Nambassa was a series of hippie-conceived festivals held between 1976 and 1981 on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in New Zealand. They were music, arts and alternatives festivals that focused on peace, love, and an environmentally friendly lifestyle. In addition to popular entertainment, they featured workshops and displays advocating holistic health issues, alternative medicine, clean and sustainable energy, and unadulterated foods. Singer at contemporary Russian Rainbow gathering Hippie, usually spelled hippy in the United Kingdom, refers to a subgroup of the 1960s and early 1970s counterculture that began in the United States, becoming an established social group by 1965 before declining during the mid-1970s. ... Waihi is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. ... Waikino is a small town situated in the North Island of New Zealand nestled in the Southern end of a beautiful gorge alongside the Ohinemuri River, between Waihi and the Karangahake Gorge. ... The symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which has become a widely recognized peace symbol. ... Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. ... The phrase environmentally friendly is used to refer to goods or services considered to inflict little harm on the environment. ... Holistic health is a medical philosophy of well-being that considers the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life as closely interconnected and balanced. ... It has been suggested that Complementary and Alternative Medicine be merged into this article or section. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Healthful eating is the act of following a balanced nutritional diet. ...

1981 10,000 Nambassadors join for world peace

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Significant events

• 1977 January. Waikino music festival at Bicknel's farm, Waitawheta Valley, between Waihi and Waikino. Attendance 5500.
• 1977 December. Auckland, Queen St parade to Albert Park for a free concert. Attendance 10,000.

Nambassa 1979 Main Stage, 'Negative Theatre'.

• 1978 January. Nambassa, three-day music, crafts and alternative lifestyles festival on Phil and Pat Hulses' 400 acre farm in Golden Valley, north of Waihi. Attendance 25,000.
• 1978 October. Nambassa winter road show toured the North Island promoting the 1979 festival.
• 1978 December. Maritoto Valley, two-day gathering for the Mother Centre and friends. Attendance 1500.
• 1979 January. Nambassa beach festival, touring family roadshow. Whangamata Waihi Beach Mount Maunganui and Coromandel.
• 1979 January. Nambassa three-day music, crafts and alternative lifestyle festival on Phil and Pat Hulses' 400 acre farm in Golden Valley, north of Waihi. Attendance 75,000 plus.
• 1981 January. Nambassa five-day celebration of music, crafts and alternative lifestyles culture on 250 acre farm at Waitawheta Valley between Waihi and Waikino. Attendance 20,000.

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Performers and guests

Some of the hundreds of performers and guests who took part in Nambassa activities included:

Nambassa 1981.

• Split Enz, Nambassa 1979, relaunching their career with a new line-up.
• The Little River Band, Nambassa 1979, with Glenn Shorrock.
• Skyhooks, Nambassa 1978, like Split Enz, Australia's early developers of theatre rock and costume extravaganza.
• John Mayall, Nambassa 1981. Britain's musical response to the 1960s and 1970s blues revolution.
• Dizzy Gillespie, Nambassa 1981.
• Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Nambassa 1981. Early black American blues exponent who influenced the 1960s music revolution.
• Charlie Daniels, Nambassa 1981.
• Barry McGuire Nambassa 1979. Famous for the 1960s international smash hit, Eve of Destruction
• Kevin Borich, Nambassa 1981. Ex La-De-Das and Australian Blues Foundation Hall of Famer who is actually a Kiwi. [1]
• Topp Twins, Nambassa 1979 and 1981. A couple of young kiwi girls finding their way around Nambassa.
• Limbs Dance Production, Nambassa 1978, 1979 and 1981. Internationally known NZ dance troupe. [2]
• Acorns Theatrical Productions, Nambassa 1978, 1979 and 1981. Jonathon Acorn, dedicated to children's entertainment in puppetry and comedy, produced the Woozlebub children's stage at Nambassa 1981, featuring five days of non stop theatrical and music productions. [3]
• Alan Clay, Nambassa 1979 and 1981. Children's entertainer, author and international arts coordinator. [4]
• Living Force, Waikino and Nambassa, 1977, 1978 and 1979. With Space Farm and Ticket. [5]
• Hello Sailor, Waikino 1977.
• Th'Dudes, Waikino 1977. Featuring a youthful Dave Dobbyn, then nurtured by Charlie Gray from the Island of Real cafe.

Nambassa 1981 Grant Bridger on Redhat Theatre.

