Join Trash Mash-Up in a Mash-Up Bash on June 30, 2007

Trash Mash-Up, a community art project, will be culminating on June 30, 2007 with a Mash-Up Bash, a public performance pageant. The Raymond Kimbell Playground in San Francisco’s Western Addition will be transformed by a visual spectacle made of music, movement, and “Maskostumes”. Maskostumes are original masks and costumes inspired by traditions from around the world created from disposable materials, collected before they enter the waste stream. With trash bag boas and bottle-cap chain mail, Trash Mash-Up builds creative connections and raises environmental awareness as a new urban tradition is fostered. The World Premier of “Mash-Up Bash” will be on June 30, 2007 at 2pm in the Raymond Kimbell Playground, at Steiner St. and Geary Blvd., in San Francisco, California. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend. For more information, go to Trash Mash-Up’s website at http://trashmashup.googlepages.com/ Trash Mash-Up (TMU) has collaborated with community organizations within the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, California offering art workshops in order to create a new urban tradition. TMU's partnerships include: KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy, Safe Haven Program at the Buchanan YMCA, Western Addition Beacon Center at John Muir Elementary School and the Western Addition Reading Center located in the African American Art and Culture Complex, and is partnership of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society. Using disposable materials, collected before they enter the waste stream, participants construct “Maskostumes” which are used in the Mash-Up Bash. 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. The founding members of Trash Mash-Up graduated from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Drawing from their talent for creating original theatrical productions and their commitment to serving the larger community, TMU 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.