Goodbye Oakland

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 t ...see more

NIMBY @ Burning Man 2016

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, ...see more

The Funnest FunRaiser

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 l ...see more

2016 Steampunk Masquerade at NIMBY

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 ...see more

Tiny Homes for the Homeless Work Shop

Over the last weekend in February, dozens of volunteers came out to join Oakland based artist Greg Kloehn at NIMBY to build mini homes for the homeless. A continuation of an ongoing project that’s seen ...see more

2015 Winter Shenanigans @ NIMBY

Wow! That was awesome! Thanks to everyone who came out to Winter Shenanigans this past weekend! Did you get a chance to play RallyBowl? That game is bonkers and so much fun! From the Ring of Fire to the Sa ...see more

Matt Wirth’s Volvo Racer at SF Auto Show

Veteran NIMBY tenant Matt Wirth will be exhibiting his modified Volvo station wagon race car at the San Francisco Auto Show November 21st thru the 29th at the Moscone Center, located at 747 Howard St. in San ...see more

Tiffany Barr at the Freedom: Art Indulgence Event

You can catch one of NIMBY’s newest tenants painter and metal worker Tiffany Barr at the Imagine Bus Project’s event “Freedom: Art Indulgence” on Tuesday, November 17th, from 7PM to 10PM at the SOMA ...see more

Mini Maker Faire 2015

NIMBY was proud to participate in the 6th Annual Mini Maker Faire this past Sunday, October 20th at the Park Day School and Studio One space in Oakland. The event draws several thousand people each year and ...see more