Tag Archive 'bridge experience'

2011 Bridge Program Commencement Speech

Posted by admin on 20 Aug 2011 | Tagged as: News

Bridge 2011 Commencement Speech

A Moment to Remember From This Year’s Bridge Class

Posted by admin on 04 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

This week, one Bridge student introduced the class to this video, which features musicians from around the globe singing the same song. The video was put together by Playing for Change, a group that travels the world to record music in its natural habitat — in rural and urban neighborhoods, in fields, in woods, and [...]

Bridge Students Visit the Getty

Posted by admin on 14 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: News

Last Sunday, Bridge students gathered at the Getty Center. As the morning rain lifted, Bridge’s art history instructor, Sharon Kagan, along with Getty’s own resident expert led us through the wonder of hand-painted illuminated manuscripts, the beauty of the architectural photographs of Frederick H. Evans, and the de-familiarization of urban landscape through the contemporary photographs [...]

Crossing the Bridge

Posted by admin on 19 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: student posts

After completing The Bridge Program, Bridge alumni begin a new year of classes at adult day schools, community colleges, and universities. Here’s a poem written by one of our alumni about The Bridge Program as, well, a bridge:

Crossing the Bridge

I began crossing the bridge with pilosophy, sharing
questions and answers.
Literature, how can I forget this class, [...]

Bridge is the best decision I’ve made

Posted by admin on 26 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: student posts

“Enrolling in the BRIDGE PROGRAM was the best decision that I have made. Over the past several weeks, I have had the pleasure of meeting and socializing with an academic society — an exceptional one in a class all its own.”
 -Theresa, current Bridge student