Hippie Modernism Forums

February 11 – May 13, 2017

This series of four Saturday afternoon forums brings together artists, scholars, and counterculture veterans to explore the contemporary relevance of the Bay Area hippie legacy.

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  • Saturday, May 13, 1 PM

    Hippie Modernism Forum: Creative Communes

    Could rural communes be the template for a new geography of creativity? Ramón Sender Barayón, Erin Elder, and Fritz Haeg discuss the question along with moderator Greg Castillo.

    BAMPFA
  • Saturday, April 15, 1 PM

    Hippie Modernism Forum: Fluid Identities

    Fayette Hauser, Lauren Onkey, and Brontez Purnell talk about how reinventions of identity—reflected in rock music, performance art, and other flamboyant forms of expression—propelled the counterculture movement. Moderated by Juana María Rodríguez.

    BAMPFA
  • Saturday, March 11, 1 PM

    Hippie Modernism Forum: Liberated Territories

    Anthony Raynsford, Bonnie Ora Sherk, and Lisa Uddin explore the radical geographies of counterculture politics in a discussion moderated by Sean Burns.

    BAMPFA
  • Saturday, February 11, 1 PM

    Hippie Modernism Forum: Counterculture / Cyberculture

    The first of four Hippie Modernism forums exploring the contemporary relevance of the Bay Area hippie legacy. With guests Lee Felsenstein, Fred Turner, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and moderator Greg Niemeyer.

    BAMPFA

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