Saturday, May 12th 2012

THE YOGA OF BASS AND NIMBY PRESENT:
RESONANCE
Music - Art - Spirituality

see our Events page

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Dog and Pony Show at NIMBY!

ANUBIS Kickoff at NIMBY…A NIMBY Night of Burning Man Presentations
Saturday, April 7th, 8pm
Film Screening 9:30
This is a fundraiser and we are suggesting a $10 donation at the door. No one will be
turned away for lack of funds.

See our EVENTS Page for the full details

Thursday March 29, 2012   7PM to 10PM

In the belly is where things digest, where they are broken down so their value can be extracted. This is where things are made to rot. If our society is a beast, its belly is the prison system. This work from Insurgent Theatre seeks to manifest imprisonment on stage, overlays it with critical analysis of the system, and follows up with in-depth discussion about abolishing prison in America.

Created in workshop by Weslie Coleman, Kate Pleuss, and Ben Turk, with assistance from Harmony Bench and Rebecca Riley.

Touring North America. Raising funds for RedBird Prison Abolition. Supporting prisoners in Ohio.

This show contains nudity, violence and other sad realities of the US prison system.

Insurgent Theatre

Donations Suggested at the door

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Nimby launches Indiegogo campaign!

Indiegogo Nimby Page

Going to the playa

Just what will you do?

NIMBY’s the answer

The answer for you

With welders and grinders

And tools that are bitchin!

Come be creative

Make something for your kitchen

Build sculptures and fountains

A burn barrel that’s hot

But we need your support,

We need it a lot

We thank you and cherish

The support that you give

We know it’s not easy

In tough times we live

A little bit helps

Though we need quite a lot

It’s strength through numbers

Since we don’t grow pot

NIMBY is entrepreneurs and critical thinkers

Really cool people and a few total stinkers

It costs lots of money to keep NIMBY going

Our arms are quite tired, for years we’ve been rowing

Permits, inspections and sweat by the bucket

In times like these most others would say _____

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So you’ve heard about this NIMBY thing, and you’re thinking of donating. Great! Now you’ve reached the critical moment. But a little voice keeps asking you “Why?” Well, here’s why. NIMBY is a place where you can build things that you simply wouldn’t be able to in a home shop or small workspace. This is a place where the dreams of the eccentric, manic, zany, and inspired take flight. We’ve helped create The Trojan Horse, Colossus, Syzygryd, Dance Dance Immolation, Steampunk Treehouse and many other ideas both big and small go from design to destiny. In addition to giant projects, NIMBY provides a community atmosphere for smaller scale and independent artists to hone their craft and produce their work without the cutthroat nature and tool fees of other spaces.

Fun(d) Raising Party for 2012 Magic Love Bus Journey

This April the Magic Love Bus is blasting off on a three month cross country journey, spreading love and light at every turn. We’ll be sharing food, drumming, campfires, movies, discussions, dancing, music, yoga and love parades all across America. The bus will literally be a vehicle for LovEvolutionary transformation. To see our “Bus Schedule” visit www.MagicLoveBus.org

Come “get on the bus” and help us launch this amazing coast to coast transformational journey. The 2012 Magic Love Bus Journey is a collective adventure. We need your support, both on the bus and online, to manifest it fully.

This fun(d) raiser party will be held at NIMBY, which is the largest do-it-yourself industrial art space in the Bay Area with over 40 different art groups and craftsmen in the shop. NIMBY is famous for hosting great parties and the creation of some of the most amazing art shared at Burning Man.

The Magic Love Bus has been undergoing an amazing transformation at NIMBY and is now a moving sound stage and light show. Climb aboard and let’s energize the Magic Love Bus for blast off! Feel free to invite your friends and bring organic food and beverages to share at the party.

Suggested donation - $10 to $20 - with no one turned away for lack of funds.

How you can be a part of this transformational journey:

Contribute your ideas for where the bus can land and who it can hook up with as it travels East.

Join the http://www.LovEvolutionSolution.org to share your ideas and meet other LovEvolutionaries.

Help promote the journey online to your friends and community.

Donate funds so we can propel this journey far and wide and turn more people on to their own personal magic and ability to create another possible world.

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Ever wonder what it takes to become a race car driver?

