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Past Kerouac and beat Events

These are events that have occurred over the last few years. Yes, there was probably a Kerouac event going on near you that you never heard about. And there are other Kerouac events that I don't know about, and which haven't been included. So it goes.

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2002 - 2003 Previous Events

 

Please email your Kerouac and beat event to:  kerouaczin@aol.com or write to: Attila Gyenis, DHARMA beat, PO Box 5174, Eureka, CA 95502-5174. Please include date, time, address, and contact. Thanks. 


Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922

Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969

 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. 
 
Mr. Fenton can be contacted for interviews at Stoopdreamer@hotmail.com

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!)

 
Mr. Fenton can be contacted for interviews at Stoopdreamer@hotmail.com 

 

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
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[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

 

9/17/2007

New York, NY

BARNES AND NOBLE #2619 Leland to read from Why Kerouac Matters

 

9/19/2007

Washington, DC

OLSSONS BOOKS & RECORDS Leland to read from Why Kerouac Matters

 

9/20/2007

Denver, CO

TATTERED COVER

 

9/22/2007

San Francisco, CA

BOOKSMITH Leland and Johnson to read (off-site at All Saints Church)

 

 

10/4/2007

Philadelphia, PA

PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LIBRARY

 

10/14/2007

Denver, CO

DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY (event with John Ventimiglia and David Amram)

 

 

 


 

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.

Jack Kerouac's life and work are very complex. Steve Edington will discuss these sides of this Lowell, Massachusetts born writer whose works are now read world-wide. Steve Edington is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, New Hampshire. He's the author of "Kerouac's Nashua Connection" and "The Beat Face of God--The Beat Generation Writers as Spirit Guides." Steve is a long-time member of the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Committee. Price: Free. Phone: (781) 395-7950. Web Page: http://www.medfordlibrary.org


 

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


 

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 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.

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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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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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 JANUARY 2006

Scroll Tour:  January 14 - March 19, 2006 - Kerouac Scroll in San Francisco - On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Manuscript Jack Kerouac wrote the manuscript for the now classic Beat Generation novel On the Road within a 20-day period in New York City in 1951 employing “spontaneous prose,” a nonstop, unedited style inspired by letters from his friend Neal Cassady. Kerouac’s manuscript is a 120-foot long scroll consisting of a series of single-spaced typed twelve-foot long rolls of paper that have been taped together. Thirty-six feet of the original manuscript will be exhibited along with an overview of Kerouac’s life and other works, a brief history of the Beat movement and Beats in San Francisco, told through photos, books and ephemera. This manuscript is on loan from the collection of James S. Irsay. © Estate of Anthony G. Sampatacacus and the Estate of Jan Kerouac. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/news/coming.htm

Exhibition:  January 14 – March 19, 2006, Main Library, Lower Level, Jewett Gallery, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), Ph: 415-557-4400 

Related Program: Thursdays at Noon Large Screen Video Series
January 2006 The Beats: Jack Kerouac and Friends

  • January 5 – The Source (1999)
  • January 12 – The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1992)
  • January 19 – The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1996)
  • January 26 – Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (1985)

Related Program: January 21, 2006 Kerouac's On the Road: From East to West - Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, discusses the life of Jack Kerouac, his classic book On the Road and Kerouac's connection to San Francisco. Saturday, January 21, 2006, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m., Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

January 13 - The Beat Museum opens in San Francisco- GRAND OPENING/RECEPTION, Friday, 7 - 9 PM.  - Come join Jerry Cimino and an assortment of North Beach characters as we celebrate our Grand Opening in San Francisco.  Carolyn Cassady will be there as will her children John Allen Cassady and Jami Cassady.  Refreshments will be served.  We'll have original artwork on display by Jack Michelene, Aggie Falk and Jack Hirschman. LOCATION:  The Beat Museum, 1345 Grant Ave, San Francisco http://www.kerouac.com


 February 2006

Scroll Tour continues: January 14 - March 19, 2006 - Kerouac Scroll in San Francisco - Main Library, Lower Level, Jewett Gallery, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco, CA, Ph: 415-557-4400 

