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ERIE presents: Heads Talk Berkeley
ERIE presents: Heads Talk Berkeley with Jesse Jarnow, Sarah Matzar, Marc Franklin, and Magenta Ceiba
Co-presented by Blank Space
Jesse Jarnow, author of new book Heads: A biography of psychedelic America, Sarah Matzar, Mayan quilter and former LSD chemist, Marc Franklin, transpersonal photographer, and Magenta Imagination Healer, Executive Director of Bloom Network (formerly The Evolver Network) will discuss the reemergence of the psychedelic spring from a multi-decade lineage, the overall context of this era, and its effect on a variety of communities.
The tentative schedule is shifting around a bit, here is an update:
6:00-6:30pm Doors Open
6:30-6:40pm ERIE intro
6:40-7:05pm Jesse Jarnow
7:10-7:35pm Magenta Ceiba
7:40-8:10pm Sarah Matzar and Jesse Jarnow
8:10-8:20pm 10 minute break
8:20-9:00pm Marc Franklin
9:00-9:30+ish Panel discussion including Ken Adams
9:45+ Lobby: book signing, quilts, photos, Humbead's Map
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Jesse Jarnow, presenting from "Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America," on Humbead's Revised Map of the World, drawn in Berkeley, 1967-1968
Jesse Jarnow is the author of "Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America," published in March 2016 by Da Capo Press. Using narrative non-fiction to examine the entwined narratives of psychedelics, the counterculture, and the Grateful Dead, "Heads" looks back on a half-century of frequently hidden history from the perspective of the 21st century's new psychedelic spring. His writing on music, culture, and technology has appeared in Wired.com, Rolling Stone, the London Times, Pitchfork, and elsewhere. His @HeadsNews Twitter account and weekly Heads News email aggregates current news from the psychedelic/entheogenic front lines. Since 2008, he has hosted the freeform Frow Show, on the long-running non-commerical Jersey City radio station WFMU.
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Sarah Matzar, post-psychedelic quilt maker and former LSD chemist
Excerpt from interview: http://theinfluence.org/art-is-my-god-sarah-matzar-isnt-like-other-acid-cooks/
"Sarah Matzar isnt like other acid cooks. For starters, she is a woman, which besides Melissa Cargill and Rhoney Stanley of Owsleys lab and scattered others in the UK is rare in LSD chemistry circles. Sarah is 410 and possesses a lacerating wit. She is starting her own textile business and getting her masters in anthropology at UC Berkeley, studying Mayan art. She is not here to save the world...
Art is my God, she says, and her God manifests in the form of intricate Guatemalan quilt making, symbols and systems colliding. My Guatemalan color sense combined with my psychedelic color sense, she says. In her quilting she attempts to break out of the block, the traditional division in pattern making, and does so, the fabrics continuing their conversation across rippled quilted surfaces."
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Marc Franklin, presenting from his high-definition Psychedelic Pioneers transpersonal portrait series.
Marc Franklin is an award-winning, self-taught photographer, media artist and psycho-activist. His art explores, questions and dissolves the continuum between two of photographys timeless themes, nature and portraiture. In 1984, he designed/co-published the seminal High Frontiers, a wildly experimental underground magazine that prefigured Mondo 2000 and Wired alike. An ardent critic and foe of the War on Drugs, Marc has diligently photographed nearly all the key figures of the psychedelic subculture: chemists, clinicians, researchers, artists, poets, writers, musicians, and activists. His sublime portraiture captures the face of counter culture history in resonant detail.
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Magenta Ceiba, presenting From Counterculture to Pop Culture: The Future of Psychedelics
Magenta will share her vantage point on the future of psychedelic cultures. Hundreds of millions of people on the planet are tripping. How do Ayahuasca and acid cultures mesh? Whats beyond the blinky lights at a chaotic, sexist rave? And what does it look like as American psychedelic culture matures into societal integration?
Magenta is the executive director of Bloom Network (formerly Evolver Network), an international social network for regenerative culture. She dialogues with creative medicine people from 6 continents about the transformations that are happening in their cities and ecosystems caused by climate change and economic pressure. Bloom helps people migrate to sustainable, decentralized practices in governance, economics, agriculture, health and more. Magenta curated and edited for Aorta magazine, which featured art by female and trans radical political artists. She advocates for awareness of the global history of entheogenic use, and legalization of medicinal plants and fungi.
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LocationDavid Brower Center, Goldman Theater (View)
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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