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PDX Bridge Festival invites you to join us on April 21st, from 1-5pm, to celebrate the Broadway Bridge’s 100th Birthday Party!

Event hosted at The Game restaurant, located in the Rose Quarter. $5 suggested donation at door for individuals, $10 per family (all donations benefit PDX Bridge Festival’s August 10th celebration).

What: PDX Bridge Festival’s Broadway Bridge 100th Birthday Celebration…..”Celebrating 100 Years of Connecting Communities and Cultures”
• Live Music from Joe Reed & Friends, The Ukeladies, and Trashcan Joe
• Bridge for Blankets – Public Art
• Big and Awesome Bridge Book
• Snacks and Drinks = Free Samples
• Runa Tea
• Portland Juice Press
• Pacific Northwest Kale Chips
• Koldkist Bottled Water
• Aloha Produce
• more to come!!
• Vendors….. bridge related items
• Book: “Steel Over the Willamette River”
• Book: “Motionless From the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems”
• PDX Bridge Festival items
• T Shirts
• Chapman Elementary Model Bridges
• Birthday Cake (by JaCiva’s)

Bridge Walks by ‘The Bridge Lady’ Sharon Wood Wortman
• Sharon will lead two walks, each about an hour long, beginning at 1:45 pm and 3:45 pm
• Clark County Poet Laureate Christopher Luna will perform his poetry as part of the walks
• Multnomah County Engineer Ed Wortman will be on hand to answer questions about the century old bridge
• The walks, on a pay-as-you-will basis, are fundraisers for The Big & Awesome Bridges of Portland & Vancouver—A Book for Young Readers & Their Teachers

Free parking is available in the Garden Garage

Public transportation options are also available.
Stop: Rose Quarter Transit Center
Trimet Bus lines: 4, 8, 35, 44, 77, 85 and the Streetcar
Max Lines: Blue, Green, Red and Yellow

Contact: Nancy Chapin, Board Chair PDX Bridge Festival, Inc.

pdxbridgefestival@gmail.com
Phone: 503-313-1665

WHO & WHAT: PDX Bridge Festival, a 501(c)(3) charitable and educational organization, is calling for proposals from individuals, organizations, businesses, and government agencies for activities and events to celebrate the Broadway Bridge’s 100th birthday in 2013. Proposals should also include sources of funding, as well as strategies for achievement of the proposed event, such as timing, equipment and volunteers needed, etc.

Beginning April 22nd through May 22nd, the PDX Bridge Festival will hold a series of events celebrating the 100th birthday of the Broadway Bridge. These events will be held at various locations throughout the city, on various dates.

Ideas now under consideration for the month-long celebration include an art exhibit, birthday cake, libations, third grade bridges exhibition, and community services tabling. In addition, in July (date to be determined), PDX Bridge Festival will hold an outdoor celebration near the Broadway Bridge to include a publication release party for The Big & Awesome Bridges of Portland & Vancouver–A Book for Young Readers. We need your ideas for other festivities and events for both the month-long celebration and for the grand celebration in July.

The Broadway Bridge, maintained and cared for by Multnomah County, was the first bascule bridge over the Willamette River and the longest bridge of its type in the world when it opened on April 22, 1913. It is one of Portland and Vancouver’s three highway century bridges, along with the 2010 Hawthorne Bridge and the 2012 Steel Bridge. At river mile 11.7, the Broadway Bridge provides a unique and critical link for the businesses and neighborhoods in and near the Rose Quarter with those in and near the Pearl District.

Four of the walks, just across the Steel Bridge, take place July 13 and 14 and begin and end at Portland Union Train Station as part of UP’s 150th anniversary celebration being held at Union Station on July 13 and 14.

The July 21 and August 11 walks are three hours and include visits to the operator’s tower and bascule pit of The Morrison Bridge. These two begin and end at Floyd’s Coffee in Old Town. Details are below:

Friday, July 13, and Saturday, July 14, join Sharon for one-hour walks to the Steel Bridge as part of the Union Pacific Railroad’s two-day 150th birthday celebration at Portland Union Train Station. The Steel Bridge pay-as-you-will walks begin at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., both days, and begin and end at the train station. No advance reservations necessary.

