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We want to include your Kerouac related event. Please email your Kerouac and beat event to:
Via internet to Kerouaczin@aol.com or write to: A. Gyenis, DHARMA beat, PO Box 5174, Eureka, CA 95502-5174. I also appreciate copies of any publicity information for the DHARMA beat archive. Please include date, time, address, and contact. We try to maintain a complete list of Kerouac events. Thanks. 

Please check with event site prior to event to confirm. While we make every attempt to list correct information, we are not responsible for any errors.

 

Jack Kerouac reading a scrollScroll down to the calendar below for complete listing of events. 

Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922

Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969

Events for the 2012 are listed by month. Scroll down for the month you want to check. Look ahead to see if there is any Kerouac event coming to a city near you.

Click on the month you want to see:

January February March April May June July August September October November December

Selected Events:

  • Kerouac Birthday Party - Lowell Celebrates Kerouac - March
  • Lowell Celebrates Kerouac - October
  • On The Road scroll displayed January 27 - May 6 at Indiana State Museum

 

"And this was really the way that my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell." 

~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road

 

 

January 2012

January 27- May 6 On The Road Scroll displayed displayed at the “Chaos is a Friend of Mine: Cultural Icons from the Jim Irsay Collection”

Where: Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday (Eastern time)
Information: Call (317) 232-1637 or visit online at www.indianamuseum.org

 


February 2012

January 27- May 6 On The Road Scroll displayed displayed at the “Chaos is a Friend of Mine: Cultural Icons from the Jim Irsay Collection”

Where: Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday (Eastern time)
Information: Call (317) 232-1637 or visit online at www.indianamuseum.org

 

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats on DVD & Blu-ray. Remastered in High Definition from the Original Film Print. Available February 28, 2012. This is the award-winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Available from Kultur.

 

Submissions Wanted - In order to celebrate what would have been the 90th birthday of celebrated Beat Generation writer, purveyor of haiku, iconoclast and visionary Jack Kerouac. Dharmic Angels (launching in March), will be a collection of poems providing a timeless and international response to the work of one of America's strongest literary voices. 

Selections from the great canon of Kerouac have been made and if you'd like to be involved in the project, please email the address at bottom of this page and you will be sent a segment, all you have to do is take this as the inspirational jumping off point for your own work. 

Responses will be welcomed in the form of poems, capturing the iconic voice of Kerouac in the modern age, in your own language, in your own emotions, in your own distinctive style. Responses will be blind reviewed. 

February 20th, 2012 - Deadline

If you'd like to get involved, please e-mail matt.macdonald@live.co.uk and you will be forwarded on the randomly determined excerpt. For more info

 

February 3rd, 8-10pm - NEAL CASSADY BIRTHDAY BASH IN DENVER -
They’re doing it again in Denver - celebrating Neal’s Birthday this Friday night at The Mercury Cafe. David Amram will be there as will Neal & Carolyn’s daughters Jami and Cathy. Steve Edington with Lowell Celebrates Kerouac and Junior Burke from Naropa’s "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics" will be there, too. And his former high school will finally be issuing a High School Diploma to him, which he never had all this years. He done good.

Here’s a link to the big goings on:
http://www.facebook.com/events/206315476117860/

 

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March 2012

Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922

January 27- May 6 On The Road Scroll displayed displayed at the “Chaos is a Friend of Mine: Cultural Icons from the Jim Irsay Collection”

Where: Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday (Eastern time)
Information: Call (317) 232-1637 or visit online at www.indianamuseum.org

 

MARCH - Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! JACK KEROUAC WEEKEND AND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS

 

Kerouac Project in Orlando Florida - Applications for the 2012-2013 residencies are due by Saturday, March 31, 2012 and results will be announced in May. You can apply anytime throughout the year but applications will not be read until after the March 31st deadline. Also multiple submissions are not allowed. More info

 

 

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April 2012

January 27- May 6 On The Road Scroll displayed displayed at the “Chaos is a Friend of Mine: Cultural Icons from the Jim Irsay Collection”

Where: Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday (Eastern time)
Information: Call (317) 232-1637 or visit online at www.indianamuseum.org

 

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May 2012

Producer Charle Gillibert has announced the following, via Twitter: "Am happy to share with you : OTR french release the 23rd of may, more to come." This is an uncomfirmed announcement of the possible premiere of the awaited On The Road at the Cannes Film Festival. Check out this article as well.

 

January 27- May 6 On The Road Scroll displayed displayed at the “Chaos is a Friend of Mine: Cultural Icons from the Jim Irsay Collection”

Where: Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday (Eastern time)
Information: Call (317) 232-1637 or visit online at www.indianamuseum.org


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June 2012

Kerouac photo by Fred DeWitt

 

 

 

 

 


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August 2012

 

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October 2012

Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969

 

 

 

 


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December 2012


 


January 2013

 

 

Please email your Kerouac and beat event to:  Kerouaczin@aol.com or write to: A. Gyenis, DHARMA beat, PO Box 5174, Eureka, CA 95502-5174. I also appreciate copies of any publicity information for the DHARMA beat archive. Please include date, time, address, and contact. We try to maintain a complete list of Kerouac events. Thanks. 


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For Previous Kerouac events, click here

This is a look at select Kerouac events dating back to 2001