KeroWACKED Multimedia Fest at The Boynton Beach Art District

The KeroWACKEDMulit Media Festival is Back!

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Sunday, April 24th, 2016
Boynton Beach Art District
410-422 West Industrial Avenue
Boynton Beach, Florida 33426

The #1 Outdoor Multimedia Event of Palm Beach County

Sunday, April 24, 2016 from 11-11pm
We encourage you to come early and stay late!

Live Music-Performance Art-Exhibitions-Food Trucks

For over 5 years we have been celebrating the influences of the BEAT Generation at the Boynton Beach Art District!

12 hour long programing of some of the best bands, musicians,poets, and artists gather to celebrate the arts!

WHAT TO EXPECT.....

The KeroWACKED®

1.The KeroWACKED Exhibition

Group Exhibition at ActivistArtistA Gallery/Studio

2. Aero Art
   Paintings made with the use of an DRONE by Michael Kupillas | Tom McAvoy | Rolando Chang Barrero

3. Leah’s Loom
   Live Fiber Art Presentation by Leah Rothchild

4. Metalsmithing Presentation byThe Dark Angel Armory and ForgeShaun Williams + Sylvia AndrassY + Amy McGrotty

5. 3 Murals Being Painted Live

Edurado Medieta | Serafima Sokolov | Nicole Galluccio

6. Art Camper live painting by BULKS

7. Performance Art

Jane “JC” Carroll of ArtAct

8. 12 hours of Live Music

Alex Bach | Gregory Dirr, Ben Pachter, T.J. Brown | SloFunkPump | Jennell Eve Koffin Varnish | Ian Wehmeyer | Fried Chickens and Crackers John Graves | Jack Tafoya | Baby and The Troll |Epicurean PleasureRod Dusinberre | Zack Elliott | Craig McInnis | Arlow Cain

9. Food Trucks
   Ps561 Food Truck1 | Caribbean Cowboy Food Truck | Joji Yogurt

Event is Sponsored by:
WBMGR Radio | The Rickie Report | Florida Arts Associationi | ActivistArtistA Gallery

ABOUT THE BEAT GENERATION AND NEAL CASSADY!
The Beat Generation was a group of authors whose literature explored and influenced American culture in the post-World War II era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s.Central elements of Beat culture are rejection of standard narrative values, the spiritual quest, exploration of American and Eastern religions, rejection of materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration.Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements. Neal Cassady, as the driver for Ken Kesey's bus, Further, was the primary bridge between these two generations. Allen Ginsberg's work also became an integral element of early 1960s hippie culture.
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He was prominently featured as himself in the original "scroll" (first draft) version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. He also served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of that book. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray.
In October 1945, after being released from prison, Cassady married the 16-year-old LuAnne Henderson.In 1946, the couple traveled to New York City to visit their friend, Hal Chase, another protege of Brierly's. It was while visiting Chase at Columbia University that Cassady met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Although Cassady did not attend Columbia, he soon became friends with them and their acquaintances, some of whom later became members of the Beat Generation. While in New York, Cassady persuaded Kerouac to teach him to write fiction. Cassady's second wife, Carolyn, has stated that, "Neal, having been raised in the slums of Denver amongst the world's lost men, [was] determined to make more of himself, to become somebody, to be worthy and respected. His genius mind absorbed every book he could find, whether literature, philosophy or science. Jack had had a formal education, which Neal envied, but intellectually he was more than a match for Jack, and they enjoyed long discussions on every subject."
During 1964, Cassady served as the main driver of the bus named Furthur on the iconic first half of the journey from San Francisco to New York, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). Cassady appears at length in a documentary film about the Merry Pranksters and their cross-country trip, Magic Trip (August 4, 2011), directed by Alex Gibney.
In January 1967, Cassady traveled to Mexico with fellow prankster George "Barely Visible" Walker and Cassady's longtime girlfriend Anne Murphy. In a beachside house just south of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, they were joined by Barbara Wilson and Walter Cox. All-night storytelling, speed drives in Walker's Lotus Elan, and the use of LSD made for a classic Cassady performance — "like a trained bear", Carolyn Cassady once said. Cassady was beloved for his ability to inspire others to love life.[citation needed]
During the next year, Cassady's life became less stable, and the pace of his travels more frenetic. He left Mexico in May, traveling to San Francisco, Denver, New York City, and points in between. Cassady then returned to Mexico in September and October (stopping in San Antonio, on the way to visit his oldest daughter who had just given birth to his first grandchild), visited Ken Kesey's Oregon farm in December, and spent the New Year with Carolyn at a friend's house near San Francisco. Finally, in late January 1968, Cassady returned to Mexico once again.
On February 3, 1968, Cassady attended a wedding party in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. After the party, he went walking along a railroad track to reach the next town, but passed out in the cold and rainy night wearing nothing but a T-shirt and jeans. In the morning, he was found in a coma by the tracks, reportedly by Dr.[vague] Anton Black, later a professor at El Paso Community College, who carried Cassady over his shoulders to the local post office building. Cassady was then transported to the closest hospital where he died a few hours later on February 4, four days short of his 42nd birthday.