Here is an example of the three hour program. We can customize it according to your needs.

WELCOME: Beats Influence on the Culture

VIDEO: Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show.

AUDIO: “Origins of the Beat Generation” – Speech given by Jack Kerouac at Brandeis University, 1958

READINGS: “Origins of the Beat Generation” – Playboy, June 1959
On The Road – “The only people for me are the mad ones”
How Neal Cassady’s letters influenced Kerouac’s writing
Neal’s letter to Allen Ginsberg – 1948 – As Ever
“The Great Sex Letter” – 1950 – The First Third
Desolation Angels – “Mouse Murderer”
Visions of Gerard – “Mouse Savior”
Jack’s Catholic roots and later Buddhism
Jack’s Book – Allen Ginsberg’s comments
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

AUDIO: - Coffee Break -
“Poetry for the Beat Generation” CD - Kerouac with Steve Allen

READING: A Coney Island of the Mind – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Fortune has its cookies…”
“Johnny Nolan has a patch on his ass…”
“Funny fantasies are never so real…”
“Sometime during eternity…”
“The world is a beautiful place to be born into…”
“America” from HOWL by Allen Ginsberg
Scattered Poems – Jack Kerouac
“I clearly saw the skeleton…”
“Someday you’ll be lying in a trance…”
“Jazz killed itself…”
“Sept. 16, 1961, Poem”
Pomes All Sizes – Jack Kerouac
“To Lou Little”
“My Views on Religion”
“And when you showed me Brooklyn Bridge…”
Jack’s Reaction to Fame – Jack’s Book
comment by John Clellon Holmes
comment by Joyce Glassman

SLIDE SHOW: 54 slides of Jack & His Friends 1943 – 1969
(Burroughs/Cassady/Ginsberg)

VIDEO: William Buckley Interview - 1968

VIDEO: Jack Reading on the Steve Allen Show - 1959
Visions of Cody
On The Road

-The Three Hour Program can be expanded to four, five or six hours by adding any or all of the following films, all of which we have permission to screen (either for a fee or for free):

“Pull My Daisy”
by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie
Black and White, 1959, 28 minutes

“Kerouac, King of the Beats”
by John Antonelli
Documentary, Color, 1984, 73 minutes

If you are interested in the three hour program please email us at: programs@kerouac.com