KEROUAC CALENDAR

Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922

Jack Safe in Heaven dead, October 21, 1969

• Two major Kerouac events occur in Lowell, MA (Kerouac's home town) every year, in March and October (the birth and death of Jack Kerouac). It is a great event. Lowell Celebrates Kerouac website is here: http://www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org/

Jack Kerouac 100th Birthday Celebrations

• Celebrate Kerouac's 100th Birthday in his hometown, Lowell, Massachussetts. Events to include display of the original ‘On the Road’ scroll (on loan from the Jim Irsay Collection), guided bus tours, musical events, readings, art galleries & more.
  
  https://lowellcelebrateskerouac.org/jack-kerouac-centennial-birthday-event-schedule/

• Beat Museum - Open House on Kerouac’s Centennial Birthday, March 12, 2022, Noon – 7pm. The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco. 1-800-KEROUAC (1-800-537-6822)
  
  Kerouac Centennial Open House

• Dixon Place presents Celebrating Kerouac 100th Birthday in association with Bowery Poetry Club, New York City. Saturday, March 12th. Free admission. Door & bar opens at 5:30pm.  Poetry by: Hetti Jones, Joyce Johnson, Bob Holman, Andrei Codrescu, Zelene Suchilt, Nancy Mercado, Marcos de la Fuente, David Garcia Casado, No Land, Bob Rosental, Rolando Pena. Address: 161A Chrystie Street, New York City, NY 10002.  212 219-0736.

  https://dixonplace.org/performances/guerrilla-lit-03-30-2022-copy/

• Still Outside: Kerouac @ 100 - City Lights presents a critical appreciation of the writing of Jack Kerouac on the occasion of his 100th Birthday. This will be a ZOOM event Thursday, March 10, please register. With appearances by David Amram, Ann Charters, Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Ann Douglas, Tim Hunt, Joyce Johnson, Hassan Melehy, and Regina Weinreich
  
  https://citylights.com/events/still-outside-keroauc-100/

• Join us for a 'Kerouac Read-a-thon' on what would have been Jack's 100th birthday. Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ, United Kingdom.
  
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jack-kerouac-at-100-tickets-264112837607

• On March 12th, Beatdom (magazine) will release a special edition of Beatdom to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kerouac.
  
  https://www.beatdom.com/beatdom-22-contents/

• LitKicks will be having a Kerouac celebration podcast, information will be posted on the website by March.
  
  https://litkicks.com/
  

• Beat Book Shop in Boulder Denver will be hosting a Jack Kerouac's 100th Birthday Reading and Celebration on March 7th and March 14th. 1290 Folsom St, Boulder, CO 80302. 303-444-7111

  https://www.facebook.com/events/337963461276271

• UK show with Simon Warner celebrating the Beat writer's centenary is now delighted to include American Joyride, a new and unseen short capturing the spirit of his art in words and images. 'Kerouac Lives' film premiere.
  
  https://simonwarner.substack.com/p/kerouac-lives-adds-us-film-premiere

• New York Public Library will celebrate the 100th birthday of Jack Kerouac with a special display.
  
  https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/kerouac-visions

• In Conversation: Jack Kerouac's 100th Birthday, Saturday, March 12, 2022, 2:00 PM 3:30pm. The Arts Center in Orange 129 E. Main Street Orange, VA 22960. Join Beat Generation scholars Dr. Hilary Holladay and Dr. Gordon Ball for this lively, livestreamed conversation about Kerouac’s life and work. Attend in person or watch on our YouTube channel.

  https://www.artscenterinorange.com/events/in-conversation-jack-kerouacs-100th-birthday?fbclid=IwAR39S4dhfBBEiwEvcP9BfxA7OtQvll3pgxFXIfp66cRWIGadk3ISkIESaw4

  
  

• Tribute to Jack Kerouac: 100 Years, Still Alive! Are you curious about Jack Kerouac’s francophone legacy and the French fact in the United States in the first half of the 20th century? The Tribute to Jack Kerouac: 100 Years, Still Alive! panel, organized in collaboration with the Quebec Delegation in Boston as part of the Mois de la Francophonie 2022, will be held on March 15, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. (EDT). Please register, translated into both English and French.

https://francophoniedesameriques.com/panel-Jack-Kerouac-en?fbclid=IwAR08gbDaDVQBIRIJxNfL6A6xPZOReh_2bzq9rBSaNtVEXeQIZNjvgGzR3VA

• Age of Kerouac: A Beat Generation Celebration at the Studio March 4th @620 in St. Petersburg March 4th. 620 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL, 33701.
  
  https://patch.com/florida/stpete/calendar/event/20220304/1792752/age-of-kerouac-a-beat-generation-celebration-at-the-studio-620?fbclid=IwAR3clQyI0H0d4nIgnrPOluBg6mxo4Jv2zRC-cGktgNL2Av_CdSnY7Pmr4y8

 

Happy Birthday Jack.

"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

This calendar page is no longer being updated other than Kerouac 100th Birthday celebrations. To see the archive page of Kerouac events from 2003 to 2015: click here

We thank you for all your previous contributions of events over the years.