People's Park loves you - El Parque del Pueblo te quiere. - Le Parc du peuple t'aime. - Mense se veld is lief vir jou - Mensen Park houdt van U. - Folkets Park alskar er - Menschen Park liebt dich - Park Ludzi kocha Cie - O Parque do Povo te ama

Welcome to a Celebration of People's Park!

People's Park 40th Anniversary!


A week of celebratory events:

  • Saturday April 18 noon-dark Acoustic Music and Park Action Day! People's Park. Performances by Little Boy Blue, HUMANWINE, Hungry Theater, The Fucking Buckaroos, Beltaine's Fire, John the Baker, Mykee Ramen, Dear Indugu, Lasher Keen, Dave G, Little B + J, Mama Crow, Cello Joe, and more! Download the flier. Also featuring Direct action user-development.
  • Monday April 20, 4:20pm A Celebration of Medical Marijuana. (In the Park.)
  • Monday April 20 7-11pm. A Glimpse of the Past --- Film Fest A Visual History of People's Park. See selected clips from Claire Burch's new film "People's Park Then and Now", 1969 Newsreel short, Berkeley in the 60's, People's Park 30th Anniversary Celebration, and a slide show by David Blackman. At Redwood Gardens, 2951 Derby St. at Piedmont. $5-10 sliding scale.
  • Tuesday April 21 6-7:30pm Got Free Speech? A public forum at the Berkeley Public Library 2090 Kittredge St. Featuring Mike Lee, Osha Neumann, Stephen Dunifer, Doug Minkler, Gene Bernardi, Ramsey Kanaan, and Carol Denney.
  • Tuesday April 21 8-11pm People's Park Potluck and Folkshow with Darryl Cherney and Carol Denney. At the Unitarian Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar at Bonita in North Berkeley. Download the flier.
  • Wednesday April 22 2-5pm Health Faire in People's Park. Sponsored by Easy Does It.
  • Thursday April 23 7-10 pm People's Voice Poetry at the Caffe Mediterraneum 2475 Telegraph.
  • Friday April 24 People's Park Founders Forum with the Park's original Creators. (Michael Delacour, Wendy Schlesinger, Frank Bardacke, Sim Van der Ryn... more..) Poets Julia Vinograd and Jack Hirshman, followed by music with Marimba Pacifica, The Funky Nixons, Wire Graffiti. 4:30pm reunion, 5-7 forum, 7:30 music. Photos, food. $15 suggested Donation. Ashkenaz 1317 San Pablo Ave. See the flier (pdf).
  • Sunday, April 26th People's Park 40th Anniversary Concert noon till dusk in People's Park Jonathan Richman, Terry Garthwaite and Family (Joy of Cooking), Shelley Doty, Country Joe, Wavy Gravy, Phoenix, All Nations Singers, Nefer Tem Belly Dance, Carol Denney, Is... and more! Children's activities, Poetry stage, Food (not Bombs!), and Fun!!! also: Stage on Telegraph! with Antioquia, JB3, Outlaw Dervish, and Band of Mystics.

Download the poster.(color)(b/w)
Download the schedule for the week .
Or an awesome flier.

See the schedule from the 20th anniversary.

Join the listserve: peoplesparkcommunity@yahoogroups.com or 510 390-0830

"Nobody supervises and the trip belongs to whoever dreams." (from the notice in the Berkeley Barb Paper that called the first Park Creators!)

Park Events


Schedule: a Week of Events

April 18 - April 26 will be a week of celebration of People's Park history and future. Download the schedule above, post it around town, invite your neighbors! The schedule is also below, on the left. Also, join the online community: peoplesparkcommunity@yahoogroups.com or 510 390-0830

40th Anniversary

rapidly approaches!

The tremendous, celebrated, wonderful, fourtieth anniversary of the People's Park is approaching! Share your dreams, and keep your ears open!

UPCOMING



relatively recent

see the old news

At the recent Fashion Box Benefit Concert and Fashion Show

all were regaled by the wonderful Mannequin (from Cambria), the Village Yiddiots (klezmer), and I Yearn for Maiden (Iron). Thanks!

Also thanks to the folks who installed an attractive new freebox, fireproof, an elegant, simple, welded steel box -- and those who instantly filled it with useful clothes. No thanks to the university, who ripped it out of the ground sometime early the following Wenesday morning.

see some pictures from the 36th Anniversary Fair.

A brief summary of the SLAPP suit.
How the University is using the legal system to actively oppose public participation.

People's Park Community group discussion page.


Alphabetical (sort of) Index of Pages on This Site

Get those Suggested Netscape Plugins, now, before you start!


History Page:
Visit Historic Photo Gallery - 1969. From groundbreaking through helicopter gassing to flowers left on the fence wire. ACLU photographs. Steve C's photographs (Quicktime VR Panorama). Chronologies at no extra cost! (Best seen in 1000's of colors - though photos are b & w). Excerpts from Wendy Schlesinger's "Young Girl's Diary" 

Free Speech Page: Activism in the Park, Houselessness, Free Speech on the Internet.... and that's just for starters. You don't want to miss the Amazing Food Not Bombers FreeBox Fashion Extravaganza, do you? Revisit a great moment in Berkeley History, through the miracle of Internet Animatronics.... and who said Leftists had no sense of humor? 

Culture Page: Music, Poetry, Singing and Dance.... Poems by Julia Vinograd, Music and Speeches in support of People's Park.... yes and much animated dancing as well.... 



See the "Peace in the Park Page" as well for vital information relevant to Park Politics. Check out David Nadel, Dona Spring, and Maudelle Shirek, all celebrated for their long time support of People's Park, in animation and short but sparkling internet sound.

Links to friends of the park on other sites!


Peoples Park is located in the City of Berkeley, a few blocks South of the University of California campus. The Park is bounded on the East by Bowditch St., on the South by Dwight Way, on the North by Haste St. and on the West, it's a short half block from Telegraph Avenue.


 



Drop us a line.
(510)390-0830 or charles@well.com
 Or write: People's Park
   p.o. box 89
   berkeley, california
www.peoplespark.org
Established January 1996