About this project
The Portland Eastbank Esplanade Project (PEEP) will temporarily transform the 1.5-mile long Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade into an open-air exhibition space for public art, music, and performance, showcasing new and existing work by regional creatives. This is part of the PDX Bridge Festival's "Left Bank" Initiative to celebrate 10 years of this connective public space with site-specific installations utilizing new technologies, music, public interaction, spoken word, and live artistic demonstrations. The call for submissions to PEEP will be open to individual sculptural artists, projection mappers, lighting designers, improv groups, sound artists, dancers, poets, knitting collectives, or any artist(s) working in a similarly public medium. Our plan is to offer small stipends for accepted artists to help fund their creative endeavors. Want to know more about how your donations will be used to support PEEP and the Left Bank Project? Visit our website!
PDX Bridge Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to raise public awareness and foster appreciation of the Willamette River Bridges through educational, historical, cultural and artistic programming. In our first year (2010), we produced almost 60 events at 27 venues around the city, setting new standards for how a collaborative and wildly creative approach to civic events can result in a celebration of lasting significance. Our bridge art installations brought almost a million commuters into a close encounter with public art, and our Brunch on the Bridge event transformed the Hawthorne Bridge into a grassy park fit for a picnic of thousands, complete with trees, picnic tables, and a croquet field! This year, the festival will take place from July 29 - August 7. More information about PEEP and our various events and programs in 2011 can be found at our website: www.pdxbridgefestival.org
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on April 17, 2011.
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Show some love for Portland and its bridges with these awesome "I (BRIDGE) PDX" bumper stickers. Check em out here: http://is.gd/obwdKw (International backers please add $2)
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For $20, we'll send you sticker, as well as a special commemorative poster print from the festival. It's beautiful, surreal, and perfectly executed. Portland artist Brin Levinson made them, and the poster looks like this: http://is.gd/I3qWQJ (International backers please add $3)
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For $50, you can choose from one of three awesome T-shirts, all designed by local Portland artists (sorry, no birds on these!). Take your pick from our Hawthorne Bridge shirt (designed by Craig Conahan), the People's Republic of Portland limited bridge edition shirts (designed by Jen Forti), and the fantastic new Colonel Burnside shirts (this is the guy who invented "sideburns"—based on a fantastic woodblock design by Marianna Gordon). We'll also throw in a sticker! Here's all three T-shirts on one page: http://is.gd/pyiryc (International backers please add $5)
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Stay green, people! Last year, we worked with 150 kids to create large banners of their art on the Burnside bridge. We've recycled these colorful pieces into awesome, water-resistant tote bags for you to use and use and use again. Yours with a $75 donation (We'll even start the cargo with a sticker). Very limited supplies, so get em while they're hot! Check 'em out here: http://is.gd/OZPqpP (International backers please add $5)
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With your $100 gift you will receive a pass for two people to any event during the 2011 PDX Bridge Festival. In addition to the dozens of tours, screenings, ticketed music events and performances, this includes our #1 signature event: Brunch on the Bridge. Each year, we transform the Hawthorne Bridge into a grassy picnic with 25,000 square feet of fresh lawn, trees, and picnic tables. That's right! If you don't want to enter the drawing this Spring with the thousands of other people, this is your chance to ensure you get tickets to the Brunch. Never been? It looks like this: http://flic.kr/p/8qr925 (International backers please add $2)
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PDX Bridge festival is a cultural celebration of the bridges that connect us all!
