ICCE is a quarterly film screening event which will feature films shot and produced in Colorado and/or filmed with Colorado crew. This unique film program will allow for several local independent films to be screened in one evening followed by a short Q&A with the filmmakers.

ICCE Mission
The mission of ICCE is to present Colorado filmmakers with a platform to showcase their work and receive feedback on their projects. With the participation of all Colorado Filmmakers and Artists it is our vision to inspire imagination and creative instincts in each of us, and collaboratively grow our network and resources to become a strong filmmaking hub.

With the very apparent shift in the Hollywood filmmaking industry, we see a true potential to bring more activity this side of the Rockies. It is also our aim to seduce more international productions to film in our magnificent State. In order for this to become a reality, we need your help.

Submissions
If you are a Colorado based filmmaker or have shot a majority of your film in Colorado Rock Rose Entertainment wants you to participate in this localized cinema experience.

Producer Alan O’Hashi will be in attendance at the event where T-shirts and DVDs will be on sale.

Click on the Dharma Buns logo to get directions to the venue.

A .pdf version of the program can be downloaded by clicking  the painting on the left by Jack Kerouac

“On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne” screens at the Dharma Buns Coffee Shop on Sunday, October 1 at 11am.

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Inc. (LCK!) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote a better understanding and appreciation of Jack Kerouac’s life and literature. Founded in 1985, LCK! sponsors literary programs year round, including a festival in the first weekend of October. We also produce a spring program tied to Kerouac’s March 12th birthday, as well as other educational and cultural activities. LCK! volunteers help maintain Kerouac Park and Jack Kerouac Commemorative in Downtown Lowell.

The October Festival features tours of Kerouac’s Lowell places – including many sites describes in his Lowell-based novels-panel discussions, reading, jazz and folk music, films, open mike events, as high poetry competition, book signings, and more. Kerouac fans and scholars from across the United States and around the world travel to Lowell for the festival.

Writers, musicians, and scholars who have participated over the years include Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, David Amram, Gregory Corso, Anne Waldman, Patti Smith, Michael McClure, Ray Mazarek, Herbert Huncke, Ann Charters, Douglas Brinkley, Willie Alexander, Diane DiPrima, Regina Weinreich, Ed Sanders, Joyce Johnson, Ann Douglas, Sterling Lord, and John Sinclair.

LCK! has formed partnerships with many educational, cultural, social, and civic organizations in Lowell. Our activities are coordinated by volunteers and paid for by individual donations, corporate gifts, grants, and sale of books and T-shirts.

On Sunday October 3, “On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne” screens at the festival.

As previously noted, LCK is partnering this year with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and the Cultural Organization of Lowell to produce an expanded Jack Kerouac Literary Festival. You will see many of our ongoing LCK events here–in their 2010 version–and some newer things as well.

You’ll also see some “TBDs” and “Tentatives” referenced here, which means the final schedule is still a work in progress. But we wanted to give you a heads-up as to what’s happening this year. We’ll keep updating and revising this thing as it continues to take shape. So, this is NOT the “Set in Stone” version just yet!

It looks like we’ll be able to offer downtown accommodations this year. What was the DoubleTree Hotel is now owned by the University as a Conference Center and Dorm. But they also have 30 hotel-type guest rooms, and we’re working on getting some of them set aside for the Festival at a special rate. We’ll keep you posted on this as well.

Hope to see a lot of you folks in October!

Steve Edington, President
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac

Thursday, September 30

4-5 pm: “Lowell Blues” film at Lowell National Park Visitor Center
246 Market Street

5-6:45 pm: Lowell Kerouac Pub Tour:
Honoring the Spirit of Jack Kerouac On His Lowell Streets.  
Suggested donation of $5.00 
*Begins at the Old Worthen Tavern
Worthen Street near Lowell’s City Hall

7 pm: A reading by a major American author.
U–Mass/Lowell Conference Center 
(Formerly the DoubleTree Hotel)
Details still TBD.

8:30 pm: Evening Kick-off
Music and Readings at Cappy’s Copper Kettle
245 Central Street. 
David Amram to perform along with local singers-readings to be offered.

Friday, October 1

9:30 am: Lowell High School Poetry & Short Prose Competition

10am – 8pm:  Brush Gallery Event
next to the National Park Visitors Center. 
246 Market St.

