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Joe Johnson's Beatle Brunch is proud to be a part of the music explosion of the 1960's and there is not one, more perfect place to honor, but this.

The Museum at Bethel Woods explores the unique experience of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, its significance as a culminating event of a decade of radical cultural transformation, and the ongoing legacy of the Sixties and Woodstock. Through personal stories, profiles, immersive multi-media exhibits, engaging programs and educational events, The Museum will encourage inter-generational dialogue about important ideas and issues relevant to today. The Museum will also help to preserve the historic site on which the 1969 Woodstock festival took place.

The Museum at Bethel Woods is an integral part of the larger Bethel Woods Center for the Arts that houses multiple concert and performance venues, as well as the historic festival “bowl” of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is approximately 90 minutes from New York City and encompasses nearly 2,000 bucolic acres at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY. The campus is comprised of a 15,000-seat outdoor performing arts venue, the Pavilion Stage, with 4,500 covered seats and an additional 10,000 on a natural sloping lawn while offering unique backdrops including the original festival site and the majesty of the surrounding Sullivan County countryside.

The permanent exhibit story unfolds in three galleries:
• The Sixties
• The Woodstock Music and Art Fair
• The Impact of Woodstock and the Sixties

Major themes of the permanent exhibit:
• American culture changed dramatically during the Sixties.
• Critical drivers of that cultural transformation were expressed during the 1969

Woodstock Festival:
o Baby Boomer Emergence
o Idealism
o Civil Rights
o War & Peace
o Personal Freedom
o Questioning Authority, Protest, and Activism
• During the 1960s, rock & roll music rapidly evolved into a serious popular art form, combining elements of all American roots music forms (i.e., blues, gospel, jazz, western, R & B, popular standard, and country).
• Sixties popular culture, especially rock & roll, both reflected and influenced current events during the decade to an unprecedented extent.
• The Sixties and Woodstock continue to resonate today, affecting our attitudes and ideas in many ways, including those regarding diversity, personal freedom, the green movement, feminism, questioning authority, and popular music.

Robert Altman’s Sixties: Portrait of a Generation at the Special Exhibit Gallery, The Museum at Bethel Woods.

The Museum will also present a three-part Fall Film Series related to the exhibit.

Robert Altman is an internationally acclaimed photographer who studied under Ansel Adams and is best known as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone.

Coming of age in the mid-Sixties, photographer Robert Altman witnessed the rise of the counterculture – hippies, be-ins, rock concerts and peace demonstrations -- and documented the events and personalities of the era. These 119 large format photographs show one man’s view of a colorful, dynamic, and exciting time from 1966 to 1975.

“Robert Altman’s photography was instrumental in portraying the look and feeling and vitality of the sixties,”
– Jann Wenner, founder and publisher, Rolling Stone.

Mick Jagger, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Jim Morrison, Abbie Hoffman, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Pete Townshend, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Fonda are among the iconic 1960s figures immortalized in pictures and commentary by the legendary photographer from Rolling Stone’s early heyday. An affectionate tribute juxtaposes tie-dyed hippies and peace marches, musicians, movie stars, organizers, and political leaders that made it happen. Aside from some of the most recognizable photos from the era, many of these images are rare or little known, providing freshness and immediacy to a revealing overview of a tumultuous decade.

The Fall Film Series will feature artistic films set in, or inspired by the 1960s and the music of the era. The series will run for three weeks on Thursday nights, from October 22 to November 5, and each night will feature a film thematically related to the exhibit including "Blow-Up", "Almost Famous", and "I’m Not There", as well as fun themed activities.

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