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Program for LSD Trips Festival : January 21-23, 1966.
- Title
- Program for LSD Trips Festival : January 21-23, 1966.
- Author
- Brand, Stewart.
- Publication
- [San Francisco : Trips Festival, 1966]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll+ Counterculture B73 1966 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- [8] pages : illustration; 18 cm
- Summary
- Two oblong sheets--one pink, one blue—with blue folded within pink to form an 8-page pamphlet, with typescript text mimeographed, and with front cover bearing a mimeographed mandala reproduced by the artist, photographer, and film maker Bruce Conner (1933-2008), after the original, owned by his friend the Beat poet Michael McClure.
- Pamphlets for festival held at San Francisco’s Longshoremen’s Hall.
- Festival comprised five sessions: “America Needs Indians,” “Open Theatre Presents,” “Options and Contracts,” “The Acid Test” (led by the Merry Pranksters), and a Worship Service.
- Includes list of the previous venues for Acid tests.
- Text believed to have been written by Stewart Brand (from book seller description).
- Subjects
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience > California > San Francisco
- LSD (Drug) > Therapeutic use
- Nineteen sixties > United States > Programs
- Hippies > California > San Francisco > Programs
- Counterculture > Drug use
- Counterculture > California > San Francisco > Programs
- Mandala (Buddhism) > Pictorial works
- Spiritual life > New Age movement
- LSD (Drug) > Programs
- Rock music > Performances
- Pamphlets > Unites Statres > 20th century
- Indians of North America > Influence
- Genre/Form
- Pamphlets – Unites Statres – 20th century.
- Note
- Participants included Beat and Counterculture luminaries (not all of whom are listed in the program), including Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Co., and rock music promoter Bill Graham, who was so inspired by commercial possibilities that two weeks later he was promoting the first of his Fillmore concerts.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Indexed In (note)
- Paul Grushkin, The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk (Abbeville Press, 1987)
- Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Counterculture B73 1966
- OCLC
- 908857506
- Author
- Brand, Stewart.
- Title
- Program for LSD Trips Festival : January 21-23, 1966.
- Imprint
- [San Francisco : Trips Festival, 1966] (printed by Bob Carr and Wes Wilson)
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission in holding division.
- Indexed In:
- Paul Grushkin, The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk (Abbeville Press, 1987), 2.41.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008. IllustratorBig Brother & the Holding Co. (Musical group). PerformerGraham, Bill, 1931-1991. ProducerGrateful Dead (Musical group). PerformerMcClure, Michael.Merry Pranksters.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Counterculture B73 1966