“A year and a half into mask-wearing and social isolation, the new Allen Ginsberg photography exhibit at the Tibet House, Transforming Minds: Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche and Friends, is a welcome reminder of the power of friendship and human connection”
– Alison Spiegel writing, in her review of the Ginsberg-Gelek Rimpoche show, in Tricycle
More on the show in the weeks ahead. The exhibit is up until December 12
Legendary poet musician and pioneering marijuana activist John Sinclair turns 80 tomorrow
Come celebrate with John and friends at his 80th Birthday Party And Intergalactic Broadcast, broadcasting live out of the Genesee County Compassion Club, Flint, Michigan on the John Sinclair Radio Show on his flagship station, Radio Free Amsterdam (4- 8 pm EDT (9-1 pm GMT – 10-2pm CET))
Tomorrow (October 2) at noon in San Francisco, in his beloved North Beach, a memorial for the late great Jack Hirschman. “Meet at Specs’ at noon, and join the second line procession to Caffe Trieste, then onward to Washington Square Park for poetry and music” – It promises to be a great local event – a great international event – A glorious “Celebration of A Poet”
& don’t miss Agneta Falk, his widow, and Kim Shuck, San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate (Jack was the fourth), on their memories of Jack – here
October 1st (today) – the anniversary of the passing, in 2004, of photographer, Richard Avedon, author of a number of iconic images of Allen, and of Allen & Peter Orlovsky, notably this one
and what about this one of the whole Ginsberg family
