like huck finn floating down the Mississippi

some people are planning on floating all the way down the mississippi -- cool :)

"The Miss Rockaway Armada is a group of approximately 25 performers and artists from all over the country including members of the Toyshop Collective, Visual Resistance, The Amateurs, The Floating Neutrinos, The Infernal Noise Brigade, The Madagascar Institute and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. This July we will converge in Minneapolis to construct a flotilla of rafts which will journey down the Mississippi River. We are creating a mobile cultural center that embodies our search for creative and sustainable ways of living.

The flotilla will be made from salvaged materials and will be powered by bio-diesel, solar, and other sustainable technologies. We are constructing a three-ring stage, a zine library, garden rafts, and an oral history booth.

We’ll stop in towns along the way, hosting musical performances and vaudeville variety-theater in the evenings, along with workshops and skill shares centered around arts and environmental issues during the day. In our travels we intend to share stories and to solicit dialogue around subversive and constructive ways of living.

The Miss Rockaway Armada is floating, scale model of a world we are helping to create. We are a group of intrepids who believe in a hands-on, live-by-example approach to creating change within our culture. We are taking cues from Johnny Appleseed, traveling medicine shows, nomadic jewel box theater, and of course that old radical Mark Twain.

Ahoy!"