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Museum Exhibit – BEATITUDE: The Beat Attitude Photographs by Joey Tranchina
Exhibit: October 20 Through January 6 Exhibition of Never-Before-Seen Portraits of Beat Generation Icons Kicks Off Photo Centre’s 35th Anniversary. This stunning exhibition of over 70 images and commanding enlargements includes iconic, culture-bending poets, activists, and artists of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Lenore Kandel, Kenneth Rexroth, and more. Lenore Kandel at the San Francisco State Poetry Center, 1976. ©Joey Tranchina This collection of images taken in the 1960s and ’70s by little-known poet/ photographer/activist Joey Tranchina were stored away for nearly 50 years before being discovered by his son in 2018 and later shared with critic and art historian Dr. Anthony Bannon and art consultant and producer Dolores Lusitana. Kenneth Rexroth at the Santa Fe Poetry Festival, 1975. ©Joey Tranchina BEATITUDE captures a cross-generational array of multi-cultural, race and gender diverse artists linked by a “Beat” aesthetic who founded an early social movement that championed humanity over economy, ecology over industry, and equal rights for women and men regardless of race, social status, or sexual orientation. BEATITUDE: The Beat Attitude, a book of Joey Tranchina’s photographs, with an essay by Bannon and introduction by American Book Award winning poet Ed Sanders, is forthcoming internationally from Steidl Verlag. Backstage at the San Francisco Poetry Center, 1979. ©Joey Tranchina “Tranchina’s work must be the most extensive pictorial assembly of Beat
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BEATITUDE – THE BEAT FESTIVAL DAY 1 of 3
Festival schedule November 27 Free Admision for everyone all three days Donations are appreciated; anyone making a donation will be invited to our private after party on the last night of the festival RSVP HERE Speaker Bio's 11:30 – Project creation – Dolores Lusitana, Beatitude project director and exhibition co-curator Introduction to the Beatitude Project and guest artists followed by an exhibition walk-through with Dr. Anthony Bannon, co-curator and author of Beatitude: The Beat Attitude. Signings of books, prints, CDs, and other ephemera made by guest artists. Walk through of exhibition with Bannon and Lusitana. Comments and conversation. Hospitality provided by PBPC. 4:00 - Jeff Simon, culture critic; Buffalo News Book Editor and four-time Pulitzer finalist: Who Is the Greatest Beat Poet of Them All? An Open Classroom. 7:30 - Live Concert - Bufflux: Tub Bunny Suite and Stuff, with Don Metz, concert guitarist and former director, North American Music Festival, and Mchael Basinski, Sound Poet and former director, SUNY Buffalo Poetry Collection. Performing works by Jackson Mac Low; Michael McClure, Basinski and Metz. Intermission John Kruth, New York composer whom David Amram called “a high octane real thing, musician and writer,” performing O Yeah with Anthony Bannon, a conversation, with readings and instrumentals. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts resource, PBPC is dedicated to the community and the enrichment of life through the photographic arts. Featuring
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