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NIMBY’s last days in Oakland: Arts incubator makes way for pot grow

NIMBY was founded in 2004 in West Oakland and after renting the East Oakland space for the past 10 years, a marijuana company purchased the East Oakland block and have until October to leave, Snook said. He is moving his operation 300 miles north near the Oregon border where some artists will move there, too, he said.
The artist couple haven’t found an a affordable place to move, yet.
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Dear Makers, Creatives, and friends of the Oakland arts community,
We are inviting you to participate in our vision of a future for NIMBY and the artists that call us home. Talking about the causes of displacement in our community or discussing the political avenues for aid are not going to get us the help we need in the short amount of time we have. We have six months to make magic happen, so we can continue to do what we do best, make magic.

The following details NIMBY’s current situation and…

Right about the time we were all exhausted from the summer’s projects and that thing in the desert, Adam Savage rolled in and reminded us why we do it.

Follow Adam as he discovers what NIMBY is all about and meets a few of our artists.

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In March of 2015, NIMBY was pleased to be the staging ground for the original dance video project “Dust”. Executive Producer Jen Faust, director Dorian Kingi, and a diverse group of dancers, musicians, and crew transformed themselves with NIMBY as a backdrop into a post-apocalyptic dance fever dream. “Dust” is the first of a trilogy entitled ‘Tryptich: Dust, Blood and Water’ and will represent the cycle of life and death, rooted in abstract Norse mythology and the creative/scientific brain of…