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The Bridge Christmas Album | Record through the month of December | 12pm-8pm

The Bridge is coordinating a Christmas album from recordings of local musicians and storytellers.  During the month of December, the small gallery at is set up with recording equipment and is open for anyone to come in and record a song or story related to the Holidays.

There are directions on the wall as to how to record.  Please check in with a cashier volunteer in the Holiday Market and leave an ID with them.  You have one hour to record.

Thanks for contributing your talents in support of The Bridge!

Email or call Greg Kelly with any questions at greg@thebridgepai.com or 434.242.0905

Monticello Road | Opening Reception Friday, April 6th | 6-8pm | FREE

This project explores people and places along the mile length of this historic byway from its base at Moore’s Creek to its terminus at Belmont Bridge with stops in the neighborhoods and businesses along the way. I live on this road; I walk it daily and am intimately acquainted with it. Yet I am constantly surprised by what I see there.
My footsteps are but the latest dating back to prehistory but the project is not motivated by any event or connection to any era other than the present. It is a sketch or perspective on what the place is today and the people who use it every day. While any serious exploration of a place so steeped in history must necessarily mine the past, the focus is on the present.

The photographic element of the initiative will have two parts: details of places along the road and portraits of people who live and work there. There will also be story-telling and oral histories, architecture and planning discussions, films and music. There will be youth programs both within and outside of the schools. It will truly be an interdisciplinary celebration of ways that art brings a community together.

-Artist, Peter Krebs
www.culturecurrent.com/peter | culturecurrent.blogspot.com

Dogs On Tour featuring Hudson Branch and Andy Mills | Friday, December 16 | 8:00pm – 10:00pm | Donations welcomed

Dogs On Tour is a collaboration of musicians, journalists, photographers, producers and writers. A few of the contributors – Independent Chicago band Hudson Branch and radio producer Andy Mills are coming to Charlottesville, VA on their third live multi-media tour. They’ll be joined by new friends and recent collaborators from both the music and radio worlds. Curious listeners are welcome to come be a part of their experiment with live music and storytelling.

Dogs on Tour Video

Contact: Kelley Libby | kelleylibby[at]gmail[dot]com

Pigeon | Book Release | Greg Kelly | Saturday, November 19th, 2011 | 5-8pm | Random Row Books , 315 West Main St.

Join The Bridge’s very own Executive Director, Greg Kelly, artist extraordinaire, at his book release titled, Pigeon.  This illustrated book project is eight years in the making.  More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1067756127/pigeon?ref=live

Live music by Grand Banks
Catered by Rick Easton

*Half of all proceeds from sales of Pigeon go to support the Retreat for Peace at Diamond Mountain University.

Noise Show | Sergei Tcherepnin & Woody Sullender | Thursday, November 17 | 8pm | Suggested Donation

Comedy Under the Bridge | Bent Theatre | January 14th | 8pm | Pay What You Will

An alternative rock improv performance. A mix of the familiarity of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”, the best of the New York underground stand-up scene and the sketch comedy stylings of Second City.  Music, Comedy, Art, Magic, Dance, and Life merge for a night of truly spectacular improv.  Classic Bent Theatre games and performers merge with the new in this fantastic comedy experience.  This is not your usual Bent Theatre show….this (much like hipsters) is unique.

MATURE CONTENT LIKELY

Suggested Donation
(We’d like $10…but we understand if that is too much)
www.benttheatre.com
(434)466-6235

Weekdays 12-8, Weekends 12-6 | The Bridge | Open until Christmas Eve

Great Gifts Holiday Shop is a wonderful way to support your regional artisans and find those unique Christmas gifts that are so much cooler than a new gadget gizmo.

Join us Wednesday, December 21st from 5pm-10pm for an open house and 15% sale on everything!  There will be live music and food sponsored by The Farm.

Contact: Sarah Carr
charlottesville.all.stars@gmail.com

As a newly established company, the Double Image Theater Lab, yearns to explore the world of the past and the present through object and light manipulation, music, dance and poetry. In this project, “A Chance Shadow”, we present two poets from vastly different countries, Xu Zhimo (China 1897-1931) and Federico Garcia Lorca (Spain 1898-1936), whose words changed the world. “A Chance Shadow” deals with universal human experience as expressed by these poets while immersing the audience in their passion for life, love and freedom.

We create a language of non-verbal shadow theater by using moving images accompanied by music. We encourage the audience to travel on a journey with us, creating their own story through the use of their imaginations as they witness the poets’ experiences of war and separation and their struggle for love and freedom.