Related Program - Women of the Beat Generation - Join us when Brenda Knight, author of Women of the Beat Generation discusses the lives and times of the Beats with Eileen Kaufman, Mary Norbert Korte, Jamie Cassady and Joanna McClure. Author ruth weiss will read poetry accompanied with jazz.
Thursday, February 9
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

Neal Cassady Birthday Bash - February 8, 2006, Wednesday. 7 PM until - ? at the newly opened Beat Museum, 1345 Grant Avenue, North Beach, San Francisco, CA. http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/schedule2.htm  In addition to Neal's children there will be many acquaintances on hand - people who knew Neal both in the 50's and the 60's. It would have been Neal's 80th birthday.

DAVID AMRAM PLAYS AT THE SACRED RUN CONCERT IN SF FRIDAY February 10, 2006 - 8 PM. Nancy Lewis and our friends at Red Hot Promotions are sponsoring a terrific line up at Studio Z to kick off the Sacred Run - a Celebration of Land, Life and Peace. With Hosts Dennis Banks & Peter Coyote. Sacred Run Benefit Concert will kick off the 2006 Sacred Run
which begins in San Francisco Feb. 11, crossing the U.S., with stops in Gulf Coast territory to be with those who are rebuilding after the hurricane,and arriving in Washington D.C. Earth Day, April 22. www.SacredRun.org for info.

February 19th, 2006 -  Reception for the release of STASHOU and YASHOU—a Photographic Art Portfolio featuring photos by Stanley Twardawicz of Jack Kerouac, Dix Hills, NY.

STASHOU and YASHOU has been selected by Kate Kelly, Director/Curator for the prestigious Art League of Long Island (ALLI), and co-curator, Nancy Olivier, to be included in the exhibition “On Paper/Of Paper,”, which opens on Saturday, February18th, with an opening reception on Sunday the 19th, 2-5pm at the Art League of Long Island—Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, 107 East Deer Park Rd., in Dix Hills, New York.

See the Kerouac Stuff page for more information on the portfolio.


 march 2006

Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922

Scroll Tour continues: January 14 - March 19, 2006 - Kerouac Scroll in San Francisco - Main Library, Lower Level, Jewett Gallery, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco, CA, Ph: 415-557-4400 

Related Program: The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour - Bill Morgan, author of The Beat Generation in San Francisco, provides a virtual “walking tour” of the Beat homes and haunts in San Francisco. Co-sponsored by City Lights Books.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

 

Beat Events at the new Beat Museum in San Francisco (contact the Beat Museum for info). Check out the Kerouac Birthday Bash, and the 6 Gallery re-creation where Ginsberg read Howl back in 1955.

March 9, Thursday, Open Mike Poetry - 7 PM, Hosted by Jessica Loos, Sign up to read at the door. Free!

March 10, Friday, Poetry Event - 7 PM, Three Featured Poets, Hosted by Jessica Loos, Free!

March 12, Sunday, KEROUAC BIRTHDAY BASH - 7 PM, Come Celebrate With Us! Jack was born March 12, 1922 in Lowell, MA.

March 15, Wednesday, Movie Screening of Beat Angel - 7 PM, A Film About the Spirit of Jack Kerouac, Benefit Screening for the Film Makers, $5 at the door (http://www.beatangel.com)

March 22, Wednesday, Movie Screening of Beat Angel - 7 PM, A Film About the Spirit of Jack Kerouac, Benefit Screening for the Film Makers, $5 at the door (http://www.beatangel.com)

March 24, Friday, 8 PM, RE-CREATION of the 6 POETS at the 6 GALLERY READING! Join us as well known San Francisco Poets and Writers recreate the famous event that set it all in motion in 1955. We'll be reading works from all the poets that were read back in 1955.  This is the night Ginsberg read HOWL for the first time and the reason Ferlinghetti asked to publish it!

The Beat Museum - Jerry Cimino
1345 Grant Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
http://www.kerouac.com
http://www.thebeatmuseumonwheels.com

 

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! - Are you going to be in Lowell, MA, Jack's hometown? Go to Lowell Celebrates Kerouac  for schedule information.

