On The Road in Lowell presents…

Motorcycles & Dharma Bums

A night about Jack Kerouac

Thursday August 2, 2007 6 - 10 pm

As part of our Beat Generation Film Series we will present:

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Walter Salles dir.

6pm

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center

Adapted from Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s journals, “The Motorcycle Diaries” follows two friends on the road trip of a lifetime, a motorcycle journey across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela in 1952, looking for fun and finding themselves along the way.

And then…

Dharma Bum’s On the Road Kerouac Conversation at Bob Paré Photography


An evening of free form discussion, wine, cheese and music from the novels

8:00PM- 10:00PM

Bob Paré Photography

177 Market Street, Lowell MA 01852

Come join us in this informal gathering and conversation around On The Road and The Dharma Bums over wine and cheese at local photography studio with Bob Paré.

Kerouac fans, aficionados and those with a curious interest will light some candles, “Put on the red bandanna dim bulb” as Kerouac did in the shack in California, play music mentioned in the novels and discuss their impressions, interpretations and observations.

No formal readings or official speakers, just scholars and amateurs all on a level field. We will reflect the type of discussions Kerouac had with his friends in the novels in the style of a jazz jam session with just a loose outline.

Live Music – Nathan Farnham and The Bad Beats

Mambo Grill, 7-9 pm

Come and enjoy this Lowell musician, playing with his horns and keyboard the best funky, hip-hop and electronic music!

Mill City Open Mic and Poetry Slam

Brew’d Awakening Coffeehaus, 7–9:30pm

Arrive 6:30-7 if you are signing up to read / perform. Come hear the liveliest and most invigorating poetry around while sipping on a piping hot café latte. A prize will be awarded for the winner of the poetry slam! Tonight special guest will be Gary Glazner from NYC. Glazner is the producer of the first National Poetry Slam in San Francisco in 1990, the editor of Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry on Manic D Press, and the founder and director of the NEA-awarded Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP).