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Serve your Fit: An Upcycled Fashion Class for High School Teens and Young Adults
About the Class
Why buy fast fashion when you can outsmart it? In this class, we raid the thrift racks and flip forgotten fits into one-of-a-kind streetwear and runway-ready looks in Serve Your ‘Fit, a six-week upcycling fashion class. Learn how to cut, stitch, patch, and hack your clothes into bold statements that are 100% you – and 0% sweatshop. Each session focuses on hands-on techniques – like mending, deconstructing, and reimagining – to give discarded clothing a second life.
No experience? No problem. This class is about experimentation, personal style, and learning to see fashion through a sustainable lens.
We’ll wrap it all up with an optional mini fashion show (for friends and family), where you’ll showcase your upcycled creations and serve your final ‘fit with pride.
Thank you to Bon Marche Thrift Store for donating a stipend for clothing at their store for enrollees
Location
About your Instructors
Nao Kobayashi
Nao Kobayashi designs and fabricates puppets and costumes for TV, film and art related services.
Originally from Japan and recently at Images in Motion Inc. in Sonoma, California, she has worked on various projects with dance and theater productions, fashion and entertainment companies, museums and institutes over 15 years. She also explores interdisciplinary art projects with independent artists, musicians, improvisers and performers, with her somatic understanding through martial arts including Shintaido, butoh and improvisation. She keeps expanding ideas to cross borders and nurture culture with creative solutions.
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Adie Valavanis
Adie Valavanis is a multimedia artist and animator. She has worked with found objects and scrap materials to create stop-motion animated short films, special effects, and costumes.
This class is supported by the generosity of Zero Waste Sonoma
Schedule
Tuesdays, September 23 – October 28, 2025
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
This Session
September 23, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Experience Level
BeginningAges
Teens 16+ and Young Adults
This class is made possible by Zero Waste Sonoma
Class FAQ
We ask that you notify us at least 10 days in advance of a class if you need to cancel your registration. You may cancel by phone or email and we will gladly offer you a refund or credit toward a future class. If you cancel with less than 10 days’ notice, we will not be able to provide refunds, due to our contractual obligations and material purchases for each class.
Sometimes, the Sonoma Community Center has to cancel a class due to low enrollment or unforeseen circumstances, such as a natural disaster or health emergency. If this happens and we do not offer a reschedule date, you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee (minus the payment processing and services fee), or credit towards a future class. If we are able to offer a reschedule date but you are unable to make the new date, we will gladly offer credit towards a future class.
All credits must be used within 1 year.
You can view our full class policies and guidelines here.
The Sonoma Community Center is committed to creating an accessible learning environment. If you require any special considerations(medical, physical, learning) please share them with Sean Baskin, Program Associate, by emailing him at [email protected] so that he can forward them to the relevant Program Director and Instructor.
Late additions to any program, class, or workshop that has already begun will be allowed on a per-case basis depending upon the Program Director & instructors approval. Late additions will have to pay the full registration cost of the class, along with any materials fees, and will not be prorated for the time missed. You may reach out to the program directors directly, or the Program Associate Sean Baskin at [email protected] to request a late addition.
We are always looking for new instructors. You can fill out the form directly here.