• Rick Steele and the Hot Biscuit Band, Nambassa 79, the winter show and beach festivals. [6]
• Dallas Four, Waikino 1977. [7]
• Citizen Band ex Split Enz. Performed Good Morning Citizens with full energy.
• Tribrations, Nambassa 1978, 1979 and 1981. Performed their single Coromandel Gold. They were based in Coroglen Coromandel. [8]
• Alistair Riddell, Nambassa 1978. [9]
• Schtung, Nambassa 1978 and 1979. [10]
• Midge Marsden, Nambassa 1978 and 1979.
• Beaver, Nambassa 1978. [11]
• Rough Justice, Nambassa 1978. [12]
• Sam Ford's Verandah Band, Nambassa 1979. A loose-knit Ponsonby outfit. [13]
• Chapman and White, Nambassa 1978 and 1979. Ted Chapman and Andy White wrote the Nambassa song which was a hit in 1979. It was re-released in 2002 by Split Enz keyboarder Eddie Rayner. [14]
• Andy Anderson, Nambassa 1978 and 1979. Musician and actor. [15]
• The Plague (band) Nambassa 1979 and 1981. Major claim to fame was a naked live performance (albeit covered in paint) in 1979.
• Chris Thompson - [16]
• Mahana. A traveling Māori theatrical rock band whose rock opera depicts the trials and tribulations of early white colonisation of New Zealand. Showcased at the Nambassa Winter Show 1978 and the Nambassa festivals 1978, 1979 and 1981. Produced by John Tucker.
• Inner Sky - Grenville Bell Katchafire and JonMcLeary
• Bunny Swan, Nambassa 1979. The lady of Alaska. [17]
• Billy TK, Nambassa 1979 and 1981. [18]

Nambassa 1981 Australian Aboriginal dance

• John Hore-Grenell, Nambassa 1978 and 1979. [19]
• The Roger Fox Big Band, Nambassa 1981. [20]
• The Amazing Chicane, Nambassa 1981. [21]
• Garry McCormick, Nambassa 1978, '79 and '81. Poet and comedian. [22]
• Sam Hunt, Nambassa 1979, Poet. [23]

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• Stephen Gaskin, Nambassa 1978, '79 and '81. Co-founder of the "The Farm (Tennessee)", an internationally known spiritual community in Summertown, Tennessee. Stephen Gaskin was a Green Party presidential primary candidate in the US elections of 2000. He and wife Ina May, plus other farm residents, made the annual pilgrimage to Nambassa.
• Satchidananda, Nambassa 1979. Known among the 1960s counterculture as the man who opened the original Woodstock festival of 1969, and as the sage from India who introduced the art of Yoga to the west.

Nambassa 1981 Woozlebub for kidz.

• Ina May Gaskin, Nambassa 1978 and 1981. Widely credited with having created the modern home birth movement and helping to inspire the renaissance of midwifery in the United States.
• Eileen Caddy Nambassa 1981. Eileen co-founded the Findhorn spiritual community in Scotland in 1962. Her workshops and discussions on Findhorn Foundation were well received.
• Dr Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, Nambassa 1981. Richard Alpert was a professor of psychology at Harvard University who became well known for researching the effects of LSD, working closely with Dr. Timothy Leary. At Nambassa there was standing room only for Ram Dass' diverse lecturers on meditation and health.
• Chief Oren Lyons, Nambassa 1981. Lyons is a Native American, a traditional faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga (tribe) Council of Chiefs of the Hau de no sau nee. He conducted lectures and coordinated with Māori land rights activists, sharing his Native American land rights experiences. [24]
• Dr. Jim Cairns, Nambassa 1981. Former deputy Prime Minister and Labor Treasurer in the Australian government who opposed Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and in 1970 led a protest against the war. He resigned from parliament in 1977 to devote his life to the counter-cultural movement.
• The Twin Oaks echo community from Louisa, Virginia, sent a delegation of six people to

Nambassa 1979 'The Plague' on the Main Stage.

the 1981 Nambassa five-day celebration. Their workshop contributions were well received. Stephen Gaskin is a counter-cultural icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding The Farm, a famous spiritual Intentional Community in Summertown, Tennessee. ... The Farm is a spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee, based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... This article is about the green parties around the world. ... Sri Swami Satchidananda ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 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• Eva Rickard, Nambassa 1979. Vocal agitator for return of Raglan golf course land to the Tainui Awhiro people from whom it was taken during World War II. Gave a number of powerful lectures, on aerial railway and the main stage. Nambassa is sympathetic towards many indigenous Māori land claims. [25]
• Tim Shadbolt, Nambassa 1978, 1979 and 1981. Political activist and workshop participant. In the 1970s, he founded a commune and concrete cooperative at Huia. He wrote an autobiography, Bullshit and Jellybeans.
• Jonathon Daemion: Nambassa 1978, 1979 and 1981. Canadian New Age Personal development initiator.

