Events for December 2, 2023

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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