Category — Other Events

October 30th, 8:30 AM | Main Street Arena, Charlottesville, VA

The 2nd Annual Danger Zombies 5K Run returns to Charlottesville on Sunday, October 30th – produced by Amoeba Films and The Filmmakers Republik with the Charlottesville Running Company, WNRN and Monticello Media.  This year, half of the proceeds will be donated to The Bridge | Progressive Arts Initiative!

RACE START: Main Street Arena, Charlottesville, VA
Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 8:30AM

RULES: Participants sign up as zombies or runners. Each runner has a red ribbon “life line.” If a zombie gets your life-line, you become a zombie. (The course has blood stations for newly turned zombies.) Prizes: Zombie With Most Kills, Best Costume, Sexiest Zombie and Fastest Man, Woman and Child.

TO ENTER: Register online or at the Charlottesville Running Company. $20 for all runners. $40 if you’re a zombie and need professional makeup.  After the run, the award-winning feature film DANGER. ZOMBIES. RUN. will be screened at the Paramount Theater at 7:00pm on Monday, October 31st.

For more information: contact brian@amoebafilms.tv

Saturday, July 9, 2011 | 5pm

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The Bridge installs and unveils its new mural, painted by Frank Buffalo Hyde and Reko Rennie. In conjunction with the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Join us for a public reception and dedication, Saturday, July 9th at 5pm at The Bridge PAI. We’re honored to have artist Frank Buffalo Hyde and his family with us for the occasion.

Friday, July 1, 2011 | 7pm

An evening of music, film, photography and friends. Featured will be an exhibit by Josh Rogan, a film by Johnny St. Ours, a documentary hosted by the Rogan Brothers Band.

About the film:
The common thread of dreams that runs through Nashville stage performers, Oglalla Sioux grandmothers, to struggling Vets, to a clerk in a latino grocery outside of St.Louis, to the biggest, harriest biker in the Dungeon Bar is unknown and previously undocumented. With the help of their rousing music and empathic charisma, the Rogan Brothers Band will guide our team to this common dream, and we will report back an inspiring tale of a united modern culture.

Monday, June 27, 2011 | 6:30pm – 9:30pm | $20

Using the master of truth and nonviolence, Mohandas K. Gandhi, learn to find the essence of Truth in improv, comedy, characters and in oneself. Learn to understand nonviolence in improv and the secrets of Satyagraha (Gandhi’s truth force).

Instructor – Alex Modic

Cost is $20 a class. Cash or check to be paid to the instructor of the day

Monday, May 23, 2011 | 6:30pm – 9:30pm | $20

Comedy doesn’t come from phallic humor and fart jokes. Real comedy comes from real people and how they react with other people. Learn how to create real comedy from real relationships and finally understand why people say “my family is so funny…but you have to know them to get it.”

Instructor – Andy Davis

Cost is $20 a class. Cash or check to be paid to the instructor of the day

Thursday, March 17, 2011 | 6pm

A poetry reading by by Gregory Orr (How Beautiful the Beloved, Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved) and an exhibit of paintings by Trisha Orr based on these poems.

In conjunction with The Virginia Festival of the Book.

Thursday, February 17, 2011 | 6-7:30pm

Learn the basic techniques of knitting and then explore the art of guerilla knitting. Miss Maureen Lovett of New City Arts will teach the course along with a few fellow skilled knitters of Charlottesville!

Barter Requests: The week of the class (preferably before the 17th), pay for the person behind you at a coffee shop or restaurant. This person should be a complete stranger. Your act will be a random act of kindness that comes as a surprise to the recipient and allows you to meet someone new. Generosity will not be measured in cost of item. This will give us some stories to share, as we knit.

You can also do this at a fast food drive-thru window if you tell the window employee that you would also like to pay for the person in the car behind you. This act is also encouraged, although the consumption of fast food is not necessarily a high value of your teachers. This will also not allow you to meet your recipient of generosity… but then, altruism prevails.

Please sign up here.

Thursday, February 8, 2011 | 6-7:30pm

OMG Printmaking!!! (Note: the three exclamation point are compulsory, for this is to be a hands-on class of extreme, yes extreme, printmaking.) Class attendees should expect to briefly learn about the history of printmaking and then participate in sundry forms of full-body, intense printmaking demonstrations. Bring paper and tshirts and other mostly-flat things to print on.” This class will be taught by Avery Lawrence, proprietor of THE POMP.

Barter Requests: 1. “cool” hats.  2. CDs – not mixed, but full albums 3. baked goods, of course!

Please sign up here.

Puppet-making: Thursday, January 20, 2011 | 6pm | $5
Performance: Saturday, January 22, 2011 | 8pm | $3

Members of All Saints Theater of Richmond VA will be hosting a puppet making workshop Thursday January 20th and then come back to experience the theatatical creations of Lily and new puppeteers of our community.

Openings Friday, November 26, 2010 and Friday, December 3, 2010 | Shop up through Saturday, January 29, 2010

Great Gifts a Holiday Shop featuring unique handmade and vintage gifts for everyone on your list! Over 30 artists and craftspeople participating, stocking The Bridge with jewelry, clothing, prints, art, knits, pottery and more GREAT GIFTS.

The store will have a soft, unofficial opening on November 26, BLACK FRIDAY. The official opening is one week later, December 3, on First Friday. The store will be open weekdays from noon to 8pm and weekends from noon to 6pm, up until Christmas Eve. Gift Certificates will be available for purchase through December 23 and they make great gifts, too! Following the Christmas holiday, visitors can browse during normal gallery hours or by appointment. The store will come down the last week of January. We accept cash, check, and plastic. All proceeds go to The Bridge and the vibrant artists that enrich our community with their skills and creativity.

Volunteers interested in supervising the store during the operating hours will receive 30% in exchange for their services. Interested parties should contact charlottesville.all.stars@gmail.com.