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July 23 — AuGuSt 8 2010 60+ events. More than two dozen bands, DJs, and performers. Over 150 artists. 24 films. One historic picnic. And a few unavoidably large art installations. All of it taking place at more than 27 venues around the city. This is the PDX Bridge Festival by the numbers—but you’ll quickly realize as you explore this festival guide, we are more than a string of numbers. Much more.

In 2010, our inaugural year, our goal is to celebrate what makes a great city in which to live, work, play, and create — by celebrating the bridges that connect us all. We created a civic celebration to engage Portlanders on their own cultural terms, and we hope that you’ll support it.

We founded the PDX Bridge Festival as a nonprofit organization dedicated to marking the centennials of our Bridges. This year, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the , whose iconic span has carried many, many millions of horses, buggies, streetcars, Model Ts, Studebakers, semi trucks, Trimet buses, hybrid vehicles, bicycles, and feet across the river that runs through the heart our city.

No matter who you are, we believe that somewhere in these pages you’ll find something that sparks your interest, whether it be a storytelling tour of the river and its bridges, a free outdoor concert, a bohemian circus, groundbreaking work by a local artist, an engaging speaker, an interactive installation along your daily commute, or even a film with Jeff Bridges.

This is the PDX Bridge Festival. A celebration of our connective culture. A city-wide arts event. A birthday party for a bridge. As Portland’s Bridge Lady, Sharon Wood Wortman, once said, “This is much better than cake.” We think you’ll agree, and while you probably can’t see it all... you can always try!

-Tucker Teutsch 3.0, Creative Director July 15 July 24 Art Spark Wanderlust Circus presents: 5-7pm “battle for the bridge” Join us for a special outdoor pre-party 9pm-12am for the PDX Bridge Festival! Held at the The Proudest Circus Family in Free waterfront park headquarters of the Rose Cascadia presents a fairy tale retelling of Festival at the foot of the Hawthorne our occluded city’s first boom, when barons Bridge, RACC’s July Art Spark event of industry engineered the future of the features transcontinental groove maniac DJ Willamette River, and constructed the first GlobalRuckus, Ninkasi Brews and Barefoot of her celebrated steel spans. Will this heroic Wine. We will also be announcing a huge band of acrobats, aerialists, and dancers opportunity for local artists this night! ride the wave or succumb to the undertow? FREE / 21+ From the Shipping Lanes to the Shanghai Tunnels, Wanderlust Circus recreates history where: Rose Festival HQ @ Tom McCall with liberal dollops of music, mischief and Waterfront Park, 1020 Southwest Naito Pkwy melodramatic license. $15/$20 door / 21+

