October 12 at 6 – 7:30 pm in Mucha, RD
1968–When Youth Rocked the World In 1968, 5000 tanks and 200,000 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed Prague Spring. Five days of police riots and student demonstrations at the Chicago Democratic Convention made news across the world. Student protests against war and repression paralyzed Paris and Mexico City. Tens of thousands of young people in West Berlin took to the streets. Then, while Mao’s Red Guards rampaged in China, a group of young people fled Berkeley’s police brutality and violent Vietnam War Protests. As Sondra Schaub says in The Edge of Paradise, “Berkeley was ready to explode. It was either pick up a gun or leave. So, we decided to leave.” They landed on the island of Kauai—the middle of the Pacific Ocean—where they started Taylor Camp, a pot-friendly, clothing-optional treehouse village along one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Through author, photographer, and filmmaker John Wertheim’s documentary work, we understand the significance of Taylor Camp’s existence, the most remote, creative, and symbolic example of the worldwide ’60s youth culture–The Ultimate Hippie Fantasy.
