( All the different pdfs (stories) are on the left. )
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Rainbow Family Life Stories
Interviews with Rainbow Family of Living Light folks conducted by Jodey Bateman between 1977 and 2008. Scanned in 2018. Jodey may be contacted on Facebook or by email at jodey.bateman@yahoo.com
Rainbow, a book by Phil Coyote
Rainbow Gatherings have been held worldwide since 1972. The first one was held in Colorado, USA. Phil Coyote was there in the beginning during the years before 1972 helping to create the first gathering. In his book, Rainbow, Phil tells the story of his life, his involvement in the inception of these gatherings and many of the characters and times they shared. Phil continues to update his book from time to time. Please enjoy this wonderful account of the beginnings of the worldwide phenomenon that is Rainbow. :)
( ☊ button reads it out loud and the circle with 3 dots lets you download a pdf )
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Largest Gathering Of A Non Organization Made Up Of Non Members
In this video, Luke Rudkowski interviews Vermine Supreme an American performance artist and activist who has run as a candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. The two met at the national gathering where over 10,000 people met at the national forest and created an alternative society. We discussed how this community came about, hassles from authority and how this is all happening. (2016)
Living Color Living Sound (Washington Rainbow 2011 documentary)
FILM DESCRIPTION: Living Color Living Sound is an experimental documentary on the American Rainbow Family's 40th Annual National Rainbow Gathering. Shot in Washington State's Gifford Pinchot National Forest in July of 2011, and completed as a master thesis in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Free University Berlin. The American filmmaker, StarLynn Jacobs, has created this sensorial document as a introduction to this diverse group she identifies with, one which functions without official leaders or doctrines, uses consensus, and is open to all. An auto-ethnographic glimpse of a thriving thread of American life that attempts to operate outside the hyper-capitalistic world of the "dominant culture."
EXCERPT (Jacobs 2011): "This year's 40th Annual U.S. National Rainbow Gathering in Washington States's Gifford Pinchot National Forest was my eleventh Rainbow gathering. […] In one way though, this year's gathering was a first for me, as it was my first gathering to participate in while playing the role of a visual anthropologist with the intention to conduct fieldwork and to create an ethnographic film. Serendipitously, through the fieldwork, the topic of first-gatherings, first-time gatherers and “firsts” in general, became a theme for my work. [...] One of the most striking observations which stood out to me at this gathering, was the amount of “first-timers” that I met. Instead of going on a hunt to find the people who I thought played some of the key roles in the family, I decided to stay true to the Rainbow spirit by acknowledging that all roles are equally important, and to let the unfoldment of research happen naturally. It was a refreshing experience to meet so many first-timers who were in awe of the unexpected love they felt and to observe so much new energy and changing ideas, helping to keep the family organically growing. On the other side, with further observation, I also found a red flag of warning about the dangers which could occur with an influx of new energy coming into the family without any connection to the more experienced generations. In any case, it became obvious that the family is growing, and the observations that I made seemed to indicate that the Rainbow Family is at a new generational shifting point." SCREENED AT: -Moviemento Cinema Berlin, October 2011 -KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Autonomous University @7th Berlin Biennial, May 2012 Entered the Internet Archive November 2014
We Love you
We Love You and two extra little videos from the Internet Archive.
We Love You documents the Rainbow Rainbow Family of Living Light. Every summer since 1972 thousands of people co-create a temporary city deep in the wilderness of our national forests to practice anarchy and hippy spirituality. This isn't a music festival; there is no charge for entry and the main event is an elaborate prayer for peace on July 4th. The Rainbows peaceful ways are challenged when federal agents charged with monitoring them shoot pepper spray projectiles into the children's' area of the gathering.
(Definitely give props to the 2nd little video after the main one)
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