Jack Kerouac: Then and Now

An annual festival celebrating arts and activism across Greenwich Village and the East Village. In 2024 the festival will run from Sept 14 through Sept 28. The program will feature folk, rock, jazz, and classical and new music, as well as literature, tours, talks, comedy, food and more.  Taking place at venues from Washington Square Park to Tompkins Square Park, The Village Trip offers an exciting big-tent family-friendly program with events (many of them free) for people of all ages and interests.View the full programme for 2024 atTheVillageTrip.comS﻿ign up to the newsletter for updates and offers atTheVillageTrip.com/newsletter

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A distinguished panel will reflect on aspects of the writer’s life in New York City generally and the Village in particular.

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<h3>This event is fully booked. However, it is likely that some places will become available on the night.</h3>Jack Kerouac had come to New York on a football scholarship to Columbia and took courses at the New School on the GI Bill. But what shaped him was not so much academia as the writers, artists and musicians he met at places such as the San Remo and the Cedar Tavern, the Eighth Street Bookshop, the Record Changer Store on Greenwich Avenue, the Village Vanguard, and the poetry readings in the East Village – all places that his old friend David Amram – with whom Kerouac brought jazz+poetry to New York City – describes as being part of the great “university of hangoutology.”A distinguished panel, including David Amram and Joyce Johnson--both of whom knew Kerouac well and have written about him extensively--and poet, performer and professor Anne Waldman, plus award-winning biographer Holly George-Warren, who is currently at work on a new study of Kerouac, will offer their recollections and insights into this seminal figure of American literature. There will also be time for questions.About the photograph:From left to right: Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso (in white hat with back to camera)John Cohen took this classic photo in 1959 in New York City at a diner on 4th Avenue during a break in the filming of Robert Frank&#x27;s silent documentary film &quot;Pull My Daisy&quot; Jack Kerouac narrated the film spontaneously and David Amram wrote the score, co-wrote the title song, with lyrics by Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, and appeared in the film as Mezz McGillicuddy, the deranged french hornist (at the request of Kerouac).<h3>This event is free to attend, but we suggest a $10 donation to The Village Trip. </h3>

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