A River Runs Through Los Angeles
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The Los Angeles River is more often associated as a backdrop for post-apocalyptic film scenes than a home for urban wildlife, but plans are underway to turn this 51 mile […]
Announcing 2016 Ward 8 Home Buyers Club!
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Are you one of the 75% of residents renting in Ward 8? Are you interested in owning property in your neighborhood? Then the Ward 8 Homebuyers Club could be for […]
2016 and Beyond!
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As we begin a new year, we are super excited about 2016. We are planning all kinds of programming, art installations, community gardens and more. Read below for a list […]
2015 – A Year in Review
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This was a very busy and productive year at the 11th Street Bridge Park. We produced our first annual Anacostia River Festival that brought nearly 6,000 visitors down to the […]
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Power of Place
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A recent visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater led me to think about the relationship between architecture and nature as our own Bridge Park responds to the hidden beauty of […]
Bridging a City Through Art
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For the third year in a row, we are collaborating with the talented young artists at Cesar Chavez Charter School for Public Policy located just up the street from the […]
Utah’s Spiral Jetty: Art + Environment
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In 1970, artist Robert Smithson created one of the greatest pieces of land art in the world – the Spiral Jetty. Located along the banks of Utah’s Salt Lake and […]
Philly’s Front Porch
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Last week I traveled to Philadelphia to participate in a community forum on Arts & Parks sponsored by the Fairmount Park Conservancy, who recently received a “Community Development Investment” grant […]
Building an Equitable and Inclusive Community
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A key goal of the 11th Street Bridge Park, a project of the Ward 8 based non-profit Building Bridges Across the River at THEARC, is to serve as an anchor […]
What attracted me to join the Bridge Park team?
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Choosing one word to describe my college education, I land on “inter-disciplinary.” As an international studies/sociology double major, minor in civil engineering, you can definitely say that I am covering […]
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