This Friday and Saturday, the 25th and 26th, there’s a party happening on the lower level of the Detroit-Superior bridge. Twice a year for the past few years, the county engineer’s office has opened that level of the bridge to the public to meander about and discover new vistas of the city and river below. Now, that space will be filled with artists, performers, music, and who knows what else.

It’s probably a far cry from the 80s when artists like Smith and others would throw impromptu art happenings on the closed off trolley level, but still, it’s great that Clevelanders are finally getting access to this wonderful public space 90 feet above the Cuyahoga River.

In a way, this continues the tradition of the Ingenuity Festival’s uncovering many of the city’s hidden gems by putting on performances and events in alleyways, abandoned buildings, and the city’s nooks and corners.

I know I’ll be there.

More info at the Cleveland Bridge Project web site.

And a view from the lower level I took a few years ago during a Memorial Day tour of the underbelly of the bridge: