Six Gallery

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Six Gallery was a small but pivotal San Francisco art gallery and performance space best known as the site of the 1955 poetry reading that launched the Beat movement and helped catalyze the San Francisco Renaissance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art gallery
cultural venue
performance space
artFormPresented experimental art
painting
poetry
audienceType Beat poets and writers
bohemian community
cityDistrict North Beach
cooperativeStructure artist-run cooperative
country United States
culturalRole center of avant-garde activity in 1950s San Francisco
hub for Beat poets
era post–World War II American avant-garde
eventHosted Six Gallery reading
foundedBy David Simpson
Deborah Remington
Hayward King
Jack Spicer
John Allen Ryan
Wally Hedrick
historicalSignificance site of Allen Ginsberg’s first public reading of "Howl"
influencedMovement Beat literature
West Coast counterculture
linked to: hippie movement

postwar American poetry
knownFor 1955 poetry reading that launched the Beat movement
helping catalyze the San Francisco Renaissance
legacy landmark event site in American literary history
symbol of the birth of the Beat movement
locatedIn California
United States
location San Francisco
movementAssociatedWith Beat Generation
San Francisco Renaissance
notableAssociatedPerson Allen Ginsberg
Gary Snyder
Kenneth Rexroth
Michael McClure
Philip Lamantia
Philip Whalen
notableEventDate 7 October 1955
operationalPeriod 1950s
readingOrganizer Kenneth Rexroth
state California
status defunct
streetAddress 3119 Fillmore Street

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