10am – 4pm, free for the public

Fundraiser from 6 – 8 pm–
Ticketed event  Children’s Book 
Illustration event at The Brush Art Gallery and Studios. Exhibit,
receptions, artists talk, book signing. Six of the top illustrators
currently working. David Macaulay, Chris VanAllsburg, David
Wiesner, Christopher Bing, Kelly Murphy, Matt Tavares, along
with third grade Lowell students work influenced by these artists.

11 am: Theme Speaker
“Jack Kerouac and the American Bohemian Tradition”
with Dennis McNally  
Location: O’Leary Library, Room 222. 
University of Massachusetts
Pizza will be served to encourage student attendance

3 pm: “A Walk in Dr. Sax’s Woods”
led by Margarita Turcotte
Lowell/Dracut/Tyngsboro State Park.
Directions available at earlier events.
Sorry, Not handicapped accessible

4-5 pm: “Lowell Blues” film screening
National Park Visitor Center–246 Market St.

6:30 p.m. Literary Walking Tour:
“Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night” 
by Roger Brunelle.
A tour of some of the sites of Kerouac’s Doctor Sax.
Location: Starts at Cumnock Hall, 31 University Avenue 
Suggested donation of $5 to support LCK

8:30 p.m. Urban Village Artist Series
(UVAS) Event           
Performers: 
Antje Duvekot, Poet and Folk-Singer.
Winner of Boston Music Award’s 
“Outstanding Folk Act of the Year”.

Andrew Schelling, Poet/Essayist/Writer.
Instructor at the Naropa Institute
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Third Performer TBD. Site TBD
Admission Free

Saturday, October 2

8:30-11 am: Kerouac Bus Tour
led by Roger Brunelle 
Sign in at 8:15 am, tour departs at 8:30 am. 
Tour includes Centerville and Pawtucketville. 
Further details TBD.

10am – 4pm:  Brush Gallery Event (Reception 1-4pm) 
Next to National Park Visitors Center–246 Market St.
Free and open to the public.
Children’s Book Illustration event at The Brush Art Gallery and Studios. Exhibit, receptions, artists talk, book signing. Six of the top illustrators currently working. David Macaulay, Chris VanAllsburg, David Wiesner, Christopher Bing, Kelly Murphy, Matt Tavares, along with third grade Lowell students work influenced by these artists.

11 am: “Commemorative at the Commemorative”
*Annual observance of Kerouac’s Life and Legacy at Kerouac Park
*Brian Foye and others to speak on the founding and early years of Lowell
Celebrates Kerouac.
*Program will include a tribute to Peter Orlovsky.

1-2:30 pm: Theme Speaker
“Jack Kerouac and the American
Bohemian Tradition” with Dennis McNally
Location: LNHP Visitor Center Theater
246 Market Street
A joint program presented by the
Parker Lecture Series and LCK

3-4 pm: Dubus Panel and Poetry Readings
Panelists are Maggie Dietz and Sandra Lim,
both recently hiredprofessors in the
English department, moderated by Andre Dubus   
Location: LNHP Visitor Center Theater

3-4 pm: Discussion with Fiction Writers David Daniel,
Steve O’Connor and Jay Atkinson
Location: Dharma Buns–26 A Market Street

4-5 pm: “Lowell Blues” film screening
National Park Visitor Center
246 Market St.

4:30-6 pm: Panel Discussion | “Art and Commerce”
featuring three fiction writers
moderated by Andre Dubus
Location: Quilt Museum (tentative)

4:30-6 pm: Open Mic Upstairs at The Worthen House
Worthen St. Near City Hall.
Bring your own work; or a favorite of another.

5:30-6:30 pm: LCK Exhibit and Tour at Pollard Library
401 Merrimack St.

Pollard Library will feature a 25th Anniversary of LCK exhibit in the first floor Alcove and in the area on the second floor outside the reading room. Tour led by Bill Walsh.

Event to Present the Jack Kerouac Center for Creativity and Celebrate 25 years of LCK!
8:30-9 pm: LCK Opening Remarks / Guest Speakers
9-10:30 pm: Entertainment
FREE and open to the public

Program will include all the Past Presidents of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac reading their favorite Kerouac passages and Music by Hot Day at the Zoo.
Site: U.Mass/Lowell Conference Center (Formerly the DoubleTree Hotel)

Sunday, October 3, 2010

9 am: Literary Walking Tour | “Mystic Jack” 
Led by Roger Brunelle
Will visit sites of Kerouac’s “Visions of Gerard” 
Starts at W.6th Street in Centerville at old St. Louis Church building

11 am:  Documentary Film Shorts program
Two short Kerouac-related documentaries: “Grave Concerns” with Brent Mason (filmed in Lowell during the Scroll Exhibit) which runs about a half-hour with follow-up with Brent; and “On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne” which runs about 13 minutes.
Location: Dharma Buns Sandwich Company–26 A Market Street

1-2:30 pm: Kerouac Bus Tour of Centerville
with Roger Brunelle
Details TBD.

