JANUARY & FEBRUARY @ GALLERY NORTH: Rebels, Hipsters and Visionaries, Bay Area Poets and Artists, 1950s and 60s



OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 10, 5:30 - 8:30pm

Zan Stewart on Jazz Saxophone. Refreshments.

Firehouse Gallery North is located on 1790 Shattuck Avenue, North Berkeley, CA 94709

January Events

Monday, Jan. 13, 7:30 - 9:45 pm
Beat/SF Renaissance author & poet David Meltzer’s seminar on the Beat Era: Beat Things - Using as a starting point, Beat Thing: La Alameda Press, 2004, a contextualization of that cultural moment's history. Both personal and critical, Meltzer offers a look at problematizing mythopoetic versions invented by successive generations. $20 at the door/Info:julmind@mtashland.net

Saturday, Jan. 18, 7 – 8 pm
Screening of 'San Francisco's Wild History Groove' by Mary Kerr. $5.

Friday Jan. 24, 7 m
Screening of 'Howl', directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and starring James Franco. $5

Monday, Jan. 27, 7:30 - 9:45 pm
Beat/SF Renaissance author & poet David Meltzer’s seminar on the LA Avant Garde Scene & Wallace Berman: an exploration of Berman's utilization of kabbalistic ideas and symbols in his variegated body of art works. $20 at the door/Info:julmind@mtashland.net


February events

Saturday, February 1, 2 – 4 pm
Poetry Reading with Jack Hirschman and David Meltzer - $10

Friday, February 7, 7 -8:30pm
Screening of 'Venice West and the LA Scene' by Mary Kerr. David Reid host discussion. $5

Saturday, February 15, 7 - 9 pm
The Zan Stewart Band with pianist Keith Saunders, bassist Adam Guy, and drummer Ron Marabuto, $7 - 10 at the door.

OPENING NIGHT, JANUARY 10, 2014



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