NIMBY

The NIMBY Halloween Fund Raiser hosted by the Department of Spontaneous Combustion and coordinated by the fabulous Tami was a fantastic success. Thank you to everyone who manned the door, played the music, worked the party, and showed up to have a great night with us. We drew a huge crowd for such a busy, rainy night - and it was great to see so much community support for NIMBY. Thank you.

The grand totals and raffle winners are in…….

The event raised $5424

Raffle winners are*:

Grab Bag of Pan’s Devil Horns - Chad MC
Second Grab Bag of Pan’s Devil Horns - Casey Hutchinson
Massage by massage therapist Nara Brados - Christopher Palmer
Professional Photo Shoot by Tory Fink - Naomi Most
2 tickets to the Crucible’s Production of Dracul: Prince of Fire - Scott

*If you are the winner Tami has notified you by phone.

Stayed tuned for pictures of the event.

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With the new building close to finalized come out to our first fund raiser and support the move. We can’t do this without you.

Friday, October 31st - 9 pm - ?? - ACME Warehouse

Music * Fire Performance * Raffle with Great Prizes * Zombie Photo Booth

For more information check out our events page.

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We have found a wonderful property in East Oakland that is interested in doing a long term lease with us. The space is huge and has ample indoor space and an enormous yard. The building is in great shape, has plenty of well distributed electricity, natural light, and comes with a dust collection system - score!

Snook and others met with the property managers earlier this week. They are very excited about what NIMBY does and feel we would be great tenants. The lease is not signed yet, but we are hurrying along in that direction. It is looking very promising and the owners are working with Snook to make moving in a great deal for NIMBY.

The location is only 2 minutes by car from a the Coliseum BART station and an 8 minute drive from the current NIMBY location. We hope most of you wont find that be a huge commute. Also, the nearby residential neighborhood is adorable. We are looking forward to having a new (cuter) NIMBY neighborhood.

To make this move happen will take the support of the entire community. Move in requires first, last and deposit. Because many tenants have needed to find other spaces during the interim we need to do a fund raising push to keep NIMBY alive and move it in to the new space. (donate via paypal to [email protected])

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There was a huge out-pouring of support for the Cultural Arts and Marketing Department. So many people were at the Oakland City Council meeting last night that it was standing room only even after they opened up a second room. A fantastic NIMBY show of support was there, as well as the entire staff of The Crucible, and members of a great number of Oakland arts organizations. The grant money given to art organizations by the Cultural Arts and Marketing Department is something NIMBY 2.0 will be seeking, and this department has shown us a great deal of support as we are working through the logistics of our move and finding the right space.

A great thank you to everyone who made their voice heard.

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The future of Arts in Oakland, NIMBY, and The Crucible currently hangs in the balance.

1.) Forward this message to as many people as possible.

2.) Sign the online petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Oakland_Arts_Funding/index.html

3.) Come to the City Council Meeting on Tuesday October 21st!

Oakland City Hall
1 Frank Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612 US

4.) Contact a Council Member and let them know how important the arts are to you!

Here is some more info:

Funding for the Cultural Arts and Marketing Department is on the chopping block and will be voted on by the Oakland City Council this Tuesday, October 21. The meeting begins at 6pm and this topic is currently Item 19 on the Agenda, so it could be a long night. Grant funding is in jeopardy, as are all of the staff positions. This is a serious threat to a thriving but already under-funded community. We do understand that the City’s finances are in a dire situation, but the fact of the matter is that the cultural arts department has historically borne more than its share of cuts and now represents only .4% (4/10 of 1%) of the overall city budget, yet serves 6,273 children and youth through the art in the schools program (most of whom would not have access to arts without these programs), and another 957,650 people through performances, events, etc. Not only will department staff lose their jobs: staff and teachers in the already-fragile arts sector will also lose jobs. The arts are not a luxury! Children and youth who participate in arts programs and learn positive ways to express themselves are less likely to engage in unsafe or criminal activities. Neighborhoods with visual and performing arts venues bring in $$s to the local economy, help prevent crime and violence by “keeping the lights on”, and add to the overall quality of life in our city.

Please join us to make our voices heard. TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

There are currently three council members who are opposed to cutting arts funding: Nancy Nadel, Jane Brunner, and Desley Brooks. All other council members have indicated that they will vote to cut the program. Please don’t let this happen!! Contact your council person immediately (preferably before Monday) and let them know that cutting the arts program is unacceptable. Also, let the three council members that support the arts know how much you appreciate their support. Below is contact info for each of the district council members:

District 1, Jane Brunner, [email protected], (510) 238-7001;
District 2, Pat Kernighan,[email protected], (510) 238-7002;
District 3, Nancy Nadel, [email protected], (510) 238-7003;
District 4, Jean Quan, [email protected], (510) 238-7004;
District 5, Ignacio de la Fuente. [email protected], (510) 238-7005;
District 6, Desley Brooks, [email protected], (510) 238-7006;
District 7, Larry Reid, [email protected], (510) 238-7007
At-Large, Henry Chang, Jr., [email protected]

Not sure who your council member is? Click here to find out: http://www.oaklandnet.com/oit/CDST/DistMain.cfm

Please forward this to your staff, board, friends, students, their parents, your mailing list, etc. It is our responsibility to make our voices heard - and to let the officials know that we represent a larger portion of the public than they think!

