The Kezar Gardens Ecology Center specializes in making the old new again, but most of that effort has focused on bottles, cans and paper. On Friday it launched a last-ditch push to save its own Golden Gate Park facility from the dustbin.
To summon help, the center is recycling the Human Be-In, a landmark 1967 gathering of hippies in Golden Gate Park.
From Friday until Sunday, according to organizer Ryan Rising, the center will host a two-day festival with 22 bands, face painting, ballroom dancing and scads of other events meant to channel the spirit of the 1960s into an effort to save the center.
Rising said his group, Space Transformers, also organized the revival of the Human Be-In to support two other San Francisco community gardens that may lose their spaces: the Free Farm, at the corner of Gough St. and Eddy St., and Hayes Valley Farm at 450 Laguna Street near Fell Street.
This video gives a taste of the original event: