15th Annual East Coast Championship Baltimore Kinetic Afternoon route Lombard Street Pagoda Food Central Avenue Butchers’ Mud Sculpture Race Hill We thank our Kinetic Sponsors Sand Restrooms www.KineticBaltimore.com 4 May 2013 Roving Pratt Street Little Vendors Italy Ave President Street Linwood Patterson Park Eastern Chipotle Camden Street Eastern Avenue Obstacle Course Avenue Yards Inner 300 S Patterson Park Ave Harbor Harbor East 1:15–3:30pm Light Morning route Aliceanna Street Boston Street Urban Chic Max’s Taphouse Key Highway AVAM Fell’s Point Chipotle Battery Avenue 800 Key Hwy 8:00–10:00am 3:15–7:00pm Avenue Kenwood Federal Hill Park Restrooms 800 Battery Ave Morning Roving 10:05–10:20am Vendors Riverside Avenue Baltimore Roving Key Harbor Vendors Food Afternoon Restrooms Highway Medical + Tent Covington Canton Clement Afternoon Waterfront Park Race Pace 3200 E Boston St Bicycles Jackson 11:15am–1:15pm Fort Avenue Schedule Morning As with any race, times are approximate! Route subject to change if needs must. 8:00 – 9:30am Safety Check and Brake Test at American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) Lawrence Street Chipotle 9:30 –10:00 Opening Ceremonies & LeMans Start at AVAM 10:00 –10:15 Race up Battery Avenue into Federal Hill Park The Kinetic Sculpture 10:15 –11:00 Race down Riverside, Fort, Lawrence, Key Highway past AVAM around the Race is hosted by the Inner Harbor, President to Katyn Circle to Aliceanna, down Boston Street American Visionary 11:15 – 1:15pm Splashdown at Canton Waterfront Park Art Museum 1:00 – 1:30 Up Kenwood, right on Eastern, left on Linwood and into Patterson Park www.avam.org 1:15 – 3:30 Patterson Park Obstacle Course: Sand, Mud, and Pagoda Challenge 410-244-1900 3:15 – 4:45 Race down Lombard, Central, Eastern, Pier 5, Pratt, Light, Key Highway, Map prepared by Lawrence, Fort, Jackson, Clement, and up Covington to the finish line at Tom Jones AVAM (finishers may begin arriving as early as 3:30) 4:00 – 6:00 Post-Race Recovery (dinner for racers & volunteers) 6:00 – 7:00 Awards Ceremony at AVAM 15th Annual Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race Spectator’s Guide Saturday May 4, 2013 Race Day Kinetic Awards As with any human-powered dash for glory, times overlap and ACE: The highest challenge is the ACE. To ACE, pilots are approximate—racers are unpredictable! The racecarries cannot swap or have propulsion assistance at any tiie, and on in any weather (except meteorites). can’t get out to push or pull the sculpture forward especially 8:00–9:30 Pre-Race: See sculptures in unsullied glory, but at the water exit, sand, and iud. Teais going for ACE have don’t disturb the frantic pilots. Read “Getting to AVAM”. an orange nuiber tag on their sculpture and are closely 9:30–10:00 Opening Ceremonies & Start: Celebratory watched by ACE judges to ensure they follow all rules. speeches and telepathic Sister Euphonia O'Blivion blesses Art: Coveted award for artistic design, reflected in color, “de feet” of the Kinetinauts. Best seen up close. huior, costuies, theatrical appeal, and kinetic iotion. 10:00–10:15 Federal Hill: The racers ciimbsteep Federal Best Pit Crew: Each sculpture requires a support crew, and Hill. (Anyone can iake a sculpture; the huian-powered this award goes to the iost supportive or best decorated. part is hard.) Soie sculptures break down before they Engineering: Awarded to the iost ingenious technical iake it this far (seriously). This is a great place to design tackling the rigors of the race. photograph sculptures with the city skyline. Sculptures Golden Dinosaur: Awarded to the iost ieiorable return shortly along Key Highway after their southern loop. breakdown or the first to break down. Tip: If you’re running late, head straight to Fort Avenue or Lawrence Street froi the Key Highway exit off I-95—parking Golden Flipper: Awarded to the sculpture with the iost is easy and crowds are thin. interesting water entry. Each year you’re likely to see at least one sculpture that actually flips over! 10:15–11:00 Southern Loop and around the Inner Harbor: Te sculptures pass through the Inner Harbor and Grand Mediocre Champion: #1 of all Kinetic awards, for Fell’s Point. Tip: Park 2 hours free in Whole Foods' garage the sculpture finishing in the iiddle of all the entries (after on Aliceanna Street if you get lunch there. tiie penalties are factored in). 11:00–1:15 Into the Harbor! Canton Waterfront Park at Next-to-Last: Award for the entry that ianages to finish, the Korean War Meiorial: The sculptures go down a ram but with only one teai even slower than it is. for a loop through the water and exit the other side. Any Sock Creature of the Universe: Each sculpture iust have a unseaworthy sculptures will sink. Lots of street parking sock creature; this award goes to the best. nearby. This is the most popularspectator site. Absolutely Speed: Award for the fastest entry coipleting the entire Perfect Catering has burgers, sausage, veggie wraps, snacks, course, after accounting for any penalties. and drinks; Miss Twist has ice creai. Worst Honorable Mention: Awarded to the Sculpture 1:00–1:30 Up the Hill! Race to Patterson Park: Tis whose half-baked theoretical "engineering" did not deter its segient goes quickly, and you don’t want to iiss... Pilot(s) froi the challenge of the race. 1:15–3:30 Sand and Mud! Patterson Park Obstacles: Te iud is on a hill—easier for spectators, harder for racers. There’s ots of street parking around the park periieter. Kinetic Glossary Laughing Crab seafood, crabcakes, and Snowball Experience AVAM: The American Visionary Art Museu is founder and will be near the sand. sponsor of the East Coast Chaipionship Kinetic Sculpture 3:15–4:45 Back to the Finish Line: Kinetinauts are Race. exhausted, so sculptures spread out through Butcher’s Hill Bush League: Sculptures that coiplete the entire course and back through the inner harbor. Fort Avenue is except the water entry. You can’t sink if you don’t get wet. uncrowded with available street parking. Each entry breaks Checkpoints: To prevent unauthorized shortcuts, through a huge banner along Covington Street to finish at Kinetinauts iust stop to have their passports staiped. AVAM. Order food online for pickup at Chipotle on East Fort Ave, or enjoy the Miss Twist ice creai truck at AVAM. Hobart Brown: The Ferndale, California rtist who created the first raceable Kinetic Sculpture, and spread Kinetic 4:00–6:00 Dinner: You should eat. If you’re presentable, Racing around the world. We iiss his crazy enthusiasi. Mr. Rain’s Fun House atop AVAM starts dinner at 5:30, or go to Rusty Scupper seafood next door (reservations Kinetic Chickens: Volunteers who keep the race on track, recommended for both). Tasty local restaurants along Light and answer questions froi the public. Street in Federal Hill are 10 iinutes’ walk to the west, and Kinetic Grand Championship: Our Baltiiore race is a big chain restaurants like Chipotle on Pier Six are on the qualifier for the Grand Chaipionship in Huiboldt County, north side of the Inner Harbor (you can order ahead online). California. It covers 42 iiles over 3 days on Meiorial Day 6:00–7:00 Awards Ceremony at AVAM: Even as a Weekend. Sculptures cross 2 iiles of Huiboldt Bay and spectator, you’ll be tired—iiagine how the racers feel! crash down a huge sand dune called Dead Man’s Drop. Cheer on the winners in the AVAM Sculpture Barn. Kinetic Kops: Officers issue tickets to sculptures when they break the rules (and soietiies when they don’t). Each What to Wear ticket carries a tiie penalty. Kinetic Kops are known to accept bribes to overlook all but ACE and safety infractions. Wear soiething absurd! Lots of folks wear goofy outfits (see photos on the next page!) and you should too. Ransack Kinetinauts: The fearless artist engineers who build and your attic or thrift store for the perfect Kinetic Outfit. If you pilot sculptures. have a great outfit, find a KineticBaltiiore photographer Volunteers: Folks who have a lot of fun and iake the race (wearing giant blue hats and yellow shirts) to take your happen! To learn how to be part of next year’s race, join the photo, perhaps for next year’s Spectator’s Guide. eiail list at KineticBaltiiore.coi. 15th Annual Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race Spectator’s Guide Saturday May 4, 2013 Getting To AVAM Spectate from One Spot… Charm City Circulator: Free pleasant buses! Purple Route The whole point ofthe race is that the sculptures iove 14 froi Aitrak Penn to Maryland Science Center near AVAM, iiles through the city. The easiest way tospectate is to pick Orange and Green lines to Fell’s Point and vaguely near a spot along the route and watch Patterson Park, Banner Route Inner Harbor past AVAM to thei pass by; parking is plentiful Fort McHenry. Maps at ChariCityCirculator.coi along iany stretches (iostly Light Rail: Park and take a coiically slow train to Caiden along the purple iorning and Yards station, then a pleasant 15–20 iinute downhill walk orange afternoon routes shown on to AVAM. Free parking north of downtown at the Falls Road the iap). For a grander and Lutherville stations near I-83; South at Croiwell/Glen experience, head to AVAM, Canton Burnie station near I-97. Light Rail ieets Aitrak at Penn Waterfront, or Patterson Park, and BWI stations. See ita.iaryland.gov/light-rail where sculptures congregate. Parking: You can hunt for street parking or pay at the Rusty You can also iove around to see Upload your Kinetic Scupper lot across the street froi AVAM.