Trash Mash-Up at Healthy Kids Event

Trash Mash-Up will be featured at the Hamilton Rec Connect's Healthy Kids Event at the Margaret S. Hayward Playground on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 12:30pm. The Healthy Kids Event, presented by the YMCA and Hamilton Rec Connect takes place in the Hayward Playground at Laguna and McAllister. It is a family fun day with lots of activities. The Margaret S. Hayward Playground is located at 1016 Laguna Street at Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, California. For more information, go to http://trashmashup.googlepages.com/
Trash Mash-Up’s mission is to bring vitality to the community. Using public art projects, TMU connects our creative traditions to our collective future. TMU is committed to realizing the potential value in our everyday disposable objects by transforming them into innovative “Maskostumes”. Through workshops and public pageants, TMU supports extended communities and an environmentally conscious culture.
Trash Mash-up (TMU) is a collaborative community art project. Using disposable materials, collected before they enter the waste stream, participants construct “Maskostumes” which are original pageant masks and costumes inspired by traditions from around the world. TMU enriches our community by developing creative connections amongst the participants in addition to raising awareness about cultural traditions and environmental issues. This project reduces waste and inspires people to see each other and our environment in a new way.
Drawing from their talent for creating original theatrical productions and their commitment to serving the larger community, Trash Mash-Up is a socially and environmentally conscious art project. TMU shares cultural traditions with diverse communities in public performances and workshops. Reducing waste by using trash to make art, TMU reminds all of San Francisco that one person's trash could become an entire city's treasure.
Trash Mash-Up culminates with a Mash-Up Bash, a public performance pageant. Transforming parks and city squares with a visual spectacle made of music, movement, and “Maskostumes”, spectators enjoy works of art created from things disregarded by one person and then given new life through another’s imagination. With trash bag boas and bottle-cap chain mail, Trash Mash-Up builds creative connections and raises environmental awareness throughout our community as a new urban tradition is fostered.