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
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October 2010
Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969
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
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
January 2011
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