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Stephen, Jess & Christi

New York, NY

Stephen, Christi, and Jess met building houses in New Orleans and living cooperatively in Brooklyn. We care about self-sufficiency, alternative education, community building, local farming movements, and riding our bikes really really far.

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    Babycastles & Showpaper: New Indie Games Arcade in Manhattan by babycastles

    Babycastles is an effort to provide a social home for the game development culture that has long been part of New York City.

    • 150% funded $9,008 pledged
    • 223 backers
    • Funded Oct 04, 2010
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    Antigone: a genderqueered act of resistance by Jamila

    Theater Transgression's production of Antigone will premiere in New York July 29th to August 1st, 2010.

    • 144% funded $1,449 pledged
    • 36 backers
    • Funded Jul 14, 2010
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    Summer Youth Farm by Youth Farmers

    50 teens. 1/2 acre of land. 4 month growing season. 1 awesome way to keep low-income youth busy, healthy and employed.

    • 157% funded $2,660 pledged
    • 49 backers
    • Funded Jun 19, 2010
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    Building the School of the Future by Chris Kennedy

    School of the Future is a free education project that explores what school could be. We want to build architecture to give this project a home.

    • 119% funded $1,195 pledged
    • 53 backers
    • Funded Jun 01, 2010
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    Brooklyn Brainery Needs a Home! by Jonathan Soma

    We host awesomely cheap, collaborative classes on everything from making perfume to what to do with pork shoulder. Now we just need a home base!

    • 101% funded $9,629 pledged
    • 204 backers
    • Funded Jul 02, 2010
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    Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America by Molly Landreth & Amelia Tovey (deleted)

    Embodiment is a collection of short films and photographic portraits which explore the varied experiences of queer lives in America.

    • 125% funded $12,568 pledged
    • 355 backers
    • Funded Jul 07, 2010
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    audio ergo sum: music for being by ari joseph

    "audio ergo sum: music for being" is a music festival that celebrates the extraordinary moments of every day living in New York City.

    • 100% funded $5,025 pledged
    • 165 backers
    • Funded Apr 23, 2010
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    Just Food by Suzanne Linder

    High school students in Urbana, IL are producing a cookbook of affordable, sustainable just recipes to distribute to their peers.

    • 178% funded $445 pledged
    • 27 backers
    • Funded May 01, 2010
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    Trade School by OurGoods.org

    At Trade School, students barter with teachers for instruction. Classes range from butter making to ghost hunting. Help us run Trade School again!

    • 101% funded $9,133 pledged
    • 239 backers
    • Funded Jun 26, 2010
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    100,000 Honey Bees to Create One-of-a-Kind Album Art Help Proliferate the Bees! by Why I Must Be Careful

    Custom beehives will be designed and created to house 12" records in wooden frames. Honeybees will be introduced to form honeycomb packaging: Radical!

    • 104% funded $2,750 pledged
    • 54 backers
    • Funded May 03, 2010
  11. Stored Potential: Repurposing a Giant Grain Elevator by Anne Trumble

    We want to cover an enormous concrete grain elevator with equally enormous art about land use, agriculture, and the food we eat.

    Funding Unsuccessful (04/10/2010)
  12. "Kayfabe: Game of Death," a large scale performance work by Sam Mickens. by Sam Mickens

    A large multi-media performance inspired by my recent research on the professional wrestling of my youth and its allegorical and conceptual properties

    Funding Unsuccessful (06/05/2010)
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    Little City Gardens: An experiment in the economic viability of urban farming by brooke budner and caitlyn galloway

    Brooke and Caitlyn want to expand their urban farm business. They are carving a space in the market economy for urban food production.

    • 135% funded $20,394 pledged
    • 243 backers
    • Funded May 04, 2010
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    My Best Khaki Pants: A ride across the USA mini-book by Janeen

    Help an Australian create a teaser-book about cycling the TransAmerica Trail, which will hopefully also help to get a real full-length book published.

    • 106% funded $2,133 pledged
    • 85 backers
    • Funded Apr 18, 2010
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    Robin writes a book (and you get a copy) by Robin Sloan

    I'm writing a detective story set halfway between San Francisco and the internet. And the more people who reserve a copy, the better each one will be!

    • 398% funded $13,942 pledged
    • 570 backers
    • Funded Nov 01, 2009