Magic Trash Day: Down in the Dumps premiered in the Philadelphia Fringe '23 to thunderous applause from audiences and critics,alike!

Magic Trash Day poster with a blue-nosed clown and a kid playing cards

Now with your help we are raising $7,000 in grant-matching funds to tour this show internationally.

Your support will pay our musician, performers, and designer directly in creating and touring a new, fully tour-able version of this show:

Original music composition by our collaborator Dot Rose
Touring backdrop/cranky by our designer Mehgan Abdel-Moneim
Movemakers' very own Emerald Sims as Kerry, our beloved kid character who is feeling "Down in the Dumps
Video documentation of the show crucial for securing international touring funds!

Magic Trash Day 2.0 will premiere on February 23rd, 2025 at Movemakers Philly, an amazing youth development and dance education program. You are invited to donate towards this specific production or our tour and to attend either one or BOTH of our shows: February 23rd at 11AM & 1 PM at 2100 Chestnut St., 2nd FLOOR. Tickets by donation via ticket leap: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/magic-trash-day-down-in-the-dumps# or via Venmo, PayPal & cash at the DOOR!

Your support of our process supports our vision to create art that delightfully transforms both its makers and audiences, creating acceptance, awareness, and healing of the most tender, vulnerable, and human parts of ourselves.

THANK YOU!

Lillian, Dylan, Mehgan, Emerald, Dot, Marsell, and Bellisant

*photos in collage by Ashley Smith of Wide Eyed Studios

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