Bus Tour of the Kerouac Sites of Lowell. Led by Roger Brunelle.
Sign in at 8:15 a.m. Tour departs at 8:30 from the LNHP Visitors Center, 246 Market Street. Includes stops in Centralville and Pawtucketville. For Reservations Call 978-970-5000.
10:00 a.m.--4:00 p.m. Ongoing Children's Book Illustrators Event. Brush Gallery.
Reception from 1:00--4:00 p.m. (See the Friday, October 1st entry for fuller details)
11:00 a.m. Commemorative at the Commemorative. Kerouac Park on Bridge St. An annual event to honor the life and legacy of Jack Kerouac. *Persons involved in the founding and early years of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac will offer some personal reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the founding of LCK. *The program will also include a tribute to the late Peter Orlovsky.
1:00--2:30 p.m. Theme Speaker: "Jack Kerouac and the American Bohemian Tradition" by Dennis McNally. Dennis McNally is the author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation and America; and A Long, Strange Trip--An Inside History of The Grateful Dead. A joint program presented by LCK and the Parker Lecture Series. LNHP Visitors Center Theater. 246 Market St.
Following the Theme Speaker a variety of program options will be offered:
3:00--4:00 p.m. Poetry Readings: Maggie Dietz ("Perennial Fall") and Sandra Lim ("Loveliest Grotesque")--UML English Department. UML Inn and Conference Center. Junior Ballroom
3:00--4:00 p.m. Discussion with Fiction Writers David Daniel ("Coffin Dust"), Jay Atkinson ("Paradise Road"), and Steve O'Connor ("Smokestack Lightning"). The Dharma Buns--26 A Market St.
3:00--4:00 p.m. Prose and Poetry: Reading from the Works of Jack Kerouac. Award-winning poet, painter, and short story writer Mariliene Phipps-Kettlewell, and Kerouac's brother-in-law, John Sampas, will read from the newly published book Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters. Barnes & Noble. 151 Merrimack St.
4:00 p.m. Lowell Blues. LNHP Visitors Center.
4:00--5:30 p.m. Open Mike Upstairs at the Worthen House. Worthen Street near City Hall. Bring your own work or the favorite of another.
4:30--6:00 p.m. "Art and Commerce" Panel Discussion. Authors Anita Shreve ("A Change in Altitude"), Ann Hood ("The Red Thread") and Tom Perrotta ("The Abstinence Teacher"). Moderator: Andre Dubus ("The Garden of The Last Days"). A book signing will follow. UML Inn and Conference Center. Junior Ballroom.
5:45--6:45 p.m. Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Exhibit/Tour at the Pollard Library. The Pollard Library will feature a 25 Anniversary of LCK Exhibit in the first floor alcove. Tour led by Bill Walsh. 401 Merrimack St.
8:00 p.m. Event to Present the Jack Kerouac Center for Creativity and Celebrate 25 Years of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! *Opening Remarks from Lowell Celebrates Kerouac. *Past (and present) Presidents of LCK will offer their favorite Kerouac passages: Brian Foye, Richard Scott, Mark Hemenway, Lawrence Carradini, and Steve Edington. Musical Guest Performance by Gypsy Trio Ameranouche Suggested Donation: $5.00 to help cover food and site costs. UML Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street.
Sunday, October 3rd
9:00 a.m. "Mystic Jack" Literary Walking Tour. Led by Roger Brunelle. A tour of the sites of Kerouac's Visions of Gerard. Begins at the old St. Louis de France Church building on W. 6th St. in Centralville. Suggested donation of $5.00 requested
11:00 a.m. Two Kerouac Related Documentaries: "Grave Concerns" and "On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne." Join filmmakers Brent Mason ("Grave Concerns") and Alan O'Hashi ("On the Trail…") in viewing and discussing their respective works. Award winning Canadian songwriter Brent Mason will screen the Jack Kerouac episode of his CBC-TV mini-series "Grave Concerns". Following that, Brent will perform some of his original tunes, including one written for Kerouac after visiting Lowell during the Scroll Exhibit. The Dharma Buns--26 A Market Street.
1:30 p.m. A Walking Tour of the Downtown Kerouac Sites of Lowell. Led by Roger Brunelle. Leaves from The Dharma Buns. $5.00 donation requested.
3:00 p.m. Amram Jam at Cappy's Copper Kettle. Close out the weekend with David Amram. Share a reading of your own with David providing back up on keyboard. Long time Kerouac friend, Billy Kounentzalis will also be on hand to share his reflections on Jack.
4:00 p.m. Lowell Blues. LNHP Visitors Center.
Related Events
All events subject to change - http://www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org/lck-2010
Pre-Festival Event: The Jack Kerouac 5K Road Race on September 26 at noon.
Begins at Hookslide Kelly's Bar at 19 Merrimack Street. Further info at www.JackKerouac5k.com
July - December: “ON THE ROAD AROUND THE WORLD”, exhibition of 100 differents copies of On the Road from all over the world. The Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Starting in July and continuing through December 31st, The Beat Museum will be showcasing 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages! Have you ever wondered what “On The Road” might look like in Chinese? How about Italian or Romanian, Chech, Turkish or Serbian? Well, thanks to Horst Spandler, a German collector, translator and friend of The Beat Museum, you’ll have that chance between July and December with our new six month exhibition “On The Road Around The World”. Whether you live in San Francisco or if you’ll be visiting sometime this year this is one exhibition you will not want to miss! “On The Road Around The World” - 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages!
http://thebeatmuseum.org/ontheroad-aroundtheworld.html
The Beat Museum,
540 Broadway,
San Francisco, CA 94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
November 2010
July - December: “ON THE ROAD AROUND THE WORLD”, exhibition of 100 differents copies of On the Road from all over the world. The Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Starting in July and continuing through December 31st, The Beat Museum will be showcasing 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages! Have you ever wondered what “On The Road” might look like in Chinese? How about Italian or Romanian, Chech, Turkish or Serbian? Well, thanks to Horst Spandler, a German collector, translator and friend of The Beat Museum, you’ll have that chance between July and December with our new six month exhibition “On The Road Around The World”. Whether you live in San Francisco or if you’ll be visiting sometime this year this is one exhibition you will not want to miss! “On The Road Around The World” - 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages!
http://thebeatmuseum.org/ontheroad-aroundtheworld.html
The Beat Museum,
540 Broadway,
San Francisco, CA 94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
December 2010
DAVID AMRAM’S 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION! Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. |
UMASS Lowell, Durgin Concert Hall, 35 Wilder Street
Free & Open to the Public
Join us Thursday, December 9 at 7:30 pm in Durgin Concert Hall for a historic musical event, David Amram's 80th Birthday Bash, presented by the UMass Lowell Orchestra, members of the New England Orchestra and the Lowell Youth Orchestra, conducted by Kay George Roberts.
Celebrating the eightieth birthday of David Amram, the acclaimed composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist whom the Washington Post called "one of the most versatile and skilled musicians America has ever produced," the concert will feature
- acclaimed soloist and adjunct faculty member Joseph Foley in the 2nd movement of Amram's Travels for Trumpet and Orchestra - a New England premiere
- the concert performance of excerpts from Amram's classic film scores Splendor In The Grass & The Manchurian Candidate with a screening - a New England premiere
- a special birthday commission for the University Orchestra by UML's Daniel P. Lutz
- David Amram & Trio
- excerpts from Lawrence Kraman's upcoming documentary, David Amram - the first eighty years
The curtain rises at 7:30 pm on December 9th in Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell 35 Wilder Street, Lowell 01854
The free concert is part of the Music on the Merrimack concert series.
There will be a 1:00 Master Class led by David Amram in the Concert Hall.