where: , July 23 722 East Burnside Street Kick-Off Party! 6-11pm July 24 To start things off properly, we combine LIFT 100 — Hit the Lights! two of our favorite things: ART and MUSIC! 10pm The opening event of the Bridge Festival The centerpiece installation of this will showcase the 2-D, 3-D and performance year’s festival, LIFT 100, will go live on art works of over 50 Portlanders. From Saturday, July 24. This historic installation massive sculpture to fresh beats by local transforms the Hawthorne Bridge into a DJs to individual performance, this event— large-scale work of interactive art. Using co-produced with Portland City Art—will fabric and light to interact with the nightly set the tone for the weeks to come. Don’t vehicle and bike traffic on the bridge, the miss it! installation will be visible for the duration FREE / ALL AGES of the festival—but this is your chance to see it as we hit the lights! FREE / ALL AGES where: Olympic Mills Commerce Center, 107 SE Washington Street where: Hawthorne Bridge (BEST VIEWS FROM AND WATERFRONT) July 31 mOrSOund cOncErt July 25 (muSic On thE riVEr!) drAwbridGE OpEninG What do you imagine when you think of rEcEptiOn festivals? Bands and DJs? Performance 1-4pm and Dance? Art and Circus? kid’s activities? Working with 3rd grade artists MORsound has it all: With three stages and at four Portland Public Schools, a variety of musical and performance acts— PDX Bridge Festival brought plus a special two-hour media and music art directly to the classrooms spectacular on the Hawthorne Bridge itself— with this year’s pilot program. this event has something for everyone! Installed as banners along the FrEE / All AGES thoroughfare of the , the DrawBridge whErE: SE Water Avenue @ Taylor Street Project showcases the role of bridges in our lives... and in our bridGinG culturES imaginations! (Read more about 4-9pm the project in “Installations”) A sampling of Portland’s diverse cultures, Support these budding artists as MC’d by Tres Shannon of voodoo Doughnuts, we unveil their art to the public! including: Miriam Feder will perform Bridge Songs with a student/teacher Sneakin Out, MarchFourth Marching Band ensemble. Light refreshments served. FrEE / All AGES venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan, Tapwater, Right Brain Initiative, Sound Roots whErE: UO White Stag Building, School of Music, kids’ Pavilion, Portland 70 NW Couch Street Paper City, Sustainability zone, Battle of the Band Camp... AND MORE TBA! AuGuSt 1 hAwthOrnE bridGE St. JOhn’S cEntEnniAl pArty cArniVAl 9-11pm 12-2:30pm MarchFourth Marching Band, Solovox, This kid-friendly afternoon is DJ GlobalRuckus, Mobile Groove Bomb chock-full of family fun, including face-painting, balloon animals, And don’t forget the afterparty... popcorn, and bridge-related edutainment — followed by a free mOrSOund AFtErpArty screening of Bridge to Terabithia! 11pm-3Am Bonus: Parents can relax nearby Wanderlust Circus, Sweet Snacks, Sidecar with a pint. Please see fi lm listing Tommy (of Beats Antique), vokab kompany for more details. FrEE with $2 ...and more! SuGGEStEd dOnAtiOn / All AGES $10 / All AGES whErE: McMenamins liStEn liVE On kbOO 90.7Fm, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Or At kbOO.Fm/liStEn 8203 N Ivanhoe Street AuGuSt 7 brunch On thE bridGE! 10Am-1pm 100 year Old bridge +25,000 square feet of lawn +10 of portland’s best food carts +yOu Want to attendthe Brunch on the = OnE unFOrGEttAblE picnic! Bridge? yOu cAn rEGiStEr FOr thE drAwinG bEFOrE July 16 by The fi nale event of the Festival will transform the center lanes purchasing a PDX Bridge Festival of the Hawthorne Bridge into a bumper sticker from participating temporary grassy park fi t for a Whole Foods Markets or online at picnic of thousands! This historic event centers around an open-air www.pdxbridgefestival.org/brunch. food experience in a nontraditional location, to strengthen the bonds between our urban and rural communities and the food we eat. Lucky participants will get a chance to experience the Hawthorne Bridge, and delicious food, in a whole new way! All AGES whErE: Hawthorne Bridge LIFT 100: hawthorne bridge The centerpiece of this years festival is the Hawthorne Bridge, which celebrates its hundredth anniversary in 2010. In honor of the centennial of THE NATION’S OLDEST WORKING VERTICAL LIFT BRIDGE, we’ve designed a 2-part installation that transforms this bridge from a historic bit of infrastructure into a close encounter with public art!

Fabric and Light free MORSound concert—the trusses of the An interactive lighting display makes use of Hawthorne Bridge will become a platform programmable and environmentally aware for an interactive light and projection lighting technology to interact with the media show. Screens stretched across the nightly vehicle, bike, and pedestrian traffic trussing along the bridge spans provide a on the bridge. The lights accentuate panels framework for a visual tour of Portland— of fabric installed in the bridge trusses, who we are, where we’ve come from, and turning the structure into a wash of color where we’re going—using gathered media and moving light, and marking the rhythm of from the last 100 years, text- based traffic as it moves across the bridge. interactions from our audience, captured When: July 24-August 8 images from the event, and digital artists. If you don’t see anything else, see this! Multi-Media Spectacle For almost two hours on the night of When: July 31, 9-11pm Saturday, July 31—in conjunction with the

The Bridges That Built Portland: A Learning Center As one of the world’s great bridge cities, Portland is often defined and identified by her bridges. Each span is unique; each distinct in its design, function, and character. This year, PDX Bridge Festival takes the first step in a long-term goal to provide a permanent destination dedicated to the bridges that make Portland such a compelling urban space. “The Bridges That Built Portland” will go beyond basic information to ask the question: What kind of city would Portland be if not for its bridges? Large printed photographs accompanied by engaging text, interactive models, oral history, and multimedia displays will explore the past, present, and future of our downtown bridges.

