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DESCRIPTION:Les Diggers de San Francisco\nFilm and Discussion\n \nFrom 1966 - 1969 the 
 Diggers were a loose network of activists and others who used guerrilla 
 street theater, direct action and a good sense of humor to explore social 
 alternatives. Their motto was "Everything is Free; Do Your Own Thing!" In 
 the late 1990s, Celine Deransart and Alice Gaillard trekked to California 
 and spent several weeks interviewing participants of the Digger experience. 
  Their film, Les Diggers de San Francisco, includes footage from the Digger 
 film Nowsreal, archival still photos and interviews. Interviewees include 
 Peter Berg, Nina Blasenheim, Peter Coyote, Judy Goldhaft, Chuck Gould, 
 Freeman House, Lenore Kandel, Jane Lapiner and David Simpson. Interviews 
 are in English with some additional information in French.\n\nBe part of 
 the happening. Exhibitions, author talks, arts and crafts and more as San 
 Francisco Public Library celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of 
 Love. See the SFPL Summer of Love Program Guide (PDF)\n\n\nThe Diggers 
 combined street theater, anarcho-direct action, and art happenings in their 
 social agenda of creating a Free City. Their most famous activities 
 revolved around distributing Free Food every day in the Park, and 
 distributing "surplus energy" at a series of Free Stores (where everything 
 was free for the taking.) The Diggers coined various slogans that worked 
 their way into the counterculture and even into the larger society — "Do 
 your own thing" and "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" being 
 the most recognizable. The Diggers, at the nexus of the emerging 
 underground, were the progenitors of many new (or newly discovered) ideas 
 such as baking whole wheat bread (made famous through the popular Free 
 Digger Bread that was baked in one- and two-pound coffee cans at the Free 
 Bakery); the first Free Medical Clinic, which inspired the founding of the 
 Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic; tye-dyed clothing; and, communal 
 celebrations of natural planetary events, such as the Solstices and 
 Equinoxes.\n\nFirst and foremost, the Diggers were actors (in Trip Without 
 A Ticket, the term "life actors" was used.) Their stage was the streets and 
 parks of the Haight-Ashbury, and later the whole city of San Francisco. The 
 Diggers had evolved out of the radicalizing maelstrom that was the San 
 Francisco Mime Troupe which R.G. Davis, the actor, writer, director and 
 founder of the Troupe had created over the previous decade. The Diggers 
 represented a natural evolution in the course of the Troupe's history, as 
 they had first moved from an indoor milieu into the parks of the City, 
 giving Free performances on stages thrown up the day of the show. The 
 Digger energy took the action off the constructed platform and jumped right 
 into the most happening stage yet — the streets of the Haight where a new 
 youth culture was recreating itself, at least temporarily, out of the 
 glaring eye of news reporters. The Diggers, as actors, created a series of 
 street events that marked the evolution of the hippie phenomenon from a 
 homegrown face-to-face community to the mass-media circus that splashed its 
 face across the world's front pages and TV screens: the Death of Money 
 Parade, Intersection Game, Invisible Circus, Death of Hippie/Birth of 
 Free.\nThe Diggers broadcast these events, as well as their editorial 
 comments of the day, pronouncements to the larger Hip Community, manifestos 
 and miscellaneous communications, through broadsides and leaflets 
 distributed by hand on Haight Street. These Web pages are my attempt to 
 present the story of the digger movement as it developed in the mid-to-late 
 sixties and early seventies (and evolved in various directions even to the 
 present). I have been collecting this Archive for thirty years, and see the 
 Web as a way to display the materials and make them available both for 
 researchers and for all diggers past and present who want to preserve and 
 participate in this history.\n\nLink to excellent documentary on The 
 Diggers (Les Diggers de San 
 Francisco):\nhttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=OZE72UDI\n 
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SUMMARY:66-69 the Diggers - activist Their motto was "Everything is Free; Do Your Own Thing!" Film
LOCATION:Koret Audtorium SF Public Library\n100 Larkin St. at Grove, Hyde\nMarket St 
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