Saturday, July 21, 9 a.m. until noon, the day the Steel Bridge turns 100, join guide Nathan Hoover for a walk across the Steel Bridge and other downtown Portland bridges. Begins at Floyd’s Coffee, 118 NW Couch, Portland. Includes a visit to the Morrison Bridge to meet the operator and tour the bascule pit. No advance reservations necessary.www.willamettebridgewalk.com

Saturday, August 11, 9 a.m. until noon, join Sharon Wood Wortman and Ed Wortman for a walk across the Steel Bridge and other downtown Portland bridges. Includes a visit to the Morrison Bridge to meet the operator and tour the bascule pit. Begins at Floyd’s Coffee, 118 NW Couch, Portland. No advance reservations necessary.

Saturday, July 7th from 5pm – 12am at The Slate (2001 NW 19th Ave).

Live Music on two stages, completely free!

featuring performances by:

Solovox, Excellent Gentlemen, Quick & Easy Boys, Tango Alpha Tango, Symmetry/Symmetry, Violet Isle, Worth, and Andrew Paul Woodworth.

Food and craft vendors, and beer from Lagunitas Brewery.

The Block Party is sponsored by Lagunitas, Union Pacific, Scion, The Royal Neighbors of America and KZME 107.1FM.

Combining the best of the San Francisco and Portland indie circus and music scenes with special, crazy-talented guests from Australia and Montreal, Lagunitas Beer Circus will treat you to a mind- and belly-boggling, once-in-a-lifetime experience. Along with several hours of non-stop whimsy, spectacle, and performances, indulge in a carnival midway with fun games and tasty food, an intimate Hoochie Koochie tent for the grown-ups, and a schedule of circus workshops (Sunday only) to lead you by the hand into our madcap nation of absolute revelry and attendant temptations.

…plus a whole lotta other fantastical friends, surprise and otherwise! Check the website for lineup updates and show scheduling.

GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY:
http://store.lagunitas.com​/Event-Tickets_c_16.html

Saturday, August 20th (21+), 1-9pm
$25, general admission

Sunday, August 21st (All Ages, family friendly!), Noon-6pm
$20 adults, $10 kids

PDX Bridge Festival, in partnership with Whole Foods Markets, has worked with five local artists to create one-of-a-kind picnic tables for seating at Brunch on the Bridge. The tables are located at Whole Foods Markets (listed below) in the Portland Metropolitan area, where you can bid on the table (or tables!) of your choice.

by Gaige Qualmann - on display at Hollywood Whole Foods Market

On-site bidding opens July 22nd and remains open until August 1st at store-closing (10pm). BIDDING EXTENDED! Table bidding open through Wednesday night, August 3rd!

On-line bidding is available for 1 table on eBay. If you’d like to participate online, or if you would like to Buy It Now, visit that page here!

by Matt Schlosky - available for auction or purchase on eBay, also located at Voodoo Doughnut, Too at NE Davis and Sandy

Opening bid: $250

Here’s what you get if you are the highest bidder (or if you Buy It Now on eBay):

• VIP Attendance for four (4) at Brunch on the Bridge on Saturday, August 6th
• 4 picnic baskets for your Brunch created by local chefs
• Your special table reserved on the Hawthorne Bridge
• A one-of-a-kind table to take home to your backyard for endless years of enjoyment!

by Sam Arneson - on display at the Downtown Portland Whole Foods Market

Visit your local Whole Foods Markets to place a bid on the available tables!

Hollywood – 4301 NE Sandy Boulevard, Portland

Portland – 1210 NW Couth Street, Portland

Fremont – 3535 NE 15th Avenue, Portland

Voodoo Doughnut, Too! – 1501 NE Davis Street, Portland

Please note PDX Bridge Festival does not deliver or ship tables. If you win or buy the table, please be prepared to transport your table from the event site on Saturday, August 6th. No storage available.

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