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The PopWagon is returning to the streets and parking lots of Los Angeles with a “tiny opening” @ 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica 90405.

The PopWagon, 18th Street Arts Center, and SeaChange will be sharing sound, stories, and visual presence with a live audience. Rooms: Tiny Openings will be exhibited on Saturday, July 31st and August 1st @ 2pm at The Santa Monica Airport inside The PopWagon.

Created using interviews from Los Angeles residents during the pandemic, the piece is a collaboration between visual artists, sound artists, and performing artists. The audience is the final collaborator in a play that has no beginning or end, but rather a series of openings.
Featuring work by: John Burton, Natalia Escobedo, Dong Hoon Jun, Naomi Kasahara, Maya Ordoñez, Hollace Starr, Alexis Tongue, Maureen Weiss, Sibyl Wickersheimer, Josh Worth, and John Zalewski

For tickets please RSVP here.


Trade City is a non-profit arts collective. We operate a mobile stage called The Popwagon that brings art, theatre, and entertainment to the proud citizens of Los Angeles.
 
The co-founders, Josh Worth and Maureen Weiss have been up to other things lately. You can catch up with Maureen’s set-design work here, and follow some of Josh’s interactive design projects over here.
 
Below is a list of our productions over the years:

All 828 Pico Art Event Arts Education Film / Video Installation Music Performance Popwagon Theatre

You Are Here Here Here

A tele-presence experiment aboard the Popwagon that allowed CicLAvia participants to be in three places at once.

The Soft Camp

A hands-on, theatrical installation for kids. Presented by Trade City aboard the Popwagon

Project Reliquiae

A crowd-sourced, sculptural archive of objects that have been rendered obsolete by technology.

Bowling With Aliens

A celestial bowling party and concert thrown by Jeepney’s in partnership with Machine Project.

Present Day Pop-Up

A holiday pop-up shop of handmade art objects and live music aboard the Popwagon at Bergamot Station

Dirt Bird at Bergamot

Dirt Bird played the Popwagon at the Santa Monica Museum of Art as the final stop of the Tour da Arts.

L.A. Sameway

An exploration of daily living in L.A. by puppeteer-miniaturist-storytellers Miriam Jones and DanRae Wilson.

Free Cupcakes

The culmination project for Maureen’s post-modern theatre class.

Chili Commandos

Cody Wayne Rosenberg’s iconoclastic play about three guys sitting in a bar in the year 2012.

Vieux Carré

Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical play about his formative days in a seedy New Orleans boarding house. Directed by Reza Safai and presented at the historic Ivy Substation in Culver City.

Alter Egos

A “come as you aren’t” performance party/art exhibit in which guests were invited to come dressed incognito, as their secret identity.

Personal Space

An exhibit of paintings, drawings, sculpture, fashion and performance by artists under the age of twenty.

The Strangled Cold of November

A performance piece by Maureen Weiss and members of her family. Inspired by Anne Sexton’s poem, “Music Swims Back to Me.”

Trees of Knowledge

An exploration in language and art using apple sculptures and bilingual poetry.

Everyday Etiquette

A well-mannered exhibit featured art and interactive performances by Dong Jun, Maureen Weiss and Josh Worth.

White House Dogs

A psycho-political tragicomedy set in a fictional White House inhabited by dogs and their masters.

The Subscription

A young couple is invited to participate in a marketing survey that could change their lives forever.

Jump

An autobiographical solo performance by Nena St. Louis

Sucks Oil

An art show dealing with the impact of the oil industry

Out Loud

A showcase of spoken work by young writers.

Bombshell

An evening of one-person performances.

The Pants Projex

A wild evening of performance, fashion, video, sculpture, photos, and sound.

Confiscated Art

An exhibit of “inappropriate” art by high school students.

Kids in Flux

A documentary about a theatre festival in Croatia.