Calendar
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SEPTEMBER
Friday, September 5, 2008
ON THE ROAD:
Dave Anderson: Rough Beauty
Farm Security Administration
Dorothea Lange
Museum of Contemporary Photography
through November 5, 2008
American Alphabet
The Faculty Center
through May 15, 2009
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Off the Beaten Road
A+D Gallery
through November 8, 2008
OCTOBER
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Beat Station
Kerouac Corner and Beyond the Beats
Columbia College Library
through November 30, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Jack Kerouac: ON THE ROAD
On the Road Around the World: 66 International
Book Covers from the Collection of Horst Spandler
Experimental Literature and the Intersection
of Artists' Books
Center for Book and Paper Arts
through November 26, 2008Poetry Readings
Center for Book and Paper Arts
7-9 p.m.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
The Beat Look: Nonconformist Fashion
The Conaway Center
through November 30, 2008Experimenting with Words: Letterpress Printing
for Poets Workshop
Center for Book and Paper Arts
through October 5, 2008On the Walls and in the Streets: American Poetry Broadsides from the '60s
Hokin Lecture Hall
4:30 p.m.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Beat Cafe
C33 Gallery
through November 14, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Pull My Daisy Screening and Discussion
Film Row Cinema
7-9 p.m.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Beat Generation Symposium
Film Row Cinema
through October 11, 2008The Spirit of '14: Kerouac Radio Play
Beat Cafe, C33 Gallery
5:30 p.m.Poetry Reading: Joanne Kyger
Film Row Cinema
7 p.m.Beat Kitchen Open Stage
Hokin Gallery
8-10 p.m.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Poetry Reading: Michael McClure
Film Row Cinema
7 p.m.Beat Symposium Closing Reception
Film Row Cinema
8 p.m.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Talk the Walk
throughout campus
5:30-8 p.m.Beat Cafe Opening Reception
C33 Gallery
5-8 p.m.The Spirit of '14: Kerouac Radio Play
Beat Cafe, C33 Gallery
6 p.m.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Parents Weekend Gallery Walk
throughout campus
7-9 p.m.Poetry Readings
Center for Book and Paper Arts
7-9 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Student Beat Poetry Signed Reading
Hokin Annex
1-2 p.m.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Kerouac and Writers on the Road: Readings and Open Mic
Hokin Annex
6 p.m.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Beats on War
Conaway Center
6 p.m.Buddhism and the Beats
Ferguson Lecture Hall
6 p.m.
Friday, October 30, 2008
Beat Writing Workshop
1104 S. Wabash, Room 711
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
NOVEMBER
Sunday, November 2, 2008
David Amram in Concert with Fareed Haque
(Pre-Chicago Humanities Festival Open House Event!)
The Morse Theater
8 p.m.
Monday, November 3, 2008
David Amram in person
Screening of Splendor in the Grass
Film Row Cinema
6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Chicago Humanities Festival Open House
Marathon Reading of On the Road
Conaway Center
9 a.m.-9 p.m.Exhibition Gallery Talks
throughout campus
5-9 p.m.Cinema Slapdown: Thelma and Louise
Film Row Cinema
7 p.m.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Corso: The Last Beat
Ferguson Lecture Hall
7 p.m.
DECEMBER
Monday, December 8, 2008
Soft Machine
The Project Room (623 S. Wabash, 4th Floor)
through January 15, 2009Soft Machine Opening Reception
The Project Room (623 S. Wabash, 4th Floor)
6-9 p.m.

















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