February mixer

Get your geek on with us this week at the February Mixer! A TOAST TO ALL THINGS AWESOME Thursday • February 25 • 6-9pm • Backspace This month we get totally technological, and take our mixer into the heart of the teeming metropolis! “What does that even mean?” you ask. Well, in this case it [...]

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PDX Bridge Festival January Mixer!

Friday • January 22 • 6-9pm NEW LOCATION: PDX Bridge Festival Office 537 SE Ash St., #41 Fourth floor of the East Bank loft building, just two blocks south of Burnside between 6th and Grand.

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The Hawthorne Bridge 99th Birthday Soireé!

The PDX Bridge Festival is delighted to announce the Hawthorne Bridge 99th Birthday Soireé, to be held December 18th at the World Forestry Center’s Miller Hall. This promises to be a very special evening with a historical “1910” theme—the year work on the Hawthorne Bridge was completed. The evening will feature a cocktail reception, silent [...]

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Launch party a success!

Thank you to everyone who joined us September 10th at the Old Trolley Barn under the Hawthorne Bridge. We truly appreciate your help in launching PDX Bridge Festival and the Hawthorne Bridge 2010 Centennial Calendar. We were delighted to have Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler and Mayor Sam Adams as our special guests, and their [...]

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Mayor Sam Adams to speak at 2010 PDX Bridge Festival Launch Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 1, 2009 The PDX Bridge Festival, an all-city cultural arts celebration of the Willamette River Bridges is being planned for 2010 in observance of the 100th anniversary of the Hawthorne Bridge–the oldest vertical lift bridge in the U.S. On September 10th, an event is being held to launch the festival. Mayor [...]

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