For more about David Amram: http:david-amram.blogspot.com
- David Amram and Lowell have a very special connection:
"Through knowing Jack, I wrote some of my best music." Twenty five years after David Amram wrote this in 1969, he was at Jack Kerouac's memorial site in Lowell, for the first time. It was the completion of a long journey. Being with others who loved Jack and created the festival Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! felt like " I had finally come home to a place I had always dreamed about, and longed for."
Happy Birthday Pops!
July - December: “ON THE ROAD AROUND THE WORLD”, exhibition of 100 differents copies of On the Road from all over the world. The Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Starting in July and continuing through December 31st, The Beat Museum will be showcasing 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages! Have you ever wondered what “On The Road” might look like in Chinese? How about Italian or Romanian, Chech, Turkish or Serbian? Well, thanks to Horst Spandler, a German collector, translator and friend of The Beat Museum, you’ll have that chance between July and December with our new six month exhibition “On The Road Around The World”. Whether you live in San Francisco or if you’ll be visiting sometime this year this is one exhibition you will not want to miss! “On The Road Around The World” - 100 different copies of “On The Road” in over 25 different languages!
http://thebeatmuseum.org/ontheroad-aroundtheworld.html
The Beat Museum,
540 Broadway,
San Francisco, CA 94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
2009
2009 - There weren't many entries this year due to a computer glitch.
January 2009
ON THE ROAD Scroll Tour Continues
Dec. 14 – January 29, 2009: Birmingham, England – University of Birmingham
Saturday, January 10, 2009: JACK'S LAST CALL- (Say Goodbye to Kerouac) Written by PATRICK FENTON. JOHNSON THEATER, Saturday, January 10, 2009, 7:00pm, Suggested Donation $5
The drinking, the fame that grew after On the Road was published, the differences with his family, these parts of Jack Kerouac’s life, which made him a cultural icon of the American 50’s, are well known to many. But there is another part of Kerouac that only a few villagers from the quiet hamlet of Northport on Long Island had the chance to see up close. This is the Kerouac presented in Patrick Fenton’s play, JACK’S LAST CALL (Say Goodbye to Kerouac.)
It is the end of the summer in 1964, a major cultural shift is starting to happen, and on his last night in Northport, Long Island, the America Kerouac saw through a rear view mirror along side of Neal Cassady is slowly playing again in his mind. While wondering back on his road days, he receives a series of soul--searching phone calls from his daughter Jan.
October 2009
Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival
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JANUARY
2008
I counted minutes and
subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all
golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old
Denver at last.
-- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Scroll Tour Continues -
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper. http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
February 2008
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper.
The scroll itself will be on display from November 9, 2007 through
February 22, 2008; http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
February 5 - August 3, 2008 - On the Road with the
Beats, Ransom Center Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin.
The
Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats" explores
the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation."
Featuring more than 250 items drawn from across the Ransom Center's
collections, the exhibition will take visitors on a journey through
the cities, landscapes and communities that fostered and shaped the
most important works of the Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to
the mid-1960s. The exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the
Ransom Center Galleries at The University of Texas at Austin.
The scroll will not be available for viewing until Friday, March 7.
This exhibition will
take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes, and
communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the
Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. Writers such
as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory
Corso are deeply identified with cities such as New York, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Tangier, Calcutta, London, and
Paris. Indeed, without "visiting" these places one cannot truly
grasp the nature of the Beat scene. Presses in Paris and London
printed writings deemed obscene in the United States; a poetry
reading in San Francisco vaulted Ginsberg's "Howl" to the sphere of
literary myth; and Neal Cassady's scrawled description of a bus ride
to Kansas City sparked Jack Kerouac's method of "spontaneous prose."
The exhibition places the Ransom Center's most important Beat
holdings into geographical context and includes special sections
that highlight important themes such as jazz, marriage, and the
beatnik phenomenon of the late 1950s.
Jack Kerouac's scroll
manuscript of On the Road, on loan from the collection of Jim
Irsay, will be on display from March 7 through June 1. The first 48
feet of this 120-foot "page" will be visible in the gallery. This
visually stunning first draft has no paragraph or chapter breaks,
and the characters are all referred to by their real names.
Docent-led tours are
offered Tuesdays at noon and Saturdays at 2 p.m. For groups of more
than 10 people, please call Lisa Murray at 512-475-8086 to arrange a
tour.
"On
the Road with the Beats" can be seen at the Ransom Center Galleries
on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended
Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries
are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/
Other
Related Events
Beat Voices PERFORMANCE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 7 P.M.
The Harry Ransom Center presents the
premiere performance of Beat Voices on Thursday, February
21, at 7 p.m.
The series of brief plays, produced
in conjunction with the current exhibition On the Road with
the Beats, are written, directed, and performed by students
in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of
Texas at Austin. The pieces illuminate objects and people
featured in the exhibition, including Beat figures Peter
Orlovsky and Diane DiPrima, specific letters exchanged by Beat
authors, and a painting by artist Alfred Leslie.
The performances allow audience
members to engage with artifacts and historical figures in the
exhibition through live performance.
After the premiere, the plays will
be performed every Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m. until the
exhibition closes. More
Information
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March 2008
Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922
Celebrate Jack Kerouac's 86th Birthday in Lowell at these happenings:
Friday,
March 7th: Talkin' Jack. Bob Pare Studio-117 Market Street.
7:30. Drop in for a time of informal conversation about how
Kerouac's writings have played a part in your life. Wine and Cheese
provided.
Saturday, March 8th: 6:00-7:30 Kerouac Memorabilia
Display: Lowell Gallery. Stop by the Lowell Gallery at 14 Jackson
Street to view Kerouac-related art, posters, and first editions of
his work. Hosted by Guy LeFebvre. Refreshments provided.
7: 30 p.m. Kerouac
Birthday Party! Olive That and More- 167 Market St. Readings and
Music. Featured reader will be David Robinson reading from his
recently published Sweeney on the Fringe. Open Mike: Bring your
favorite Kerouac reading, or a Kerouac-inspired work of your own.
Birthday Cake...Governor's Proclamation of Jack Kerouac Day In
Massachusetts!
Wednesday, March
12th -[Actual Birth Date] O'Leary Library Auditorium. UMass
Lowell. 61 Wilder Street. 7:00 p.m. Premier showing of "Remembering
Jack Kerouac" a documentary about last summer's Scroll Exhibit in
Lowell. Produced by Bridget Driscoll and River TV Studios. Followed
by a forum on Where Do We Go With Kerouac? A Community Conversation
about keeping the Kerouac Legacy alive in Lowell. Led by Paul
Marion, Executive Director-Office of Outreach, University of
Massachusetts at Lowell.
Sponsored by
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! and the Cultural Organization of Lowell
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues
(In New York and Texas) -
February
5 - August 3, 2008 - On the Road with the
Beats, Ransom Center Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin.
The
Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats" explores
the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation."
Featuring more than 250 items drawn from across the Ransom Center's
collections, the exhibition will take visitors on a journey through
the cities, landscapes and communities that fostered and shaped the
most important works of the Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to
the mid-1960s. The exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the
Ransom Center Galleries at The University of Texas at Austin.
This exhibition will
take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes, and
communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the
Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. Writers such
as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory
Corso are deeply identified with cities such as New York, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Tangier, Calcutta, London, and
Paris. Indeed, without "visiting" these places one cannot truly
grasp the nature of the Beat scene. Presses in Paris and London
printed writings deemed obscene in the United States; a poetry
reading in San Francisco vaulted Ginsberg's "Howl" to the sphere of
literary myth; and Neal Cassady's scrawled description of a bus ride
to Kansas City sparked Jack Kerouac's method of "spontaneous prose."
