{"id":334,"date":"2017-05-19T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T22:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevezeltzer.com\/laborfest\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=334"},"modified":"2019-06-29T14:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:09:52","slug":"bridging-urban-america","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/event\/bridging-urban-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: Bridging Urban America (87 min.) 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by <em><strong>Basia Myszynski <\/strong><\/em>and <em><strong>Leonard Myszynski<\/strong><\/em><strong><span class=\"style65\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"style386\"><span class=\"\">This biography celebrates Ralph Modjeski,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">the Chairman of the Board of Consulting Engineers\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.\u00a0<\/span>Modjeski designed bridges that had significant impact on urban development and commerce. The film is a tribute to innovative engineering and to bridge workers during two eras of transit, taking a deeper look at the scientific mind and artistic soul of a Polish-born, Paris-trained immigrant who contributed to the building of a modern America. This is a relevant film that brings awareness about the deteriorating state of our bridges and how communities search for sustainable solutions to maintain, rehabilitate and preserve these critical parts of North America\u2019s infrastructure.<br \/>\nScreened in conjunction with the exhibits \u201cBuilding Bridges, Not Walls\u201d during July and August at the San Francisco History Center, 6th Floor of the Main Library, and at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach.<\/span>h.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BRIDGING URBAN AMERICA - Official Movie Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/164589084?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-745\" src=\"https:\/\/stevezeltzer.com\/laborfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bridge-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bridge-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bridge-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bridge-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bridge-485x273.jpg 485w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bridge-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bridge.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free | <em>Director: Basia Myszynski and Leonard Myszynski<\/em> | <\/strong> This biography celebrates Ralph Modjeski, the chief engineer for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Modjeski designed bridges that had significant impact on urban development and commerce. The film is a tribute to innovative engineering and to bridge workers during two eras of transit, taking a deeper look at the scientific mind and artistic soul of a Polish-born, Paris-trained immigrant who contributed to the building of a modern America. This is a relevant film that brings awareness about the deteriorating state of our bridges and how communities search for sustainable solutions to maintain, rehabilitate and preserve these critical parts of North America\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[81,29,35],"class_list":["post-334","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-2017-film","tribe_events_cat-29","tribe_events_cat-film","cat_2017-film","cat_26","cat_film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/334\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}