Too Stupid To Know Better

Don’t get to excited thinking we came up with this team name just to
race a LeMons car. Nope, we’ve got a long line of past stupidity and
this is just the newest one. I mean a week ago we didn’t hardly know
what a LeMons car was. It all started when the little girl from IT
walked in and said “I want to drive a race car.” Huh, well okay. So
after asking someone in our office who knew something about racing,
the idea was planted. A few phone calls later, we were on our way to
LA to pick up a car that ran in the second ever LeMons race at
Altamont Speedway, rather unsuccessfully I might add, and only needed
“a little work.” So now we are the proud owners of a Volvo 740 Turbo
that has a motor but no wiring or electronics because the really trick
crap that was in it wouldn’t actually stay running. Remember the
unsuccessful part.
Now back to our history of stupidity. Last year we built and took to
Bonneville Speedway the new world record holding electric barstool. I
mean 55.9 MPH perched on something smaller than a shopping cart? You
must be crazy. And prior to that… a rolling, driving, spinning hot tub
for Burning Man. Actually it’ll make a great pit vehicle. I could keep
going, but you can see where we’re headed. Yup – too stupid to know
better.
Oh yeah, our concept. Sure, we thought it’d be fun to bring back some
history with a vintage LeMons car so it can have one last hurrah
before being sent to the crusher. But honestly? We all just want to
see if this little girl can really drive. I mean come on – that
alone sounds scary and we haven’t even made it to the track yet!

Come on down down to NIMBY and meet the team in person as they prepare their finely tuned machine for the 24 Hours of LeMons!

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You can pick your friends.
You can pick your beer.
But can you pick… a Lock?

Join us on Thursday, February 16th, from 7-9pm as we embark on an ancient mechanical adventure to explore the inner workings of a modern lock, first developed by the Mesopotamians and Egyptian s over 4000 years ago. Led by lockpickers Eric Michaud and Jamie Schwettmann, this workshop will cover - soup to nuts - everything you need to know about how common locks work… and how to pick them open.

Whether you’re a complete novice curious to find out what pin-tumbler really means, a homeowner protecting your family’s treasures, or a veteran lockpicker with questions about advanced locks and techniques, this event is for you! With 2 solid hours of history, mechanical diagrams (”lock pr0n”), and hands-on lockpicking instruction… first we’ll open your minds, and then we’ll open some locks!

To properly learn this ancient art, you’ll need the proper tools. By registering for a ticket with a lockpick set, this guarantees you a seat at the workshop, and reserves - all for you - a brand-new 10-piece custom lockpick set by Southern Specialties, hand-picked by Eric and Jamie to maximize utility for beginners and locksport enthusiasts alike, and offered for only $30.

If you already have some picks you’re itching to practice with, you can bring them along, and your workshop cost is only $50!
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2921505301

See ya here!

February East Bay Bike Party - 90s Dance Party!

What are you doing on Friday, February 10th? Not staying Home Alone, I’ll tell you that! You can play Sonic or Jenga another night, because you’re invited to a…

’90s DANCE PARTY!!!

Feburary’s ride will be bigger than the Titanic - we’re moonwalking back to the dawn of the Information Age to party like it’s 1999… literally! I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want - for you to break out your threads, tunes and moves from the ’90s and join the fun!

We’ll gather at the Oakland Coliseum BART Station at 7:30pm and roll out at 8. For those of you who don’t like hills, the route has less than 150 feet of climbing. Cowabunga!

As far as ride routes go, you can’t touch this! The first party stop is close to an ice cream shop and our final destination is a ’90s **ALL AGES** dance party at NIMBY!

Just for us NIMBY is breaking out the Party Train BBQ, providing bike parking, and working up a few other surprises (to be announced) - so bring cash. The cash will also come in handy for the food truck! A donation at the door is highly recommended, since NIMBY is letting us use their space and getting it party-ready for free. In the words of Blur, “Woohoo!”

So that people aren’t shouting, “Where I go I just don’t know,” on ride night, we need volunteers to guide the Party through turns. If you want to help out, get to the gathering early and talk with one of the ride organizers (the people with bullhorns).

We want everyone to feel fitter, happier after a night on bikes, so remember the house rules (’cause it’s gonna be a Full House on Friday):

Stay Right
Stop at Lights
Ride Straight
Don’t Hate
Pack Your Trash
Don’t Get Smashed (i.e. Ride Sober)

If you see someone new to Bike Party or a rider who doesn’t seem to know how we roll, show ‘em some bike love and encourage them to Party the way we do. Maybe invite them to ride with you and yours. As U2 says, “It’s one love - we get to share it.”

We expect to see you on Friday the 10th dressed to the Nineties shouting, “Here we are now, entertain us!” And you *will* be entertained.

BIKE PARTY!!!

Greetings,

Well, it's that time of year again; the holidays are just about over,the New Year almost here,
and yes, we have a small favor to ask. Like most groups we receive a large portion of our
donations at the end of the year, the very end of the year, yes, in the next three days to be
precise.