 

March 9, 2006 - Auction of Beat Material - The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature will be auctioned off by PBA Galleries in San Francisco. The catalog is available on-line at www.pbagalleries.com (sale 327). Great Kerouac and beat stuff.

 

SIGN UP FOR BEAT WALKING TOURS LED BY BILL MORGAN - Friday, March 17th and Saturday, March 18th - Two tours each day, at 11am and 2pm. Cost is $10 payable in cash only to Bill Morgan just prior to the tour. Reservations can be made by emailing your date and time of choice to walk@citylights.com, calling (415) 362-8193 or signing up at the front counter at City Lights.

Meet in front of City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Ave.) Tours will last two hours.

Morning tour (11 am) will see: Ginsberg's apartment where he wrote "Howl"; Homes of Corso, Snyder, Whalen, Ferlinghetti, Kaufman, McClure; Night spots and bars of the Beat Generation; Kerouac Alley and Vesuvios; Caffe Trieste; Grant Avenue haunts, The Place, and more.

Afternoon tour (2 pm) will see: Kerouac's Chinatown; Site of the "Howl" trial Foster's cafeteria; Towne & Oller, where Ginsberg worked in market research; Ginsberg's Moloch sighting; and Neal Cassady's home where Kerouac visited.

Bill Morgan is the author of The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour and The Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City.

Read more about Morgan’s The Beat Generation in San Francisco at http://www.citylights.com/CLpubBC1.html#3255


 April 2006

 


 May 2006

Scroll Tour Continues - May 1 to July 31: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana


 June 2006

Scroll Tour Continues - May 1 to July 31: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana


 July 2006

Scroll Tour Continues - May 1 to July 31: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana


 August 2006

 


 September 2006

THE BEAT MUSEUM "GALA GRAND OPENING," WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 27, 2006. Beat Museum has a new, and permanent home.

Come celebrate the “Gala Grand Opening” of The Beat Museum, Wednesday - September 27, 2006 at 6:00 PM
CONFIRMED SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE:
- Michael McClure - Beat Poet, featured at the Six at Six Reading in October, 1955
- Magda Cregg  - Companion to Lew Welch
- Stanley Mouse - famous 1960’s Poster Artist
- Hugh Romney (aka Wavy Gravy) - Beat Poet turned Merry Prankster
- John Allen Cassady - The Sarah Jessica Parker of The Beat Generation
- Many more to come...FEATURING:
Original Artwork by Nano Lopez, Stanley Mouse & Richard Whalen
Allen Ginsberg Photo Exhibit by Harold Adler
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
San Francisco, CA  94133
 
 www.kerouac.com

 

LARRY KEENAN PHOTO EXHIBIT, September 6th - September 30th - You know Larry Keenan's photos.  He's took many famous photos of the Beat Era including The Last Gathering at City Lights.  Larry's photos will be on exhibit during the months of September in San Francisco.

Exhibit - The Micaela Gallery, 333 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA

 

JACK HIRSCHMAN READING -  Thursday, SEPTEMBER 14th -SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman Reading his new book "The Arcanes"

Thursday - September 14th at 6 PM
Friends of the SF Public Library
391 Grove Street (at Gough)
San Francisco, CA
http://www.friendssfpl.org
415-626-7500

 

[NOTE: The On The Road Scroll is not being displayed at Columbia College in Chicago as previously stated]


 October 2006

Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! - October 5 - 8, 2006 - Are you going to be in Lowell, MA, Jack's hometown? Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.  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.

 The 19th Annual 2006 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival   
Kerouac For All Seasons
SCHEDULE

Sunday October 1 - Official Lead-in Event

Noon  -  Dubliner Restaurant; 4th Annual Running of Kerouac 5K Road Race (to pass by Kerouac Park), proceeds to benefit scholarship. For more information call (978) 649-6189.


Thursday October 5

PM  -  4:00    LNHP Visitor Center; Film: Lowell Blues, Market St.

