2022 is the centennial of the late Jonas Mekas, poet, filmmaker and artist, who transformed avant garde film in
the U.S. Join film writer and essayist Phillip Lopate and author and poet Charity Coleman for a discussion about Mekas’s time in NY and musician/ author Larry Simon and author John Broven (New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond) talking about the postwar New York City Blues scene based on interviews and personal stories. Supported by Lithuanian Culture Institute.