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Cambridgeport roads closed tomorrow for first sculpture race
By adamg on Fri, 06/05/2015 - 8:26pm
People will be running around Cambridgeport Saturday morning while pushing, pulling or pedaling homemade sculptures, including:
Dizzy, the kinetic bird-batting cat built by teens; a square-wheeled sailboat made by Harvard students; a tiny wheeled creature that audibly interacts with audiences; a 23' giant fish; and a boat with flapping wings.
People's Sculpture Racing starts at 11 a.m. at the south corner of University Park Commons.
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Not the *first* Cambridge sculpture race
Tomorrow's race revives an event that occurred for several years of Cambridge River Festival in the 1980s
(Also, there was a shorter test race near the MIT Museum during the Cambridge Science Festival in April)
Sculpture no, statues yes....
Great idea, turn the busiest neighborhood in Cambridge (Central Square) into pure gridlock on a Saturday by closing Mass Ave.
Wanna bet that the geniuses who think these things up (I'm avoiding using the word "plan") live in a neighborhood nowhere near the one they're afflicting?
Sculpture race wasn't on Mass Ave
The River Festival (really should be Riverless Festival) is on Mass Ave, but the sculpture race course wasn't. Here's the course map
That may be so Ron, but Central was shut down.
I was there at 8 am getting groceries at the Star Market next to the "finish line" and Mass Ave was shut with all manner of carny barker dipshits flogging fried dough and other lunch truck fare.
I woulda taken some photos of the set up phase with my point and shoot but I'm tired of that shit and don't care for boisterous public spectacles as much as you do.
As it was, I gave it a wide berth by slipping down Columbia Street next to Lafayette Park and all the traffic rerouting the thing entailed.
In 50 years I've never been particularly impressed by Cambridge art spectacles and the River Fest is hopelessly bush league. The arts council is some sophomoric nepotist thing of old lefty dolts sliding money to cronies.
The best spectacle I ever saw there was a proto Willie Alexander doing some strange trio show on Cambridge Common in 72 or so.
The city's real value and strengths are elsewhere in the form of great cops, schools and services.
Sounds like you managed just
Sounds like you managed just fine, even with the street closures. So what's the issue?
FTR
I know a couple of the organizers - they live just outside Central Square and have for a long time. People organizing the sculpture stuff live in Cambridgeport.