OUR MISSION

To provide an accessible and dynamic venue for the exploration of the creative process in Charlottesville, supporting the work of emerging artists, young and old.

To dissolve social barriers and bring people together through collaborative practices and programming in the arts.

HzCollective presents: NanoHz no. 16

Monday, July 7th at 8pm

The HzCollective returns to the Bridge to present an evening of experimental and improvised music with live electronics. NanoHz No. 16’s line-up will include performances by Richmond duo Insects With Tits, Norgwegian collaborators Nernes/Skagen, and Cville favorites Pinko Communoids.

Click here for more information about each of these musicians. The show will begin at 8pm, with a suggested donation of $3-$5.

The Fun Bus

A team of artists and arts educators from the UVA School of Architecture, The Bridge PAI, and Piedmont Council of the Arts are collaborating on a unique public art project for Charlottesville Parks and Recreation. After a series of hands-on workshops with Parks and Rec summer campers, the team will repaint a school bus, transforming it into an exciting, kid-friendly vehicle. Already in gestation, the bus design weaves together visual elements of urban life and the natural world, highlighting a young person’s unique perspective of and experience in the world.

The hands-on workshops take place this week at various Parks and Recreation summer camp sites. For more information email Greg Kelly at The Bridge or Maggie Guggenheimer at Piedmont Council of the Arts.

Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!

Fridays-Saturdays, July 18th-19th and 25th-26th, at 8pm

The Bridge PAI is proud to host the Charlottesville premiere of the Traveling Jones Theater’s “Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!” starring Scott Craig Jones. This mesmerizing one-man show includes word-for-word hair-raising performances of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-tale Heart, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Conqueror Worm, Spirits of the Dead, Eldorado, The Masque of the Red Death and A Dream Within a Dream. For four Friday and Saturday nights this summer: July 18th-19th, and 25th-26th. The curtain is at 8pm each night – come early, seating is limited. Tickets are $10.00 at the door.

Workshop: Shamanism and the Art of Play

Saturday, July 19, 9:30 a.m. to 5 pm

In this workshop led by Rachel Mann, we will engage our natural spontaneity and courage to be ourselves and to release ancient traumas and patterns that no longer serve us. Shamanism and indigenous healing practices are rooted in the use of art, ritual, storytelling and play to engage directly with the unconscious and the energies in our lives.

In the western model of working, we use talk therapy to bring us to deeper understandings of ourselves and to change old patterns. In shamanic work, we work with more primal processes natural to our body’s healing mechanisms to develop insight and facilitate transformation. Working at this level can bring dramatic changes in ourselves and the world around us with great ease. We will be enlightened and rejuvenated. For those of us who work in the role of helper in our homes or workplaces, this workshop will be restorative and will help us rediscover the ability to play as a path to good self-care.

This day-long workshop costs $95, which includes refreshments and Saturday lunch. To register, please contact Rachel Mann at 434-878-3210 or by e-mail.

Pid Geon Babylon Revisited

Thursday, August 14 at 8pm

This Summer, local filmmakers Riley Duncan and Caleb Plutzer will present the newest version of Pid Geon Babylon, the acclaimed video documenting the exploits of the local skateboarding crew The Argyle Team. Pid Geon Babylon screened at The Bridge in it’s original form last summer, and the new improved version of the video contains new titles, different music (possibly with live accompaniment — details TBA), and new footage including skating in NYC, as well as a short VA-based super-8 exploration film.

We expect a healthy audience of local skateboarders, but would also like to extend the invitation to those of you who may not be directly involved with or aware of Charlottesville’s healthy skating community; skateboard culture is a fascinating American subculture and a valuable folk-art tradition, and skate videos contain many aspects which may be fascinating and enjoyable even for those who have never skated themselves.

Hooliganship present: Cartune Xprez

Friday, October 24

The multimedia dance duo Hooliganship will be presenting the freshest incarnation of Cartune Xprez, a 70-minute program of short animated videos that celebrates the wilderness of imagination through motion pictures. Featured artists include Bruce Bickford, Eric Dyer, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, and more. Alongside this cartoon theater they will be performing their most recent piece entitled Realer in which audiences strap on a pair of 3D glasses to bear witness to a televised parade gone awry.

This touring program, which roughly mirrors an upcoming Cartune Xprez DVD publication, will provide a rare opportunity to see videos by emerging artists as well as internationally known artists. Collectively, their resume includes collaborations with Frank Zappa and major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many other institutions throughout the world.