Topic spans: 1964 - 2006
Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion
Flowers and free love. Antiwar marches and acid tests. In the mid to late 1960s, youth across North America and Europe began to "turn on, tune in and drop out." Fed up with the establishment — parents, schools, police — they went looking for a new way of life. To Toronto's Yorkville and Vancouver's Kitsilano district they came, preaching peace, love and non-conformity.
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Festivals and happenings: Vancouver's Human Be-in
Broadcast Date: May 30, 1967
Inspired by various love-ins and gatherings in the United States, poet Jamie Reid and his friend Carol decide to organize a "Human Be-in." All the hippies and flower children of Vancouver will gather to dance, listen to music, fly kites, make merry and just BE. Carol and Jamie describe the trouble they had getting the city to agree to the idea, and CBC Television captures the result: Vancouver's Human Be-in on March 26, 1967, at Ceperley Meadow in Stanley Park.Festivals and happenings: Vancouver's Human Be-in
• The first Human Be-in was held in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 1967. More than 20,000 people turned up for the event, which was also called "A Gathering of the Tribes." LSD prophet Timothy Leary and beat poet Allen Ginsberg attended.• The Human Be-in brought the world's attention to the hippie movement. The Summer of Love was launched when the Be-in inspired tens of thousands of young people to flock to San Francisco in the coming months.
• Jamie Reid was one of the original founders of the magazine Tish. Published from 1961 to 1969, Tish helped establish Vancouver as a major centre for poetry in Canada.
• In 1967 Reid decided to move to the Okanagan Valley to write, and he published his first book, The Man Whose Path Was on Fire, in 1968.
• In 2002, Reid published a book about jazz chanteuse Diana Krall.
Festivals and happenings: Vancouver's Human Be-in
Medium: Television
Program: 7 O'Clock Show
Broadcast Date: May 30, 1967
Guest(s): Carol Carol, James Reid
Host: Bob Quintrell
Duration: 14:45
Last updated:
June 28, 2005
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