Naropa celebrates HOWL with special events Oct. 3rd & Oct. 12th

Sunday, October 3
7:00-9:30 p.m. Movie Showing "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg"
Performing Arts Center, Arapahoe Campus
As a prelude to Howl’s opening in Boulder, the Kerouac School will host a screening of The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg.  Academy Award–nominated director Jerry Aronson will introduce the film and hold a Q&A session after the film. Aronson spent 25 years accumulating more than 120 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America's greatest poets. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, October 12
7:30 p.m. Movie Premiere "Howl"
Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, Boulder, CO
 A panel of noted faculty and alumni from the Kerouac school will discuss the film and their experiences with Ginsberg, as a teacher, friend, and poet. The panel includes Junior Burke, prose writer, dramatist, and lyricist; Lisa Birman, Summer Writing Program director, poet, and lecturer for Naropa’s MFA in Creative Writing; and Jim Cohn, poet, poetry activist, spoken word artist, and early alumnus of the Kerouac School. Further information and ticket pricing is available at bouldertheater.com. 

You can also go to http://www.naropa.edu/archive to hear hours of readings. Naropa has been fortunate to get support from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Arts and Humanities, Save America’s Treasures and others that have seen the importance of this archive and Allen Ginsberg. It’s a performance archive and a collection of the post-modern poetics and experimentation coming out of the New American poetry scene.

When the Jack Kerouac school was started in 1974 Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche said it was a 100 year project. The archives are keeping us on top of technology to make sure this treasury of works is available to future generations.