Last night, the SFKossacks met claude for dinner at Andalu in the Mission.
He's in town for a book signing this evening.
Everyone is welcome to attend, especially DFHs.
SAN FRANCISCO
Complimentary alfreso dining and clothing giveaway with music, free posters, and special guests in recognition of the Diggers (see below) efforts, back in the day.
~Brought to you by Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco, Fulton Ryder, Inc, and Foggy Notion Books.
Where: The Panhandle, Golden Gate Park
When: Wednesday, June 20 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Why: Times are tough
Immediately following:
A conversation with Claude Hayward, Harvey Kornspan, and Peter Coyote (schedule allowing) to mark the release of Notes From a Revolution: Com/co, the Diggers & the Haight, a compendium of the broadsides and posters that proliferated in Haight-Ashbury during the sixties.
~Published by Foggy Notion Books & Fulton Ryder, Inc.
Where: The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
When: June 20 at 6:30 PM
Bookcover: NOTES FROM A
REVOLUTION: COM/CO,
THE DIGGERS & THE HAIGHT
NOTES FROM A REVOLUTION: COM/CO, THE DIGGERS & THE HAIGHT
Edited by David Hollander & Kristine McKenna
Introduction by Peter Coyote
Essay by Naomi Wolf
Conversation with Claude Hayward by Kristine McKenna
Flexi-bound / 8 1/2 x 11" / 176 pages / 150 color images ISBN 978-0-9835870-3-3
Published by Foggy Notion Books in partnership with Fulton Ryder, Inc.
AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2012
The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to many fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers, a little-known and short-lived group, 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.
The San Francisco Diggers – under the leadership of Peter Berg, Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote, and Billy Murcott – were true anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action. They coined slogans designed to prod people into participating and staged art happenings, public interventions, and street theater infused with wicked humor. The Diggers also provided free food, clothing, medical care and lodging to anyone in need as part of their effort to create a unified and mutually supportive community.
A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds of broadsides that they regularly produced and distributed throughout the Haight, printed by the Communication Company, a maverick, short-lived publishing outfit founded by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward. A selection of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny 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.
Claude Hayward was born in Brooklyn and raised in rural New Jersey. In 1963 he moved to Venice, California, where he worked as advertising manager for the L.A. Free Press, and as a contributing reporter for maverick radio station KPFK. In late 1966 he moved to Haight-Ashbury, where he partnered with Chester Anderson to co-found the underground printing press, the Communication Company, in January of 1967. Throughout that crucial year, the Communication Company published daily bulletins that were distributed throughout the Haight and unified the community. At the end of 1967 Hayward founded a commune in Covelo, Calif., and spent the next three years developing his skills as a builder and homesteader. I n 1971 he moved to a traditional Spanish Land Grant village on the Pecos River, in northeastern New Mexico, where he refined his skills as a builder of adobe houses made of sun-dried mud brick. He currently serves as the elected Majordomo of the Acequia de Tecolotito, and is president of the local drinking water cooperative that provides domestic water to approximately one hundred families.
PHOTOS FROM OUR DINNER LAST NIGHT:
claude holding his book open to show a photo of him back in his Haight Ashbury days
Clane (claude's daughter) and Peter Coyote, Peter has known Clane since she was a baby
MORE PHOTOS BELOW THE KOS CROISSANT:
claude, exlrrp (who drove down from Oregon) and Clane
Peter Coyote and Meteor Blades
Also in attendance, remembrance, Glen the Plumber and side pocket
navajo, claude and exlrrp
OUTTAKES:
Meteor Blades was eager to see remembrace again and find out how she's doing
side pocket and his droid (we should use this pic for those Hilz captions... bubba!!)
Glen the Plumber doing what he does best
Wait, no. He one ups himself
claude reaching over exlrrp to welcome someone, lol, exlrrp endures. It reminded me of the time I saw a waiter balance part of his tray on a diner's head.
San Franciscans! Go see claude tonight!