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Images of Nambassa is a photo gallery in support of the 1970s Nambassa festivals and its other related events.

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[edit] Nambassa

Main article: Nambassa

Nambassa was a series of hippie-conceived festivals held between 1976 and 1981 on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in New Zealand-Aotearoa. 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.[1]

Nambassa is also the tribal name of a charitable trust that has championed sustainable ideas and demonstrated practical counterculture ideals, a spiritually based alternative lifestyle, environmentalism and green issues from the early 1970s to the present.[2]

[edit] The Nambassa Winter Show with Mahana

Main article: Nambassa Winter Show with Mahana

The Nambassa Winter Show with Mahana was a musical theatrical production of 60 entertainers and crew who toured the North Island of New Zealand in a convoy of Mobile homes, buses and vans, performing at major centres and theatres throughout September and October 1978. While initially 4 main shows were schedule for this collective theatre company, repeat and spontaneous performances around the nation saw this number of live performances increased to over 10. This theatrical extravaganza was organised by the Nambassa Trust as part of its national promotion of the arts and towards promoting its 1979 3 day music, crafts and Alternative lifestyle festival which was held in Waihi attracting 70,000 people. .[3]

[edit] New Zealand’s Housetruckers of the 1970s

Main article: New Zealand’s Housetruckers of the 1970s

New Zealand’s Housetruckers of the 1970s . Housetruckers are individuals, families and groups who convert old trucks and school buses into mobile-homes and live in them, preferring an unattached and transient gypsy lifestyle to more conventional housing. These unique vehicles began appearing around New Zealand during the mid 1970’s and even though there are fewer today they continue to adorn NZ roads. [4]

[edit] Waikino Music Festival

Main article: Waikino music festival

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. The event was staged by the Nambassa community.

[edit] Gallery

Nambassa 1979 'Split Enz' on the Main Stage.

Main Stage 1978 Festival.

Sufi workshop with Halima MacEwan, 1979.

Nambassa 1979 Main Stage, Barry McGuire

Nambassa 1979 Jonathan Daemion on Aerial Railway.

Early Greenpeace Nambassa 1978.

Friends of the Earth at 1978 Festival.

Information workshop at Nambassa, New Zealand 1978.

1979 festival

1979 Wood gas Producer.

Organic bread workshop

Nambassa 1981 Wood gas producer" house-truck.

Nambassa 1981 Pottery workshop in the Village Marketplace.

1978 Festival Traditional Māori Woodcarving

1978 festival Woodturning workshop

Weaving workshop

Nambassa 1979 Aerial Image.

Nambassa 1978 Yoga workshop.

Nambassa 1978 Doug Rogers & Paul Moss - Sound Engineers

Nambassa 1979 Mahana

1979 Tim Finn, Split Enz. 1979 Festival.

Nambassa 1981 Mobile Homes workshop.

Nambassa Festival 1978. Art by Neil Wernham

Nambassa 1981 Woozlebub for kidz.

1979 Holistic Workshop

Housetrucker at Nambassa 2001.]]

1981 Solar Energy

1981 Indigenous Australian performance.

1981 Mobile Home.

1979 festival Christian holistic.

1981 Māori culture group.

'Don Murchison' on Rudi Trudi Rooster

1979 festival Hare Krishnas

Nambassa 1981.

Oren Lyons at Nambassa in 1981

Bastion Point activist campaign at Nambassa 1981.

Stephen Gaskin at the Nambassa 1981.

Eileen Caddy at Nambassa 1981.

Skyhooks at Nambassa 1978.

Little River Band at Nambassa 1979.

Ram Dass at Nambassa 1981.

Dizzy Gillespie Nambassa 1981.

Glenn Shorrock with Little River Band at Nambassa 1979.

Swami Satchidananda at Nambassa 1979.

John Mayall at Nambassa 1981.

Sonny Terry at Nambassa 1981.

Brownie McGhee at Nambassa 1981.

Ina May Gaskin Nambassa 1981.

Jim Cairns at nambassa 1981.

Graham Strachan with Skyhooks at Nambassa 1978.

Kevin Borich at Nambassa 1981.

Barry McGuire at 1979 festival.

Values Party at 1979 and 1981 festivals.

1981 festival.

Rickard campaigning for land rights at Nambassa 1979.
1981 Housetruck with development handmade wind-generator technology.jpg

Festival 1981 Development handmade wind-generator technology

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nambassa: A New Direction, edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979.ISBN 0589012169.
  2. ^ Nambassa: A New Direction, edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979.ISBN 0589012169.
  3. ^ http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i138/nambas/ATheatricalExtravaganza.jpg The Wellington Dominion, A theatrical extravaganza
  4. ^ Nambassa: A New Direction, edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979.ISBN 0589012169.

[edit] See also