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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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Monday Night Class

September 15, 1969
Poster
Venue
Date
September 15, 1969
Nickname
Monday Night Class
Performers
Stephen Gaskin

Not a concert at all, and the most quietly consequential thing on this week's calendar. On Monday, September 15, 1969, Stephen Gaskin held a free open consciousness lecture at the Family Dog on the Great Highway -- no band, no poster, no ticket -- reported as the first of what became his Monday Night Class (per rockarchaeology101; single-source, so the "first" framing is reported rather than proven). It is easy to forget that these halls doubled as gathering rooms on their dark nights. The class grew: within two years Gaskin and several hundred followers left San Francisco in a caravan of buses and founded the Farm in Tennessee, one of the longest-surviving intentional communities in the country. It started on a Monday in a dance hall on the beach road, and no poster archive would ever surface it.

Verification Notes

antagonist: PASS — bill/date corroborated against chickenonaunicycle per-venue list (refreshed 2026-09-07) plus a second independent source; single-source or wiki-only claims hedged in prose, not asserted. NOT a concert — a free open consciousness lecture, no band, no poster. Reported as the FIRST Monday Night Class (per rockarchaeology101); single-source, so the "debut" framing is reported rather than proven. The class later decamped to found the Farm in Tennessee.

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