Sonoma State University (SSU) shall be host to a vivacious exhibition featuring HAND-BUILT CONTRAPTIONS of competitive glory, large and not-so-large-scale ART works, plus actual festival PROPS and, of course, a jaunty array of well-attired lads and lasses we’ve come to adore at our fair festival known as The Great Handcar Regatta.
Special thanks to Spring Maxfield for curation and exhibition idea. Michael Schwager for additional curation and exhibition management. Also, our own invaluable maven of Regatta volunteers, Carla Stone, in addition to the staff of the SSU art department at large.
Gallery Views
** NOTE: A parking permit fee is required on other weekdays and nights on the campus. The closest lot LOT A is “reserved” and costs $5 per motor carriage. Nearby non-reserved lots cost $2.50. See the following MAP (PDF) for parking locations. Weekend parking is free in most areas.
The news of strange and stimulating activities are flying in as The Great Handcar Regatta approaches!
Craft Zine, associated with the esteemed Make magazine, is set to offer a booth for the hand-made creations of felt moustaches to all Regatta attendees who so wish to partake!
I trust there will be more than a few racy aviatrix’s donning their “soup strainers” for the menfolk to fawn over. Huzzah!
As the wonders of the industrial age never cease, The Great Hand Regatta is about to set stage for the inestimable artifact that is:
NEVERWAS HAUL
This September 28th, 2008, “The Haul” shall find yet another home of plenitude and promise in sunny Santa Rosa, CA, at The Great Handcar Regatta!
To date, Neverwas Haul and her delightful crew of crack engineers and brazen lasses, this fairer sex often seen shamelessly taking to hand a wrench or two themselves, have been the toast of fabled towns such as the illustrious Black Rock City, NV, Oakland and San Jose, CA, and, of course, New Amsterdam, London, and mighty Shangri-La beyond the frozen seas, among others townships too numerous to recount here.
“What will they think of next!?” shall be the wide-eyed shouts of giddy disbelief from honored guests at The Great Handcar Regatta!
Neverwas Haul , a self-propelled 3-story Victorian House, made from 75% recycled equipment and materials, returns with new interiors, operating system, and collections from its travels around the world (i.e., oddities of the Jules Verne era including a Camera Obscura, described below). The Haul measures 24 feet long by 24 feet high and 12 feet wide and is built on the base of a 5 th wheel travel trailer.
A brief interview with Major Catastrophe (a.k.a. Shannon O’Hare) is recounted at the Aether Emporium Wiki.
UPDATE! One fetching reader, Choklit Chanteuse, informs us of Neverwas Etsy Shop. Word has it that said goggles will be AWARDED as PRIZES to adoring Regatta attendees!
Watch amazing moving pictures of Kristies Flyer, their winsome little steam-carriage
And this movie of Neverwas Haul (ITEM! lower your loud speaker volume first!).
“Side Show” Exhibition
“Side Show” — Art of The Handcar Regatta exhibition at SSU Art Dept Gallery.
Sonoma State University (SSU) shall be host to a vivacious exhibition featuring HAND-BUILT CONTRAPTIONS of competitive glory, large and not-so-large-scale ART works, plus actual festival PROPS and, of course, a jaunty array of well-attired lads and lasses we’ve come to adore at our fair festival known as The Great Handcar Regatta.
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