NOTES FROM A REVOLUTION:  COM/CO, THE DIGGERS & THE HAIGHT

A COMPENDIUM OF THE POSTERS AND BROADSIDES THAT PROLIFERATED
IN HAIGHT-ASHBURY DURING THE MID ‘60s

BOOK LAUNCH   +   FILM SCREENING   +   CONVERSATION
JUNE 17th 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
 

The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers stand apart from them all. Formed in Haight-Ashbury in 1966 by members of R. G. Davis's subversive theater company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers took their name from the English Diggers, a seventeenth century agrarian collective devoted to creating a utopian society free of ownership and commerce.
 
A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds posters and broadsides that proliferated in Haight-Ashbury during the mid ‘60s. A compendium of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny posters and broadsides are gathered together for the first time in Notes From a Revolution, which offers a fascinating and oddly moving record of the counterculture in its early bloom.