Monday, September 7th 2015.

 

The Woodstock Festival

 

-     August 15^th, 16^th and 17^th 1969

-     Music festival (+ drugs!)

-     The crowd: 500.000 people (half a million) over 3 days…

-     2 deaths / 2 births

-     Emblematic singers: Jimmi Hendrix & Janis Joplin

-     Young people: the Hippies belonged an anti-war movement / Counter culture…

-     Clothes: dressed differently from their parents: a lot of colours, more colourful, long hair (for both boys & girls), sandals or boots, flared trousers / Bell bottom trousers

-     Slogan: Peace & Love / Make Love not War

-     Criticized the intervention of America in the Vietnam War…

-     Lies to parents…

-     Ideology: peace, high, unconsciousness, freedom, invincible, …

 

 

Monday, September 14^th 2015

Groupe 2

 

The Woodstock Festival

    

-     August 15^th, 16^th, 17^th 1969

-     Festival for peace & music

-     500,000 people (five hundred thousand) attended the event over three days

-     Music festival + drugs!

-     Hippies / Peaceful movement = FlowerPower / the Counter Culture (against the 1960s)

-     2 deaths + 2 births

-     Emblematic singers: Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix

-     Anti-war (Vietnam war)

-     Clothes: vivid colours, large / loose clothes, flared trousers / Bell bottom trousers

-     Hair: long hair for both men & women…

-     Different from their parents / the previous generation…

-     Slogan: “Make Love Not War” + “Peace & Love”

-     Criticized the violence of the war and the intervention of the USA in Vietnam

-     Lies to parents…

-     Ideology: peace, non-violence, communities, freedom, invincible, high…

Imagine you have a time machine and you press the button to go back to August 15^th 1969…  how do you feel? What do you experience? (150 words or 90 seconds minimum)

 

Want to learn more? Go and check the following links:

Click here to discover a website dedicated to the Woodstock festival...

Click here to watch a gallery of photos...

Click here to watch Janis Joplin at the Woodstock Festival...

Click here to watch a one hour documentary about the Woodstock Festival...