The exhibition places the Ransom Center's most important Beat
holdings into geographical context and includes special sections
that highlight important themes such as jazz, marriage, and the
beatnik phenomenon of the late 1950s.
Jack Kerouac's scroll
manuscript of On the Road, on loan from the collection of Jim
Irsay, will be on display from March 7 through June 1. The first 48
feet of this 120-foot "page" will be visible in the gallery. This
visually stunning first draft has no paragraph or chapter breaks,
and the characters are all referred to by their real names.
Other
Scroll
Related Events
Kerouac
scroll available for viewing EXHIBITION starting FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 10 A.M.-5 P.M.
First day to see the scroll
manuscript of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road in the
exhibition On the Road with the Beats.
Docent-led tours
are offered Tuesdays at noon and Saturdays at 2 p.m. For groups
of more than 10 people, please call Lisa Murray at 512-475-8086
to arrange a tour.
In
conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a series of plays
and readings. Please visit their website for more up to date
information. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/events/
"On the Road with the Beats" can be seen at the Ransom Center
Galleries on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
with extended Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and
Sundays the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries
are closed on Mondays. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/
Poetry on the Plaza: On the Road READING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, NOON
The Harry Ransom Center hosts Poetry
on the Plaza: On the Road on Wednesday, March 5, at noon.
Professor Jeffrey Meikle and two
students from his class "The Beats and American Culture," Meg
Halpin and Tom Bevilacqua, read poetry from the Beat Generation.
They will be joined by Dr. Molly Schwartzburg, Curator of
British and American Literature, who will read selections
featured in the Ransom Center's current exhibition On the
Road with the Beats, which runs through August 3.
The exhibition traces the travels of
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and their
friends across America and the globe. Manuscripts, books,
photographs, and visual art from the Ransom Center's collections
tell the story of the Beat Generation and the literary and
social revolution they inspired. The scroll manuscript of Jack
Kerouac's On the Road will be on display March 7-June 1,
2008.
Refreshments will be served at this
free event.
"Hearing Private History: The Home Recordings of John Clellon
Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, 1949-1951" LECTURE THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 7 P.M.
Phil Ford, Assistant Professor of
Musicology at Indiana University, presents "Hearing Private
History: The Home Recordings of John Clellon Holmes, Jack
Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, 1949-1951," on Thursday, March 6,
at 7 p.m. at the Harry Ransom Center.
The talk focuses on an unpublished
cache of home recordings that capture Clellon Holmes, Kerouac,
and Ginsberg reciting poetry, listening to jazz, and trying
their hand at vocal jazz improvisation. Ford will discuss how
these recordings help us think about the unstable relationship
between recorded sound and its decay, and the place of nostalgia
in our reconstruction of the past through such ephemeral
archival materials.
This event is held in conjunction
with the Ransom Center's exhibition On the Road with the
Beats, on display through August 3.
"Celebrating On the Road" LECTURE THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 7 P.M.
Ann
Charters, biographer and bibliographer of Jack Kerouac, talks
about her association with the novelist in "Celebrating On
The Road" on Thursday, March 20, at 7 p.m. at the Harry
Ransom Center.
Charters, a professor of English at
the University of Connecticut in Storrs, discusses the changing
reputation of Kerouac's On the Road since its publication
in 1957—from its beginning as a best-selling novel that aroused
controversy coast-to-coast in the United States to its present
status honored as an American classic throughout the world.
This event is presented in
conjunction with the Ransom Center's current exhibition On
the Road with the Beats, on display through August 3. The
scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road will be
on display March 7-June 1.
Charters began collecting books by
Beat writers in the early 1960s, and she worked with Jack
Kerouac in the compilation of his bibliography in 1966. She
published Kerouac: A Biography in 1973, and she's edited The Beat Reader, The Sixties Reader, two volumes
of Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac, and the textbook The Story and Its Writer.
Marathon Reading of On the Road READING SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 10 A.M.-10 P.M.
The
Harry Ransom Center presents a marathon reading of Jack
Kerouac's novel On the Road, on Saturday, March 29,
from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Spider House Café.
Readers can sign up for a time
slot to read on the Ransom Center's website at www.hrc.utexas.edu/ontheroad.
This event is presented in
conjunction with the Ransom Center's current exhibition On the Road with the Beats, on display through August 3.
The exhibition traces the travels of Jack Kerouac, Allen
Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and their friends across
America and the globe. Manuscripts, books, photographs, and
visual art from the Ransom Center's collections tell the
story of the Beat Generation and the literary and social
revolution they inspired. The scroll manuscript of Jack
Kerouac's On the Road will be on display March 7
through June 1.
Spider House is located at 2908
Fruth Street.
Sign up to read
Beat Voices PERFORMANCE
The series of brief plays,
produced in conjunction with the current exhibition On
the Road with the Beats, are written, directed, and
performed by students in the Department of Theatre and Dance
at The University of Texas at Austin. The pieces illuminate
objects and people featured in the exhibition, including
Beat figures Peter Orlovsky and Diane DiPrima, specific
letters exchanged by Beat authors, and a painting by artist
Alfred Leslie.
The performances allow audience
members to engage with artifacts and historical figures in
the exhibition through live performance.
The plays will be performed
every Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m. until the
exhibition closes. More
Information
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; The original
scroll itself will be on display from November 9, 2007 through February
22, 2008 only; will includes a
facsimile copy of the scroll roll, the original is now on display in
Texas (see above). http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
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April 2008
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
February
5 - August 3, 2008 - On the Road with the
Beats, Ransom Center Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin.
The
Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats" explores
the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation."
See
March listing for more information. Featuring more than 250 items
drawn from across the Ransom Center's collections, the exhibition
will take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes and
communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the
Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. The
exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the Ransom Center Galleries
at The University of Texas at Austin.
"On
the Road with the Beats" can be seen at the Ransom Center Galleries
on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended
Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries
are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/
Other Scroll Related events More Information
Beat
Film Series with Motion Picture, Pull
My Daisy, City of Jazz, Bridges-Go-Round, Anticipation of NightFILM
SERIES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 7 P.M.
This
series features selected works from filmmakers
involved in the Beat movement, including: Frank Paine's Motion
Picture (1956), Robert Frank and Alfred
Leslie's Pull My Daisy (1959), Ed Bland's Cry of Jazz (1958), Shirley Clarke's Bridges-Go-Round (1958), and Stan Brakhage's Anticipation of the Night (1958).
Co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society. Tickets
Required.
ALAMO
DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ, 320 E. 6th Street
"California
Beat: West Coast Art from
the Beat Era" LECTURE THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 7 P.M.
David S.
Rubin, Curator of
Contemporary Art at the San
Antonio Museum of Art,
presents "California Beat:
West Coast Art from the Beat
Era."
Beat
Film Series with The Last
Clean Shirt, Wholly
Communion, Towers
Open Fire, The End,
and Beat FILM SERIES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 7 P.M.
Alfred Leslie's The Last
Clean Shirt (1964),
Peter Whitehead's Wholly
Communion (1965),
Anthony Balch and William S.
Burroughs's Towers Open
Fire (1962), and
Christopher MacLaine's The End (1953) and Beat (1958).
Co-sponsored by the Austin
Film Society. Tickets
Required. More Information
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ, 320
E. 6th Street
Anne Waldman on Life as a
Beat Poet READING FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 7 P.M.
Ann
Waldman, co-founder of the
Jack Kerouac School of
Disembodied Poetics at
Naropa University, discusses
her life as a Beat poet. More Information
Beat Film Series
with Scorpio Rising, Kustom Kar Kommandos, and A Bucket of Blood FILM SERIES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 7 P.M.
