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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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The post Goodbye…

It is with great sadness that we write today about the passing of our friend and community member Kevin Manning. Kevin passed away earlier this week from injuries sustained in a hit and run accident while pedicabbing in June.

Kevin was a longtime NIMBY tenant. He was an engineer and an inventor. He worked to develop the Pump Hub, a bicycle wheel hub that would inflate a damaged tire as the wheel spun. Kevin embodied the spirit of NIMBY as a place to make, to try new things, to learn new skills,…

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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If you’ve been following NIMBY on Instagram (we hope you are!), then you’ve seen lots of in process shots of the projects, art cars, and art work the Makers at NIMBY have been working on diligently all year. If you’re making your way out to the desert, you can see that art in person, or at least try to… good luck trying to nail down those art car. Congratulations to this years crop of artists and Burners: YOU DID IT! Now have fun and be safe out there, everyone. You can find a larger version of…

Here at NIMBY we’re always looking for ways to improve, but sometimes once you’ve identified the problem and found the best solution, you can get tripped up on implementing that solution. We’re trying to jump start two of those solutions: improvements to our wood working space and repairs to our forklifts! To that end, we’ve started a GoFundMe campaign!

We’re trying to raise $5000, but if we raise a little bit more than $5000, we sure wouldn’t be sad about it. We’d be extremely grateful. If…

Burning Man is just days away! We’d like to thank all of our theme camps and Makers on job well done this year. You may still be trying to recover from the scrapes, bruises and sleep deprived brains, but soon it will hopefully all be worth it as you enter the Gates. We can’t wait to see your projects out in the desert.

You can find the fine folk who are NIMBY Makers all over the Playa. Use this handy list to mark your map of Black Rock City so you don’t miss a single thing. If you have early…

This past March, NIMBY was pleased to once again host a fantastic, original dance video project “Triptych: Journey Through Cancer”. As the name implies, “Triptych” is a three part artistic exploration of cancer’s impact on the cycle of life and death. Part one “Dust” was filmed at NIMBY in 2015, and Executive Producer Jen Faust, director Micah Van Hove, and the production team have just released a behind the scenes look at the filming of part two “Blood”. In the video they discuss the creative…

Please check out our freshly launched FunRaiser!

Why a FunRaiser? To help us bring the Fun “RallyBowl” to as many people as we can.

We need a truck to go on tour and setup RallyBowl in surprise location so more people can try it and have the Best Time!

So please, checkout our campaign, share it far and wide and pick up some perks if you can.

Thank You Much and see you on the road!!!

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NIMBY was proud to once again partner with our good friends in Airpusher to put on the 4th Annual Steampunk Masquerade. The night was full of art, music, dance, aerialists, fire spinners, live music and much much more. It was a wonderful night, and we’re so thankful for all of the hard work that so many people put in to making the event such a success. Check back soon, because this is only first batch of amazing photos by the talented Marisa KM.

We hope that everyone had as much fun as we did,…