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cheerful

Steam Up at Nimby this Sunday, 6/29
I know this is Pride weekend and there are lots of other festivities going on. If you don't already have plans on Sunday, come see the steamboat before it leaves for New York!
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Many of you know that we've been busy the last many months, restoring an old steam paddlewheel boat for a big art project coming up in August - no, NOT Burning Man.
KSW will be a part of a larger project dreamed up by the artist Swoon. Starting August 15th in Troy, NY, we and 6 other vessels, covered in Swoon's art, will begin a 170 mile adventure down the Hudson River. Our journey will take us around the tip of Manhattan and into Queens, where we will be landing at the Deitch Gallery, on September 7th, opening night of an even larger exhibit by the artist.

In just over two weeks, our steamboat will be loaded on a flat bed truck and sent East so that the artist has time to adorn our blank canvas of a vessel.

We would like to invite you all to come and see what we've been working on before we ship her off. Perhaps we will still be working like mad as we prepare to put her in the water on the 30th. The party will be from 12pm-5pm on Sunday, June 29th and is located at our workshop at the NIMBY warehouse at 1649 28th Street in West Oakland. We'll be serving steam powered margaritas and have some of our other steam equipment up and running on display. The Space Cowboys' Unimog will be there playing happy, non-electronic daytime music (your guess is as good as mine).

Feel free to bring a bottle of champagne to smash on the bow.

More information on the project here:
http://hudsonriverproject.wordpress.com/
and here:
www.kineticsteamworks.org