3 pm:  Amram Jam. Site TBD.
Share a reading of your own with
David Amram providing the back-up on Keyboard.

4-5 pm: “Lowell Blues” film screening
National Park Visitor Center
246 Market St.

Dave Hanks
Wyoming Tourism Board
Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce—Vice Chairman

Eileen Sheffler Prugh
Community Outreach & Development Director
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

Mike McCrimmon
Videography Program Manager
Wyoming Travel & Tourism

Robert Arnold
Director, School of Film & Photography
Montana State University

Brian Patrick, M.F.A.
Professor, Film Studies Division
University of Utah

The Wyoming Film Office will announce the 2010 Wyoming Short Film Contest Winner on May 21 based  on the judges’ ratings.  But for now, here are your Top Ten Films voted by  the public. They will move to the judging panel:

“A Little Bit of Discipline”

“On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne”

“There Is Beauty”

“’Wyoming!’ by Bushrod Sinclair”

“Absaroka”

“Voices of the Platte”

“The Script”

“Jim E Drops The Big One”

“Somewhere In Between”

“West Divided”

This year the festival is partnering with the Cultural Organization of Lowell, the Urban Village Artist Series and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell for the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival, Presented by Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.

The LCK  featured speaker this year will be Dennis McNally, author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America and A Long, Strange Trip: A History of the Grateful Dead. The latter work draws on Dennis’ years of being the publicist for The Grateful Dead.

The LCK will be highlighting the 25th Anniversary of the founding of LCK in 1985, and unveiling the still unfolding plans for a Jack Kerouac Center in Lowell.

John Allen Cassady

“On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne” is part of the Cheyenne International Film Festival closing night “Pioneering Spirit” program along with “In Pursuit of a Dream”.

John Allen Cassady – the voice of Sal Paradise and son of beat icons Neal and Carolyn Cassady will be appearing in person at the screening Sunday night May 23rd at the Atlas Theater. The doors open at 6pm for the reception that starts at 6:30pm. For the complete program schedule, go to the CIFF website.

John also will be appearing at the Phoenix Book Store and signing copies of his book on Saturday May 22. Check back for more details.

The film is entered in the Wyoming Short Film Contest and the top-10 movies are selected by the Peoples’ Choice.  You can view then rate the movie by clicking on a star under the video player to record your vote. The Wyoming Film Office asks you to sign up to be sure you’re not a robot! Here’s the link to the movie:

http://www.wyomingshortfilmcontest.com/entries/38239

Turns out the Mayflower had closed again and a new club is opening up on Friday, March 12th – Jack Kerouac’s birthday. The new place is operated as a night club by a local guy named George Bush. The format is hip hop, techno, karaoke and no food, but eventually there may be bar food. I was the first customer for Club USG which had a soft opening on Wednesday night.

“On the Road: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne” features the last recorded scenes of the Mayflower, taken during Cheyenne Frontier Days in 2009. Check out the movie that’s entered in the Wyoming short film competition. Click on the image of the Mayflower dance hall. View the movie and rate it by clicking on a “star” under the video player to record your vote. The Wyoming Film Office requires you to sign up to vote or comment to be sure you’re not a robot. Don’t worry, when you create an account, the Wyoming Film Office won’t be sending you spam or unsolicited emails!

The top 10 will be determined by a popular vote and then the winner determined by a professional jury.

To vote, click on the movie image and then you have to register through the Wyoming Film Office site to make a comment and rate the film.

It’s a bit of a hassle, but you’ll get a chance to see some of the other great movies set in Wyoming or have stories with Wyoming themes.

The footage was shot bar hopping in throughout Downtown Cheyenne during Frontier Days in July 2009. The “actors” are regular folks who agreed to be a part of the narrative / documentary production.

The project is pleased to have the son of Neal Cassady, John Allen Cassady, read the part of Sal Paradise. John was in Denver to celebrate his father’s birthday at My Brother’s Bar in Lower Downtown Denver.

The commentary is provided by three students from New Vista High School in Boulder, Colorado taking the “Beat Generation Class” to provide some generational diversity to Kerouac’s timeless work.