Worldwide Burroughs 100 Events

New York, NY, USA

FEB 5 -  100th Birthday Celebration, Concert, and WSB100 Festival Fundraiser at the Bowery Electric

Thurs, April 3, Anthology Film Archive
7:30 Taking Tiger Mountain (81 min)
Fri, April 4, Anthology Film Archive
7:30 Haxan (76 min)
Sat, April 5, Anthology Film Archive
5:45 Words of Advice (74 min)
7:30 Nova Express (3 hours)
Sun, April 6, Anthology Film Archive
6:00 Shorts
8:30 Haxan (76 min)
Tuesday  April 8 The Stone
8 pm: David Scanlon Solo
10 pm: KILLER BOB
Wednesday April 9 The Stone
8 pm: Kenny Wollesen
10 pm: Ariana Reines
Thursday April 10 The Stone
8 pm: James Ilgenfritz / Nick Hallett / Ryan Jewell / Richard Kamerman
10 pm: Anthony Coleman
Friday April11 Friday The Stone
8 pm: Raha Raissnia (film, projections) performs live visuals to John
Zorn’s Burroughs tribute INTERZONE.
10 pm: Trevor Dunn’s PROOFReaders Trio play music from Naked Lunch and
other Ornette melodies.
Saturday April 12 The Stone
10 pm: Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews–a B=U=R=R=O=U=G=H=S tribute
Sunday April 13 The Stone
8 pm: Jalal Toufic
10 pm: Andrew Lampert & Title TK
Tuesday April 15 The Stone
8 pm: Object Collection
10 pm: Kenneth Goldsmith (readings)
Wednesday April 16 The Stone
8 pm: VOMIT FIST with guest Todd Colby
10 pm: JG Thirlwell and Sarah Lipstate
Thursday April 17 The Stone
8 & 10 pm Thurston Moore (guitar)
Friday April 18 The Stone
8 pm: Billy Martin–the exploding junky
10 pm: Eyvind Kang: Hieroglyphic Silence
Saturday April19 The Stone
8 pm: John Zorn and Bill Laswell Duo
10 pm: Bill Laswell–THE ROAD TO THE WESTERN LANDS
Sunday April 20 - 8 &10 pm The Stone
Hal Willner (tapes) Bill Frisell (guitar) Eyvind Kang (viola) Lenny
Pickett (sax)
Monday April 21: Issue Project Room
Elliott Sharp / Steve Buscemi duo
Tuesday April 22: Incubator Arts Project
Lydia Lunch / Quintan Ana Wikswo at Incubator
Wednesday April 23: Reading Marathon at Poetry Project
(featuring Anne Waldman, Penny Arcade, Jack Womack, John Ventimiglia,
Bob Holman, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Regina Weinreich, Iron Dog, JG
Thirlwell, Lydia Lunch, Elliott Sharp, Oliver Harris, Quintan Ana
Wikswo, Mike Pride, Sam Mickens, Adam Tobin, Shelley Hirsch, Simon
Pettet, Steve Dalachinsky, James Ilgenfritz, DJ Ray Velasquez, and I’m
still adding a few others)
Thursday April 24 8pm: Incubator Arts Project
Nick Zedd & Andre Perkowski
Friday April 25: Incubator & CUNY GC
9am-5:30: William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference at CUNY Grad Center
9pm: James Ilgenfritz Anagram Ensemble & Stephanie Sleeper sleepdance:
Deleted Scenes
8pm: Lea Bertucci & G. Lucas Crane
Saturday April 26: Incubator & New York Public Library
3PM: New York Public Library:  Oliver Harris: Restoring the Cut-Up Trilogy
9pm: James Ilgenfritz Anagram Ensemble & Stephanie Sleeper sleepdance:
Deleted Scenes
8pm: Ecstacy Mule
7pm: Bhob Rainey
Sunday April 26 8pm Incubator Arts Project
9pm: James Ilgenfritz Anagram Ensemble & Stephanie Sleeper /
sleepdance: Deleted Scenes
8pm: Bob Bellerue
7pm: Anne Waldman & David Little: ‘Artaud In The Black Lodge’

London, UK

June 17 - 21  Oval House, South London
This Is How We Die
presented by Christopher Brett Bailey 'With echoes of William S. Burroughs, Beat poetry, Lenny Bruce, and B-Movies, THIS IS HOW WE DIE blends spoken word, storytelling, caustic humour and gutter philosophy in a surreal, apocalyptic,​ glorious piece of grindhouse grotesque; a blood-soaked love letter to the depraved.'

