Join us with Tria Smith to explore the radical reuse of trash and the environmental consequences of plastics, as we clean up Hollywood Beach! RSVP for this event and other monthly clean-ups and workshops with Edgewater Environmental Coalition.

Having trained as a performer at the Piven Theater Workshop, Interlochen, and Northwestern, Tria Smith became a principal collaborator with Redmoon Theater. For 25 years we pursued spectacle and wonder through adaptations of great novels, pageantry and circus. We built shadow shows, blew fire, learned to stilt, took over streets, paraded in January and July. A strong desire to reach young people accompanied her work at Redmoon. Tria founded Dramagirls; a long-term creative mentorship for middle school girls on the West Side. Through supportive relationships, challenging training, and public performance, the program offered a safe space for girls to create performances that expressed the truth of their lives. With Redmoon, she had the opportunity to direct the Youth Spectacle at the Peggy Noteabart Nature Museum, write a science fiction comic that was projected on the windows of the MCA, and write a book given to 30,000 3rd graders in CPS about the Great Chicago Fire.

Using principles of theater + spectacle, Tria has had the opportunity to create vibrant partnerships, amplify seldom heard voices + provide an arrival point which gathers momentum and an audience in public spaces. She is passionate about artistic projects that work toward a greater cause, and impact people and the environment beyond the circle of artists and audience. Currently Tria helps create programming and special events for Guild Row, a social club for making things and people who give a damn in Avondale.

Image: An overflowing bin with piles of trash placed next to it (May 28, 2018) – Michael Courier