Last Week to See Freak Power Exhibition

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Thu, Sep 22, 2022 - Sun, Sep 25, 2022  12pm - 6pm

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Browse over 100 vintage screen-printed posters, photos, films, and texts related to the Hunter S Thompson's Battle of Aspen. Explore how artists, beatniks and other concerned citizens creatively fought against gentrification, oppression, war, and environmental destruction in the elections of 1969.

Freak Power tells the story of Thompson's plan to become sheriff, take control of Aspen and transform it from a conservative mining town into a mecca for artists, rebels and activists. Through original print material from the campaign, photographs and political art, Freak Power chronicles a little known period in Hunter S Thompson's life,a period when he wrote prolifically about politics, the environment, drugs, and American values.