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1st Edition
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- Artists
- *Unknown
 - Bands
- Grateful Dead
- Manufacturer
- Bindweed Press - San Francisco, CA
- Edition Details
| Year: | 1967 | | Class: | Poster | | Status: | Official | | Released: | 08/20/67 | | Paper: | White Vellum | | Size: | 14.125 X 20.625 |
- EB Awards
- Nominate Now
- Venues
- Mt. Tamalpais Outdoor Theater - Marin, CA
- Event
- 8/20
- Comments
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This poster announced the “Om Festival of Lights,” which was a procession of light from Mt. Home parking lot to Mt. Tamalpais peak. The poster encourages attendees to bring “candles, lanterns and love.” The whole shindig was sponsored by the Association for United Mankind (AUM) – Samuel Bercholz, Director.
August 20, 1967 The Flame gathered again in the Panhandle. On Mount Tamalpais there was a separate gathering called either the Summer of Love Festival of Lights or the Om Festival.
Some 2,500 came to hear the Grateful Dead and then chant Om on the mountain. The Dead's generator burned out and a rhythm chorus on garbage cans completed the musical part of the evening.
As night fell, the Om chanting began on an outcropping that overlooked the north end of the Bay. At 10:30, as some people lit candles, rangers ordered the whole crowd off the state park grounds. Apart from the fire hazard, the problem was that Om Festival organizers had
made the mistake of notifying the fire marshal of their event while neglecting to obtain a permit. Source: Haight-Ashbury by Charles Perry published 1984
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