The past few years projects built at NIMBY have included The Trojan Horse, Colossus and
Maria Del Camino, as well as permanent projects such as The Cyclisk in Santa Rosa,
The Steam Punk Tree House and Full Circle, a commissioned piece for the Visitacion Valley Library
in San Francisco, just to name a few. If you believe in the work that comes out of NIMBY please
consider donating. Nimby has maneuvered through the past few years with the help of patient
landlords, engineers and contractors but the time has come to clear outstanding debts and move
forward.

It is through your help that we will be able to continue to keep NIMBY available as the premier
facility for creativity in the Bay Area. We are confident that the community will take a few
minutes to look at what has come out of NIMBY and lend a helping hand. Every donation helps,
from $20.00 to $1500.00 or more, your donations will go towards funding NIMBY's long range goals.

Our goals include building out a new art gallery, adding more studio spaces and installing more
common shop equipment; your generous donations will make this possible. We can't do this without
your support. Your donations will make sure that equipment is ready for you and your projects
when the time comes. Without NIMBY many individuals would be unable to explore their creative
abilities. NIMBY is closer to these goals than ever before and with your generous donations we
will see this as a reality in the near future.

NIMBY is about learning, creating, building and sharing. NIMBY is about keeping America tooled
up and competitive. The community is vast and diverse, exactly the environment that breeds
wonder and excitement while clandestinely slipping in the collaboration needed to see the big
picture. We hope you will take a moment and look at what you can contribute to Nimby to help
keep this wonderful facility up and running.

We always hope for the angel donor or patron to take us under their wing. However we are happy
to accept any amount you are able to share.

We are able to take Pay Pal and Credit Cards along with cash donations.

NIMBY is a project of Epic Arts, a 501(c) 3 Non Profit and we can provide you with a letter
documenting your donation. Regardless of the amount of your donation, NIMBY thanks you for being
a valuable part of a DIY space that has grown from just a vision to a major part of the East Bay,
Bay Area and World Wide DIY community.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPkexOV5GM0&feature=youtu.be

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Sincerely,

Michael Snook and the entire NIMBY Staff.

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Space Available!

There are currently two nice indoor spaces available here at NIMBY, well, really all of our spaces are nice. Come on down and take a look. Nimby will also be hosting Christmas Dinner, a great time to meet some of the tenants and see what a great workspace Nimby is. Keep watching this page and do check into our Facebook page for updates on current events, future events and yes, we even take suggestions for future events. Next year brings many great adventures, from the Power Tool Drag Races to one of the many Special Events and Fundraisers, Nimby is the place to be.

The first photo is Brian Targonsky’s Model AA truck, being built from the frame up.  Joe Russack Photo

The Blue piece is by Rosanna Scimeca and the phot is by Amacker Bullwinkle

Don and Ian by Nathan Bennet, Fringe Photography

Sim Nuke, Cameron Assadi, Sparky, Scott and others out in the Nevada Desert, Photographer unknown

Dingus by KSW, out in the yard at the old NIMBY, Photographer unknown

Under the NIMBY logo, Goateman Dan welding, Jen Forbes photo

Syzygryd by Ardent Heavy Industries,Daniel Garcia photo

Maria del Camino, Bruce Tomb builder, Joe Russack photo

Dominique Vyborny welding,Photographer unknown

Cyclisk by Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, Photo by Jen Forbes

Along with the Steampunk treehouse there are several other projects happening,

Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector are building a 60 foot tall obelisk for the City of Santa Rosa. Made out of concrete, steel and bicycle parts the obelisk will stand watch over Santa Rosa Avenue.

Marks website is www.markgrieve.com

Hanging from the ceiling any day now will be rings, rings and more rings. Markand Ilana are also working on a San Francisco Arts Commission piece for the new Visitacion Valley Public Library.  Somehow Mark and Ilana will be working on both projects at once, they may have clones.

Work continues inside the shop while a movie is shot out back, this is a post apocalyptic movie several years in the making. Here’s the teaser  http://www.trashandprogress.com

This was last month when we had an electric roadster testing out its steering and brakes.

http://pressroom.prlog.org/NIMBYevents/

If you are unable to attend - please donate to the NIMBY Haiti Fund. All proceeds will go to the participating organizations doing work on the ground in Haiti.

Non-monetary donations we can accept:

• Clothing (light-weight summer, all sizes)
• Shoes, all sizes
• Medical Supplies: Gauze, Tape, Neosporin, Tylenol/Advil (Generics OK)
• Kotex and Cloth Diapers
• Towels and Sheets
• Water-proof tents
• Plastic Storage Boxes (Large) for packing, shipping and giving Haitians something to store their personal effects in.  If you can bring nothing else, bring these!

This event is organized by NIMBY.

DO IT FOR HAITI on Facebook

Events begin at 2:00 p.m., with children’s activities and performances, indoor and outdoor art installations, music and dance.