Where: UO White Stag Commons, 70 NW Couch Street

When: July 21 — August 20, 8am–6pm daily DrawBridge Project This program sent teaching artists into classrooms to work with schoolchildren as part of the Portland Public School District third grade curriculum on bridges. For this year’s pilot project, 120 students have been tasked with creating works of art FIXED SPANS: CITY HALL representing the role of the Willamette PDX Bridge Festival takes over the River Bridges in our lives... and in our City Hall atrium with the “FIXED imaginations! Selected drawings are SPANS” art installation. Our printed on full-color pennant banners, collaborative team of artists are and installed for the duration of the creating a 3D “optical illusion” in the festival on the lamp posts along the south atrium, using only masking tape thoroughfare of the Burnside Bridge. and the Willamette River Bridges. The DrawBridge Project brings How does that work, you ask? Come children’s art to the heart of our city! see for yourself! Where: Burnside Bridge WHERE: City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Avenue When: July 22 — August 9

WHEN: July 16 - August 1, 9am-5pm daily GALLERy FRIDAY sunday wednesday exhibitions july 23 July 25 July 28 Ongoing EVENT: tour: tour: throughout July kick off party bridges by bike bridges by bike 6pm-11pm noon-2pm noon-2pm Tribute Gallery “A Tribute to Bridges” tour: EVENT: speaker: NW Broadway & Everett sunset bridge drawbridge the willamette Street walk reception river transit 7:30pm-9:30pm 1pm-4pm bridge Eastbank Commerce speaker: 6pm-7:45 pm Center Spandrel the poetry of tour: Gallery “15 Artists” saA turd Y the bridges bohemian storytellers SE Taylor & Water July 24 4pm-6pm happ y birthday hawthorne Avenue tour: film: 7pm-9pm bridgeal w k bridge on the 100th Monkey 8:30Am-noon river kwai film: Studios the bIG lEBOWSki tour: 9pm-11pm “MAPS” 9pm-11pm SE 16th & Ankeny bridges by bike 10Am-noon m onday, Launch Pad Gallery tour: thursday “Proximity” July 26 bridges by bike tour: July 29 SE 6th & Oak 2pm-4pm bridges by bike tour: noon-2pm bridges by bike Suspension Gallery tour: bridges by bike noon-2pm Gabe Flores and Gary film: 6pm-8pm Wiseman, “PLACE” bridge on the tour: sunset bridge 4th Floor, Pioneer Place tour: river kwai bohemian storytellers 9pm-11pm walk Arches Gallery deep wATER 7:30pm-9:30pm “25 Artists” 7pm-9pm film: 4th Floor, Pioneer Place EVENT: the big lebowski wanderlust circus tuesday 9pm-11pm Trusses Gallery “battle for the july 27 Brin Levinson, bridges” tour: Christopher Mooney, 9pm-12am bridges by bike Micha Krock “Urban EVENT: noon-2pm friday Landscapes” lift 100: hit the speaker: July 30 4th Floor, Pioneer Place lights! crossing the tour: 10pm-11pm columbia bridges by bike 6pm-7:30 pm noon-2pm ongoing film: speaker: installations bridge on the ed & sharon river kwai wortman Lift 100 9pm-11pm 6pm-7:30pm tour: Drawbridge bohemian storytellers happ y birthday Fixed Spans hawthorne Tell us what you think about 7pm-9pm the 2010 PDX Bridge Festival - Learning Center “The pdxbridgefestival.org/festival/survey film: Bridges That Built the bIG lEBOWSki Portland” 9pm-11pm saturday sunday wednesday friday july 31 august 1 august 4 august 6 tour: EVENT: tour: tour: bridges by bike st. john’s bridges by bike bridges by bike 10Am-noon carnival noon-2pm noon-2pm speaker: 12pm-4pm speaker: tour: bridgestories film: bohemian storytellers 1pm-3pm bridgeo t renegade minstrels happ y birthday film: terabithia hawthorne 2:30pm-4pm 6pm-8pm bridgeo t 8pm-10pm terabithia speaker: tour: bohemian storytellers film: 2:30pm-4pm daniel duford man on wire 4pm-6pm happ y birthday tour: hawthorne 9pm-11pm bohemian storytellers tour: 7pm-9pm happ y birthday bridges by bike hawthorne 6pm-8pm film: s unday 2pm-4pm man on wire august 7 9pm-11pm tour: tour: willammette monday bridgeal w k jet boat august 2 8:30Am-noon 4pm-9pm tour: thursday EVENT: EVENT: bridges by bike brunch on the noon-2pm august 5 morsound tour: bridge concert film: bridges by bike 10am-1pm 4pm-9pm bridgeo t noon-2pm tour: EVENT: terabithia bridges by bike 2:30pm-4pm tour: lift 100: sunset bridge 10Am-noon hawthorne walk tour: bridge tuesday 7:30pm-9:30pm bridges by bike centennial noon-2pm celebration august 3 film: 9pm-11pm tour: pdx bridge tour: bridges by bike festival short bohemian storytellers EVENT: deep wATER noon-2pm film competition morsound 8pm extravaganza! afterparty 2pm-4pm 11pm-3am film: man on wire A portion of all ticket sales benefit PDX Bridge Festival. 9pm-11pm For tickets to events, tours, or performances, please visit our website, pdxbridgefestival.org or boxofficetickets.com.

