Counterculture is all about bringing people together. Because when we have each other, we can accomplish far more than any of us can do on our own. So in the spirit of the movements that came before us, we believe that given our location at the corner of Haight & Ashbury, it’s our privilege and responsibility that the Counterculture Museum should be a gathering place for our community. From readings and book events to art, music, history, discussions, and a lot more, there’s something for everyone.
50 Years of Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore Wed. July 15th, 7:30pm Please join us for a celebration of Bound Together Bookstore’s 50th Anniversary. A panel of old and new collective members will show and tell the history of the bookstore and its relationship with the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Plus, they’ll attempt to explain how a completely […]
Artifacts from the Birth of the American Counterculture with Bob Dvonch Fri. May 29th, 8pm Bob Dvonch began collecting Haight-Ashbury ephemera during his freshman year at Knox College in the fall of 1966, when the San Francisco Mime Troupe performed on campus — a deliberately provocative performance that left a lasting impression on its audience. […]
with V. Vale & Marian Wallace Sat. May 30th, 6pm V. Vale and Marian Wallace have been documenting counterculture for over 40 years, becoming something of a legend in it themselves. Join us for an evening with the publisher of seminal SF punk zine Search & Destroy and RE/Search Publications as they discuss the journey […]
with Eric Christensen & George Walker Sat. May 30th, 8pm Sixty years ago, when the three-day Acid Test called the Trips Festival was held at the Longshoremen’s Hall at Fisherman’s Wharf, Eric Christensen and George Walker were there. Eric Christensen was just 14 at the time, and decades later made The Trips Festival Movie (2007), […]
with Tate Swindell Sun. May 31st, 3pm In 1980, Allen Ginsberg toured Europe accompanied by his long-term partner, and poet in his own right, Peter Orlovsky, along with the young musician Steven Taylor. On November 10, they performed at Forum Stadpark in Graz, a small venue in a small Austrian town. The entire performance was […]
with special guest Dennis McNally Sun. May 31st, 6pm Bay Area photographer Susana Millman is best known for her photography of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead from the mid-80s through later jam band incarnations and generations (like Sam Grisman and Grahame Lesh). In addition to shooting world music, especially Zakir Hussain and Indian classical […]
Sun. May 31st, 8pm Pat Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary, and co-editor of Invitation to Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann 1960-1980. In co-operation with the Estate of Allen Ginsberg, Thomas edited the visual tome […]
by filmmaker Chuck Workman Tues. June 2nd, 6pm When Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs met at Columbia University in the 1940s, they spawned a movement, then called the Beats, that set precedents for the political, hippie and spiritual movements of the 1960s and ‘70s. This comprehensive portrait of the Beat Generation includes interviews […]
with Dennis McNally Tues. June 2nd, 8pm Dennis McNally has spent a lifetime covering counterculture history — often from the vantage of being right in the middle of it. Himself a resident of the Haight in the 1960s, he can tell you firsthand what the scene was like in those days, and all about the […]
Wed. June 3rd, 6pm In 1955, Allen Ginsberg began attending weekly therapy sessions at the Langley Porter Clinic in San Francisco. His therapist was a young psychiatrist named Dr. Philip Hicks. It was in these sessions that Allen related to Hicks his dissatisfaction with his job in advertising, and his desire to write poetry instead; […]