Community Events, Local Art Projects, Experimental Film, Independent Music, Silkscreening Workshops, Tea Ceremonies, Cirtcuit-Bending, Inclusive Participatory Activities, Affecting Positive Change in the Community, Old-School Hip-Hop, the Avant-Garde, Hoboes, Politics, Dance Parties
Music
Pinko Communoids, Grand Banks, Josh Van Horne, Caustic Castle, Feralcatscan, the Extraordinaires, Health, 804 Noise, HzCollective, Gull, Doofgoblin, Aa, Dragons of Zynth, Narhwalz, Antelope, Soccer Team, the Beetnix, John D'earth, AudioState, the Great White Jenkins, Patrick Critzer, DJ Gently, DJ Hummingbird Feeder, DJ J. Pinkerton, Ted Coffey, Jonathan Zorn, Last Days of May, Cloeburner, Jamie Dyer, Face Muscles
Movies
Bruce Conner, Martin Arnold, Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, John and James Whitney, Su Friedrich, Joseph Cornell, Abbas Kiarostami, George Kuchar, Werner Herzog, Martha Colburn, Bill Daniel, Abigail Child, Matt McCormick, Janie Geiser, Stan Brakhage, Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, Jan Svankmajer, Lotte Reiniger, Arthur Lipsett, Sandra Gibson, Peter Tscherkassky, Peggy Ahwesh, Kevin Everson, Anthony McCall, Christopher Maclaine, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Kren, James Benning, Patrick Bokanowski, Naomi Uman, Robert Frank, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Derek Jarman, Harun Farocki, Peter Rose, Michael Snow, Robert Nelson, Tony Conrad, Laida Lertxundi, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Curtis Harrington, Matthias Müller, Lewis Klahr, Jeanne Liotta, Jonas Mekas, PaperRad, Forcefield, DearRaindrop, Meghan Eckman, Holly Fisher, Peter Kubelka, Yayoi Kusuma, Ken Jacobs, Bike-In Movies, Miranda July, Bill Wylie, Mark Lapore, Patrick Bokanowski, Richard Williams, Wilson Busfield, Joey Garfield, Todd Haynes, and Skate Video producers everywhere.
Television
"Open access to television is offset by a powerful censorship, a loss of independence linked to the conditions imposed on those who speak on television. Above all, time limits make it highly unlikely that anything can be said. [...]It is true that politics intervenes, and that there is political control. It is also true that at a time such as today, when great numbers of people are looking for work and there is so little job security in television and radio, that there is a greater tendancy towards political conformity. Consciously or unconsciously, people censor themselves - they don't need to be called into line."
Pierre Bourdieu, On Television (1996)
"If you switch on television it's just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills us. And talk shows will kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television. Commercials and – I think there should be real war against commercials, real war against talk shows, real war against Bonanza and Rawhide, or all these things." ~ Werner Herzog, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
Books
Virginia Quarterly Review, Mildred Pierce, No More Prisons, Visionary Film, Godard on Godard, Bowling Alone, What Every One Should Know about Islam and Muslims, Yes Yes Y'all: The Oral History of Hip-Hop's First Decade, Getting Up, Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, Guns Germs & Steel, What's the Matter with Kansas, A People's History of the United States, Acme Novelty Library, Bresson's Notes for the Cinematographer, Fortress of Solitude, Mike Slack's OK OK OK, Thom Anderson's unpublished manuscript on the birth of Cinema, Can't Stop Won't Stop: a History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Alice Hutchinson's Kenneth Anger monagraph, Ward Churchill, ANP Quarterly
Heroes
Muhammad Ali, Public Enemy, William "Upski" Wimsatt, Ian MacKaye, Bruce Conner, Charles Hayward, Jonas Mekas, Russell Taylor, Carrie Worrell, Michael “Nick” Nichols, Jill Hartz, Joan Fenton, Marc Lipsom, Gina Carroll, Leah Stoddard, Richard Herskowitz, Gabe Silverman, Cassandra Barnett, Shannon Worrell, Clay Rockefeller, John Lawrence, Ludwig Kutner, Will May, John Gibson, Tyler Denmead, David Ellis
About me:
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative is a Charlottesville-based organization which aims to strengthen and enrich community through collaborative interaction in the arts. We promote an active exchange between artists, organizations, and various facets of the community. We sponsor events and programs which serve to enhance social awareness and build social capital/community through diversified, educational, and creative interaction.
Who I'd like to meet: The Bridge is always looking for volunteers to assist with administrative efforts, to present our message to the community, and develop new opportunities which can help enhance our programs. We actively seek driven individuals who can commit time and energy to assist us at various levels. Hours may vary depending on our program schedule. If you would like to volunteer with The Bridge, please contact us at info at thebridgepai.com.
Next week in Asheville, 2 puppet shows beyond definition, beyond all the domes, beyond the vally of discarded puppet shows. But in a good way. Accompanied by Accordion, theremin, and soviet era planes. All ages.
we're having a little bit of trouble working out the details of the afterparty, but it's definatley going to happen somewhere. It would be fantastic if you DJ'd it, just come to the premiere with all of your shit and we can figure it out from there. It's Friday at 9, but everybody is going to be there from like 7 on hanging around, so come whenever. It's pretty close to the bridge, 907B Blenheim Av. My number is 409 7690, call if you can't find it.
riley
p.s. I think we were going to show the new film, Pid Geon Babylon, the one premiering on Friday, at the Bridge this summer. We can talk about all of that then though.
How do I rock thee? Let me count the ways.
I rock thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I rock thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I rock thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I rock thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I rock thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I rock thee with a beat I seemed to lose
With my lost picks, --- I rock thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but rock thee better after death.
