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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.

Friday, October 21st | 7:30 pm | FREE

In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect every American, regardless of their social status, economic background or where they live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so the longer it is waged. It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal.

The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America’s struggle to balance its energy needs with environmental concerns. Nowhere is that concern greater than in Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small but passionate group of ordinary citizens are trying to stop Big Coal corporations, like Massey Energy, from continuing the devastating practice of Mountain Top Removal.

David, himself, never faced a Goliath like Big Coal.

The citizens argue the practice of dynamiting the mountain’s top off to mine the coal within pollutes the air and water, is responsible for the deaths of their neighbors and spreads pollution to other states. Yet, regardless of evidence supporting these claims, Big Coal corporations repeat the process daily in the name of profit. Massive profit allows Big Coal to wield incredible financial influence over lobbyists and government officials in both parties, rewrite environmental protection laws, avoid lawsuits and eliminate more than 40,000 mining jobs, all while claiming to be a miner’s best friend. As our energy needs increase, so does Big Coal’s control over our future. This fact and a belief that America was founded on the democratic principal that no individual or corporation owns the air and water and we all share the responsibility of protecting it, drives these patriotic citizens and their supporters from outside of Appalachia, like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to keep fighting.

A passionate and personal tale that honors the extraordinary power of ordinary Americans when they fight for what they believe in, THE LAST MOUNTAIN shines a light on America’s energy needs and how those needs are being supplied. It is a fight for our future that affects us all.

Written, directed and produced by Bill Haney, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder and president of the eco-housing start-up, Blu Homes, THE LAST MOUNTAIN was co-written and edited by Peter Rhodes and produced by Clara Bingham and Eric Grunebaum. Narrated by William Sadler, the film features original music by composer Claudio Ragazzi and includes the song “Your Control” by Crooked Fingers and Neko Case.

Trailer

Film Website

Event contact: Ali Cheff: theatre@thebridgepai.com

Friday – September 30, 2011  | 4pm-5:00pm | The Bridge Parking Lot

Jesse Straight Pastured Poultry and Livestock will be delivering once every six weeks to Charlottesville.  Based out of Warrenton, VA, Jesse and his wife, Liz, began raising pastured poultry in the spring of 2009.  As of 2011, they have added free-foraging pork, grass-finished beef, and pastured laying hens to their repertoire.

They are committed to farming without chemicals, drugs, or genetically modified feed.  Rotational grazing and foraging practices create the best environment for their animals and the most nutritious meat and eggs for their customers.

They serve many restaurants and families in the Warrenton, Va area but reach to parts of Northern Virginia and Charlottesville.

Available for order:
Pastured Chicken (whole chicken, organ meat, heads, feet)
Pastured Turkey
Pastured Eggs
Free-Foraging Pork (whole hog, half hog, individual cuts, sausage)
Grass-Finished Beef (whole beef, side of beef, individual cuts)

Call: 540-349-3099 to schedule an order.

Tuesday, January 10  | 7-9pm | FREE (Barter)
Thursday, January 19th | 7-9pm | FREE (Barter)
Tuesday, January 24th | 7-9pm | FREE (Barter)

These three sessions are helping to promote a project by local musician, Wes Swing.  Check out his Kickstarter project and learn how you can help in your barter.

Jan 10 / Biodiesel Course: This Charlottesville Trade School course is designed to educate you on the alternative fuel biodiesel and what exactly that is.  You may have heard the term tossed around before, but we’re going to dive in and tell you the specifics of this alternative fuel from how it is produced to its environmental, health, and monetary impacts.  The negatives of biodiesel will also be addressed to provide an unbiased view on the matter and also help you decide if the switch to biodiesel is a possibility for you. Towards the end of the course we will connect it to the music world as we talk about how biodiesel can be used by touring musicians for more sustainable tours and discuss our new website Biotouring.com.

Wednesdays, 5pm | Ongoing | Donation

The Charlottesville Guerrilla Yoga Project offers classes at The Bridge on Wednesdays at 5pm.

The Charlottesville Yoga School will also be hosting free Community Classes with their instructors in training.  Dates are as follows:

Sunday November 13 -  4:00-5:00pm
Sunday, November 20 – 4:00-5:00pm

Wednesday, December 7 – 5:15-6:15pm
Sunday, December 11 – 4:00-5:00pm

Donations appreciated.

Contact: Jen Fleisher – jen[at]charmedworks[dot]com

Friday, September 9, 2011 | 8:30pm | $10 suggested | Mature Content Likely

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.