Film Screening and Q&A
March 3, 2022, 2 P.M. CST

Professor Beverly Seckinger of the University of Arizona School of Theater, Film & Television will present the film Hippie Family Values (2018) on March 3, 2022 from 2:00 to 3:15 P.M. Hippie Family Values is a feature-length documentary about three generations at a back-to-the-land community in rural New Mexico. Shot over a period of ten years at a remote communal ranch, Hippie Family Values is an intimate chronicle of a handful of hippie elders, along with their adult children and grandkids. The film counters dismissive stereotypes with stories of real people whose worldview was forged in the 60s counterculture, and who remain motivated by those youthful convictions. The founders of this back-to-the-land experiment are slowing down and facing declining health. Will the next generation be able to sustain the community into the future? Fifty years after the Summer of Love, the don’t-trust-anyone-over-30 generation now dotes on their grandchildren and faces the challenges of advancing age. The elders profiled in the film continue to defy convention as they pursue communal alternatives to commercial retirement facilities and nursing homes. Hippie Family Values won the Grand Festival Award for Documentary at the Berkeley Film Festival, the Outstanding Project Award for 2019 from the Communal Studies Association, and the award for the Outstanding Documentary Feature at the University Film & Video Association 2018 Annual Conference. The film continues to screen in community and campus venues across the country. This event is sponsored by the USI Center for Communal Studies.

Faculty, Students, Staff & Public Invited

Dr. William Hemminger
November 5, 2021, from 3-4:15pm CST
View recorded Zoom presentation.

Faculty, Students, Staff & Public Invited

Growing Good

A Beginner's Guide to Cultivating Caring Communities

Edited by William Hemminger

Contributions by John A. Elliott, Shelley Dewig, Kyle Kramer, Wendy Bredhold, Cris G. Hochwender, Anna Jean Stratman, William Hemminger, Jes Pope, Amy Rich, R. Calvin Kimbrough Jr., Trisha Brown, Yvonne Mans, Sally Carr, Kamela Jordan and Jim Poyser

Published by: Indiana University Press

PRESENTATION AND BOOK SIGNING BY DR. SILVIA RODE (Professor of German & Chair of Department of World Languages & Cultures) -- March 13, 2019 from 2-3 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall (LA 0101)

"Utopia Explored: George Rapp’s Thoughts on the Destiny of Man, Particularly with Reference to the Present Times; by the Harmonist Society in Indiana. A.D. 1824."

Dr. Rode will be available for a book signing: George Rapp: Thought on the Destiny of Man, Particularly with Reference to the Present Times by the Harmony Society in Indiana A.D. 1824: A Critical Study (2018)

Laura Johnston Kohl, "Jonestown Survivor – Evolution of People's Temple in the 1960s and 1970s" (April 2017)

Artistic Group (Maidens), "Shavasana Project for a Harmonist Farm: Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running, Vibrating the Fabric of Time and Fanning the Glowing Coals of the Ascending Flames of Love in the Play of Wisdom (Dedicated to a Contemplative Society)" (March 2014)
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