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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 3 of 3
Festival schedule November 29 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 - Dick Blau, a Yale PhD with Harold Bloom, who presented a theater in his attic in Buffalo and created books about the Polish Polka and the Greek Romanae. in conversation with Anthony Bannon, An Improvisational Attitude: How to Get There from Here?. 4:00 – Live Concert: Peer Bode of Carrier Band, formerly chair of Expanded Media, School of Art and Design, SUNY Alfred, performing FLASHES OF LIGHT, which utilizes electro acoustical sound and video of Beat words and spirit as source for a new electronic sight and sound performance. 7:30 - An interview with Joey Tranchina by Anthony Bannon 8:30 - Performance by Pat Oleszko, New York diva, who promises, she said, to make “a spectacle of herself, and she doesn’t mind if the audience laughs.” The performance is called: BEATS/ME A show and yell With pix and tricks And a performance Orchestrating The plunder and blunder of The banned book bozos 10:00 - Private by Invitation Only, After Party; Drinks in the Gallery As a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts resource, PBPC is dedicated to the community and the enrichment of life
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