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Arts, self-sufficiency and healing arts workshops

The extracts below are taken from the 1976 Nambassa newsletter proposal, in support of their first Nambassa alternatives festival. Written 30 years ago and published throughout New Zealand in September 1977, the sentiments expressed by these warnings on impending times have in the view of Nambassa aspirants considerable meaning thirty years later for today’s world, ravaged by environmental degradation (unprecedented pollution and Global warming) and the systems social collapse. (Unprecedented consumer madness, crime, mental illness, cancer epidemics, substance abuse including pharmaceutical and prescription drug dependence, youth suicide, political and economic corruption and Child sexual abuse). Pollution is the release of environmental contaminants. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected... Over-consumption is a concept coined in developing nations to counter the rhetoric of over-population by which developed nations judge them as consuming more than their economy can support. ... A mental illness as defined in psychiatry and other mental health professions, is abnormal mental condition or disorder expressing symptoms that cause significant distress and/or dysfunction. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... Substance abuse refers to the overindulgence in and dependence on a psychoactive leading to effects that are detrimental to the individuals physical health or mental health, or the welfare of others. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... A prescription drug (or POM Prescription Only Medicine, in UK) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the willful act of killing oneself. ... The Global Corruption Report is an annual report which gives analysis on the level of corruption among many nations of the world. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

1981 Māori culture group.

The Nambassa festivals were not only music and entertainment events but included educational components which sought to instruct people on lifestyle aids it felt important enough to promote, within the then conservative society of New Zealand’s 1970s. Many of those involved in Nambassa aspired to the notion that throughout the evolution of western civilisation, many valuable ancient survival, healing and spiritual techniques, had been lost over 1700 years of a philosophically and culturally dominating Roman Christianity. [27] Nambassa advocates that many past civilizations supporting religious and political institutions, have historically sought to alienate, and too often violently eliminate, many worthwhile belief systems which did not conform to its then strict conservative doctrines on culture and religion. [28] Adherents of Nambassa promote the ideology which suggests that, to deny what was once integral to survival in ancient history, is essentially to deny ones personal spiritual development. Through its wide variety of workshop subjects the festivals attempted to nurture a better understanding of culture and spirituality with the goal of fostering a more tolerant and better informed society. [29] Image File history File linksMetadata 1981_Maori_Culture_group. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 1981_Maori_Culture_group. ... Māori culture is a distinctive part of New Zealand culture. ... For other uses, see Civilization (disambiguation). ... For the span of recorded history starting roughly 5,000-5,500 years ago, see Ancient history. ... A healer is someone who purports to aid recovery from ill health. ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Catholicism. ... Conservatism is a political philosophy that usually favors traditional values and strong foreign defense. ... Doctrine, from Latin doctrina, (compare doctor), means a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. ... Culture (from the [[Latin)) cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Ancient history is the study of significant cultural and political events from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages. ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... Culture (from the [[Latin)) cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ...

1979 Holistic Workshop

The idea of integrating education based workshop demonstrations with popular mainstream entertainment, set the Nambassa festivals aside from other festivals coming before it. It was during the social revolution of the early 1960s and 1970s [30] that Nambassa pioneered the concept, and was a world leader, in what was to evolve as a new format of presentation for the all encompassing major cultural, creative arts and music festivals. Most large open-air entertainment gatherings, prior Nambassa, were essentially pop concerts. This new format demonstrated the merits of combining, in a complimentary way, multiple and diverse entertainment and cultural modules, within the one grand celebratory event. During the 1970s, the Nambassa Trust developed this concept of large scale multidimensional events, which the rest of the world only began adopting some 20 years later.[31] Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1979_Holistic_Workshop. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1979_Holistic_Workshop. ... A workshop is a room or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. ... The term social revolution may have different connotations depending on the speaker. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Look up Creative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term creative can refer to: Creativity is defined as the ability to be creative. ... A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ... A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the audience may be only one person). ...

While the 1960s and 1970s hippy movements were and continue to be unfairly derided [32] [33] for their infatuation with rediscovering ancient religion and culture, many of these rebirthing systems are now part of mainstream ideology. Although the subject matter of the workshops at Nambassa was controversial for the time, these once-alternative ideas are now accepted by many as integral components of a freethinking modern society. The biggest complaint against the festival organisers from festival patrons, was that there were never enough hours in the day to attend their desired programme. Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ...

