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Past Events:
22 June until 3 October, 2016
I have written the introductory essay and transcribed seven interviews with members of the Beat Generation – Burroughs, Ginsberg, McClure, etc – for the catalogue of the Beat Generation show held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, which runs from the 22 June until 3 October, 2016.
Friday October 7, 2016
Cheltenham Literary Festival
Evening event.
Bukowski evening, including Miles and Salena Godden
Wednesday, October 12, 2016.
Manchester Literary Festival
6:00pm John Rylands Library
Miles in conversation with Iain Sinclair
Thursday November 17, 2016.
Harper College, Palatine, Chicago, ILL.
5:00 – 6:00pm
Details to come.
Miles in conversation with Kurt Hemmer.
$10 admission or $5 for students.
Wednesday 7th October, 2015. 7.30pm – 10.00pm.
The Times & The Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature
The Spiegeltent, Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham, Glos
60 YEARS OF HOWL Barry Miles; Steve Tromans & the Howl Band; Cecilia Knapp and David Freeman
Admission £20 including gin cocktail
http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/whats-on/2015/60-years-of-howl/
Saturday 10th October, 2015. 2.00pm – 11.00pm.
The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester M42AF
STILL HOWLING, 60Th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL. 2.00pm-6.00 symposium: Barry Miles, Michael Horowitz, Steve Taylor, Peter Hale, Simon Warner, Andrew Baker, Roger Bygott, Elmi Ali, Christina Fonthes.
Admission £30 for whole day; £20 conference; £15 evening event. www.thewonderinn.co.uk
Saturday 7th February, 2015. 3.00pm – 4.30pm.
October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL
CUT-UPS AS A REVOLUTIONARY WEAPON
Barry Miles & Stewart Home
Admission £7/£5 conc. Book via Eventbrite
https://barrymilescut-upsasarevolutionaryweapon.eventbrite.co.uk
http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/events/
Thursday March 26th 2015 6.30pm
Westminster Arts Library
35 St Martins Street
LONDON DREAMING
Miles interviewed on stage by Geoffrey Marsh, director of Theatre and Performance at the V&A.
Soundtrack by The Clerkenwell Kid
Gin by Hendricks Gin
http://salonforthecity.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/salon-no-25-counterculture-london.html
Admission: £6 / £8 in advance only from
On stage interviews and book signings:
Warning: sometimes you have to pre-book a copy of Call Me Burroughs or buy a voucher.
Tuesday, January 28th 7:00pm
Strand Bookshop, 828 Broadway at 12th Street, New York City.Thursday, January 30th 7:00pm
Rainy Day Books, 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas 66205-1705Saturday, February 1st
Talk with Ira Silverberg & James Grauerholz (Free reserved seating)
Monday, February 3rd
Los Angeles Public Library, 630 W 5th Street, Los Angeles, California 90071Tuesday, February 4th
Interviewed by V. Vale from RE/Search
Thursday, February 6th
Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63108Sunday, 16th February. 3.30pm. Tickets £6/£10
ICA, The Mall.
WSB Weekend at the ICA: Howard Brookner’s superb documentary on William Burroughs remastered by Aaron Brookner. Introduced by Miles and with a Q&A afterwards (The film is shown daily between 14 and 20th February)
http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/burroughs-movie
Saturday, 8th March 2014. 4:30pm:
The Wapping Project
65a Hopton Street, London SE19LR, just over Blackfriars Bridge.
Thursday 13th March. 6:30pm Tickets £5/£3 cons
Waterstones: 82 Gower St, London WC1E 6EQ
Phone: 020 7636 1577
“Celebrating the Centenary of William S. Burroughs’ Birth” – Miles and Michael Horovitz in conversation at Waterstone’s Gower Street.
Thursday, 20th March. 7:00pm Tickets £7/£4 cons
The Photographer’s Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
Burroughs Lecture Series: Andrew Wilson in Conversation with Barry Miles. We will probably concentrate on Cut-Ups and Burroughs’ Photographs
Friday 25th April
New York University
The Burroughs Centenary Conference, New York University.
70 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012, United States.
Tuesday 19 August 2014, 4:00pm
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Garden Theatre.
Iconic U.S. Authors Remembered: Barry Miles and Adam Begley in Conversation.
Adam Begley is the author of Updike, London, HarperCollins, 2014
Wednesday 20 August 2014, 11:00am
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Writers’ Retreat,
Reading Workshop: Barry Miles on The Naked Lunch
90 minute discussion.
Friday, October 17, 2014, 8pm
Miles will be in conversation with Doug Field about William. S. Burroughs, A Life.
Saturday, November 15, 2014 [time tba]
Brighton Film Festival
The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne [note, not in Brighton]
Barry Miles introduces: Antony Balch’s Towers Open Fire [1963] and Cut-Ups [1967], and Peter Whitehead’s Wholly Communion [1965]
Friday, December 12, 2014, 4:00pm
École normale supérieure
45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris,
Barry Miles and Jean-Jacques Lebel in conversation about William S. Burroughs and The Beat Hotel.
Jean-Jacques’ retrospective of installation works runs from July 26-November 9, 2014 at ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.