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When: August 15th - 18th, 1969 Where: Bethel, New York 3 Day Tickets: $18.00 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.


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When: August 15th - 18th, 1969 Where: Bethel, New York

Over 30 Bands... Inlcuding Santana, Canned Heat, The Greatful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Band, and Jimi Hendricks Music starts at 4pm Friday and 1pm Saturday and Sunday

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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.

Santana, Canned Heat, The Greatful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Band, and Jimi Hendricks

Music starts at 4pm Friday and 1pm Saturday and Sunday Arts and Crafts, Food Hundreds of Acres to Roam

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AUGUST 15 -18 Woodstock Music and Art Fair

Bethel, New York Over 30 Bands... Inlcuding Santana, Canned Heat, The Greatful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Band, and Jimi Hendricks Music starts at 4pm Friday and 1pm Saturday and Sunday Arts and Crafts, Food Hundreds of Acres to Roam The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.


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Over 30 Bands... Inlcuding Santana, Canned Heat, The Greatful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Band, and Jimi Hendricks Music starts at 4pm Friday and 1pm Saturday and Sunday Arts and Crafts, Food

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969.

Hundreds of Acres to Roam

3 Day Tickets: $18.00

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.


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Bethel, New York

1969

3 Day Tickets: $18.00

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.


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August 15th - 18th Bethel, New York 3 Day Tickets: $18.00

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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.


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August 15th - 18th Bethel, New York 3 Day Tickets: $18.00

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.


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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish.

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Imagine it is 1909, and fresh off the Messina Earthquake; another movement is going to shake things up in the Literature and Art societies in Italy and most of Western Europe. February 20th, 1909, Italian poet F.T. Marinetti published the Manifesto de Futurismo in the French newspaper Le Figaro. His envision for not only an avant-garde literary movement but also a cultural and political regeneration of Italy. Marinetti and his Futurism Movement rejected the traditional values and the norms as prototypes for the present. In Political Manifesto for Futurist Voters, Marinetti’s second manifest, urges voters to take a fiercely anticlerical, antisocialist and an anti-traditionalist position, while advocating Italian patriotism and military expansion. This manifest would coincide with the 1909 Parliamentary Elections campaign. On March 8th, 1910, Marinetti, along with Milanese artist Umberto Boccioni Carlo Carrå, and Luigi Russolo, was on stage at the Politeama Chiarella in Turin to officially announce the birth of the Futurism Movement. The movement protested the cult of the past and its aesthetic laws in favor for the celebration of modern life and triumphs of science. It’s October 1913, and the publication of Marinetti’s Futurist Political Program rejected the governments “monumentomania” and their interference of art related matters. It calls for progress, velocity, courage, love of danger and heroism to promote the cultural ideal of a Futurist state of mind. The Futurist Political Program signees included Boccioni, Carlo, Russolo and Marinetti to show their support of irredentism, primacy of Italy, anticlericalism, and antisocialism, along with the support of free trade. Now it’s 1918, and Marinetti’s newly founded Futurist Political Party he campaigns for election to the parliament with little success. Although, Marinetti’s political ambitious were thwarted, Futurism did succeed. Futurism played an important role in diffusing Nationalist and Pro-War sentiments. Futurism also had much contribution to Italy’s entry into World War I on the Allies side and then eventually the advent of Fascism. Now, after 105 years since the announcement of futurism by Marinetti, we still embrace and remember the ideals of the Futurism Movement. By interweaving some of the values of the movement throughout self-inspiration and exploration. Everyday someone or something is trying to push the envelope on a new idea or philosophy. With todays’ age of media and the amount of idealologies be promoted most great ideas are surpassed and slip through the cracks that may not of 100 years ago. We must remember to learn and evovle from the past or we are bound to repeat it.


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On March 8th, 1910, Marinetti, along with Milanese artist Umberto Boccioni Carlo Carrå, and Luigi Russolo, was on stage at the Politeama Chiarella in Turin to officially announce the birth of the Futurism Movement. The movement protested the cult of the past and its aesthetic laws in favor for the celebration of modern life and triumphs of science.

It’s October 1913, and the publication of Marinetti’s Futurist Political Program rejected the governments “monumentomania” and their interference of art related matters. It calls for progress, velocity, courage, love of danger and heroism to promote the cultural ideal of a Futurist state of mind. The Futurist Political Program signees included Boccioni, Carlo, Russolo and Marinetti to show their support of irredentism, primacy of Italy, anticlericalism, and antisocialism, along with the support of free trade.

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Now it’s 1918, and Marinetti’s newly founded Futurist Political Party he campaigns for election to the parliament with little success. Although, Marinetti’s political ambitious were thwarted, Futurism did succeed. Futurism played an important role in diffusing Nationalist and Pro-War sentiments. Futurism also had much contribution to Italy’s entry into World War I on the Allies side and then eventually the advent of Fascism. Now, after 105 years since the announcement of futurism by Marinetti, we still embrace and remember the ideals of the Futurism Movement. By interweaving some of the values of the movement throughout self-inspiration and exploration. Everyday someone or something is trying to push the envelope on a new idea or philosophy. With todays’ age of media and the amount of idealologies be promoted most great ideas are surpassed and slip through the cracks that may not of 100 years ago. We must remember to learn and evovle from the past or we are bound to repeat it.

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Now, after 105 years since the announcement of futurism by Marinetti, we still embrace and remember the ideals of the Futurism Movement. By interweaving some of the values of the movement throughout self-inspiration and exploration. Everyday someone or something is trying to push the envelope on a new idea or philosophy. With todays’ age of media and the amount of idealologies be promoted most great ideas are surpassed and slip through the cracks that may not of 100 years ago. We must remember to learn and evovle from the past or we are bound to repeat it.

Now it’s 1918, and Marinetti’s newly founded Futurist Political Party he campaigns for election to the parliament with little success. Although, Marinetti’s political ambitious were thwarted, Futurism did succeed. Futurism played an important role in diffusing Nationalist and Pro-War sentiments. Futurism also had much contribution to Italy’s entry into World War I on the Allies side and then eventually the advent of Fascism.

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