The new Trashion/Sustainability department was inspired by the Trashion Fashion Sonoma Events, which highlight the innovative use of recycled and unconventional materials. Our signature events, such as the Trashion Fashion Runway Show, Trashion Barbies (Kens and Friends) Gallery Exhibit, showcase the potential of creative waste management through art and fashion. Our goal is to make sustainability engaging, exciting, and essential.
We aim to provide a variety of community events, such as clothing swaps,repair fairs and more. The Sonoma Community Center Trashion/Sustainability Department offers collaborative workshops and classes across our many creative departments. In addition, we share resources and partnerships of outside organizations that encourage sustainability and zero-waste practices. Throughout the year, we provide an update of needed items and materials for Trashion and the Community Center and where to donate them. Join us in the fun of creating a sustainable future together!
2025
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the Dates
- Trashion Fashion Runway Show – April 19, 2025
- Trash Bash Celebration – April 26, 2025
- Trashion Barbies, Kens & Friends Gallery Exhibit & Auction – April 4 – 26, 2025
- Trashion Runway & Barbie Call for Entries – Applications open in early January, 2025
Community Partners, Resources, & Donations
Zero-Waste Week
October 12 – 19, 2024
North Bay, CA
Zero Waste Week is a grass-roots approach to raise awareness about the environmental impacts of waste and ways to live a more zero waste lifestyle. Throughout the week, groups around the North Bay Area demonstrate how they are part of the solution through public education events and activities that focus on reducing, reusing, recycling, repurposing and composting.
Sonoma Community Center is proud to be part of Sonoma Zero Waste’s Zero Waste Week. Print out this Passport, go to Zero-Waste Week events to collect stamps, and you could win a prize!
The Reuse and Repair Fair
October 12, 2024 2-5PM
Rohnert Park Cotati Regional Library
Lynne Condé Way, Rohnert Park, CA
Trashlantis Festival
October 26, 2024
Sebastopol, CA
Trashlantis is a free DIY, grass-roots, free immersive experiential discovery festival.
Kinetic Sculptures, parade, food, music and a Trashlantean Fashion Pageant!
Att: Trashionistas – this is a great place to wear your trashion outfits or come up with one for the pageant.
More info on the festival: Trashlantis.com
Application for the 10k Rally or the Trashlantean Fashion Pageant:
- Republic of Thrift
- Bon Marche
- Reclaimed Antiques
- Plain Jane’s Consignment Shop
- St Francis Church Mouse on the Plaza and Sonoma Hwy location
- FISH (Friends in Sonoma Helping)
- Refill Madness Sonoma
The Sonoma Community Center invites the public to participate in the annual Trashion Barbie Exhibit where Barbie, Ken, and other plastic dolls are saved from the landfills by transforming them into new works of art. Individuals, organizations and all ages and skill sets are welcome to submit. We are ALWAYS looking for any 12” and under dolls gently used and especially of diverse color, gender and shape to replenish our supply. We offer them as a choice to create on when it’s Trashion Dolls season!
Please consider donating them to us – we will take them anytime of the year! Huge thanks to Sonoma Recology Marin who saves the dolls that go down the wrong line of recycling and donates them to us for this auction!
- Soda pull tabs
- Xmas decorations and sweater and sweatshirts (Now – November 21, 2024)
- fruit or vegetable net bags
- Toilet paper/ papertowl rolls
- Kid size mannequins for Trashion Desgin class for kids
- Rolling Racks for Clothing (collapsable preferred)
Please NO dumping or drop off without contacting Molly Spencer, molly@sonomacommunitycenter.org first. We are a community space and have very limited storage.
However please visit the websites of one of our amazing Sonoma Valley thrift , antique and refill stores for hours and more information on how to donate.