   8:00    Cappy¹s Copper Kettle; Musicians Frank Morey, Allen Crane, poets Jim Dunn and Diana Saenz, Central St.    

Friday  October 6

AM  -  9:30    Lowell High School; Youth Poetry Contest, 50 French St.

PM  -  4:00    LNHP Visitor Center; Film: Lowell Blues

           5:30    Pollard Library; Scroll to Lowell Fundraiser, UMASS Lowell Writers in Residence, musician Frank Morey, others, presentations, and special guest David Amram, 401 Merrimack St. Fundraiser Admission $25, Students $15

           9:00    Pawtucketville; Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night, Roger Brunelle. Meet at McDonald¹s on corner of Mammoth Rd. and the bridge overlooking the falls.

Saturday October 7

AM  -  10:30    Kerouac Park; Commemorative at the Commemorative, intersection of French St. and Bridge St.

PM  -  12:30    Pollard Library; Cairo to Kerouac, David Amram and friends

   2:00    LNHP Visitor Center; Kerouac walking tour (contingent on sufficient number of reservations). For info./ reservations, call (978)970-5000.

   2:00    Nashua; Van Tour, Steve Edington. For info./ reservations call (603)883-3141 or (603)930-8781. Meets on sidewalk in front of Visitor Center, Market St.

   4:00    Rainbow Cafe¹; Reading at the Rainbow, 'Open Mic,' Cabot St., between Merrimack & Market

   4:00    LNHP Visitor Center; Film: Lowell Blues

   6:00    Kerouac Pubs Tour; Mike Wurm. Meets on sidewalk in front of Visitor Center, Market St.

   8:00    Rainbow Cafe; Janet Hamill and Moving Star, Cabot St.

Sunday October 8

PM  -  12:30    Caffe' Paradiso; Amram Jam, 'Open Mic' poets reading in collaboration with David Amram and friends, corner of Palmer St. and Middle St.

   4:00    LNHP Visitor Center; Film: Lowell Blues

 

 

BEAT ANGEL – FILM ABOUT “THE SPIRIT OF JACK KEROUAC” – TO BE RELEASED ON DVD, OCTOBER 21

DVD SCREENING EVENT AT THE BEAT MUSEUM IN SAN FRANCISCO, OCTOBER 22, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA  94133

The film, Beat Angel, about “the spirit of Jack Kerouac,” will be released on DVD, October 21.  The date also marks 37 years since Beat Generation author, poet Jack Kerouac passed away. 
On the 30th anniversary of his own death, the angelic spirit of Jack Kerouac (played by Vincent Balestri) returns to earth in the abandoned body of a street bum.  “Jack” drops in at a poetry slam held in honor of his “death day,” and backed by a jazz trio, explains the meaning of “bop spontaneous prose” and “speaking the truth.”  He begins to transform the lives of three people:  Gerard Tripp (played by Frank Tabbita), a secretive writer who locks his manuscripts away; Mary (Amy Humphrey), a shy young writer; and Carol (Lisa Niemi), a former painter turned bartender.
Beat Angel was inspired by Balestri’s heralded one-man play, Kerouac: The Essence of Jack that began in the early ‘80s and ran off and on for 17 years.   Kerouac’s first wife, Edie Parker-Kerouac, encouraged Balestri to portray Jack on stage, coaching the actor in Jack’s voice and mannerisms, and sharing old letters and home tape recordings.  The play evolved as Balestri met a number of Jack’s old friends.  In 1993 Frank Tabbita brought Balestri to Seattle where he performed the show in several long runs.  Interested in translating the “essence” of the piece to film, Tabbita teamed with filmmaker/writer Randy Allred,  writer/producer Bruce Boyle, and Balestri to create Beat Angel.
The film’s “old movie feel” was a deliberate design of director Allred, invoking the atmosphere of Kerouac’s world and the sense of the dream-like sequences.  Scenes shot at Desolation Peak (where Kerouac served as a fire lookout, and wrote about in his books, Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels), a jazz music score and recreations of moments in Kerouac’s life, give the film a haunting yet inspiring quality.   Beat Angel has received such critical praise as “Superb…intriguing twists and turns…” --Winston-Salem Journal.  Composer/musician David Amram noted: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers and I all made Pull my Daisy in 1959 in part to show our kids and grandkids someday that we were for real and able to enjoy life and one another…Like Pull My Daisy reflected the fun we had together as well as the hard work we did when alone.  Like Pull My Daisy, Beat Angel is free of any Hollyweirdness and Post Modern gloom…Beat Angel is full of soulfulness, joy, surprises, warmth and humor…”
Beat Angel was a popular festival selection across the U.S., garnering two award nominations at The Method Fest in Los Angeles, and winning the Wine Country Film Festival’s Special Prize of the Fest.  
A DVD release-screening event, with a performance by Vincent Balestri, will take place on Sunday, October 22 at The Beat Museum (at 540 Broadway) in San Francisco.
DVD features:  19 minute video of Kerouac: The Essence of Jack; Writers Commentary with Balestri, Boyle, Tabbita and Allred; 12 chapters; deleted scenes; in English with French, Spanish, Italian and English subtitles.  Film running time 99 minutes, color NTSC, all Regions.  Available October 21 through www.BeatAngel.com , FilmBaby.com, Amazon.com, Kerouac.com and other selected outlets.  Also find Beat Angel at My Space:  www.myspace.com/beatangelthemovie

