While Hemisfair '68 was viewed as a win for the city's business establishment, a now-forgotten pavilion operating under its banner was anything but establishment. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Texas SecretHistories History psychedelic
Project Y, also known as the Youth Pavilion, became a forum for the most radical, entertaining and revolutionary ideas of the 1960s — from progressive pedagogy and public debate forums to psychedelic light shows and Fluxus-style happenings. Miraculously, the ideas came to fruition without the conservative city establishment swooping in to shut them down.
"PROJECT Y at HemisFair '68 is not an exhibit, but an environment for activity," read the original promotional materials."The key ingredient is the creative energies of those who come to it." Despite the pavilion's breadth and ambition, there's scant documentation of its freewheeling wonders. Ironically, it was Peery's involvement in Hemisfair that helped usher in Project Y. During the planning stage, the architect wanted a youth area where parents could drop off their children.Taking the helm of this fledgling youth program was Sherry Kafka Wagner, later a founding editor ofand an urban planner who helped create the San Antonio River Corridor, the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and major projects from Boston to Kuwait.
Wagner's revolutionary approach to learning had itself been learned from Paul Baker, an influential educator and theater director, whom the Texas Cultural Trust once called"the most important man in the history of Texas theater." Unlimited Potential arranged for students from the city's poorest districts to experience World's Fair and specifically Project Y. The pavilion was staffed largely from Baker's Trinity theater department and with students and faculty from elite high schools. The mingling between the city's richest and poorest schools provided a unique opportunity.
"So, we decided to have a Hall of Issues," said Israel Anderson, who worked on Project Y as a recent college grad."And inside that Hall of Issues, we imagined kids having small group discussions. A place where kids could talk about all the current issues of the day. Like a Roman forum." Recent Trinity graduate Anderson, an African American, landed the job of overseeing the Hall of Issues. His deep commitment to social justice and civil rights led him to Trinity's urban studies master's program.
After his graduation, Jearnine Wagner recruited Anderson for Project Y and he seized the opportunity, writing hundreds of letters to heads of state, thinkers, authors and diplomats urging them to speak at Project Y. Among his major catches: Robert C. Weaver, President Lyndon Baines Johnson's secretary of housing and urban development and the first Black member of any White House cabinet.
At Project Y, the pair delivered their trippy visuals via a custom-built turntable filled with mirrors, lenses and bits of colored glass — a technique gleaned from Milton Cohen's Space Theater. Pop-rock festivals thrived in 1968, and Project Y had its own.
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