Nambassa 1981 Workshop 'Holistic' (Ram Dass)

At Nambassa, one could attend and participate in free workshop demonstrations, symposium and discussion groups on diverse subjects such as: leatherwork, hand crafted jewelry, spinning (textiles), pottery, indigenous Australians didgeridoo, boomerang throwing, creative art, musical instruments, puppeteering, bonsai trees, batiking, screen printing, basket weaving, Māori woodcarving, furniture and woodturning, natural cosmetics, custom made Sandal (footwear), clay therapy, aboriginal emu egg carving, silk screening, crochet and embroidery, macramé, ceramics, bone carving, candle making, stained glass, paper making, journalism and printing, glass blowing, enamelling, Māori art and jewelry, wood carving, the art of throwing pottery, weaving on inkle and back strap looms, wood-adzing, moccasin making, airbrushing, organic gardening, tie-dye, Māori kit making, mulching and composting, growing and using soya beans, herb gardening, hydroponics, small orcharding, natural child birth, breast feeding, child care, alternative education, animal husbandry, raku pottery, fencing, small dams and irrigation, solar heating, methane gas plants, wind pumps and generators, solar power, solar cooker, waterwheels, goat farming, sheep milking, rammed earth walls, soil-cement adobe, stone masonry, hydraulic power, wind power, low cost housing and renovation, furniture making, moulds and mud houses, bamboo and its uses, alternative lifestyles and communities, permaculture, ecology and mining, Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (600x927, 780 KB) Summary Nambassa_1981_Workshop_Holistic_(Ram_Dass). ... 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1981 Solar Energy

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At all festivals there was a smorgasbord of spiritual and religious learning. Here the public could venture to various Healing Arts areas and attend either a bible study course, or chant spiritual names with the Buddhists and Hare Krishna's, or sing and pray with Christians, or attend Sunday mass with the Catholics or learn how to meditate with Ananda Marga or find out the meaning of Karma from the Hindus. The policy of the Nambassa Trust was to attempt to create the ambience which would dispel all religious factionalism, so that philosophical labels would dissipate so that people of all religious persuasion could simply share in their most common fundamental of traits, their humanity. In maintaining Nambassa's nonsectarian and open door policy on religious philosophy, workshops were conducted on: Hinduism, Hare Krishna, Bible scholarship and born again Christianity, Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Ananda Marga, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Krishna-Haribol, Sufism, Esoteric Christianity, shamanism, Wicca, and Zen. Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... Philosophy of religion is the rational study of the meaning and justification of fundamental religious claims, particularly about the nature and existence of God (or gods, or the divine). ... Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Hare Krishna Mantra in Devanagari. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ... Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ... Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ... The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles, in particular Saint Peter. ... Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ... Ananda Marga is a social and spiritual organization founded in Jamalpur, state of Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921-1990), known by his spiritual name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. ... Buddhism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion, which is also a philosophy and a system of psychology[]. Buddhism is also known as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of the Awakened One in Sanskrit and Pali, the languages of ancient Buddhist texts. ... Taoism (pronounced and often written as Daoism (dow-ism)) is the English name for a religious and philosophical tradition in China. ... Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ... Hari is another name of Vishnu or God in Vaishnavism, Smarta or Advaitan Hinduism, Ayyavazhi and appears as the 650th name in the Vishnu sahasranama. ... Sufism is a mystic tradition of Islam encompassing a diverse range of beliefs and practices dedicated to Allah/God, divine love and sometimes to help a fellow man. ... Esoteric Christianity refers to the esoteric knowledge of Christian mysticism which adherents view as the inner teachings of early Christianity, seen as a Mystery religion. ... A shaman doctor of Kyzyl. ... The pentagram within a circle, a symbol of faith used by many Wiccans, sometimes called a pentacle. ... This article is about the religion Zen. ...

Village market

Nambassa 1981 Village Marketplace.

At the centre of all Nambassa festivals lay the village marketplaces. These consisted of dozens of hand craft outlets and health food eateries. Here the hustle and bustle, the exuberant colour and relaxed atmosphere, prevalent at the various Nambassa village marketplaces, was a feature. These centers of community are where one found the main information centre or where folks simply culminated just to absorb the diverse quirky celebratory ambiance. Over the various festivals the marketplaces evolved and became major attractions in themselves. Not only a space for the enjoyment of bartering for the various eclective products and oddities, but they were a place of fun and entertainment, spontaneous or otherwise. The idea of a marketplace servicing the local population, as a method of doing business, buying, selling and exchanging products, is as old as civilization itself. Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1981_Village_Market. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1981_Village_Market. ... A marketplace is the space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. ... A marketplace is the space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. ... Healthful eating is the act of following a balanced nutritional diet. ... A community usually refers to a group of people who interact and share certain things as a group, but it can refer to various collections of organisms sharing an environment, plant or animal. ... Barter is a simple form of trade where goods or services are exchanged for a certain amount of other goods or services, i. ...

