Neil Friedman wrote:
> I seem to recall a reference to a Sixties gathering coming up in
> Detroit. Does anyone have details or am I making this up?
> I am interested in knowing about Sixties gatherings and conferences
> especially where I can present my work in progress about the Sixties.
i have been working with Wayne State Professor and poet M L Liebler on a
week of activities similar to what i did at U C Berkeley in 1987. it is
a work in progress now but will definately happen with some program
changes but the dates are firm. He is what it looks like now:
cheers, country joe mcdonald
Program Outline & Specific Events
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2000
11:30am=Opening Ceremony for The Moving Wall Memorial
Ribbon cutting ceremony with WSU President Irwin Reid, Detroit City
Council
Members, area religious leaders, YMCA leaders, Country Joe McDonald. We
will
begin with a Vietnam Veterans/Boy-Girl Scout color guard to raise the
flag.
1:00pm=FILM: Hearts & Minds (WSU campus)
7:30pm=Poetry Reading featuring Ed Sanders, Ken Mikolowski & Viet Nam
Vet
Poets Lamont B. Steptoe & Ron Allen and Country Joe@The
Sacarb
Club
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000
12:30pm=Film: Country Joe's Vietnam
Panel Discussion on the national & local anti-war
movement &
culture with
John Sinclair, Jeff Hale, Country Joe McDonald, Lamont B.
Steptoe & Ed
Sanders (WSU Campus)
7:30pm=Ten for Two: John Sinclair & John Lennon Film followed by a
reading/performance by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars at The Detroit
Film Theater
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000
7:00pm=Poetry Readings by the Children of Vietnam Veterans
8:00pm=Poetry Readings by Women involved in The Vietnam War/Anti-War
Movement w/ California poets Maggie Jaffe & Mifanwy
Kaiser
with Detroit's
Gloria House, Aurora Harris & Anca Vlasopolos plus
Country
Joe
McDonald's musical tribute to nurses at The Detroit
Public
Library
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000
7:30pm=Film: Regret to Inform followed by a discussion with film's
director
California's Barbara Sondenborn at The Detroit Film
Theater
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2000
7:00pm=Readings by Union Members who served in Viet Nam (co-sponsored
with
UAW & National Writers Union)
8:00pm=Poetry and Fiction by Nationally acclaimed Viet Nam veteran
writers
W.D. Ehrhart, John Connolley & Wayne Karlin at The Scarab
Club
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2000
8:00pm=Music of the Viet Nam War and Era featuring Country Joe McDonald,
Motown's The Contours & The Magic Poetry Band
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000
3:00pm=Closing Ceremonies for The Moving Wall with Chapter 9 Viet nam
Veterans Color Guard / Closing Comments by Country Joe
McDonald,
and M.L. Liebler
-- "Ira Furor Brevis Est " - Anger is a brief madness
country joe Home Pg <http://www.countryjoe.com>
country joe's tribute to Florence Nightingale
<http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale>
Berkeley Vietnam Veterans Memorial
<http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Links/Comm/vvm>
Rag Baby Online Magazine <http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine>
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