Partnering Organizations Include:
Bellot Idovia Foundation-Oakland, CA/ Haiti: http://www.bellotidovia.org
CARE - San Francisco, CA / Haiti : http://www.care.org
Catholic Relief Services - San Francisco, CA /Haiti :http://www.crs.org/
Sirona Cares - San Francisco, CA /Haiti : http://www.sironacaresblog.com
What If Foundation - San Francisco, CA / Haiti : http://www.whatiffoundation.org/
Zanmi Lakay – Pacifica, CA / Haiti : http://www.zanmilakay.org

Live Music and Performance: SF Mime Troupe, Kalbass Kreyol, The Bodice Rippers, The Joe Rut Band, Funky Bula, Marisa Lenhardt, The Society, Chicken John & Dr. Hal and more…
Childrens Theater and Events: Sustainable Living Road Show, The Life Sized Mouse Trap, Plastic Bag Wallet Making, Face Painting
Art Installations: The Flaming Lotus Girls, Robots – Justin Gray, Tesla Coil – Jon Behrens, The Museum of Unnatural Selection by Jen Forbes, Goat Man Dan, Therm / Exxotherm, Thermocracken, Jamie Vaida, The Disgusting Spectacle, Feng Jin, Robot by Adam Ebel
Plus D.I.Y / D.I.F.H. projects for all ages

Featured Speakers Include:
Joe Dacany - EMT: CA–11 Disaster Medical Assistance Team member currently working in Haiti.
Marc D’Silva – CRS : Senior Development Officer for Catholic Relief Services which has been working in Haiti since 1954.
Dana Fischer- Retired USAID education officer in Haiti
Michelle Lacourciere - Sirona Cares: Director: Heading Northern California Haiti Relief Effort with U.S. Coast Guard.
Hilda Oropeza- CARE: Director of Community Partnerships at CARE USA which has been working in Haiti since 1954.
Jen & Guy Panteleon - Zanmi Lakay: Founders who have been working with orphaned children in Haiti since 1997. Currently in Haiti and will be returning for the event.
Margaret Trost - What If Foundation: Founder providing food and education programs to impoverished children in Haiti since 2000.

This event is sponsored by NIMBY. http://www.nimbyspace.org
During the DO IT FOR HAITI benefit on February 20th from 2 pm - midnight, NIMBY will be accepting donations of food and clothing items to send with second-wave relief efforts to Haiti. NIMBY is partnering with Sirona Cares for this drive. All goods will be delivered by the U.S. Coast Guard. Contributions will be distributed throughout Haiti to specific locations (schools, churches and orphanages) in the Sirona Cares network. All proceeds from the event will be donated to organizations working directly with Haiti relief efforts.

Members of the media are welcome.

“DO IT FOR HAITI” Artists and Performers:
Sf Mime Troupe: http://www.sfmt.org
Kalbass Kreyol: http://kalbasskreyol.com/
The Bodice Rippers:http://www.myspace.com/thebodicerippers/
The Joe Rutt Band: http://www.joerut.com/
Marisa Lenhardt: http://www.marisalenhardt.com/
The San Francisco Early Music Society: http://www.sfems.org/
Chicken John & Dr. Hal: http://www.chickenjohn.com/ and http://www.askdrhal.com/
Sustainable Living Road Show: http://www.sustainablelivingroadshow.org/
Life Size Mouse Trap: http://www.lifesizemousetrap.org/
Flaming Lotus Girls: http://www.flaminglotus.com/
Robots – Justin Gray: http://www.graywrxfabblog.blogspot.com/
The Museum of Unnatural Selection by Jen Forbes: http://www.themuseumofunnaturalselection.com/
Omega Recoil – Jon Behrens: http://www.omegarecoil.com/
Goat Man Dan: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jay_que/3865397373/
Therm / Exxotherm: http://www.therm.biz/
Jamie Vaida: http://www.artacrossamerica.org/
The Disgusting Spectacle” http://www.laughingsquid.com/the-disgusting-spectacle/
Feng Jin: http://www.dreamcatcherarts.com/
Robot by Adam Ebel: http://www.adamebel.com/

Items we accept:

* Clothing, including new or used underwear, for all ages. It would be incredibly helpful if these donations could be separated (babies, small children, large children, women & men’s clothes).
* Shoes, all sizes
* Food items: non-perishable, ready to eat items
* Medical Supplies: Gauze, Tape, Neosporin, Tylenol/Advil (Generics OK)
* Kotex and Cloth Diapers
* Towels and Sheets
* Plastic Storage Boxes (Large) for packing, shipping and giving Haitians something to store their personal effects in. If you can bring nothing else, bring these!