Kenneth Anger's Scorpio
Rising (1964) and Kustom
Kar Kommandos (1965), and
Roger Corman's A Bucket of
Blood (1959). Co-sponsored
by the Austin Film Society.
Tickets Required.
More Information
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ, 320 E.
6th Street
"Jack Kerouac's America" LECTURE THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 7 P.M.
Douglas
Brinkley, Professor of History
at Rice University and editor of Windblown World: The Journals
of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 and Jack Kerouac: Road Novels
1957-1960, offers his
insights into "Jack Kerouac's
America."
Beat Voices PERFORMANCE
The
series of brief plays, produced
in conjunction with the current
exhibition On the Road with
the Beats, are written,
directed, and performed by
students in the Department of
Theatre and Dance at The
University of Texas at Austin.
The pieces illuminate objects
and people featured in the
exhibition, including Beat
figures Peter Orlovsky and Diane
DiPrima, specific letters
exchanged by Beat authors, and a
painting by artist Alfred
Leslie.
The
performances allow audience
members to engage with artifacts
and historical figures in the
exhibition through live
performance.
The
plays will be performed every
Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3
p.m. until the exhibition
closes. More Information
April 3, 2008,
Auction of Beat, Bukowski, and Counter Culture Books at PBA
Galleries, San Francisco, CA. www.PBAGalleries.com (415)
989-2665
April 21 - July 3, 2008 - The Beats and
Beyond, Counterculture Poetry 1950-1975.
The Beats and Beyond celebrates the remarkable growth of the Rare Book Collection’s holdings of post–World War II American avant-garde poetry over the past
fifteen years. Development of this collecting area has been gradual but
steady, with items purchased both as collections and individually.
Today, the RBC holds thousands of modern American poetry items, by both
mainstream (or “academic”) writers and by participants in the
counterculture. Curated by Sarah E. Fass, Rare Book Collection,
Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/beats_and_beyond/
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May 2008
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
February
5 - August 3, 2008 - On the Road with the
Beats, Ransom Center Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin.
The
Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats" explores
the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation."
Last day to see Kerouac scroll
SUNDAY, JUNE 1, NOON-5 P.M. Last day
to see the scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road in the exhibition On the Road with the Beats.
See
March listing for more information. Featuring more than 250 items
drawn from across the Ransom Center's collections, the exhibition
will take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes and
communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the
Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. The
exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the Ransom Center Galleries
at The University of Texas at Austin.
"On
the Road with the Beats" can be seen at the Ransom Center Galleries
on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended
Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries
are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/
Beat Voices PERFORMANCE
The series of brief plays, produced
in conjunction with the current exhibition On the Road with
the Beats, are written, directed, and performed by students
in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of
Texas at Austin. The pieces illuminate objects and people
featured in the exhibition, including Beat figures Peter
Orlovsky and Diane DiPrima, specific letters exchanged by Beat
authors, and a painting by artist Alfred Leslie.
The performances allow audience
members to engage with artifacts and historical figures in the
exhibition through live performance.
The plays will be performed every
Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m. until the exhibition closes. More
Information
April 21 - July 3, 2008 - The Beats and
Beyond, Counterculture Poetry 1950-1975. The
Beats and Beyond celebrates the remarkable growth of the Rare Book Collection’s holdings of post–World War II American avant-garde poetry over the past
fifteen years. Development of this collecting area has been gradual but
steady, with items purchased both as collections and individually.
Today, the RBC holds thousands of modern American poetry items, by both
mainstream (or “academic”) writers and by participants in the
counterculture. Curated by Sarah E. Fass, Rare Book Collection,
Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/beats_and_beyond/
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June 2008
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
February
5 - August 3, 2008 - On the Road with the
Beats, Ransom Center Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin.
The
Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats" explores
the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation."
See
March listing for more information. Featuring more than 250 items
drawn from across the Ransom Center's collections, the exhibition
will take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes and
communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the
Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. The
exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the Ransom Center Galleries
at The University of Texas at Austin.
"On
the Road with the Beats" can be seen at the Ransom Center Galleries
on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended
Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries
are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/
Last day to see Kerouac
scroll EXHIBITION SUNDAY, JUNE 1,
NOON-5 P.M.
Last day to
see the scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac's
novel On the Road in the exhibition On
the Road with the Beats.
Beat Voices PERFORMANCE
The series of
brief plays, produced in conjunction with
the current exhibition On the Road with
the Beats, are written, directed, and
performed by students in the Department of
Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas
at Austin. The pieces illuminate objects and
people featured in the exhibition, including
Beat figures Peter Orlovsky and Diane
DiPrima, specific letters exchanged by Beat
authors, and a painting by artist Alfred
Leslie.
The performances
allow audience members to engage with
artifacts and historical figures in the
exhibition through live performance.
The plays will
be performed every Saturday and Sunday at 1
and 3 p.m. until the exhibition closes. More Information
April 21 - July 3, 2008 - The Beats and
Beyond, Counterculture Poetry 1950-1975.
The Beats and Beyond celebrates the remarkable growth of the Rare Book Collection’s holdings of post–World War II American avant-garde poetry over the past
fifteen years. Development of this collecting area has been gradual but
steady, with items purchased both as collections and individually.
Today, the RBC holds thousands of modern American poetry items, by both
mainstream (or “academic”) writers and by participants in the
counterculture. Curated by Sarah E. Fass, Rare Book Collection,
Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/beats_and_beyond/
July 2008
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
February 5 - August 3, 2008 - On the Road with the
Beats, Ransom Center Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin.
The
Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats" explores
the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation."
The On The Road Scroll will be removed June 1, however the rest
of the beat exhibition will remain for viewing till the end of the
exhibition.
See
March listing for more information. Featuring more than 250 items
drawn from across the Ransom Center's collections, the exhibition
will take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes and
communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the
Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. The
exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the Ransom Center Galleries
at The University of Texas at Austin.
"On
the Road with the Beats" can be seen at the Ransom Center Galleries
on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended
Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries
are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/
Austin
Chamber Music Center performs tribute to Beats PERFORMANCE THURSDAY, JULY 17, 7 P.M.
The Austin
Chamber Music Center presents the Tosca String
Quartet in a tribute to the Beats, featuring
Boston composer Lee Hyla's arrangement of Allen
Ginsberg's "Howl." JESSEN AUDITORIUM
Beat Voices PERFORMANCE
The series of
brief plays, produced in conjunction with
the current exhibition On the Road with
the Beats, are written, directed, and
performed by students in the Department of
Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas
at Austin. The pieces illuminate objects and
people featured in the exhibition, including
Beat figures Peter Orlovsky and Diane
DiPrima, specific letters exchanged by Beat
authors, and a painting by artist Alfred
Leslie.
The performances
allow audience members to engage with
artifacts and historical figures in the
exhibition through live performance.
The plays will
be performed every Saturday and Sunday at 1
and 3 p.m. until the exhibition closes. More Information
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues - July 3 to September 28, 2008: Indianapolis Museum of Art (awaiting confirmation on dates)
April 21 - July 3, 2008 - The Beats and
Beyond, Counterculture Poetry 1950-1975.
The Beats and Beyond celebrates the remarkable growth of the Rare Book Collection’s holdings of post–World War II American avant-garde poetry over the past
fifteen years. Development of this collecting area has been gradual but
steady, with items purchased both as collections and individually.
