Hey all
We are a bunch of Brits, loosely part of the Euroburners and Nowhere community from Europe, and we'd like to announce the Nowhere Omnibus, while reaching out to request your generous involvement / donations to make the project happen.
Full details at nowhereomnibus.wordpress.com
Here's our letter:
Listen: Don't ya just hate the way those freakin' art cars never go where you want them to? The way there is no decent transport on the playa? The way there's just not enough QUEUES at Burning Man?
Well, enter The Nowhere Omnibus Service!
A traditional red, double decker London Transport Routemaster, bus stops on the esplanade, A TIMETABLE, tickets, move down the bus PLEASE, room for one more on top, ding ding, next stop Centre Camp, I'm only doing my job madam, the bowler-hatted businessman rustling his copy of The Times.
Burning Man's first genuine public transport infrastructure, but also a massive art piece, running morning and evening for the whole week.
Are you interested in making this happen? Well BOrg are... that's why they're offering us a Burning Man arts grant to cover PART of the cost of this endeavour.
This is a tremendous opportunity, but to realise this dream, we need to generate funds. Having done some planning into the costs inherent in getting a bus to the playa and maintaining it safely, we know we need at least a further USD $6,000. And that's where you can help.
1. Donations. This is a big dream that will only happen with some big kindness and generosity from the community.
We are looking for individual donations of GBP £50 and upwards. In return you get kudos on the website (should you want it) and the warm feeling of having contributed to one of the most spectacular (and useful!) art projects on the playa. If seventy people can scrape together £50 each, we will be able to set this dream in motion on behalf of the whole Burning Man community. Larger and smaller donations are accepted, of course, but hopefully everyone can see that the more people donate, the closer we will all be to seeing things happen.
We'll be publishing a transparent report of the donation process, with a counter, so that progress can be observed and the website will also be updated with reports of how the whole project is progressing. Your donations will be held safely in account, so if the worst comes to the worst and we cannot collect enough to get the project underway, you will get your donation back. We've already sourced the bus - to get it onto the playa we need your generosity!
2. People. You can be a performer on the bus, part of the support crew or maybe you have mechanical skills. We need bodies to keep our bus pristine on the playa, to build bus stops and install them and to keep the hippies off of our pride and joy. Come and be part of the very first scheduled bus service at Burning Man.
To donate, find contact details for us and read further details on the project, please visit nowhereomnibus.wordpress.com
Yours
BongoPedro, Esteban El Hombre, Tobias
We are a bunch of Brits, loosely part of the Euroburners and Nowhere community from Europe, and we'd like to announce the Nowhere Omnibus, while reaching out to request your generous involvement / donations to make the project happen.
Full details at nowhereomnibus.wordpress.com
Here's our letter:
Listen: Don't ya just hate the way those freakin' art cars never go where you want them to? The way there is no decent transport on the playa? The way there's just not enough QUEUES at Burning Man?
Well, enter The Nowhere Omnibus Service!
A traditional red, double decker London Transport Routemaster, bus stops on the esplanade, A TIMETABLE, tickets, move down the bus PLEASE, room for one more on top, ding ding, next stop Centre Camp, I'm only doing my job madam, the bowler-hatted businessman rustling his copy of The Times.
Burning Man's first genuine public transport infrastructure, but also a massive art piece, running morning and evening for the whole week.
Are you interested in making this happen? Well BOrg are... that's why they're offering us a Burning Man arts grant to cover PART of the cost of this endeavour.
This is a tremendous opportunity, but to realise this dream, we need to generate funds. Having done some planning into the costs inherent in getting a bus to the playa and maintaining it safely, we know we need at least a further USD $6,000. And that's where you can help.
1. Donations. This is a big dream that will only happen with some big kindness and generosity from the community.
We are looking for individual donations of GBP £50 and upwards. In return you get kudos on the website (should you want it) and the warm feeling of having contributed to one of the most spectacular (and useful!) art projects on the playa. If seventy people can scrape together £50 each, we will be able to set this dream in motion on behalf of the whole Burning Man community. Larger and smaller donations are accepted, of course, but hopefully everyone can see that the more people donate, the closer we will all be to seeing things happen.
We'll be publishing a transparent report of the donation process, with a counter, so that progress can be observed and the website will also be updated with reports of how the whole project is progressing. Your donations will be held safely in account, so if the worst comes to the worst and we cannot collect enough to get the project underway, you will get your donation back. We've already sourced the bus - to get it onto the playa we need your generosity!
2. People. You can be a performer on the bus, part of the support crew or maybe you have mechanical skills. We need bodies to keep our bus pristine on the playa, to build bus stops and install them and to keep the hippies off of our pride and joy. Come and be part of the very first scheduled bus service at Burning Man.
To donate, find contact details for us and read further details on the project, please visit nowhereomnibus.wordpress.com
Yours
BongoPedro, Esteban El Hombre, Tobias
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