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This program of Happenings ? Events ! & Situations ?, organized by Al Hansen at Pratt Institute in May 1960, included three pieces by George Brecht alongside compositions by Al Hansen, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, and Allan Kaprow, among others. During this time before Brecht consistently referred to his works as events, each of his contributions to the program were simply referred to as “one minute piece.” The program language includes a manifesto-like text by Allan Kaprow that concludes, “WE ARE HARD AND TENDER WITHOUT NOSTALGIA, FEARLESS, ECSTATIC. WE ARE GIVING TO THE PAST AND TO THE FUTURE THE PRESENT.”