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(Mount Clipping in Space Below) OG CAPITAL L: This is for strect theater? — LAWRENCE LIPTON “ {Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Yes, We have no idea how What ALOUT the Yipple Festi- many of those groups are coming in, We got three thousand Ietters in July alone, at the New York office, And we couldn't coordinate all the stuff, , AUGUST 26th p.m.: Beach party on the lake across from Lake Park, called North Avenue Beach: folk singing, barbeques, swimming, lovemaking, _ AUGUST 27th dawn; poetry, val of Life sctieduled for August 25-30 in Chicago? Who's going? Who isn’t going? Who will be there? Acccrding -to a telephone con- versation £ had with Abbie Hoff- man who, with Jerry Rubin and others on the East Coast first proposed the idea and are acting as coordinators, the plan is togo forward with the festivalasitwas . first announced, A transeript of my phone con- versation with Hoifman follows: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HOFFMAN: I'll give you asche- | cule of events: AUCUST Z0th-2dth there will be training classes tn karate, non-vidlent dissent, defense a- gainst mace, ete, There will be an information booih set up In Lincoln Park, Aimost all our activities are focused on Lincoln Park, AUGUST 24th Mayor Daley is going to do fireworks on Lake Michigan, AUGUST 25th afternoon; wel- coming of the Democratic dele- gates In downtown hotels, Exact p:ans to be announced, There are theater skits planned and things like that, August 25th p.m,: music festival, Lincoln Park, _ AUGUST 26th a,m.: workshops in underground communications, drug problems, how to live free, guerrilla theater, draft resis- tance. self-defense, how toset up communes, etc, Workshops deal- ing with problems that we faceas an alternative community, Work- shop leaders should call943-5265, | There will also be scenario ses- sions to plan smail-group acti- vities, LIPTON: Why do you call them scenurio acssions? H: We think in terms of theater. mantras, religious ceremony led | by Allen Ginsberg, AUGUST 2%thafternoon: Work- shops and scenario sessions, Also film showings and mixed media event at the Coliseum, 1513 South Wabash Ave, August 27th, even- ing: benefit coacert in conjunction ‘with the National Mobilization Committee at the Coliseum; also Lincoin Park nomination and ral- ly for Pegasus, the pig. And LBJ birthday party, : AUCUST 23th, dawn: poetry and fulk singing, beach area, Aug- ust 28th, afternoon: Yippie Clym- pics, Miss Yippie contest. Wo’re boycotling the regular Olympics and having our own, Pin the tail on the donkey, pin the rubber on ‘the Pope, a jolitt-rolling contest, a dirty dope dealers’ convention. We're going to try and get the dealers together and have the price iowered, Andother normal, healthy games, AUGUST 28th, the night that Humphrey gets nominated, plans will be announced at @ later dala, There {s a mobilization rally scheduled for Grant Park at 4 p.m, L: Do you intend to do anything outside Convention Hall, or inside? H: There {sa march scheduled et Convention Hall, These arcithe mobilization’s plans and there is ‘ferent things, Some people will page 7 Los Angeles Froe Press Tes Angeles, Calif. pate: 8/16-22/68 Edition: Author: Lawrence Lipton Editor: Art Kunkin Tile: ty dppfos to Visit Hog Capital" - Character: Is or Classification: Submitting Office: stay in the park, Some writ-ge-en- the march, some will go downs FNC} FE EIR Se i ROT TO * cen ir ree we ee te EY, a lot of difference of opinion, Our y t° feeling Is that pcople living in ” 4 Lincoln Park will do lots of ait. / 7 Theater groups will plan theater skits, . ——Le EI wre eRe PO OT 4 - ’ _ 5 * Pata ak ae “Po . . . .