The PDX Bridge Festival is an inclusive event and will reasonably accommodate people with disabilities in accordance with the ADA. Please call 503.954.2363 or Relay 711 to make a request. Bridges by Bike with Portland Bicycle Tours These pedal-powered explorations of the Willamette River Bridges are two hours of delight for visitors and residents alike. Following a scenic loop of the waterfront from the to the , these tours are jam-packed with history and knowledge about the city, its waterfront esplanades and open spaces, and most importantly…its BRIDGES! Baridge W lks SCHEDULE: With fresh air, great views, with Sharon Sunset Bridge and plenty of time to chat Wood Wortman Walks with tour leaders, these bike These Bridge Walks 7:30-9:30pm trips are great for all ages. provide an unforgettable $10 / ALL AGES Bring your own wheels or opportunity to take a borrow them from Portland tour with the woman who July 23 MEET AT: Bicycle Tours, these tours literally wrote the book Olympic Mills, 107 SE are plug and play! on Portland’s bridges! Washington Street (see $40 / ALL AGES Depending on the route (no “Kick-off Party”) two walks are ever exactly Bike Tour the same), you may visit July 29 MEET AT: Schedule the operator’s tower and NW 2nd & Everett JULY 24: bascule pit of the Morrison 10am*, 2pm, 6pm Bridge, test for synchronous August 5 MEET AT: vertical excitation, and NW 2nd & Everett AUGUST 1: 6pm make triangles with your bodies to create tension Morning Bridge JULY 25-30: 12pm (noon) and compression. Walks Walks Sponsored by Portland Parks are about a mile long, and JULY 31: 10am*, 12pm usually cross three bridges, 8:30am-12pm $16 / ALL AGES seeing eight in all. AUGUST 2-6: 12pm (noon) No pre-registration required july 24 MEET AT: AUGUST 7: 10am*, 12pm NW 2nd & Everett; Guest artist Oregon Poet MEET AT: 345 NW Everett Laureate Paulann Petersen Street August 7 MEET AT: NW * INDICATES A 2nd & Everett; Guest artist FREE TOUR! (PRE- ,usician Mary Flower REGISTRATION REQUIRED) Bohemian Storytelling Tours The esoteric, endlessly entertaining, and highly imaginative Bohemian Storytellers weave together theater, storytelling, and lively bits of audience interaction—with spontaneous help from some surprise guests! In addition to Deep Water, their well-established tour, this troupe has created a new tour for the Hawthorne Bridge’s 100th birthday. These guys are one of the undiscovered treasures of our city, and we cannot recommend them enough! $15 / ALL AGES Happy Birthday Hawthorne Tour July 28: 7pm* July 30: 8pm July 31: 2pm August 4: 7pm* August 6: 8pm