'Don Murchison' on Rudi Trudi Rooster

The 1981 festival village was designed around a central rotunda with a maypole, where spontaneously, poets, buskers and ravers alike featured. Nambassa vigorously promoted handcrafts, not only because of their therapeutic qualities, but because they had the potential to be a source of revenue to lifestyle proponents looking towards self sufficiency and economic independence. From the festival village one could attend any number of craft workshops, pick up a copy of the daily Nambassa Waves newspaper, go buy fresh bread cooked in the wood-fired oven bakery constructed in a converted hay shed, go do some shopping, check out Radio Nambassaland, pick up some information from the mother centre about an event you didn’t want to miss out on, or to just simply chill out and absorb the atmosphere. Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1981_Village_Market,_'Don_Murchison'_on_Rudi_Trudi_Rooster. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1981_Village_Market,_'Don_Murchison'_on_Rudi_Trudi_Rooster. ... In Mosta, Malta, the Rotunda of Santa Marija Assunta is covered by a saucer dome. ... Dancing around the maypole, in Ã…mmeberg, Sweden The maypole is a tall wooden pole (traditionally of hawthorn or birch), sometimes erected with several long coloured ribbons suspended from the top, festooned with flowers, draped in greenery and strapped with large circular wreaths, depending on local and regional variances. ... Poets are authors of poems. ... Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ... A festival is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some unique aspect of that community. ... A workshop is a room or smaller building which contains tools and/or machinery for making or repairing things. ... Wood-fired ovens, also known as wood ovens, are for cooking. ... Chill Out can refer to: Chill Out! (command to an excited person) Chill Out (Black Uhuru album) Chill Out (KLF album) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Personnel

1978 Peter Terry in Melbourne negotiating with Split Enz.

The multiple festival formats which eventually shaped Nambassa festivals were conceived by Peter Terry while living in the Waikino craft village during early 1976. January 1977 heralded the Waikino music festival, a prelude to Nambassa, which experimented with the concept of amalgamating into a singular festive event, controversial alternative culture with popular music. By February 1977 Lorraine Ward and Bernard Woods in an old restored farmhouse atop of rural Bulltown Rd in Waihi, assisted Terry to edit a blueprint upon which the first Nambassa newsletter proposal was printed. Ten thousand copies of this free 13-page manuscript outlining the model and need for a Nambassa event, were circulated among the music, arts and alternative communities throughout the nation, inviting the wider community to participate. The first Mother Centre was opened on a farm in Willow Road at Waihi early November 1977, where the initial Nambassa support base and volunteers assembled to construct the festival facilities to accommodate a small city for the planned three-day music, crafts and alternative lifestyle event which was to be held at the end of January 1978 on two farms at the end of Landlyst Waihi. Image File history File linksMetadata 1978_Peter_Terry_in_Melbourne_negotiating_Split_Enz_. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 1978_Peter_Terry_in_Melbourne_negotiating_Split_Enz_. ... Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Waikino is a small town situated in the North Island of New Zealand nestled in the Southern end of a beautiful gorge alongside the Ohinemuri River, between Waihi and the Karangahake Gorge. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Waikino music festival was a 1976 music and alternatives event held on Bicknell’s farm in the picturesque Waitawheta Valley between Waikino and Waihi, New Zealand. ... Waihi is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. ... A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. ... The Arts is a broad subdivision of culture, comprised of many expressive disciplines. ... The phrase alternative society may have been in usage since the 19th century when Karl Marx and Proudhon represented two factions for alternative visions of social change. ... Waihi is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. ... Allegory of Music on the Opéra Garnier Music is an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. ... Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with ones own hands and skill. ... An alternative lifestyle is a lifestyle (a mode or style of conducting ones life) which carries the implication that it is not within the generally perceived cultural norm. ...

The Nambassa administration involved hundreds, to the extent that the 1981 five-day celebration gave out 1500 complimentary tickets to people and groups involved in the event in some official capacity. Those mainly responsible were: Peter Terry (Nambassa trustee, founder and events coordinator 1976-2005), Lorraine Ward (Nambassa secretary and trustee 1977-2005), Neil Wernham (art and graphics 1977-1981), Doug Rogers (music and staging technical adviser, 1976-1979), Fred Alder (Nambassa sun coordinator 1979, 1978 construction team, and former trustee 1978 and 1979), Bryce Lelievre (1981 festival secretary), Mike Taylor (communications and site coordinator 1978 and 1979), Jonathon Acorn (1981 Woozlebub coordinator), Trevor Kotlowski (1981 goffa), Mike Colonna (children's facility coordinator 1978 and 1979, Colin Broadley (programing, Nambassa book coordinator and open air theatre 1979-1981) and Barry Lowther, (Mother Centre father, 1978 and 1979).

