Adrian Dunbar led an engaging evening of beatnik poetry at the Boogaloo Pub in Highgate on March 30. Various actors and poets honored the beat generation, reciting works from iconic figures like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. The event spotlighted the countercultural movement from the 1950s and 60s, emphasizing themes of rebellion and spirituality. Attendees, including musician Steve Somerset, lauded the event as a wonderful gathering celebrating creativity and expression. The bar owner, Gerry O'Connell, deemed it merely a gathering and opted not to elaborate further on the event.
The evening was hosted by star of stage and screen Dunbar, who led a line-up of fellow actors and poets reciting words of pioneers of the beat generation.
The beat movement was a countercultural literary and artistic movement in 1950s and early 1960 America, formed by authors and poets such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
Gerry O'Connell, who owns the bar, said it was a 'just a gathering' and declined to comment further.
Musician Steve Somerset, who attended the beats night, said it was a 'wonderful evening'.
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