Trash Dance on PBS

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Dear Sisters and Brothers:

We don’t go into the public service to become movie stars, but a few of our sisters and brothers have managed to turn their everyday trade into spectacular art.

This month PBS will air a documentary called Trash Dance, which follows members of AFSCME Local 1624. These sanitation workers in Austin, Texas, worked with a choreographer to turn waste collection into a stunning public performance.

Their creative methods showed the people of Austin just how much skill and dedication goes into sanitation work.

“I have had people in screenings say they really appreciate their trash collectors now, and it makes them feel proud,” says the director, Andrew Garrison, who touted the film as a counterpoint “in places where public employees are under attack.”

This award-winning documentary is a great opportunity to share what AFSCME is all about. Trash Dance will air on most PBS stations at 8 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Jan. 13. Please check your local listings, and remember to spread the word.

We are proud to see AFSCME sisters and brothers in the spotlight.

In solidarity,

Lee Saunders
President, AFSCME





All kinds of info here: http://trashdancemovie.com/?page_id=175

Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the unseen men and women who pick up our trash. Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she rides along with Austin sanitation workers on their daily routes to observe and later convince them to perform a most unlikely spectacle. On an abandoned airport runway, two dozen trash collectors and their trucks deliver — for one night only — a stunningly beautiful and moving performance, in front of an audience of thousands, who are awed to discover how in the world a garbage truck can “dance.”

Trash Dance is now playing in theaters and online exclusively at TRASHDANCEMOVIE.com!