PRESENTS
This fall, The Bridge / Progressive Arts Initiative, is proud to present WE PEOPLE, a community-wide arts project celebrating the lives and faces of our growing city. For one week in October, The Bridge hosts events sharing the work of artists, musicians, and filmmakers in collaboration with the people of Charlottesville.
The centerpiece is a large scale sculptural work, or "Motion Portrait", the vision of NY artist David Ellis and filmmaker Joey Garfield. This massive, mobile form is comprised of painted animations, collected images, interviews, and stories integrated into a dynamic ever-changing mosaic portrait of our community.
The Motion Portrait will be on display at several locations through out the city the week of October 9th-14th. In addition, artist David Ellis will be in residence, creating public works, while collaborators conduct interviews, take snapshots, and collect stories to contribute to the projects growing online archive.
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Monday, October 9
Check out the premiere of
the Motion Portrait up in the Spudnuts parking lot (map), by
the Belmont Bridge (Avon Street). We'll be giving out
t-shirts and stickers from next door at
The Bridge.
Dusk - 11pm |
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Tuesday / Wednesday The Motion Portrait moves down West Main Street with an nighttime screening in the parking lot by The Hampton Inn (map) on Tuesday and arcoss the street at Team Tires on Wednesday. Dusk - 11pm |
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Thursday, October 12 Breath Control (Benefit Show) Join us at The Satellite Ballroom for a full evening of virtuostic music and films:
8pm sharp
We begin with The John D'earth Quartet providing a live, original score. to accompany an animated Motion Painting by David Ellis.
Our feature presentation is the Charlottesville premiere of the award-winning documentary Breath Control: A History of the Human Beat Box with filmmaker Joey Garfield in attendance for questions and answers;
10pm
Definitely stay after the films as we bust loose with local favorite MC's Audiostate Showcase and
(just announced!) DJ Patrick A. Reed who returns from New York to make the night flow.
7pm doors / $8 donation
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Friday, October 13 David Ellis and students from The Living Education Center will spend the day making chalk murals at the Community Chalkboard and Podium (The Free Speech Monument), which lives at the East end of the Downtown Mall. Painting all day long When night falls, we'll bring out the Motion Portrait for all the passers-by and the ton of people on their way to the big Trey Anastasio Band show at the Charlottesville Pavilion. Motion Portrait from Dusk - 11pm |
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Saturday, October 14
Concluding / Block Party |
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DAVID ELLIS
Incorporating the stories of a rural southern upbringing with the vernacular of graffiti & hip-hop culture, David Ellis creates percussive installations and collaborative time-lapse motion paintings from his studio in Brooklyn, NY. Founder of The Barnstormers painting crew, David's work has been seen on streets and in museums across the country and across the globe, including P.S. 1, MOMA (NY), Colette (Paris), CAC (Cincinnati) and SECCA (North Carolina). Find out more at freshwatercatfish.org |
JOEY GARFIELD A noted music video and documentary director, Joey Garfield brings wit and honesty to hip-hop filmmaking. After directing the award-winning film Breath Control (a history of the human beatbox), Joey shot the where-are-they-now interviews for the seminal Style Wars DVD and is currently finishing The Run-Up, a feature film of 27 creators on the cusp of art and design. Joey is represented by the illustrious HKM. |
TECHNICAL AND CREATIVE ASSISTANCE FROM
MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH / SUPPORT FROM
Lighthouse Studio,
Martin Horn,
Starr Hill,
C-ville Weekly,
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
Mudhouse ,
Festive Fare,
Starlight Express,
and Satellite Ballroom.
ADDITIONAL GRATITUDE TO
Spudnuts and Mel's Cafe
LAST MINUTE ASSISTANCE FROM
The Hampton Inn, Team Tires,
Harold Foley Jr. and all the young painters on Hardy Drive