For those of you who are in Bay Area. You are invited to atttend this SF
Celebration in memory of Ken Kesey. If uou want to speake contact Gerry
Nicosia
Contact -- Gerry Nicosia
GNicosia@earthlink.net
A Celebration in Memory of Ken Kesey:
Visionary Artist and Literary Radical
Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 6-8PM
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library,
100 Larkin Street at Grove, Civic Center
Downtown San Francisco
Free and open to the public
Hosted by Gerald Nicosia and Neeli Cherkovski
The celebration will give family and friends from all areas of Ken Kesey's
many-faceted life-art, music, political and social activism-a chance to
remember and pay tribute to this human giant. Kesey wrote two novels that
will live forever-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great
Notion-and profoundly altered the social currents of America through the
street theater of his Merry Pranksters. But, from his graduate student days
at Stanford through the celebrated Sixties acid tests to his later literary
and theatrical appearances, up through the recent performances of his play
Twister, Kesey has played an especially key role in the both the literary
and activist traditions of the San Francisco Bay Area, where his influence
on writers, actors, artists, and musicians has been immense. It is thus
fitting that a tribute should be held for him here, in the heart of San
Francisco.
Confirmed so far are Allen Cohen, founder and publisher of the SAN
FRANCISCO ORACLE; Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead; Mountain Girl and her
daughter with Ken, Sunshine Kesey; Country Joe McDonald; Prankster Julius
Karpen; Stewart Brand of the WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE; songwriter John Perry
Barlow; sculptor Joe Lysowski; Freddy Hahn, who orchestrated the
Grandfurther Tour in England; Roseanna Lourdeaux; Kush; Anne Murphy Maxwell,
Neal Cassady's partner and a resident of the La Honda commune; Pranksters
Roy Sebern, Candace Lambrecht and Ann Lembrecht; and Kesey's Perry Lane
neighbors Jim Wolpman, and Jim and Dorothy Fadiman (from his Stanford days).
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