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The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love , which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word " psychedelic " to suburbia .
December 17 – 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum: The people of Basel (Switzerland) vote to purchase two paintings by Picasso to retain them in the Kunstmuseum Basel. John Willett publishes Art in a City , [ 1 ] a pioneering sociological study of art in a single city, Liverpool .
The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. January 15 – Super Bowl I : The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum .
After the January 14, 1967, Human Be-In in San Francisco organized by artist Michael Bowen, the media's attention on culture was fully activated. [142] In 1967, Scott McKenzie 's rendition of the song " San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) " brought as many as 100,000 young people from all over the world to celebrate San ...
Chet Helms, Barry Fey and others who were constructing The Family Dog Denver in the summer of 1967 also held a Human Be-In, in Denver's City Park, with the goal of harnessing the Summer of Love vibe to promote Helm's new Family Dog Productions venture, which opened in September, 1967. 5,000 people attended the Be-In, with performances by bands ...
1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1967th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 967th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1960s decade.
In 1967, the Summer of Love, an event in San Francisco where thousands of young people loosely and freely united for a new social experience, helped introduce much of the world to the culture. In addition, the increased use of psychedelic drugs , such as LSD and marijuana , also became central to the movement.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the German Lebensreform movement emphasized the goodness of nature; the harms to society, people, and nature caused by industrialization; the importance of the whole person, body and mind; and the goodness of "the old ways".