We use high luminance LED flashlights to create sharp and focused images. Without electrical cords, we have the freedom to choreograph images moving between objects, performers, and the projected surface. In addition to being the light source, the flashlights will become characters themselves through manipulation by the puppeteers. Instead of using a flat white screen, we experiment with different objects as our projected surface, for example; umbrellas, fans, paper panels, ceilings, costumes etc. Our purpose is to give the shadow images different textures thereby creating a multidimensional world where images are constantly in motion. Also, by placing the performers on opposite sides of the projected surface we are able to create a fade in and fade out effect which adds to the drama of the performance.

This project has been shown as a work in progress since 2009 in many venues, including 2009 Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival: Puppet Art Attacks-Puppet Slam, 2010 International Puppet Festival Dordrecht, Holland, 2010 Dixon Place: Puppet Blok,, and 2011 International Festival for Puppet Theater, Jerusalem.

With the support of the Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant, we will be able to continue developing the project into a full-length show and have the chance to work with Marta Guzman, a musician from Spain who specializes in Flamenco. We will present a new section of our work in progress from “A Chance Shadow” about the poet Federico Garcia Lorca at 2011Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival: Puppet Art Attacks-Puppet Slam. We also plan to present the full length show in the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival.

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Artist Bio’s:

Spica Wobbe (co-creator, puppeteer, co founder of Double Image Theater Lab) is an independent puppetry, mask and scenic artist, originally from Taiwan, where she worked with Shiny Shoes Children’s Theater. She has studied with master puppeteers Damiet van Dalsum (Netherlands), Albrecht Roser (Germany), Pak Suratno (Indonesia) Peter Schumann and Ralph Lee (U.S.). Recent works: The Adventures of Big Belly (3bean Children’s Theater, Brooklyn Children’s Museum), Thirst: Memory of Water (Jane Catherine Shaw, La MaMa ETC.), Yanagai! Yanagai!( AATI, La MaMa E.T.C.), Coming Aphrodite (Watson Arts, La MaMa E.T.C.), Eumenides ( NYU Educational Theater Program), Return (Shiny Shoes Children’s Theater, Taiwan). In 2008 Spica created So Close & Yet So Far in collaboration with Flying Group (Taiwan) which toured Japan, Taiwan, Netherlands and the U.S. M.A. in Educational Theater (NYU, 2003).

Margot Fitzsimmons (co-creator, puppeteer, cofounder of Double Image Theater Lab) is an independent puppetry artist in NYC.  Her love of puppetry began when she did an apprenticeship in Málaga, Spain with Acuario Teatro. She has studied with master puppeteers Ralph Lee, Landis Smith (U.S.), Diego Guzman (Malaga, Spain) and Norbert Goetz (Germany).  Recent works:  Thirst: Memory of Water (Jane Catherine Shaw, La MaMa ETC.), African Drum (Sandy Robbins, Shadow Box Children’s Theater).  She works as a teaching artist for The New Victory Theatre, American Place Theatre, and Acting Manitou Theatre Camp where she serves as a puppet choreographer, teaching artist, producer and builder for their summer shows.  B.A. in Theater and Spanish (Dickinson College, 2004) and M.A. in Educational Theater (NYU, 2007).

Marta Guzmán (Composer and Musician) is from Málaga, Spain and grew up around a family of artists, actors, singers and poets. She continues to take flamenco classes from El Estudio de Danza Trujillo y Cortés. She got her degree in Audiovisual Communication from UMA in Málaga. In Madrid she studied through the Centro de Arte Flamenco Amor de Dios she made contact with professionals like Christian Almodovar and Aurora Fdez. When she returned to Málaga she began to work for the musical children’s theater company Acuario Teatro directed by Diego Guzmán.  In 2005 she created a trio with Pilar Esteban a singer and actress and with the guitarist Ramón Barranquero.  Their troup is flamenco comedia and it is filled with humor and sentiment. She began to work with an acapella group EntreNos and work with musicians such as Juanito Rosler, Tony Cantero, Pedro Martínez, Manolo Trigo, Xárate and Bachi.  Her last project was working with Ramón Barranquero, Xárate and the pianist Borja González.  The compositional styles were in versions of Flamenco-California and funk.

Kilos | October 22nd | 9pm| FREE

Charlottesville’s own Kilos, a hard-nosed power trio originally hailing from Richmond, blends a punk mentality with refreshingly off-kilter songwriting and raw but relevant lyrics to help revitalize and redefine rock and roll in the haze of contemporary indie pop.  But they’re not a weed band.