Regatta Arts Llc

From The Website: The Handcar Regatta represents a public celebration of Mechanical Handcar Races, Visual, Culinary, and Costumed Performing Arts combined with an inclusive concept of Community Participation and Human Ingenuity embracing sustainability, alternative transportation, and good old fashioned fun. The handcar races are at the center of the Regatta and highlight the Innovation and Human-Powered Ingenuity as builders devise cheaper, viable, and hitherto undreamed of methods for bizarre transport beyond the standard notions of to-day. Together with an emphasis on biking, The Handcar Regatta provides a platform for playfulness and sustainable concerns within the realm of human-powered alternative transportation. Tinkerers, artists, and eccentrics both young and old are invited to participate in Artistic and Mechanical Innovation upon a playful and inspired mixture of fond remembrance for a stylized industrial railroad past remixed with progressive styles and technologies of today. The public is invited to partake in The Handcar Regatta through a participatory attitude, costumed buffoonery, and enlightened interaction (never fear: those with inhibitions in the costume department need not worry, feel free to come as you are and enjoy). Creative endeavor is cultivated through Art, Science and Ingenuity by many in the community beyond the insulated galleries, studios, and museums and out into the street for People to engage in. “Play-ticipation” is key to The Handcar Regatta and for the public who heartily join our cause of arts, inventiveness, and doing. Ultimately, the storied history of Santa Rosa's historic West End and Railroad Square are honored as a spring-board of community enriching involvement and alternative entertainment far beyond the trappings of idle consumption and detached spectatorship.