The organising of the festivals and supporting events were themselves practical workshops in every sense. The Nambassa spectacles were organised on a purely voluntary basis by energetic and visionary young unemployed hippies (at a time when New Zealand's unemployment rate was at an unprecedented high), coordinated into a cohesive working force by Terry. Three months out of each festival its supporters would assemble at a farm community called the “Mother Centre”, living in house trucks, vans, cars and tents. Nambassa's open door policy encouraged anyone of what ever race, creed or economic circumstance to join in, providing one met the basic rules of the Mother Centre camp. The guidelines were no alcohol or hard drugs, and vegetarian diet was supplied by the Trust. Participants were required to work each day towards the collective goal of preparing the festival in time for opening day. In exchange they were fed and had immediate needs catered for. Over the years thousands of people, young and old, carved out permanent careers from the inspiration learnt, just from being involved with or going to a Nambassa event.

1981 Indigenous Australian performance.

Nambassa is administered not by private enterprise but through a registered charitable trust whose articles list provisions and aims allowing it to organise public events to raise funds to meet objectives. Consequently, the organisation is nurtured by and for the people, as opposed to being driven by corporate interests looking to maximise profit. This effectively enabled the events organisers to set minimal entry fees, based upon projected profits, so that festivals were affordable to lower income people. For example, the 1979 festival entrance was $18 (pre-paid) for a three-day adult pass. The trustees have several times declined offers of corporate sponsorship because the products offered have not met the Trust's philosophical aims and objects. In the 1970s the Nambassa Trust donated $29,698 to other organisations which meet its criteria. All Nambassa events made a profit with the exception of Celebration 1981. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (667x636, 526 KB) Summary Image (photograph) taken by Official Nambassa Photographer and uploaded by User:Mombas 03:17, 10 July 2006 (UTC) 02:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC) , Nambassa dot com Terms of Use: 1/ All users of this image are... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (667x636, 526 KB) Summary Image (photograph) taken by Official Nambassa Photographer and uploaded by User:Mombas 03:17, 10 July 2006 (UTC) 02:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC) , Nambassa dot com Terms of Use: 1/ All users of this image are... Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ... A charitable trust (or charity) is a trust organized to serve private or public charitable purposes. ... Corporate redirects here. ... The word trustee is a legal term that refers to a member of a trust, which can be set up for any of a variety of purposes, and is entrusted with the administration of property on behalf of others. ...

Sound and lighting

1981 'Limbs Dance' on Redhat.

Nambassa was the first in the world to develop the concept of multiple open air staging, all running simultaneously at the one event. Out of the first 1978 three day festival, the requirement of a second stage grew from the need to expand the entertainment program because of the resounding feedback from local performers and artists wanting to play at Nambassa. This became the “Aerial Railway”, a second fully operational stage with sound, lighting and management. Aerial Railway absorbed the overflow of performers from the Main Stage, and also acted as a venue for spontaneous performances or raves. This second option was integral to the Nambassa philosophy of promoting local music and arts. The early U.S. and European rock festivals, including Woodstock festival, Monterey Pop Festival and Isle of Wight Festival were all predominantly single stage productions. The Nambassa 1978 festival had three stages; 1979 saw this expanded to four (including workshop stages), and the 1981 5-day celebration heralded five separate sound and lighting venues, all running at the same time. In 1981, “Aerial Railway” was replaced with the “Open Air Theatre” and “Woozlebub” for children. The multiple staging concepts seem to be finally making a comeback in the twenty first century as seen at the recent Big Day Out and Glastonbury festivals. Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1981_'Limbs_Dance'_on_Redhat. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Nambassa_1981_'Limbs_Dance'_on_Redhat. ... The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... U2 at Live Aid A rock festival, or rock fest, is a large-scale outdoor rock music concert, featuring multiple acts, often spread out over several days. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Poster promoting the festival The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ... The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. ... The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand. ... The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury Festival or Glasto, is the largest [1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ...

The 1981 Nambassa 5-day event introduced “Radio Nambassaland”. This broadcasted live feeds from all the 5 stages and workshops, into the surrounding community.

TECHNICAL: Barton Sound, MusicCare, Aerial Railway Sound, Oceania Sound, Harlequin Studios, Mandrill Studios, Mascot Studios, Jay McCoy lighting and Paul Moss workshop recording & mobile PA.

