DIONYSIUM

Rated NR

Location: Alamo Downtown

This show is a part of the The Dionysium Signature Series, Click to See More

The Dionysium offers a unique, innovative program of debate, lecture, declamation, theatrical presentation and music in a salon-like atmosphere on the first Tuesday of every month at the Alamo South Lamar. Audiences enjoy offerings not to be found elsewhere in Austin, including the recitation of famous speeches, participatory discussion in a formal, moderated context, and the opportunity to participate in the recreation of Ancient rituals. A typical Dionysium show will feature a lecture, a declamation, a drinking song, a film or live musical performance, an appeal to Dionysus, a fiction-writing contest, and plenty of strong drink. But the heart of every Dionysium is the debate, pitting two experts against each other in toe-to-toe parliamentary combat. Dionysium debate resolutions have covered everything from Social Security reform to the future threat of genocidal robots. Check out The Dionysium Website for full information. (Please note: the alcohol-laced Dionysium is 21 and up).

The May Dionysium looks at the Beat movement and its impact. There will be:

A reading from On The Road (Oliver Franklin from Ransom Center)

A screening of William Burroughs' and Anthony Balch's Towers Open Fire

A performance by Jesse Sublett

A debate "Beats vs. Punks" with Tom Bevilacqua (Academic Chair of the UT Undergraduate English Association) for the Beats and Spike Gillespie on the punk side.

& A reading from Allen Ginsberg's HOWL.

Kid Policy:  21 and up. No one under 21 admitted.

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