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The Beats: A night of film

This event on 5th June 2015 at 19:00 has past.

Contact: info@poetinthecity.co.uk

Tickets include entry to both films and free Dynamo beer, kindly provided by Wantsum Brewery.

Poet in the City brings an evening of poetry, film and counter culture to the Keats House Festival film night.

In San Francisco, in the autumn of 1955, at the first public reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poetic epic Howl, something shifted. The Beat Generation was born. A movement of ground breaking writers including William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, and led by Ginsberg himself, it came to symbolize a new bohemian hedonism, celebrating non-conformity, political engagement and spontaneous creativity.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Poetry Incarnation, we present a double bill of Beat poets. Wholly Communion is a documentary film celebrating the event which marked the arrival of the counterculture in England, the day 7,000 people filled the Albert Hall for poetry. HOWL is an imaginative ride through Allen Ginsberg’s prophetic masterpiece that rocked a generation and was heard around the world.
HOWL
James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg—poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional, leave-nothing-out style, Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless and electrifying work of his career: the poem HOWL. Meanwhile, in a San Francisco courtroom, HOWL is on trial.
WHOLLY COMMUNION
The First International Poetry Incarnation, an evening of American and British Beat poetry, took place on 11th June 1965; the film's birth was as spontaneous as the event itself. Director Peter Whitehead had attended an intimate reading by Allen Ginsberg, at which was suggested the apparently foolhardy idea of booking the Albert Hall for Ginsberg and his contemporaries to gather and perform their poems. Yet after a few days' organisation, 7,000 people of various hitherto unconnected subcultures arrived.

Find tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/keats-festival-2015-the-beats

Price: £8.00. (£8 (£6 concession))

Time: 7:00pm

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Keats House

Keats Grove, London, NW3 2RR, GB

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