Trivia

• On a per-capita basis, the 1979 Nambassa festival was over 10 times bigger than the famous 1969 Woodstock Festival. Swami Satchidananda, who also opened Woodstock ten years previously said, "This is better than Woodstock- you've got it made, lead the world".
• As Nambassa sought to demonstrate the practical ideals of alternative lifestyle, alcohol and meat could not be purchased at any Nambassa event. However, festival patrons were welcome to bring their own if they so desired.
• On the Friday night before the 1979 festival was officially opened, the festival
  

  

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  attendance had already reached its maximum capacity. At 3 am Saturday morning Peter was on the phone negotiating paddocks from neighbouring farms, while Fred, Mike and Bernie were out in the dead of night with bolt cutters, removing fences to allow cars and campers into newly acquired festival acerage. By 11 am Saturday morning on opening day, the traffic police closed the festival, were telling people to go home, and announcing on radio that the event could accommodate no more patrons. They ordered the organisers to remove the entry gates to free the roads, as vehicles and pedestrians were banked up in all directions for some 15 kilometers. But still they arrived. Some 5 kilometres towards Waihi a tent city spontaneously arose on a neighboring farm where approximately 15,000 people parked and then walked the final leg into the festival site. Others abandoned their vehicles in Waihi itself and made the pilgrimage to Nambassa on foot.

• Nudity was a factor at all Nambassa festivals. In an atmosphere of openness and compelling spiritual flow, a sense of personal freedom and discovery prevailed and this led to a considerable amount of nudity in the most innocent sense. Thousands of people simply got naked and wandered the festivals with little or no clothing.

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• Due to pre-festival intimidation by the media concerning the public smoking of marijuana at Nambassa, and whether the police were going to do anything about it because the NZ Marijuana party had promised a huge public smoke in at 1979, 58 people were arrested for cannabis on the first day of Nambassa 1979. As a response some 5-10,000 angry festival goers marched up the hill of the main auditorium to the police compound, threatening to storm it if the arrests did not cease.
  

  

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  For a while the situation was very volatile. Fred Alder, at the compound itself, did all he could to calm the situation. Peter Terry arranged a meeting with the police principals and advised them that they had made their point, and had them-selves become the focus of disruption threatening the peaceful outcome of the event. He told them that if these petty arrests continued then he too, would join the civil disobedience campaign to have the police removed from the festival. A deal was struck and potential disaster avoided. Peter then announced, from the main stage, what had transpired and asked that the huge body of people withdraw from the police compound. He explained that we needed all police on hand, given that we had had a drowning at the festival beach after a yacht had anchored in the bay and its occupants attempted to swim ashore. The protesters responded and withdrew without reservation. No further arrests were made. At the post festival wash-up the police issued a national press release congratulating the festival organisers for the way they managed the festival, and congratulated the 75,000 festival patrons for their good behavior.

• Just a month out of the 1981 5 day celebration at Waitawheta Valley, the Ohinemuri Council sought, and were granted, a legal injunction which effectively cancelled the festival. This resulted from objections to the event from a few local Waitawheta farmers. Once the red tape and bureaucracy was negotiated to everyone’s satisfaction, the injunction was lifted.

• The 1978 campaign to bring Split Enz (arguably New Zealand’s greatest ever rock band) home from England to play Nambassa 1979 was initially fraught with all kinds of complications. No one, including Michael Gudinksi and his Mushroom Records label, (Split Enz record company), would back the venture because the band had not fared overly well in the UK and had undergone significant member changes. After talks between Nambassa and Mushroom, (Peter Terry flew to Melbourne in an attempt to negotiate a deal) Michael Gudinksi declined to assist financially with the proposed Nambassa venture given, he said, Mushroom had already lost considerable money on the band's UK adventure and was not in a position to invest further in their future. Gudinksi, who we had dealt with the previous year with Skyhooks, instead offered a compromise deal without Split Enz, involving top Australian bands keen to play Nambassa.
  

  

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  Nambassa refused the compromise. The Trust wanted Split Enz, who they considered to be integral to the NZ music scene, or nothing. After some wrangling it was decided that Nambassa would go it alone and negotiate directly with the band itself. Ultimately the Nambassa Trust completely finance the bands return home. We paid their airfares, gave them spending money and organised two weeks' accommodation and a rehearsal venue with equipment in Waihi, where the new band could rehearse for the gig. Split Enz performed free at Nambassa 1979, forgoing their appearance fee so that we could get them home and prepared for their future musical assult on Australasia. At this decision, Mushroom, not wanting to miss an opportunity, came to the party and was a great assistance in the technical and logistic issues of getting the band home. They agreed to take the band from Nambassa and tour Australia, and Michael subsequently released their hit single “I see Red” to coincide with their Nambassa appearance. This olive branch from Mushroom we much appreciated, given that it gave the band who had waned in popularity in NZ since the heady mid seventies, valuable airplay. When Split Enz burst onto the stage at 8.30 pm on Saturday night on 28 January 1979, the Tao of great success was written all over them, and this heralded a new and unprecedented era for their new band. Inspirational musical artistry and True Colours rocked forth, and the rest is history.

