Don’t miss this opportunity to discover/ recall/ revisit the time that the hippies came to our region!
The Brunswick Valley Historical Society is hosting a Madness Magic weekend at the Drill Hall Mullumbimby on the weekend 15–16 April.
The Society is screening Sharon Shostak’s highly popular documentaries about the hippies and their influx into Mullumbimby and surrounds circa the 1970s–80s. These informative docos are screening in reverse order: starting with Mullumbimby Magic; The Culture of the ’70s–’80s, Part 3, The Arts, on Saturday at 5pm, followed by Part 2, Activism & Politics at 7.15pm.
On Sunday, Part 1, Health & Wellbeing will be screening at 5pm; and the series will finish with Mullumbimby Madness; The Legacy of the Hippies at 7.15pm.
The screenings are to celebrate the Aquarius Festival’s 50th anniversary and Brunswick Valley Historical Society’s 40th anniversary.
Tickets will be available at the door and are $10 per screening. Tea, coffee and yummy cakes will be for sale.
Each doco features interviews with local people of the time, along with rare historical photographs, film and video footage. They cover the emergence of the alternative culture locally and the birth and development of health, environmental and social awareness that pushed these early new settlers to achieve world-first successes in important environment protections.
Mullumbimby Madness features the journalist Kerry O’Brien, who was one of the first to report to the nation on the Aquarian revolution. This doco gives you a taste of what the ‘weird invasion’ was really like. Turn it on, drop into it and trip out.
For more info and tickets, visit: mullumbimbymuseum.org.au.
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