MEET AT: Tom McCall Waterfront Park, south of Hawthorne Bridge

* INDICATES A FREE TOUR! (PRE- REGISTRATION REQUIRED) Deea p W ter Tour July 24: 7pm Willamette JetBoat August 7: 2pm with special guests Tours Phame Academy Portland’s ultimate river experience! Explore Portland’s historic bridges, skyline MEET AT: North end of Tom McCall and scenic waterfront with Willamette Waterfront Park, near Steel Bridge Jetboat Excursions. These tours are the only way to see so much of the river in such a short time! Each adventure is narrated with facts and local stories from USCG guides. The tours also include adventure and splash, with spins and thrills only possible on a jetboat! $10 / ALL AGES * Each jetboat tour is 30 minutes long

When: July 31, 4-9pm Where: Dock, near Hawthorne Bridge bridGE On thE bridGE tO riVEr kwAi tErAbithiA William Holden and Alec The exhilarating Guinness (a.k.a. Obi-wan and heartwarming kenobi) are prisoners fantasy-adventure of war in Asia during explores the power of WWII, forced to build a imagination and the pdX bridGE bridge (which they later magic of friendship. FEStiVAl destroy, in what may Discover a place that ShOrt Film have been the riskiest will never leave you, cOmpEtitiOn event ever captured on and a friendship that This local fi lm screening fi lm!). This cinematic will change you forever. features short fl icks masterpiece—which won (See “Events” listings for by local fi lmmakers 7 Oscars—and its catchy more information about who have taken the theme song give new the kid’s Carnival on “bridge” theme to new meaning to the saying August 1) and creative levels! “Whistle while you work!” $1 / All AGES Sponsored by OMPA, $3 / 21+ the fi lm competition whErE: McMenamins St. includes a $250 cash whErE: Bagdad Theater & Johns Theater & Pub, 8203 prize, gift certifi cates, Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne N Ivanhoe Street as well as the chance Boulevard whEn: July 31, for the winner to screen whEn: July 25, 26, 27 August 1, 2 — 2:30pm their fi lm of choice at — 9pm the Bagdad Theater for a few hundred friends! mAn On wirE The winner is based thE biG A look at tightrope on audience choice, lEbOwSki walker Philippe Petit’s and with almost 40 This cult classic follows daring—and illegal— submissions to the JEFF bridGES as high-wire routine, competition, this is a “The Dude” during his performed between the great chance to support hilariously misspent World Trade Center’s the local fi lmmaking efforts in bowling, twin towers in 1974. scene. blackmail, unintentional Some considered it $3 / 21+ procreation, and the “the artistic crime of quest to recover the the century.” This highly stolen fl oor rug that eccentric and self- whErE: Mission Theater, “really tied the room absorbed daredevil 1624 NW Glisan Street together, man.” Need we defi ed both gravity and say more? $3 / 21+ the authorities to build a whEn: August 5 — 8pm one-man bridge into thin whErE: Bagdad Theater & air. $3 / 21+ Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Boulevard whErE: Mission Theater, whEn: July 28, 29, 30 1624 NW Glisan Street — 9pm whEn: August 4, 6, 7 — 8pm July 25 design collective PDXplore, the lore and history of the The Poetry of will lead a forum that poses Fremont Bridge’s unique Bridges questions and alternatives tied-arch design genesis, 4pm while broadening a construction, cracking, and Oregon Poet Laureate discussion intended for a float-in off barges in the Paulann Petersen and wide-reaching audience middle of the Willamette others read works about within the Portland- River (the largest bridge lift the bridges of Portland Vancouver region. FREE / in the world at the time!). and beyond! Beginning with ALL AGES The show concludes with a talk about how poetry a video of Sharon and Ed’s serves as a bridge, this Where: US Bank Room @ climb through the arch ribs open-mic format invites Central Library, 801 SW 10th of the Fremont to stand at people to read a poem they Avenue flagpole level in July 2009. or another poet has written FREE, WITH A SUGGESTED $3 on the subject of bridges. DONATION / ALL AGES Metaphors welcomed and July 28 encouraged! This is an The Willamette Where: Mark Spencer Hotel opportunity to expand the River Transit Courtyard, 409 SW 11th definitions and limits of the Bridge: An Avenue roles bridges play in our Artful Leap lives. FREE / ALL AGES 6pm JUly 31 Bob Hastings & DeeAnn Sharon Wood Where: Powell’s on Hawthorne, Sandberg of Trimet discuss Wortman’s 3723 SE Hawthorne Boulevard the first new bridge over “BridgeStories” the Willamette in over 35 1pm years! The structure is Portland’s “Bridge Lady,” July 27 unique among American Sharon Wood Wortman, Crossing the bridges because it will presents rare and unusual Columbia: only serve mass transit, images in an hour-long What Does it bicycles, and pedestrians. collection of music, short Mean? The bridge is scheduled video clips, and stories. 6pm to break ground next year, See all measure of bridges: Spanning the most and will likely make history the singing, grasshopper, significant river in the in the process! This is a lighted, and London, as well western United States chance to learn all about it. as the longest tied-arch and forming the gateway FREE / ALL AGES in the Western world, the between two states of country’s oldest operating the Pacific Northwest, the Where: Art Institure of vertical lift, and the only Crossing Portland, 1122 N Davis Street double lift bridge of its kind is a bridge project of local in engineering history— and national relevance July 30 the latter three found in with far-reaching economic, The Fremont Portland, Oregon. transportation, land use, Bridge — A $3 / ALL AGES ecological, cultural and Storytelling social significance. Two Slide Show Where: Bagdad Theater & Pub, urban designers, Michael 6pm 3702 SE Hawthorne Boulevard McCulloch and Carol Using images collected Mayer-Reed, along with over a span of nearly 40 other members of the years, Ed Wortman unravels Au gust 4 Renegade Minstrels: “Portland’s Bridges through Time” 6pm The Renegade Minstrels deliver a panoramic musical & photographic narrative of Portland’s bridges. With original music and songs composed in Portland by Woody Guthrie, they share a variety of perspectives Au gust 1 legend, represented by public Daniel art installations around the with the audience—from the Duford: The city, that assimilates the Depression-era squatters’ various histories of Portland, shacks under the Ross Green Man of Island Bridge to the soaring Portland the Willamette River and its bridges. F LREE / AL AGES experience of crossing the 4pm in 2010. Daniel Duford, artist and FREE / ALL AGES writer, presents Where: Powell’s on Hawthorne, “The Green Man of 3723 SE Hawthorne Boulevard Where: Art Institute of Portland” — a comic Portland, 1122 N Davis Street series of a faux

