Category — Other Events

Saturday, September 29, at 6pm

Sunday is the last day of the FUZZ show, so we’re having a pot-luck reception tonight. Bring a dish to share, and leave with a handmade recipe zine. Hug your friends!

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Thursday, September 13, from 7 to 10pm

A friendly drawing party. Paper and markers will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own, too! Because sometimes it is just nice to sit with other people and draw. Also, we will be sharing zine-making skills and advice.

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Thursday, August 9 at 8pm

Community Bikes, Charlottesville’s own volunteer-run bicycle shop, has been quietly gathering crowds over the past few months with their “Bike-In Movies” series – now, the Bridge is proud to join forces with our comrades in activism and the arts to present a two-part interactive event.

First, the audience will gather at The Bridge to watch a re-screening of selections from the 2007 Portland Filmed By Bike festival, before riding their bicycles over to Community Bikes on West Main for the evening’s feature presentation, Sunday in Hell, a documentary about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race.

Saturday, June 30 from 1-5pm

Local artisans and crafts folk share their wares from a myriad of mediums. Come join the fun, support their work, enjoy live DJ’s, graze on light eats, drink, and good company as a collection of vendors bring it all back home with this day-long event and sale of fine artisan wares.

We hope this will become an annual event, a yearly spring fair to counterbalance the Robot Wares Fare at the Satellite Ballroom every Fall. If you’d like to get involved, please contact charlottesvilleallstars@gmail.com

Saturday, June 8 at 1:30pm

Award-winning photographer Ashley Gilbertson will speak at The Bridge about his recent work and experiences in Iraq. His many honors include the 2004 Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Photographer of the Year from the National Photo Awards, and selection for Time magazine’s “Pictures of the Year.”

A freelance photographer who has been working in Iraq since 2002 largely on contract for the New York Times, Gilbertson’s essay Last Photographs will appear in the Summer 2007 issue of the VQR (available in July). His forthcoming book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War will be published by the University of Chicago Press in fall 2007. Gilbertson’s appearance is part of the Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph and is sponsored by The Bridge and VQR.

New York graffiti muralist David Ellis and Tibetan thangka painter Pema Rinzin were both visiting The Bridge in early May, so we asked them to grace our fair city with a collaborative mural.

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Tuesday, May 8 at 7pm

Traditionally trained in the art of Tibetan Thangka painting, Pema Rinzin is the artist in residence at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. Pema will give an informal artist talk at The Bridge while exhibiting examples of his work.

Sunday, May 6

Bill Daniel, the creator of last November’s Who is Bozo Texino? The Secret History of Hobo Graffiti returns to Charlottesville to present Last Free Ride, Roy Nolan’s documentary about a floating houseboat activist community in the 1960’s, along with Daniel’s own short video Selective Service System Story.

Bill is touring the country in his hand-made combination sailboat/van, and will be projecting a two-channel work-in-progress video onto the boat’s sails in our parking lot, before we all head inside for the main feature. Don’t miss this great opportunity to see great films in a unique setting!

Thursday, April 12, at 8pm

As part of AIA Week in April, Dina Sorensen has organized a week-long film festival in Charlottesville to mark the 150th anniversary of the American Institute of Architecture. The Bridge is proud to host this screening, just one of many events around town during the week-long festival.

The program will feature Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Sheds by Jane Crawford and Robert Fiore, and two early shorts by Peter Greenawa: Windows and H is for House.

This event is part of the AIA Week Film Festival.