• The 1981 5 day festival site along Franklin Rd Waitawheta, was pieced together from different parcels of land involving 5 different farms. This was a negotiating tightrope because we had other farmers and their friends, from the same farming district, who were legally objecting to the event taking place at all.

• Split Enz, fresh from London, had been based in Waihi at
  

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  a local motel in Seddon St for nearly two weeks and had been rehearsing with their new lineup in the old Waimata community hall which sat in a farm paddock in the rural countryside just 3-4 klms on the main highway to Tauranga, south of Waihi. Just a handful of days out from the festival the unthinkable happened. At around 3am one morning, the hall caught fire and burnt to the ground taking with it the bands personal gear and a host of other sound equipment which Nambassa had put in place so that they could clock up some playing time. It was controlled chaos. Almost overnight, Split Enz replaced their gear with borrowed equipment, and indeed, “we all saw red” that morning. When the band finally emerged on stage two days later they were deadly. Fifty thousand people went right off and gave them the welcome home they so richly deserved. The band responded in kind. A new community hall has since been rebuilt at Waimata servicing that rural district. The new hall was rebuilt by the local farming community, towards which the Nambassa Trust made a significant financial contribution.

• Due to the absolute chaos which arose from the huge influx who made their way to Nambassa in 1979, we will never know how many people turned up to this event. The official Nambassa count is 75,000. Some segments of the media, including Television New Zealand who were regularly flying over the festival, were quoting estimates as high as 150,000 people. The Nambassa organising committee flush from the success of the 1978 festival, was catering for 30,000.

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Sources

FILM

Nambassa Festival, a two hour musical film documentary which had five crews working on it, New Zealand, 1980 The New Zealand Film Archive / Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua The film (50 minute version) was part of the New Zealand Film Commissions entry to the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Director/editor, Philip Howe. Production company: Nambassa Trust, Peter Terry and Dale Farnsworth. DVD photo link Cannes Film Festival logo. ...

RECORD/CD

A double album made up of music, raves and comedy was recorded live from the main stage of the 1979 event and released throughout New Zealand -LP Stetson 2SLRP12, "Festival Music", 1979 This vinyl release featured Split Enz, Living Force, Flight 77, Chapman and White, Mahana, John Hore, Steve Tulloch, Plague, Chris Thompson, Schtung, Rick Steel, Tribrations, Nevil Purvis, Satchidananda, Gary McCormick, Andy Anderson. Produced by Peter Terry. Album online photo link

PUBLICATIONS

• Nambassa: A New Direction, edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979. It records the huge three day 1979 festival, with its 137 pages, 18 pages of full colour and 200 B&W photo images. Nambassa: Judith Jones: Source link. ISBN 0589012169. Publication photo link
• Nambassa Festival Newsletter 1 edited by Peter Terry, Lorraine Ward and Bernard Woods. Published in 1976, 1977 and printed by Goldfields Press Ltd, Paeroa. Publication photo link
• The Nambassa Sun and the Nambassa Waves newspapers published quaterly 1978-1981. Archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library
• Stranger Than Fiction - The Life And Times Of Split Enz, Mike Chunn, GP Publications, 1992. ISBN 1-86956-050-7 [34]

REFERENCES

Nambassa: A New Direction, edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979.ISBN 0589012169.

The 1960s Cultural Revolution by John C. McWilliams ISBN 0-313-29913-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29913-1 [35]

The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe ISBN 0-9644873-4-9 (1995) [36]

History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages Henry Charles Lea (New York, 1888) [37] Henry Charles Lea (September 19, 1825 - October 24, 1909) was an American historian who was born in Philadelphia. ...

External links

• Official Nambassa website
• Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• Enzology is National Radio’s documentary covering the history of New Zealand's most iconic band - and Split Enz at Nambassa
• Documentary:INSIGHT 79 - NAMBASSA
• New Zealand Government’s "Ohu" land settlement scheme from 1974 to the present day.
• Location map

See also

• Ohu
• Ecovillage
• Back to the land
• Permaculture
• Green politics
• New Zealand music festivals
• Waikino music festival
• Nuclear-free zone
• Waikino
• Holistic health
• Activism
• Alternative medicine

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