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January 07, 2005
CounterCulture Through The Ages
As an exercise for an arts leadership mentorship program we're in, we've been assigned the task of delving into the advantages, and harsh realities of serving up counterculture programming. It's a difficult subject to get your head around. In one sense, it seems to be everywhere we look (so is it really "counter" anything?) and on the other, it's sort of defining the history of the world. We have had these discussions for years now and was happy to discover last month that there is finally a book about it. Ken Goffman (aka R.U. Sirius) and Dan Joy take you on an interesting journey from "Abraham to Acid House" in Counterculture Through The Ages. (Metro's Gary Singh has a good review of it in this week's issue.) There's a lot we can learn from the patterns and key events in this book. It usually seems to boil down to just a handful of people that pave the way to a new way of seeing and believing simply because they stuck to their guns...it's just a matter of time before the masses catch up.
Goffman will be appearing at the Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, CA this Monday, Jan. 10th at 7:30pm.
Posted by Cherri at January 7, 2005 03:52 PM
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