Music festival culture and the rebirth of the hippie generation

BY: JESSICA BEUKER Photos: Eric Zdancewicz Among a field of colourful, bohemian-style umbrellas, hundreds of people are gathered idly around the Bollywood Stage – where DJ Lee Foss sits on a throne surrounded by giant pillars, pink elephants and the…

A look into the hippie caves of Matala that Joni Mitchell called home

BY: JESSICA BEUKER There is a fishing village on the island of Crete, Greece dotted with manmade caves carved into the sandstone cliff. The village is known as Matala and, in the 1960s and ’70s, it was a community for…

Hippies, artists and pirates- a peek inside to the oceanside tribe of Sausalito

BY: JESSICA BEUKER For more than half a century Richardson Bay, just north of Sausalito, California, has been inhabited by hippies, artists and self-proclaimed pirates. This unique group of characters lives off-grid in a collection of houseboats – the last…

New photo series proves that the hippie movement is alive and well – and as vibrant as ever

BY: ROB HOFFMAN A new photo series by Steve Schapiro shows evidence of a hippie movement that did not die out in the wake of the ’60s and ’70s, but has rather transformed into a thriving community of vibrant neo-hippies…

Take a peek inside this magical 1969 hippie tree house village in Hawaii

BY: CONNOR BRIAN At the edge of a long winding beach road, on the shaded jungle island of Kauai, sat a tiny village paradise where clothing was optional, weed was smoked openly, and where love and freedom were the only…

Bestival is an island paradise of hippies, nudists and lucid dreams (Video)

BY: CONNOR BRIAN, TYLER FYFE, ROB HOFFMAN AND MELISSA GONZALEZ If Salvador Dali and Dr. Seuss had a child born out of wedlock, it would have been conceived at Bestival. On the Toronto Islands, a nature sanctuary and nude beach…

The True Hippie Died When Narco-Capitalism Hit Goa

BY: TJ MOREY Present day Goa—dancing away into the haze of a drug-induced delirium, you will find a stereotypical hippie clamouring to keep sense of reality, or to whatever he can perceive of it. Mind you, this doesn’t come for…