In May , the Berlin-based BUG Info (Berliner Undogmatischer Gruppen), the city's most widely read alternative magazine, invited its readers to travel to Monte Verità at Lago Maggiore in Switzerland. 'We will gather celebrating, dancing, thanking and commemorating', the invitation pronounced. A number of anniversaries were to be celebrated, most notably the th anniversary of the foundation of the rural commune (Landkommune) at Monte Verità in , but also, as the invitation explained, the th birthdays of its founder, Gusto Arthur Gräser (who was, in fact, only one of several founders); 'its poet', Hermann Hesse; 'its psychologist', Otto Gross; 'its revolutionary', Erich Mühsam; and the 'pioneer of female emancipation', Franziska von Reventlow; as well as the 'dancer and fighter pioneer of female emancipation', Isadora Duncan.Come to the ball of dreams in Baladrume, on the traces of Hermann Hesse and Gusto Gräser, through the valley of peace to the heathen's cave to the rock of the holy ape . . . [Come to] the dance of green power, to the mountain and valley, to the folk and joy festival [Volksund Freudenfest] of alternative dreamers . . . [Come to] market and fair, dance and theatre, music and magic, saying and singing, hiking and going, gaming and fighting, to desire, love and exuberance, to the great going-with-one-another [Miteinangergang], to the holy wrapping-each-other [Ineinanderschlag] . . . come to Monte Verità, come to Ascona, come! The organizers promised nothing, but hoped that, if enough people would show up, numerous 'working groups [Arbeitsgruppen]' would be formed on various themes of concern for the alternative movement, such as ecology, the Third World, soft (sanfte) technologies, but also 'women and mothers', 'dance, music, theatre', 'self presentation, self experience', 'psychotherapies', or 'religion today: east and west'.