Today, the RBC holds thousands of modern American poetry items, by both
mainstream (or “academic”) writers and by participants in the
counterculture. Curated by Sarah E. Fass, Rare Book Collection,
Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/beats_and_beyond/
July
17,18,19, 24, 25, and 26th, ."Kerouac's Last Call", Boston
Playwrights' Theatre - Kerouac's Last Call, which
received it's successful World Premier as a fully staged play in
Lowell last February (directed by Ann Garvin) is hitting the road
and will perform at the prestigious Boston Playwrights' Theatre on
July 17,18,19, 24, 25, and 26th. Featuring actor Jerry Bisantz
who will portray Jack. "...a fitting, vivid elegy to Kerouac.." The
Lowell Sun. The iconic writer’s final party in Queens, NY is brought to life
in Newsday reporter Patrick Fenton’s Boston Premier play presented
by Lowell’s Image Theater at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949
Commonwealth Ave, Boston. Limited run July 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26th.
at 8PM. Call 866-811-4111 or go to www.Imagetheater.com. Tickets $20 .
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August 2008
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
February 5 - August 3, 2008 - On the Road with the
Beats, Ransom Center Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin.
The
Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "On the Road with the Beats" explores
the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation."
The On The Road Scroll will be removed June 1, however the rest
of the beat exhibition will remain for viewing till the end of the
exhibition.
See
March listing for more information. Featuring more than 250 items
drawn from across the Ransom Center's collections, the exhibition
will take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes and
communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the
Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. The
exhibition runs from Feb. 5 to Aug. 3 in the Ransom Center Galleries
at The University of Texas at Austin.
"On
the Road with the Beats" can be seen at the Ransom Center Galleries
on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended
Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries
are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/
Beat Voices PERFORMANCE
The series of brief plays, produced
in conjunction with the current exhibition On the Road with
the Beats, are written, directed, and performed by students
in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of
Texas at Austin. The pieces illuminate objects and people
featured in the exhibition, including Beat figures Peter
Orlovsky and Diane DiPrima, specific letters exchanged by Beat
authors, and a painting by artist Alfred Leslie.
The performances allow audience
members to engage with artifacts and historical figures in the
exhibition through live performance.
The plays will be performed every
Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3 p.m. until the exhibition closes. More
Information
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September 2008
Please
email your Kerouac and beat event to: kerouaczin@aol.com or write to: A. Gyenis, DHARMA beat, PO
Box 5174, Eureka, CA 95502-5174. I also appreciate copies of any publicity
information for the DHARMA beat archive. Please include date, time, address, and
contact. We try to maintain a complete list of Kerouac events. Thanks.
October 2008
Jack Safe in Heaven dead,
October 21, 1969
Annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
- Are you going to be in Lowell, MA, Jack's hometown. Join
the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival celebrates Jack Kerouac
life and writings.
Take the time to spend 4 days in Kerouac's hometown, walk the streets he
wrote about, and listen to lectures, see movies, go on a pub crawl and
drink in the same bars that Kerouac did. Visit
their website to see all the events - Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.
Kerouac was born in Lowell, and the city keeps
a strong Kerouac presence alive all year round with a park named
after the author. The original scroll is there right now, and will
be through the end of this annual festival, which features four days
of talks, readings, and events in what may be the most
Kerouac-oriented town in America.
Friday, October 10 – Saturday, October 11, 2008,
The Beat Generation Symposium, Chicago, IL - The Beat
Generation Symposium will include academic panel discussions, a lecture
and performance titled “Deaf/Def Poets and the Beats,” and readings of
poetry by Joanne Kyger (October 10, 7:00 p.m.) and Diane di Prima
(October 11, 7:00 p.m.). For more info: www.colum.edu/beatsymposium
Columbia College Chicago
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL
60605
Conference
Director:
Tony Trigilio, Columbia College Chicago. Sponsored by the Beat Studies Association, Columbia College Chicago, and Illinois
State University. (312) 344-8138, ttrigilio@colum.edu
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
The symposium
is part of a two-month college-wide initiative at Columbia College,
during which time the first draft of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road will be on display at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 South
Wabash, on the second floor. Kerouac typed the draft on a
120-foot-long scroll during a 20-day marathon session in the
mid-'50s. The manuscript is a single, continuous scroll of
semi-translucent paper that is nine inches wide. Kerouac created the
scroll by pasting and taping separate 12-foot-long strips, then
feeding them through his typewriter so he could write without
interruption.
Cost: Before
August 1, $50 Individual, $25 Graduate Students, Independent
Scholars, and Retired Faculty. August 1 and after, $100 Individual, $50 Graduate Students,
Independent Scholars, and Retired Faculty
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JANUARY 2007
Scroll Tour Continues - January 1 to
March 31, 2007 - Kerouac On The Road Scroll Display: Denver
Public Library, Denver, CO For a complete schedule of events,
see http://www.denver.lib.co.us/programs/fresh/kerouac.html
I counted minutes and
subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all
golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old
Denver at last.
-- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
HOWL ON TRIAL EVENTS
with Editor Bill Morgan
Bill Morgan, editor/author of the recent Howl On Trial, I Celebrate Myself, The Book of Martyrdom, [noted
Allen Ginsberg Biographer]. January 15, Monday, 8:00 pm - Mr.
Morgan will be making an appearance to discuss his three books. Held at
the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd St. YMCA, 1395 Lexington Avenue. (with
Ann Charters, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, and Laurie Anderson)
Friday January 12, Time TBA
Northshire Bookstore
4869 Main St.
Manchester Center, VT
Monday, January 15, 8:00 pm
Howl on Trial Book Release Event!
Kaufmann Concert Hall
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Recordings of Mr. Ginsberg are featured. Event also includes: Ann
Charters, Joyce Johnson, and Hettie Jones
For more information call (212) 415-5500
SATURDAY, JANUARY
13, 2PM, WHAT WAS THE BEAT GENERATION? Presented by Professor
Ann Charters (“Kerouac: A Biography”; The Portable Beat Reader”; “Beat
Down to Your Soul”), this lecture will focus on the beginnings of the
movement. GREENWICH LIBRARY,
Connecticut, SECOND FLOOR MEETING ROOM, For more info call ED MORRISSEY
at (203) 622-7918. Part of a Beat Generation series of lectures put on
by the library.
Thursday, 1/25/07,
Reading of On The Road - event take place at the Writers House, 3805
Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P). 4:00 PM - 12:00 AM in the Arts
Cafe.
Kelly Writers House celebrates the 50th
Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Jack
Kerouac's On the Road, a rollicking,
stream-of-consciousness novel, burst onto the literary scene in
1957, rocketing Kerouac to fame and inspired a multi-generational
obsession with "the road." On the Road, a rapid-fire
adventure tale of crossing the country (and back again) solo and
with friends, discovering drugs, jazz, and the "bug" of travel,
became a benchmark for the Beat Generation.
Kerouac wrote the novel in a three-week
marathon burst on 12-reams of paper he taped together and referred
to as "the scroll." In celebration of the book, and the spirit of
the book, the Writers House will host a marathon reading of our own
scroll, featuring local luminary guest readers, accompanied by
improvisational jazz musicians, and you! Stop by the house to listen
to the novel, enjoy the jazz and jump in on the reading! If you
would like to read a section of the scroll, please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
February 2007
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues - January 1 to
March 31, 2007 - Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Display: Denver
Public Library, Denver, CO For a complete schedule of events,
see http://www.denver.lib.co.us/programs/fresh/kerouac.html
I counted minutes and
subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all
golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old
Denver at last.
-- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
March 2007
Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues - January 1 to
March 31, 2007 - Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Display: Denver
Public Library, Denver, CO For a complete schedule of events,
see http://www.denver.lib.co.us/programs/fresh/kerouac.html
I counted minutes and
subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all
golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old
Denver at last.
-- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
March
10, 2007, Saturday: Jack Kerouac's birthday
celebration--Lowell, MA - self-guided tours, cemetery walk and
evening event Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.
March 11, 2007,
Sunday, Auckland, New Zealand - The
Literatti (a performance poetry posse) will be putting on a show to
honour Kerouac on the eve of his birthday, 11th of March, at Shanghai
Lils in Auckland. The line up includes The Literatti, Genevieve McClean,
Anna Kaye, Sally Legg and others. 8 pm - 12 midnight on the 11th
of March.
Thursday March 15, 2007 -New York City event to benefit the
movement to bring the original On The Road Scroll back to Lowell.
Contact The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City for details. http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
GEORGE WALLACE AND FRIENDS
present -- a reading to benefit 'Scroll To Lowell," a drive in
Jack Kerouac's hometown to bring the original On The Road scroll
to town for viewing in 2007. $6 admission at the door, proceeds
will go to the cause. SCROLL TO LOWELL: George Wallace and
Friends in a benefit reading to help bring Jack Kerouac's On The
Road manuscript to his hometown of Lowell Massachusetts this
summer. Tentative guests include Simon Pettet, Jason Eisenberg,
Eero Ruuttila, LZ Nunn and special guest Yesod.
March 18, 2007, Sunday, Jack Kerouac Birthday
Reading - Composition Gallery presents Raging in the Gloom: A
Jack Kerouac Birthday Celebration. Readings, live music, and
refreshments. Sunday March 18, 6 p.m. Free. 1388 McLendon Ave. Atlanta, Georgia 678-982-9764. www.compositiongallery.com
THURSDAY, MARCH
22, 7PM, FOCUS ON JACK KEROUAC - Dr. Isaac Gewirtz, curator of the
New York Public Library’s Berg Collection, will speak about and give a
slide show presentation highlighting the life & work of the influential
“On The Road” author. GREENWICH LIBRARY,
Connecticut, SECOND FLOOR MEETING ROOM, For more info call ED MORRISSEY
at (203) 622-7918. Part of a Beat Generation series of lectures put on
by the library.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - The Lost Years of Jack Kerouac - On
Wednesday, March 28, at 2:00 P.M., in celebration of the 50th
anniversary of the publishing of the literary classic, “On the
Road,” local author and noted Kerouac scholar, Patrick Fenton,
will be speaking at the Massapequa Library, 40 Harbor Lane, Massapequa Park, New York. He will discuss some interesting
and unknown facts about the Beat Generation writer, and his
famous journey. Mr. Fenton will also read from his play “Last
call: An Evening With Jack Kerouac which had a sold out run at
the Rockaway, Queens Playhouse. The play is based on Jack
Kerouac’s last night in Northport, Long, Island.
During his 12 years in Queens, Jack Kerouac, with a notebook
in his back pocket, roamed the streets from Sutphin to Cross
Bay Boulevards, and also to the ocean at Rockaway beach. It
was in Ozone Park, Queens that the writer planned his famous
“On the Road” journey from what he once described as “a
little kid’s sort of library.” After many years of chasing
the ghost of Jack Kerouac, Patrick Fenton has retraced a map
of these years and discovered what he calls “the lost years”
of Jack Kerouac. The chase took Mr. Fenton all the way from
Ozone Park, Queens to Northport, Long Island where it ended
at Gunther’s Bar on Main Street, a frequent Kerouac hangout
for many years.
March, 31, 2007, JACK KEROUAC ALLEY DEDICATION
- Saturday, March 31st, 2007 Noon – 4:00pm, EVERYONE
WELCOME! (Jack Kerouac Alley is located between Columbus and Grant
Aves. & City Lights/ Vesuvio), San Francisco, CA
Please join the Chinatown Alleyway Improvement
Association, the Chinatown Community Development Center, the
Department of Public Works, Vesuvio, City Lights, Board of
Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San
Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, Edwin Lee, the City’s
Chief Administrative Officer, Fred Abadi, the Director of DPW,
mandolin ensemble Zighi Baci, St. Mary’s School students, jazz
musicians, and many others to share this joyful event with us.
Jack Kerouac Alley, situated between Grant and
Columbus, and a stone's throw away from Broadway, brings
together the historic neighborhoods of Chinatown and North
Beach. In 2007, this alley was renovated and transformed into a
beautiful new passageway, lined with inspired writings by Li Po,
Confucius, Maya Angelou, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Steinbeck,
as well as Jack Kerouac himself.
April 2007
THURSDAY, MAY 17,
7PM, FOCUS ON ALLEN GINSBERG - Writer & Ginsberg expert/biographer
Bill Morgan (“I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen
Ginsberg”; “Howl on Trial”) will discuss the life, work and influence
of the late Beat poet and social activist. GREENWICH LIBRARY,
Connecticut, SECOND FLOOR MEETING ROOM, For more info call ED
MORRISSEY at (203) 622-7918. Part of a Beat Generation series of
lectures put on by the library.
April
26, Auction of Kerouac and beat items- PBA Auctions,
San Francisco. The sale of Kerouac and Bukowski items. See the catalog
on line at http://www.pbagalleries.com/live/sale_details354_all.php
May 2007
June 2007
June 2, 2007, Kerouac to Receive Degree - LOWELL,
Massachusetts – Fifty years after the publication of Jack Kerouac’s most famous
book, “On the Road,” the University in his hometown will honor him posthumously
with an honorary doctorate of letters degree.
The award will be accepted by the executor of
Kerouac’s literary estate, brother-in-law John Sampas, at the June 2, 2007
commencement ceremony at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Two weeks
after that, the 120-foot “On the Road” scroll, upon which Kerouac’s
manuscript was drafted in 1951, will be on display at the Boott Mills Cotton
Museum in Lowell. The book was published in 1957.
“Jack Kerouac is synonymous with Lowell,” said John
Wooding, UMass Lowell provost. “His books made Lowell a literary location
known to the world, like Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ did for Concord. It is fitting
for UMass Lowell to be the university that recognizes his achievement as one
of the most important authors of the 20th century.”
This will be the only college degree awarded thus far
to the famous writer, who is studied by English literature majors
world-wide. Kerouac dropped out of Columbia University in his second year.
UML has a Kerouac Center for American Studies and
offers a biennial Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, directed by English
Prof. Hilary Holladay, which draws Kerouac scholars and fans from the region
and the world. Kerouac died in 1969 and is buried in Lowell.
Kerouac was nominated for an honorary degree by UMass
Lowell’s Community Relations Director Paul Marion, who is an author and
Kerouac scholar. Marion edited “Atop an Underwood,” a collection of
Kerouac’s early work. UMass Lowell then recommended the honorary doctorate
recipient to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, which voted
to accept it.
“Kerouac’s books are read and studied in colleges and
universities around the world,” said Marion. “Kerouac has always been
popular in the community of readers. With this honor, UMass Lowell welcomes
him into the community of scholars.”
Contact: Renae Lias Claffey 978-934-3233 or Renae_Lias@uml.edu
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007-September 16, 2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of Jack Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/
June 30, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics, Boulder, CO - In celebration of the 50th anniversary of On the Road, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics will
share news of Kerouac celebrations around the world, updates about the
School's own Kerouac Festival on June 30 and July 1, 2007 and
perspectives of special guest bloggers.
July 2007
July 1, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics, Boulder, CO - In celebration of the 50th anniversary of On the Road, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics will
share news of Kerouac celebrations around the world, updates about the
School's own Kerouac Festival on June 30 and July 1, 2007 and
perspectives of special guest bloggers.
