Aquarius Festival Analysis

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The 1973 Aquarius festival was the event that changed the conservative, quiet town of Nimbin into the countercultural capital of Australia . The main aim of the festival as stated by Graeme Dunstan, one of the festival organisers was to “Organise a festival without a program, and invite all the aspects of the counterculture to assemble to the site and see what community we created out of that”. Nimbin was a dying dairy town in desperate need of business, located in the Northern Rivers of NSW. When the Australian Union of Students went searching for a rural town with a warm climate and facilities to hold the festival, the isolated town of Nimbin suited their festival needs. Despite the differences in lifestyle and values, Nimbin agreed to …show more content…

It displays the various building structures made of natural resources. Using natural resources for sustained living sparked new age of thinking on a national level . This video is effective in my study as it gives a visual representation into the lifestyle of the Aquarians which I could then compare to the townspeople to see how different their lives were. This video comes from a credible source with written details about the content of the video. The only limitation is it doesn’t directly focus on my main question of research.

Dunstan, Graeme. 2016. "The Aquarius Festival". Rainbow Dreaming. Accessed April 21. http://www.rainbowdreaming.org/the_aquarius_festival.html.

Graeme Dunstan’s written piece provides some background behind the time period of the Aquarius Festival, with reference to social activism and the Vietnam War. He lists the events that occurred during the 10 days and described his thoughts about how the festival impacted his life. While this piece is valuable in the investigation of what the Aquarians felt about their interaction with Nimbin, its weakness is it is only a few short paragraphs. More details would have been able to strengthen my research.

Dunstan, G and D Ramsey. 2015. Remembering The 1973 Nimbin Aquarius Festival With Graeme Dunstan. Video.

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