 

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San Francisco Beat WALKING TOUR & LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH JOHN ALLEN CASSADY - The son of Neal Cassady will lead Walking Tours of North Beach and all the Beat Generation haunts.      

Thursday, October 26th at 2 PM
or Friday, October 27 at 2 PM

$15 in advance, $20 at the door
Meet at :
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
San Francisco, CA  94133
1-800-KER-OUAC
 www.kerouac.com

This 90 minute tour will focus on the bars, coffeehouses, jazz clubs, homes and other highlights of North Beach.  See the places where Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso and Robert Creely lived.  We’ll see the apartment where Allen Ginsberg was living when he wrote Howl!  The streets of North Beach look pretty much the same and knowing what happened where brings old voices to life!
 

[NOTE: The On The Road Scroll is not being displayed at Columbia College in Chicago as previously stated]


 November 2006

CITY LIGHTS & THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB CELEBRATE HOWL'S 50TH!  Wednesday, November 15th, from 5:30- 7pm

In 1956, City Lights published Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems. Soon after, City Lights publisher & owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights store manager Shigeyoshi Murao were arrested, charged with publishing and distributing "obscene material." What followed is one of the most important first-amendment battles of the 20th century, with City Lights emerging victorious. Allen Ginsberg became a house-hold name, City Lights was known worldwide, and the court decision set a crucial precedent for subsequent free speech battles.

Please join City Lights as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Howl and Other Poems on Wednesday, November 15th, from 5:30- 7 pm, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Special Guests include: Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Artistic Director for Youth Speaks, reading from "Howl" followed by a panel discussion with Bill Morgan, editor of Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression and author of the new biography, I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, Al Bendich, the attorney who successfully defended "Howl" at the original trial in 1957, Dorothy Ehrlich, Executive Director of the ACLU-NC, and Jason Shinder, Editor of Howl: Fifty Years Later. The Club is located at 595 Market St, San Francisco, 94105.

Get more info and advance tickets here: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/ & (415) 597-6700

City Lights Bookstore Howl Links

Howl Turns 50

A History of Howl

Howl Celebrations

Howl On Trial
 

November 1, Wednesday - Bill Morgan, editor/author of the recent Howl On Trial, I Celebrate Myself, The Book of Martyrdom [noted Allen Ginsberg Biographer]  - Mr. Morgan will be making an appearance to discuss his three books. Held at St. Mark's Poetry Project, 131 E 10th Street (at Second Avenue), 8:00 pm, (with Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, Bob Rosenthal, Lee Renaldo, Simon Pettet, Eileen Myles, Steven Taylor, and others)

 

November 19, Sunday,  - The Shepherd & Knucklehead Pub is hosting a night of OPEN - MIC POETRY - all who are 21 and over are welcome, starts around 9:00pm and there is a sign up sheet at the bar - original works or readings from your favorite writer/poet are welcome - you can read or just come to listen and enjoy - and of course, some Kerouac will be read as well. 

