A collection of three pieces of ephemera published and distributed by the Youth International Party (Yippie!) in [1968]. Includes: a two-page mimeographed announcement of plans for a "Festival of Life," a protest and free festival to be held in Chicago August 25-30, [1968]; a two-color screenprinted flyer / poster for the [Festival of Life] that reads "Yippie! Chicago Aug 25-30" against a stream of conscious list of words and names of people; and a mimeographed flyer titled "Bags Yippies Can Get Into in Your Hometown" with a bulleted list of ways Yippies could participate in growing the Yippie movement and ways to prepare for the "Festival of Life" in Chicago. [details]
Three serialized articles by Tom Wolfe titled "The World of LSD," and Ken Kesey and his "mystic brother," published in New York : The World Journal Tribune Magazine, January 29, 1967; February 5, 1967; and February 12, 1967. ... [details]
![Yippie! (Youth International Party) Flier : Chicago, August 25 - 30, [1968]](/objects/images/s36237.jpg "Yippie! (Youth International Party) Flier : Chicago, August 25 - 30, [1968]")
Two-color screenprinted flyer / poster published and distributed by the Youth International Party (Yippie!) advertising the [Festival of Life] held in Chicago, August 25 - 30, [1968]. Flyer reads "Yippie! Chicago Aug 25-30" against a stream of conscious list of words and names of people including Arlo Guthrie, Phil Ochs, The Fugs, Pete Seeger, Bread and Puppet Theater, Paul Krassner, Ed Sanders, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Milton Glaser and many others. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows - Corona Park, New York, September 15 - November 25, 1990. Traveled to University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, January 15 - February 24, 1991; and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, June 16 - August 25, 1991. ... [details]
Issue 14 of the 'Journal of Radical Shimming' published by the Red76 collective. Texts by Matthew Stadler, Dan S. Wang, Scott Berzofsky, Mike Wolf, Sam Gould, Rich Jensen, Mark Read, Steve Lambert, Abbie Hoffman, Starhawk, David Senior, Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Jessica Garz, Sean Dockray, Malak Helmy, Pop-Up Book Academy, Aja Rose Bond, Alexander Muir, Daniella Aiello, Gabriel Saloman, Lisa MacLoad and Sydney Hart. ... [details]
Program for "Psychedelic Religious Celebration #1 : The Death of the Mind" held on September 20, 1966. "Celebrants" included Timothy Leary as the "Guide," Jackie Cassen and Rudi Stern as "Directors of the Celebration," "Ralph Metzner as "Harry - the Imprisoned Intellectual," Rosemary Woodruff as the "High Priestess," Peter Walker as "Ragas," James Morisette as "Guide to Sensory Meditation" and others. ... [details]
Issue edited by Jaakov Kohn. Content includes "Deceased: Charles ('Sonny') Liston," by Ray Schultz; "The Bank Mortgages India," by Michael Sweeney; 'Dowser," by Nellie Fernauld; "Man Faces 15-Year Term or Handing Out Anti-War Leaflets," by Jose Reyes; " "Delusions of Terror at Fort Lewis: Will Panthers and Weather People Attack?;' "POW Camps Exposed;" "Fastest Follies," by Jackie Friedrich; "Women Expose Life in South Vietnam's Tiger Cages;" "Decomposition," by D. ... [details]
Three page press release for the "Festival of Life," a protest and free festival offering a "living, cultural, spiritual alternative" to the life style of "the National Death (Democratic) Convention in Chicago" organized by the Youth International Party (YIP) or "Yippies" held August 25 - August 30, [1968] in Chicago, IL, coinciding with the Democratic National Convention. ... [details]
Orignal four-page mimeograph press release for Timothy Leary's press conference held on September 19, 1966, in New York City, announcing "the formation of a new religion, based on the sacramental use of psychedelic plants and drugs. ... [details]
Issue edited by Al Goldstein. Essays include "31.3% Said They'd Have Their Asses Surgically Removed and Grafted onto the Face of Spiro Agnew : A Final Solution to the Survey Problem," by Len Lear; "Does Timothy Leary Eat Mushroom Pie?: A Screw Interview," by Randy Wicker & Al Goldstein; comic by John Thomas; "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: '69's Best & Worst in Fuckfilm Fare," by Al Goldstein; "Homosexual Citizen : Cops Who Smoke Fags," by Lige and Jack; "Rock 'n Raunch," by Hank Arlecchino; "Dirty Diversions," by Al Goldstein; "Fuckbooks : Sookey Sucks (?)," by Michael Perkins; "Shit List," by Al Goldstein; "Naked City," by Bob Amsel; comic by John Caldwell. [details]
