Open AccessSex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and the University College Lit: The University of Toronto Festivals, 1965-69
Author(s) -
Charles Levi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
historical studies in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1911-9674
pISSN - 0843-5057
DOI - 10.32316/hse/rhe.v18i2.348
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , relevance (law) , media studies , university campus , sociology , history , library science , political science , law , archaeology , computer science
In the late 1960s, the University College Literary and Athletic Society (the Lit) sponsored three festivals devoted to “Pop” art, psychedelia, and propaganda. As part of the 1967 festival, the Lit unsuccessfully attempted to have Timothy Leary visit to discuss the usefulness of LSD. This paper explores the festivals at University College, the controversy they created, and their successes and failures as cultural events, within the context of the history of student protest in Canada and the attempt to meld extra-curricular and counter-curricular activities in the 1960s as part of a wider search for “relevance” at the University of Toronto and in Canada as a whole.