A beer please - Please know that "The Shepherd & The Knucklehead Pub" in Haledon, NJ, is the home of a shrine dedicated to the spirit of Jack Kerouac, and just down the street from where "On the Road's" real trip began. Each thought and image inside the pub is inspired on by Kerouac's spirit, the pub was built in his memory; here where we make a virtue out of restlessness, where "we want to prowl and roam and to see the real America that had never been uttered." We think too, that Kerouac would have wanted to drink here because, everything he wrote "was true because he believed in what he saw!"   To here at the pub, where we believe in "order, tenderness and piety."   Come join us on poetry night and our opening vesper to Jack Kerouac. Monthly Poetry Reading in New Jersey, Kerouac style = www.myspace.com/shepherd_knucklehead
 
The Shepherd & The Knucklehead Pub
529 Belmont Ave.
Haledon, NJ
973-942-8666

 


 

 December 2006

December 29, 2006, Friday  - AN EVENING WITH CAROLYN CASSADY -  at 7:30. Carolyn Cassady will be on-stage at The Beat Museum for an evening of remembrances, story telling and readings.  Carolyn's the reason the Beats landed in San Francisco - once she moved out here Neal had to follow - and Jack and Allen weren't far behind.  The evening will include plenty of time for Questions and Answers as well as autographs and conversation.

The Beat Museum
540 Broadway (at Columbus)
San Francisco, CA
415-399-9626 - Museum Direct
Tickets are $20 in advance; $30 at the door
Friday, December 29th - 7:30 PM

This event is sure to sell out as newspaper publicity is starting now.  As Carolyn rarely makes appearances in the U.S. we don't want those of you on our mailing list to miss this opportunity.  Call the museum direct at 415-399-9626 (between 11 AM - 7 PM Pacific) with your credit card information so we can hold your ticket for you at the door.
 

 

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2005

 JANUARY 2005

1/19/05 - Kerouac knickknacks go up for bid online. Read about it in the Lowell Sun.  http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105~4761~2645387,00.html

Scroll Tour - Jan. 19 to March 31: University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/january/010705on-the-road.html

JAN. 28 - IN UI MUSEUM OF ART - LATHAM WILL TALK ABOUT BEATS AND BEATNIKS. The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) will host “Beat vs. Beatnik: Pop Cooptations of Kerouac and Company,” a free lecture by Rob Latham, a UI associate professor of English and American Studies, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, in the museum’s Lasansky Room. Latham will discuss the changing paradigms of aesthetics during the Beat era and beyond.  He will focus on how the Beat generation writers of the 1950s were caricatured throughout the contemporary mass media as ‘beatniks.’ He will also talk about how the Beat writers themselves, especially Kerouac, responded to these media caricatures.

JAN. 30 - DALE FISHER WILL LEAD A TOUR OF UI MUSEUM OF ART. Dale Fisher, director of education at the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), will present a tour of the museum’s collections and “Jack Kerouac: On the Road,” an exhibition of Kerouac’s scroll manuscript of the Beat Generation novel, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30. The tour will be free and open to the public.

 February 2005

Beat Angel (movie showing) 7pm Tuesday, Feb. 15:  The Live Poets Society and the Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop will present a special showing of “BEAT ANGEL” at the Sedona Harkins Theatres. Vincent Balestri ("Jack") will give a special reading, and Vincent with director Randy Allred will be present after the film for Q&A.

Harkins Theatres
2081 West Highway 89A
Sedona, AZ, 86336

For more information email info@newterritoryarts.com or call Jim Bishop at 928-282-1966, or John Reid at 204-0695. Tickets for the Beat Angel evening will be $10 and will be available at the door.

