All hail Allen Ginsberg.
The city celebrates the poet, and the scene that he came up in, with
HOWL!, a three-day festival in the East Village and Lower East Side.
The celebration takes its name from and is inspired by Ginsberg's
epic poem, an anti-conformity, anti-capitalist piece considered one of the seminal works of the Beat Generation (the original hipsters).
From Sept. 10-12, take in music, poetry (including recitations of "Howl," of course), dance, fine art and theater on two stages in
Tompkins Square Park, as well as other events in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Festivities include competitive painting "slams," poetry jams, an arts and crafts fair, variety shows, children's puppet show, poetry readings, vaudeville, performances by Vangeline Theater (pictured) the live, collaborative creation of art, as artists creates works on a giant canvas that stretches around Tompkins Square Park.
Check out the full list of events scheduled
here, so you don't miss a thing.
