Dream Tower

Dream Tower chronicles Torontos most notorious social experiment of the sixties Inspired by cultural critic Paul Goodman philosophies of alternative education and the decades political upheaval a group of young idealists established Rochdale as a free university and student residence in 1968 Rochdales founders envisioned an enlightened community of selfeducators and the first 100 or so students earnestly studying subjects such as Heidegger and anarchism in eighthour seminars made the dream seem possible But they didnt anticipate that some people wouldnt know what to do with freedom that hippies kicked out of Yorkville would overrun the building or that drugdealing motorcycle gangs would camp out in the lobby