Heading: (Posters)
Author: Mouse, Stanley and Bowen, Michael, artists
Title: Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Michael Bowen Studios
Date Published: 1967
Description:

Poster printed in purple and gold on medium-stock paper. 68x56 cm (31x22").

Inscribed and signed in silver pen in the bottom margin by designer Michael Bowen: "For Jeff [Weinberg, of Water Row Books] - Michael Bowen." There is also an original drawing by Bowen in the right margin of a cat having eaten a mouse.

The Human Be-In was an event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love. The speakers at the rally were all invited by Bowen, the main organizer. They included Timothy Leary in his first San Francisco appearance, and Richard Alpert (soon to be known as "Ram Dass"), and poets like Allen Ginsberg, who chanted mantras, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure. Other counterculture gurus included comedian Dick Gregory, Lenore Kandel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerry Rubin, and Alan Watts. Music was provided by a host of local rock bands including Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Blue Cheer. "Underground chemist" Owsley Stanley provided massive amounts of his "White Lightning" LSD, specially produced for the event, as well as 75 twenty-pound turkeys, for free distribution by the Diggers.

Light edgewear, faint stain to left edge; near fine.