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An artistic installation by Arnaud Contreras and Alain Dister, using myspace to celebrate, the 50th year of publication of On the Road, by Jack Kerouac..


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On the 23 of september 2007, an artistic installation has celebrated in Paris, France, the 50th year of publication of On the Road, the mythical book by Jack Kerouac.

During the afternoon and all night long, Arnaud Contreras and Alain Dister have organized Memory Babe, A Tribute To Jack Kerouac, an artistic installation including films, music, photography, films, lectures, text and...You Tube, Myspace, to enlight this great american writer, at the Cabaret Pirate, in front of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

This installation is now on the road and we want to find new places to settle it. We are preparing the next step, including all contributions received. If you run a gallery, a cultural place everywhere in the world, we'll be happy to come and celebrate Jack with you. Let us know !

You can still participate to this Tribute to Jack Kerouac by:

- sending to Jack a postcard, a poem, a song, a picture, a video, a letter from all around the world at this adress:

To Jack Kerouac
À 360
5, avenue Milleret de Brou
75016
Paris
France

- filming a video on the road, where you're, everywhere in the world, upload it on youtube (or any other site) and send us the adress of your video. This video will be inclued in Jack's channel (http://www.youtube.com/tribute2kerouac) and projected during the installation.
- adding Jack to your myspace friend

All your contributions, videos, mails, letters, will be displayed in the installation.

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