The Trips Festival – 50 Year Celebration
On January 22, 2016 the California Historical Society celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Trips Festival with an event at...
On January 22, 2016 the California Historical Society celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Trips Festival with an event at...
“If I were to tell you that an event of major significance in the history of religion is going to...
Luminous beings are we… —Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980 We don’t know if the renowned...
Ken Kesey and others pulled up to Union Square to promote the Trips Festival – organized by Kesey, Stewart Brand, Roman...
Before I had cancer, I lived my life in service of dance, and after I had cancer, I danced in the...
![[The Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, 1967 January 14], photograph by Gene Anthony, courtesy, California Historical Society, CPA-SOL_005](https://experiments.californiahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CPA-SOL_005-300x208.jpg)
The “Summer of Love” in 1967 is generally thought to be when everything changed in San Francisco. As with most...
The Trips Festival was a transformative event that helped mark the beginning of the hippie counterculture movement in San Francisco....
In 1973 Levi Strauss & Co. left its cozy quarters at 98 Battery Street in San Francisco for the bold,...
At Anna Halprin’s workshop at Moa Oasis, an ecological retreat in the southern Israeli desert, participants from all over the...