Scroll Tour - Jan. 19 to March 31: University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/january/010705on-the-road.html

 March 2005

Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! - Are you going to be in Lowell, MA, Jack's hometown? Lowell Celebrates Kerouac

March 11-13 - Fifth annual Jack Kerouac Birthday Party, Denton, Texas. It began as a house party, starting on the night of March 11th 2001 to allow for a collaborative birthday toast to Jack Kerouac. The idea was to have typewriters placed throughout the house with taped together lengths of paper for attendants to type freely whatever they felt at the moment. Kerouac books were also scattered throughout the house to provide equally scattered readings. Mostly original writings were read, but granting the party was a celebration of the artist as an inspiration to all of our art, in some form or fashion, we wanted those without writings at hand to have a varied selection of literature to read aloud. Success, success, success! Cheap wine and other alcohols were had by all. Original Kerouac songs were spontaneously written and performed by all. Typings were read and preserved by all. The party, holding those precepts, has continued to this grand continuance, our fifth annual Jack Kerouac Birthday Party. This, our fifth year, will be held at 2301 W. Prarie #2, Denton, TX 76201. Out of town attendants are encouraged to travel and will be housed. Begins evening of March 11th and ends evening of March 13th. You may feel free to contact Greg at 214-533-8736 or Eddie Cain at 806-773-6555 for more information. 

Sunday March 13, 2005, 2 pm - Reading of 242 choruses of Mexico City Blues, Knoxville, Tennessee. The Urban Bar (corner of Jackson and Central), accompanied by a Jazz jam by the Suburbanterreanians. The readers are know collectively as the Karma Thieves. For more info gregleton@netzero.net

Saturday, March 12, 8 pm onwards - A CAFÉ & DANCE CELEBRATING DHARMA ARTS with the disembodied poetics of Jack Kerouac (on the occasion of his birthday*). 118 W. 22nd Street, 6th Floor, New York City, Edible treats & cash bar, $10 donation. A delectable smorgasbord of theater, comedy, music, video, visual art & spoken word. We'll mix the Dharma and the city, explore, develop, and share the arts in an open, responsive, and playful environment. SPECIAL TREAT: In honor of Jack Kerouac's birthday, we'll offer Performances-- Storytelling with Laura Simms and theater with Peter Goldfarb, Lanny Harrison, and the GESTURE Theatre Company.  Spoken word artists include Jim Storm, Rachel Lund, Ken Caffrey, Jr., Ethan Nichtern, and more! Video & Film--The Listen With Your Eyes contemplative media project curates a program of shorts, including work by John Benton, Carina Tautu,, Eric Zechman,  plus ambient video. Comedy--Master Lee and Joseph Mauricio add leavening. Dancing--The celebration concludes with a DJ'ed dance featuring live performers. Musicians include Tal Varon, Timothy Quigly, and Arnold Hammerschlag. Visual art --The exhibit "Love at First Sight: Clear Seeing and Visual Dharma," will be on view at the Center from Friday, Mar. 11, through Sunday, Mar. 13. Work by Jack Niland, Lela Shields, Erin Koch, and others. On sale will be an assortment of poetry and other literary work. Come see the Center transformed by work produced in the preceding day-long workshop, "Dharma Art: All at Once" led by Jack Niland. This celebration is part of the month-long international Dharma Arts festival sponsored by Vajra Dawn. The Shambhala Center is located at 118 W. 22nd St., between 6th and 7th avenues, on the sixth floor. Nearby subways are the F/V, 1/9, W/R, C/E. For more info: 212.675.6544, or visit http://www.ny.shambhala.org.

Beat Angel - March 5 (showtimes TBA), Sedona, AZ: "BEAT ANGEL" screens at the 11th Annual Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop in Sedona, AZ. Poetry, Films and a SLAM! at the Canyon Moon Theatre in the Old Marketplace.  If poetry is your thing, you MUST be at Canyon Moon Theatre for an afternoon of poetry, slams and special screenings of “Beat Angel” and “Sunday Night Poets.” The festival and workshop runs March 3 to 6, 2005. For more information