The mission of the Advisory Council Program Coordinators PDX Bridge Festival Kevin Balmer, Bridget Bayer, Andrea Boyle Commissioner Nick Fish Peter Clark, Dianna Fontes is to raise public Tyler Hanson, Chris William “Richter” Heintz, awareness and Herring, Commissioner Nathan Hoover, Melanie foster appreciation Deborah Kafoury, Clint Mueller, Tatianna Pavich of the Willamette Kaster, Lisa Lepine, Tony Sue Stevens, Evan Ross River Bridges Lester, Kate Madden, Matt Brighton West McCune, Cade Moore, through educational, Mike Pullen, Mar Ricketts, PDX Bridge Festival is historical, cultural and Gabe Shaughnessy, Kate a 501(c)(3) nonprofit artistic programming. Sokoloff, Mike Thelin, organization. If you’d like Howard Thurston, Ted to support the mission and Wheeler, Sharon Wood programming of PDX Bridge Board of Directors Wortman Festival, you may contribute Nancy Chapin, Chair through our website or send Kohel Haver, Secretary Staff a tax-deductible gift to: JulieAnne Poncet, Treasurer Tucker Teutsch 3.0 Pollyanne Birge Creative Director PDX Bridge Festival John Graeter Jessica Klinke 537 SE Ash St. #41 Jessica Klinke Managing Director Portland, OR 97214 Peter Platt Lander Beauchamp Illustrations by Gabe Terry Taylor Design Intern Shaughnessy; Photos used with Tucker Teutsch 3.0 Clay Peterson permission. Web Intern ©2010 PDX Bridge Festival, Inc. Multnomah County Cultural Coalition Hamilton Construction Jupiter Hotel CH2M Hill Mark Spencer Hotel THA Architecture People’s Republic of Portland Imelda’s Shoes and Louie’s for Men SOAK, LLC JLA Public Involvement

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