Porch Fest

Idea:

Done in other cities, concerts on front porches of private homes. Great way to celebrate the city’s neighborhoods!

Benefit:

Get folks out to meet their neighbors. showcase their neighborhoods.

Location:

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac “Scroll”

Idea:

I am Judith Bessette, President of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, aka LCK. I am also active in the visual arts community in Lowell, curating art exhibits over the years. I am in contact with an Italian artist named Elia Inderle who has created a “scroll” reflecting Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” scroll, currently owned by James [Read more…]

Benefit:

Elia Inderle's case and scroll could be exhibited at sites all over the city, bringing information about Lowell born author Jack Kerouac to schools, the Kerouac Commemorative Park, civic clubs, art galleries and other locations around the City of Lowell and beyond.

Location:

Downtown / JAM.

Mapping Kerouac

Idea:

A series of maps with the trajectory of Kerouac on those places and with quotes from those places. Mexico City, Big Sur, Denver, San Francisco,NY, Lowell Desolation Peak…

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.

Kerouac Corn Hole

Idea:

Kerouac CornHole Game – Use concrete corn hole game board already installed in the park, temporarily paint or install portrait of Jack Kerouac’s face on surface, and create bean bags that are books, quotes, or Jack’s influences that can be tossed into his head

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.

Kero-whack Drum Installation

Idea:

Install some kid friendly outdoor percussion instruments (drums or chimes). Such as: https://strictlyforkidsstore.com/OutdoorInstruments. With or without snarky Kero-whack sign to encourage folks to play.

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.

Kerouac Park Haikus

Idea:

Jack wanted more people to express themselves, so my idea is for an installation that the public can use to create Kerouac-American-Haikus. It may be difficult to pull off, but what I’m imagining is similar to those installations which are common in playgrounds that have plastic letters you can spin to create simple three letter [Read more…]

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.

Little Free Library

Idea:

To honor Jack Kerouac at 100, I propose to install a Little Free Library in or near Kerouac Park to allow Lowell residents to easily access and share books by and about Jack Kerouac as well as topics addressed in his works (travel, philosophy, race, religion, history, and of course Lowell itself). Residents would be [Read more…]

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.

100 Buddhist Prayer Flags

Idea:

100 Buddhist prayer flags with Kerouac quotes printed on them flying around the park.

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.

Projections on Cityscape

Idea:

When the Old Man in the Mountain in NH fell down, they installed a series of “profile poles” at the base so you can stand in footsteps and sight along and still experience the Old Man as being where he always was. My idea is to install a series of similar poles along the riverwalk [Read more…]

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.

Blank Pad

Idea:

A monument shaped like a “blank note pad” that allows the public to write their thoughts on the this note pad and every year on Jack’s anniversary, the pad is Re-painted as a new blank page for the public to re-visit.

Benefit:

Location:

Kerouac.