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The Miss Rockaway Armada is a collective of artists, musicians, and adventurers-of-all-stripes who spent the summers of 2006 and 2007 journeying down the Mississippi River on a fleet of “junk-rafts.” Hailing from all parts of the country and all walks of life, the Miss Rockaway Armada is united by the desire to create: to demonstrate different ways of living and moving that are friendlier to the environment and to each other and to indulge the urge to make something out of nothing. With this spirit and energy, The Miss Rockaway Armada comes to MASS MoCA for their first project in collaboration with a museum. Being Here is Better Than Wishing We’d Stayed, a site-specific, interactive installation in the Hunter Center Mezzanine, will open to the public on Saturday, April 19, 2008 and will remain on view through March 1, 2009. In addition to the exhibition the Miss Rockaway Armada will give a performance in the vein of the impromptu circus/theater performances they staged in towns along the Mississippi. The show takes place on Saturday, April 12, 2008, below the upside down trees between 2 and 4 PM. In inclement weather the performance will move into the rehearsal hall and seating is limited. Free tickets are recommended and are available through the MASS MoCA box office. Inspired by Johnny Appleseed, traveling medicine shows, nomadic jewel box theater, a long tradition of river raft-builders, and Mark Twain, members of the The Miss Rockaway Armada embarked on a seemingly …