The Rim of the World Road Concert

Site specific performances and installations located at sites along the Rim of the World highway and in adjacent San Bernardino Mountain communities.

The Rim of the World Road Concert

Saturday, July 26, and Sunday, July 27, 2025

curated and created by Stephen van Dyck

This video features a mere sampling of the 80+ site-specific performances, readings, artworks, interventions, participatory projects, and happenings.

Featured artists in this video are:

0:25 KDZU, “Basslines from the Broken Earth”

1:38 Robert Holliday, “Sky Organ”

1:53 tbd

2:30 Cedric Tai, "Official Hitchhiker"

3:28 Chris Wawrinofsky, “Chalet Mt Tiberius”

4:51 Yvette Nicole Kolodji, “Trail of Trash”

5:18 Molly Painter as Duck and Pisaster Gallery & Surplus, “Not Net Not Knit Not Knot Not Yet”

6:34  Irene Georgia Tsatsos, “Speaking of the Unspeakable (from “Flags of My Home” series)” 6:51 Amarantha Dyuaxxchs, “Tree Falling Down”

7:14 Jay Erker, “Psychic Tenderness”

8:13 Ilana Waniuk & Myra Hinrichs

9:42 Rim of the World Poets, “Poems from a Mountaintop” & Anthony Bodlovic & Soyoung Shin, “DO NOT TOUCH!”

11:31 Planet Queer, “Wizard Rave Ritual” with Ian McKinnon, Travis Wood, Ari Desano, Robbie McDonald, Reaux Flagg, Eduardo Torres, Sister Harlot

Through an open call process, the Road Concerts brings together art school graduates, working artists, local residents and other artists, writers, and performers, to realize a broad array of kinds of interactions with the sites during a weekend-long, free event, to create original artworks and performances inspired by the Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, and Running Springs areas.

Overlooking the vast Inland Valley, with numerous lookouts, businesses, and other public spaces, the highway has the potential to serve as a stage for interconnection and dialogue, asking: how can we generate a new kind of public experience to find meaning and bring attention to a collection of less obvious destinations?

Audience members were invited to drive along the Rim of the World highway and through adjacent communities to take a break from their everyday lives—work, leisure activities, and all their other usual types of movement—and let themselves be drawn into unexpected art encounters along the highway and nearby terrain.

Full list of participating artists include: Akina Cox, Alex Hancook, Ali Prosch, Amarantha Dyuaxxchs, Anya Liftig, Ashley Morgan, Beau Pender, Beth Fiedorek, Cedric Tai, Chris Scott Cole & Stephen Cole, Chris Wawrinofsky, Claudia Rios, Corrie Siegel, Crestline Creatrix Matrix, Cristine’s Twin, Crystal Araiza, David Rhodes, Dina Dalton, DJ PK, Elizabeth Folk, Emily Geminder, Erin Heidenreich, Faith Purvey, Gabrielle Hovendon, Greater & Grander Artist Collective, Hannah O'Brien, High Impact, Ilana Waniuk & Myra Hinrichs, Irene Georgia Tsatsos, J. Keith van Straaten, Jack Herscowitz, Janeva Zentz, Jay Erker, Jay Lynn Gomez, Jen Bruce, Joey Velazquez, Jonathan Gomez, Jose Trejo Maya, K. Bradford, KDZU, kim darling, Kira Doutt, KUYRA, Laurel Antur, Luke Aleckson, LuluBelle’s Coffee House & Bakery, M.A. Tiesenga, Maica Duran, Manuel Macias, Margie Schnibbe, Michael J. Gonzales, Mixed Signals, Molly Painter, Moriah Conedy, Myriam Gurba, Odyssey Adventure Co., Pedro Aceves, Philip Mantione, Planet Queer, Rachel Manija Brown, Rim of the World Poets, Robert Holliday, Rodrigo Arruda, Running Springs Farmers Market & Artisan Faire, Scott Froschauer, Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, Sepand Shahab, Spade & Spatula Artist Collective, Taylor Thomas, Tori McCrea & Karin Johansson, Travis D, Trevor Coopersmith, Tucker Neel, Twentieth-Century Creatures, Vena & Hernandez, VladimirShabanov & Irina Shabanova, Yvette Nicole Kolodji, Zeina Baltagi & Kirk Pickler

https://theroadconcerts.com/