Saturday Feb 3 at 2 pm
CCA Wattis Institute (upstairs gallery)
at 1111 Eighth St. (16th and Wisconsin)
San Francisco
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Please join us in a merrye publik reading of "The People of the State of California vs. Lou Gottlieb"

A re-enactment of the 1971 court hearing of Lou Gottlieb's  defense of his constitutional right to give his land to God, based on Sonoma County court transcripts and briefs.

In 1969, facing a State ordered injunction against letting people live on his 31 acre Morning Star Ranch, Lou Gottlieb signed over the title of his property to God.
His motivation was both complex and simple: an attempt keep this land open for all who needed it and all who loved it, in perpetuity.  He saw in this act an opening for remediation of the earth and of human relations.

Gottlieb wrote, ..."if land is held as a source of profit, that opens a certain pattern of reactive behavior which is very well-established..... How really should we live on the earth when we are not concerned at least with this tiny, little pilot study with maximizing the net?"

Join us for a lively reading and discussion  Presented by Sarah Lewison and Erin McGonigle with very special guests 'playing' members of the court

LATWIDNO is the Inaugural event of the University of Openness -->>Faculty of Re-enactment<<--
and part of the exhibition "Radical Software" at the CCA Wattis Institute curated by Will Bradley

more info on Morningstar Ranch
Home Free HOme by Ramon Sender and others
Tales from the Uninursery

LATWIDNO
Saturday February 3, 2007 at 2pm
CCA Wattis Institute (upstairs)
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco

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