Mar 14 - May 9   SHOWstudio, Belgravia   
Kate Simon: William S. Burroughs Portraits 1975-1995
Also featuring a selection of File Folder Paintings by Burroughs

Feb 28 - Mar 2  ART 14  
October Gallery will present a selection of Burroughs' artworks and photographs at Art 14, 
Olympia Grand, Booth H6

Feb 7  
INTERZONE 
An experiential event to celebrate the life and times of 
William S. Burroughs
Curated by Guerrilla Zoo

The Photographers' Gallery
Feb 5 - Burroughs Lecture - Iain Sinclair 6:30pm
Feb 15 - Conference: 'Beyond The Cut-Up: WSB and the Image' 
Feb 27 - Burroughs Lecture: Elza Adamowicz 7pm
'Taking Shots/ Photography of WSB' open til 30 March

Riflemaker Gallery 
Feb 5 - 'William Burroughs 100' exhibition of Burroughs' paintings til 22 March 

ICA
Feb 14-21
Burroughs: The Movie Screening.
Feb 16 Barry Miles, friend and biographer of Burroughs Q&A following screening.

RADIO - Feb 5 - basic.fm playing 24 hours of Burroughs related material, interviews, readings from his work and sound collage inspired by the great man.

Seattle, WA, USA

Thursday, February 27 at 9:00pm in PSTFeaturing Chuck Palahniuk ; Anne Waldman; Alex Dimitrov; Monica Drake; Lidia Yuknavitch; Ira Silverberg; Bob Morris
Fred Wildlife Refuge

Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Feb 12    Lawrence Arts Center Benefit Auction - Featured Artist is William Burroughs

Feb 5 -"...everything is permitted." 
7pm-12am, 
WSB 100th B-Day Party: music, poetry, painting, and performances at Frank's North Star. Curated by Seedco Studios

Feb 5  
WSB@100: An Offbeat Literary Tribute - 
5:30-6:30pm, Readings by Jim McCrary and others at Spencer Museum of Art 

Lawrence Arts Center
'William S Burroughs/ Creative Observer exhibition' open all month
Feb 6 | 7pm | Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road (film)
Feb 8 | 8pm | Staged reading of the Nervous Set. A beat generation musical written by Jay & Fran Landesman (performance)
Feb 10 | 7pm | Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages. Narrated by William S. Burroughs (film)
Feb11 | 7pm | Naked Lunch (film)
Feb 18 | 7pm | William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers (film)
February 20 7pm | | John Waters (lecture)
February 24 | 7pm | Howl (film)

Feb 8 
WSB Event ft shotgun art demonstrations, spoken word & prose. Located in rural SW Kansas approximately 15 minutes from Liberal, KS.

Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Burroughs Century Festival

Feb 5 - 100th Birthday Celebration and closing party for Burroughs Paintings at Grunwald GalleryFeb 5 - Lydia Lunch- Performance, Sex, and Punk Feminism: 1970′s to PresentFeb 5 - Mark Hosler (Negativland) at Bishop Bar
Feb 3-10 -  Manuscripts and correspondence from The Burroughs Archive at Ohio State Columbus and the Lilly Library.
Feb 6 - An evening of chamber music performed by HOLOGRAPHIC (with selections from Ticket That Exploded opera by James Ilgenfritz) at Buskirk - Chumley Theatre
Feb 6-9 - Burroughs Film Series (includes Balch films) at IU Cinema
Feb 6-8 - Symposium at IU Cinema
Feb 7 - “In the beginning was the word…” Lydia Lunch reads William S. Burroughs at Bishop Bar
Feb 8 - Closing Night Costume Ball, with a performance by Davis Schneiderman at The Back Door

San Francisco, USA

FEB 3 - Burroughs at 100: The Films of William S Burroughs 8:00 p.m., City Lights

FEB 9 - Burroughs at 100: An Algebra of Apocalypse at City Lights Bookstore

Los Angeles, CA, USA

JAN 24 - MAR 1 - Jon Bastian’s Bill & Joan,theatrically inspired by the conflicting accounts of what truly happened in 1951 in Mexico between Burroughs and his wife Joan.

Rock Island, Illinois, USA

FEB 5 - WSB 100 Tribute Show @ Theo's Java, with readings and music.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FEB 7 - Burroughs 100 Toronto - Presented by dreamachine.ca and nac.org. Readings by poets Eric Schmaltz and Gregory Betts and an immersive audio collage cut up by DJ Marinko.

Fisciano, Salerno, Italy

FEB 5 & 6- Seminars and events for WSB 100 with The University of Salerno (Italy) in collaboration with Unis@und and Marte (mediateque art events) - two days of talks, concerts, readings, films and exhibitions.

Berlin, Germany

FEB 5 - Call Me Burroughs - 100 Jahre William S. 
Volksbuhne

FEB 13 - 16 - Danger Series - Performances and dreamachines celebrating WSB 100

Helsinki, Switzerland

FEB 6 - Jürgen Ploog, Claire Plassard & Florian Vetsch read & talk about William S. Burroughs. Sounds & Music by DJ Soulsonic.

St. Gallen, Switzerland

FEB 4 & 11 - WSB100 events at Palace St.Gallen

Marseille, France

JUNE 3 - 11 - Various Venues
Places of William S Burroughs / Parages de WS Burroughs 
Meetings, readings, screenings, radio programmes and rare audio interviews.

Paris, France

FEB TBC - Cabaret Toxique celebrating WSB 100 with performances, theatre and music

Nîmes, France

FEB 4 + A special month program of exhibition, films, lectures and musics inspired by and/or dedicated to the work of WSB