Here’s a link to the evite:
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=ACFFSJPPTIYVQCGKBKXY&inviteId=PBNDQUYBQENJDTPITZEK&showPreview=false&x=15069028

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At this point we have looked at a great number of fantastic options for the new NIMBY space. Several options are on the table and offers are being made. Now it is just the matter of which deal has the most pluses in the end. As of this moment we are putting in offers on several properties and meeting with landloards to discuss the nitty gritty lease details. Moving to the new location will commence as soon as things are signed and dotted - but we still need more people to continue to pay rent at the current location and to donate for the initial start-up costs of the new space.

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We are rolling out a campaign to make this move happen for NIMBY. The minimum amount of money we need for moving is $50,000. NIMBY must pay another $30,000 in rent to get up to the end of the lease. Then there are the NIMBY monthly expenses, the actual cost of moving itself, and development costs to get the new space set-up. All things considered $50,000 is a low ball number to get us started - but if we can raise that we know we can pull this off.

If 1,000 people donate $50 - we will reach our goal. Who remembers a Thanksgiving or a Christmas at NIMBY when you had nowhere else to go? An art piece created at NIMBY that gave you “one of those moments” on the playa? A time when Snook helped you with trucking, let you use his tools, gave you the part you were missing, fed you, or helped you out when you needed it? We only need 1,000 of you to step-up and donate. Snook and NIMBY have taken care of far more people than that over the past 5 years.

Download this flyer, post it on your blog, email to your friends, print it and give it to someone who will donate. And lets give props to Rachael for learning photoshop to bring you this flyer and Norville for making the NIMBY logo look so cool on fire.

PAYPAL: [email protected]

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Come visit NIMBY this weekend and show your support. We will be showing off pieces of NIMBY made art, selling our new T-Shirts and gaining support for the “Campaign to Bring NIMBY to a Backyard Near YOU!”

Expo For The Artist & Musician
Saturday, September 27th, 11am-6pm FREE
Dolores Park, San Fransisco

How Berkeley Can You Be
Sunday, September 28th, parade 11am-1pm, festival 12pm-5pm FREE
Downtown Berkeley

Be sure to get one of the “hot” NIMBY T-shirts at one of these fine locations.

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While we apply for matching funds development grants, private foundation arts grants, and low interest business development loans to see NIMBY through the pending move we need community support to tide us over. If 1,000 people commit $50 to the campaign - NIMBY can do it.

A great thanks to everyone who has hit that PayPal button and made their voice heard. NIMBY only exists to serve the community and especially now it is great to hear the community saying they want NIMBY to keep going.

Thanks to everyone below for being a NIMBY donor.

James Reffell, Busse Design USA, Muhammed Mentese, Mayfield, Kelly Anders, Nicholas Winterhalter, Daniel Garcia, Ilo Kratins, Frog Gilmore, Jerry Jones, Zach Coffin, Robert Sommer, Blair Davis, Marie Louise Galgani, Robert D Fischer, Plumb Loco, Arshad Tayyeb, Rachael Norman, Greg Tse, Gerald Cargile, Joseph Gratz, Wildilocks Pty Ltd, Bradley Ballard, David Fine, Sasha Harris-Cronin, Pouneh Mortazavi, David Grant, Lisa Pesnichak, Karen Tarapata, Julia Cody, Paul Fairchild, Nelson Carpentier, Alec Bennett, Insights Online, Bena Currin, Glenn Hughes, Justin Young

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A number of spaces have been looked at. There are two options, both in Oakland, that would work very well for NIMBY 2.0. The one we are most excited about is huge, has a ton of private outdoor space, loading docks, enough electricity to run anything and everything, and of course those high ceilings that let us build big stuff. Here is just a small glimpse of part of it. (Taken on a phone.)

This space presents a huge array of possibilities; permanent gallery space for large (and small) scale art, permanent performance space, and never-ending shop space and storage capacity. Our imaginations are working over time thinking of all the possibilities. Also, we get a new neighborhood to spruce up and make safe. Snook is already talking about how he wants to landscape the property along the street.

We are meeting with several City of Oakland officials to talk more about the NIMBY relocation later this week. This expansive, blank canvas of a property will be our focus as we move forward in the planning stages. We will continue looking at other properties both to keep our options open and because Rachael loves shopping - especially for big things.

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