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Reading + Performace:
Beats & Baby Beats Celebrate at BMCM+AC
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
December 10th, 2004, 8pm
Students and BMCM+AC members: $3
General admission: $5 On Friday, December 10 a select group of local poets and writers with
ties to the Beat generation will read and perform their work and that
of their predecessors at the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center
located at 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville. The event will continue a
three-month celebration of the Beat movement and the 1950s San
Francisco Renaissance inspired by the exhibition of paintings and
prints by artist Leo Krikorian that opens on Dec. 3 at BMCM+AC. On
December 10 poets and musicians will honor West Coast Beat writers such
as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Bob Kaufman, Gary Snyder,
Diane DiPrima, Janine Pomy-Vega, Richard Brautigan, Jack Hirschman,
David Meltzer, Lenore Kandell, Philip Whalen, Jack Micheline, and Ken
Kesey. Visual artist and Black Mountain College student, Leo Krikorian was
known as the "Grandfather of the Beats" because of a now-legendary bar
he opened in 1953 in San Francisco called The Place. The Place was a
watering hole and cultural mecca for Beat era poets, artists, musicians
and filmmakers. In addition to the San Francisco Renaissance writers
named above, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley,
Jonathan Williams, Robert Duncan, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg also
frequented Krikorian's bar--a place where artists met to talk,
drink, socialize and perform their poetry with local jazz musicians.
Honoring the spirit of The Place and the San Francisco 1950s, local
poets, writers and aficionados who will be featured performers for the
Friday, Dec.10 event include former Beatitude magazine editor
and founding Director of the San Francisco Poetry Festival, Thomas Rain
Crowe; 1960s neighbor to and cohort of Ken Kesey, Michael Revere;
grandbaby Beat poet and performance artist Ted Pope; Sebastian
Matthews, editor of Rivendell journal and of Search Party, the
collected poems of his late father, William Matthews,; poet,
renaissance man and Black Mountain College and Beat scholar, Jeff
Davis; poet and publisher/editor of Black Mountain Review, and
owner/proprietor of Bookdogger Bookstore in Black Mountain, David
Wilson; owner/proprietor of The Reader's Corner bookstore in Asheville,
Gillian Coats; Brooklyn College student of Allen Ginsberg who now
teaches at UNC-A, Lori Horvitz; Warren Wilson College student,
Malaprop's Bookstore employee and editor of Thistle Journal, poet Jaye
Bartell. Providing jazz accompaniment and music for the evening will be
the JAR-E Jazz Quartet from Asheville. We also anticipate a live guest
appearance via satellite by noted Beat writers. This special evening of
Beat generation-inspired prose, poetry and music will be recorded live
for a future show to be aired on WPVM, 103.5FM.
Doors open at 7:30pm, and performances will begin at 8:00pm;
refreshments will be available throughout the evening. A $3 cover fee
will be charged at the door for students and members of BMCM+AC, with a
$5 charge for general admission. All proceeds will go to BMCM+AC to
help support exhibitions and programming at the non-profit museum and
arts center.The
Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center preserves and continues
the unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black
Mountain College for public study and enjoyment. We achieve our mission
through collection, conservation, and educational activities including
exhibition, publication, and public programs |