July 5th,
Thursday: Kerouac’s Last Call playing in
Lowell, MA. A play directed by Ann Garvin. Jerry Bisantz
as Jack Kerouac. National Park’s Visitor Center Theater, 246 Market
Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. Reserve your seat by calling
978-441-0102
On Thursday, July 5th, at 8:00 P.M., the Image Theater of
Lowell, Massachusetts will perform a fully staged reading of a
moving new play by Newsday writer Patrick Fenton which deals
with Kerouac’s Ozone Park, Queens years and Northport, Long
Island. It is his last night on Long Island, the America he saw
through a rear view mirror along side of Neal Cassady is slowly
playing again in his mind.
After throwing a small going away party for himself, he spends
the night tallying up his road years long after the few guests
have gone. Over some bourbon, he’s visited by the memory of his
father Leo and the early hardscrabble days when they lived as a
family over a drug store in Ozone Park, Queens. During the
evening, he receives a series of soul-searching phone calls from
his daughter Jan.
For reservations for this one night only event, go to www.Imagetheater.com or call 978-441-0102. Limited seating
available. Image Theater is a not for profit theater company
that only produces new works. (producing 35 local playwrights
in less than two years, we like to think that we would be Jack's
favorite theater company!)
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007-September 16, 2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of Jack Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! Lots
of related events, check here http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
August 2007
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007-September 16, 2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of Jack Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! Lots of
related events, check here http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
September 2007
On The Road - 50 Years old
In honor of this
anniversary, Viking is publishing several Kerouac books, including the
original scroll version of On The Road.
On
the Road: The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac - Author
Howard Cunnell - Editor/introduction
Joshua Kupetz - Introduction by
George Mouratidis - Introduction by
Penny Vlagopoulos - Introduction by
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published
word for word as Kerouac originally composed it.
[from the press release] Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about
the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it
was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West
Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft
that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced
paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped
together to form a 120 foot scroll, this document is among the most
significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary
American literary history. It represents the first full expression
of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point
at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a
sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider
vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual
arts in the post-World War II period.
It was not until more than six years later, and several new drafts,
that Viking published, in 1957, the novel known to us today. On the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Viking
will publish the 1951 scroll in a standard book format. The
differences between the two versions are principally ones of
significant detail and altered emphasis. The scroll is slightly
longer and has a heightened linguistic virtuosity and a more
sexually frenetic tone. It also uses the real names of Kerouac’s
friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them.
The transcription of the scroll was done by Howard Cunnell who,
along with Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos,
provides a critical introduction that explains the fascinating
compositional and publication history of On the Road and
anchors the text in its historical, political, and social context.
Book: Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 416 pages | ISBN
9780670063550 | 16 Aug 2007 | Viking Adult | Adult
$25.95
On
the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
50th Anniversary Edition
Jack Kerouac - Author
A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that
defined a generation
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground
America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of
the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing
defined what it meant to be “beat” and has inspired generations of
writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their
discovery of the book as the event that “set them free.” Based on
Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the
story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest
for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed
naïveté and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America,
his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and
hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who
has ever picked it up. This hardcover edition commemorates the
fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957
and will be a must-have for any literature lover.
Book: Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 320 pages | ISBN
9780670063260 | 16 Aug 2007 | Viking Adult | Adult $24.95
Why
Kerouac Matters
The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)
John Leland - Author
The author of Hip: The History reveals the lessons of the
original hipster bible, On the Road
Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a
manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But
there is much more to the novel than that.
In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry,
insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it
still matters because at its core it is a book that is full of
lessons about how to grow up. Leland’s focus is on Sal Paradise, the
Kerouac alter ego, who has always been overshadowed by his fictional
running buddy Dean Moriarty. Leland examines the lessons that
Paradise absorbs and dispenses on his novelistic journey to manhood,
and how those lessons— about work and money, love and sex, art and
holiness—still reverberate today. He shows how On the Road is
a primer for male friendship and the cultivation of traditional
family values, and contends that the stereotype of the two wild and
crazy guys obscures the novel’s core themes of the search for
atonement, redemption, and divine revelation. Why Kerouac Matters offers a new take on Kerouac’s famous novel, overturning many
misconceptions about it and making clear the themes Kerouac was
trying to impart.
Book: Hardcover | 5.51 x 8.26in | 224 pages |
ISBN 9780670063253 | 16 Aug 2007 | Viking Adult | Adult $23.95
Meet the author at the following events:
9/16/2007 |
New York,
NY |
BROOKLYN LITERARY FESTIVAL |
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9/17/2007 |
New York,
NY |
BARNES AND NOBLE #2619 Leland to read from Why Kerouac
Matters |
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9/19/2007 |
Washington,
DC |
OLSSONS BOOKS & RECORDS Leland to read from Why Kerouac
Matters |
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9/20/2007 |
Denver,
CO |
TATTERED COVER |
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9/22/2007 |
San Francisco,
CA |
BOOKSMITH Leland and Johnson to read (off-site at All Saints Church) |
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10/4/2007 |
Philadelphia,
PA |
PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LIBRARY |
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10/14/2007 |
Denver,
CO |
DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY (event
with John Ventimiglia and David Amram) |
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On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007- October 14, 2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of Jack Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! The
Lowell stay has been extended to October for the Lowell Celebrates
Kerouac festival. Lots
of related events, check here http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
September 5 - 9th: The City celebrates Jack Kerouac and the 50th Anniversary of his iconic novel.
Lowell, MA
Celebrations include:
- Wednesday, September 5th
10am-10pm: Marathon Reading of Kerouac's On the Road--50th anniversary of the novel's publication
- Thursday, September 6th
7pm: Montreal jazz bassist Normand Guilbeault's "Visions de Kerouac" bebop and spoken word show at McDonough Arts Magnet Theater (This event is free!)
- Friday, September 7th
7:30pm: David Amram's Kerouac Jazz at Boarding House Park
- Saturday, September 8th: Jack Kerouac: Writers of the Next Generation
1:00pm-2:30pm, The Brush Art Gallery, located in the complex with the LNHP Visitor Center at 256 Market St. Readers: Ken Janjigian, Lawrence Carradini and J.D. Scrimgeour.
3:00pm-4:30pm Life Alive, 194 Middle Street. Readers: George Wallace, David Robinson, and Cesar Sanchez Beras.
6:00pm-7:30pm Brew?d Awakening Coffee Haus , 61 Market Street. Readers: Jay Atkinson, Paul Marion, Peter Loosigian, and Mark Schorr.
- Sunday, September 9th
1:00-3:00 p.m. Next Generation Writers continued....
Readers: Jean Monahan, Gigi Thibodeau, Richard Wollman, and Danielle Legros Georges. Boott Events Center, 115 John St, Lowell
2:30 Special viewing of On the Road: An Exhibition of Jack Kerouac's Original Scroll Manuscript. Members of the exhibition team will be on hand to answer your questions. Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street, Lowell. Free admission & refreshments
4pm: Kay Roberts' New England Orchestra Kerouac classical and jazz tribute concert at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Tickets $15 available at the door; $10 for students/seniors)
September 5, 2007, On The Road at
50: A Celebration of Jack Kerouac, New York, NY.
A
TimesTalks Panel. The Lighthouse Theatre, 111 East 59 St., NY, NY
Featuring Douglas Brinkley, Billy Collins and Joyce Johnson
Moderated by John Leland. See most of the authors and editors
of the Kerouac book onslaught—Brinkley edited the Library of America
volume, Johnson’s memoir is being reissued for the anniversary and
moderator Leland’s new critical book on Kerouac is at the top of
Viking’s list—in one place on the big day.
September 5, 2007, Wednesday, VESUVIO TO
HOST LITERARY EVENT TO HONOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “ON THE ROAD” SAN
FRANCISCO – Vesuvio Café, long associated
with Jack Kerouac since the earliest days of the Beat generation, is
hosting The Ragged Promised Land, a live show to honor Kerouac’s On the
Road on the 50th Anniversary of the book’s first publishing.
The literary entertainment event scheduled for
September 5 features readings of excerpts from the book, punctuated
with live acoustic jazz. “The excerpts from On the Road have been
selected specifically to showcase Kerouac’s travels in California,”
says Rodger Jacobs, the show’s director. Jacobs, an award-winning
writer and documentary producer, will be performing the readings
along with Joe Shackel, Jim Reese, Gregg Martinez, and Jan Becker.
Vesuvio co-owner Janet Clyde is handling producing chores. Popular
acoustic jazz trio Alt Tal will be on hand to round out the show.
Event details: “The Ragged Promised Land,” 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Vesuvio
Café,
255 Columbus @ Kerouac Alley, 21 & Over/ID Required. No Cover Charge
Thursday,
September 6th, 10:00pm, Celebration of the 50th
Anniversary of On The Road, New York,
NY: Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ Bleeker. Celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Tim Moran
accompanied by David Amram's Trio. John Ventimiglia ("Artie Bucco"
of "The Sopranos") reads, as well. http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
September 6, 2007, Back On The Road, Boston MA. Celebration of On The Road sponsored by Harvard Bookstore at Brattle Theatre,
Featuring John Leland and Joyce Johnson.
Monday, September 10,
2007, 8 pm - A Tribute to Kerouac's On the Road, 8:00 pm. San Francisco,
CA.
With David Meltzer, Wavy Gravy,
Lenore Kandel, Joanna McClure and other surprise guests. An exuberant
celebration of the 50th anniversary of publication of Jack Kerouac’s
immortal On the Road, featuring Bay Area poets, bebop jazz
musicians, and beat aficionados of all stripes. Lose yourself in the
Dionysian fire and musical magic of one of literature’s most
enduring and artistic movements. Jewish Community Center of San
Francisco, 3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA. (415)
292-1233. $8 Members | $10 Public
Wednesday,
Sep 12 2007, 7:00pm, - Jack Kerouac's Road, Medford, MA.
Saturday, September 22nd, 7pm,
Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of On The Road, San Francisco, CA.
San
Francisco, CA: All Saints Church, 1350 Waller Street. City
Lights, The Booksmith and Penguin Books celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road with Jon Leland, Joyce
Johnson, Michael McClure, Barry Gifford, and Suzanne Kleid.
Book
related to this event: You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac
by Edie Kerouac-Parker, 2007 Edition. "We’ve officially entered
what might as well be called Jack Kerouac Awareness Month. It’s the
50th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Road,' and the
commemorations include . . . a memoir, 'You’ll Be Okay,' from
Kerouac’s first wife." – NY Times.
September 30, 2007, KEROUAC’S LAST CALL, Northport,
NY - IN CELEBRATION
OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLISHING OF “ON THE ROAD,” JOIN US
FOR A SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT GUNTHER’S WITH KEROUAC. (Gunther’s Bar,
Jack Kerouac’s old hangout, 84 Main Street, Northport, Long Island.)
On Sunday,
September 30th, at 2:00 P.M., actor, director, Ed Dennehy, will
present a new play by Patrick Fenton entitled “KEROUAC’S LAST
CALL.” The play deals with Jack Kerouac’s time in Ozone Park,
Queens, Richmond Hill, and Northport, Long Island. It is the end
of the summer in 1964, a major cultural shift is starting to
happen, and on his last night in Northport, Long Island, the
America Kerouac saw through a rear view mirror along side of
Neal Cassady is slowly playing again in his mind. While
wondering back on his road days, he receives a series of
soul--searching phone calls from his daughter Jan.
“KEROUAC’S LAST CALL,” starring, Ed Dennehy, Jack
O’Connell, Sonja Tannenbaum, Drew Keil, Sophie Vanier, and
Michael Newman, music by Sue Sizza, is directed by Ed Dennehy.
Contact Patrick Fenton at Stoopdreamer@aol.com 516-797-1483 Check it
out.
(With the help of the Image Theater in Lowell, Massachusetts,
Jack Kerouac’s hometown, a reading of the play recently took
place there, which starred actor, director Jerry Bisantz and was
directed by Ann Garvin.)
October 2007
Jack Safe in Heaven dead,
October 21, 1969
October 4 - 7, Memories of Lowell from the Road. Lowell, MA
20th Annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
- Are you going to be in Lowell, MA, Jack's hometown?Join
the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival celebrates Jack Kerouac
life and writings.
Take the time to spend 4 days in Kerouac's hometown, walk the streets he
wrote about, and listen to lectures, see movies, go on a pub crawl and
drink in the same bars that Kerouac did. Visit
their website to see all the events - Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.
Kerouac was born in Lowell, and the city keeps
a strong Kerouac presence alive all year round with a park named
after the author. The original scroll is there right now, and will
be through the end of this annual festival, which features four days
of talks, readings, and events in what may be the most
Kerouac-oriented town in America.
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007- October 14, 2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of Jack Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! The
Lowell stay has been extended to October for the Lowell Celebrates
Kerouac festival. Lots
of related events, check here http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
October 19-21, 2007, Marathon Reading of On The
Road - Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center of Venice
California will be holding a marathon reading of On the Road from October 19 through October 21. Poets, actors and original
Venice Beat Philomene Long (the Beat Nun) will be reading, and in
the Project Room there will be a "Road" inspired photo exhibit.
email - beyondbaroque@aol.com
681 VENICE BLVD
VENICE, CA 90291
(310) 822-3006
email kerouaczin@aol.com to list your
Kerouac event here!
November 2007
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper. http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
November
27, 2007, Tuesday, Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, 1957-2007, New York Public Library
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission, You choose
your seats when you get to the theater.
This event is
currently not on sale. Please check back soon for updated details.
https://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=BEA9
With the Library’s exhibition Beatific Soul:
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, 1957-2007, LIVE from the NYPL
will pay tribute to the career of Beat writer and poet Jack Kerouac
and the Beat Movement. Drawing on the contents of the Jack Kerouac
Archive, housed in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of
English and American Literature, many of Kerouac’s unpublished
manuscripts, diaries, journals, correspondence, drawings,
photographs, and treasured objects will be on display. The
exhibition’s title is derived from a characteristically awe-struck
observation by the narrator of On the Road, Sal Paradise,
about the novel’s central figure, Dean Moriarty, based on Kerouac’s
friend and (as Ginsberg called Whitman) “courage teacher”: “He was
BEAT—the root, the soul of Beatific.” Join us for an evening
celebration of the life and work of Jack Kerouac.
November 29, 2007, On The Road Discussion,
Sudbury, MA. Bill Schechter, History Department of
Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Ma will hold a two
night discussion of the Beat Generation and "On The Road".
This open "Book Club" will be held on Thursday night November
29, 2007 and Thursday night December 6, 2007. The event will be
held at the LSRHS library. This is a fundraiser for FELS
(Foundation for Educators at Lincoln Sudbury) which gives grants
to faculty and staff for personal and professional development.
December 2007
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper. http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
December 6, 2007, On The Road Discussion, Sudbury, MA. Bill
Schechter, History Department of Lincoln Sudbury Regional High
School in Sudbury, Ma will hold a two night discussion of the Beat
Generation and "On The Road".
This open "Book Club" will be held on Thursday night November
29, 2007 and Thursday night December 6, 2007. The event will be
held at the LSRHS library. This is a fundraiser for FELS
(Foundation for Educators at Lincoln Sudbury) which gives grants
to faculty and staff for personal and professional development.
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Top
January 2008
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper. http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
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