Sonoma Community Center’s beloved event, the Trashion Fashion Show will be live and in-person on Saturday, April 22nd, Earth Day, from the Sonoma Veteran’s Memorial Hall with a 2:00 PM matinée and a 5:00 PM evening show with a “Sweets and Bubbles Reception” following. Outrageous head-to-toe designs, made from recycled materials and found objects, will once again walk the runway handmade by local community members who answered the challenge of turning trash into wearable art.
Reserved Seating. Tips Roadside food truck available 1 hour prior to the 2:00 PM & 5:00 PM Showings.
Thank you to our generous sponsors and partners of Trashion Fashion! We cannot do it without you!
Vickie Soulier, E. Patricia Herron, Janet Nusbaum. Republic of Thrift, Recology, Bag & FilmRecycling.org, County of Sonoma Board of Supervisors, Creative Sonoma AIGO, Sonoma Garbage Collectors, Lynn Martin, Cafe La Haye, Coursey Graves Estate Vineyards and Tips Roadside!
Scheduled Events
April 13th – April 29th
“BARBIE: Reclaimed & Reinvented,” Exhibit & Silent Auction.
Gallery 212, Sonoma Community Center.
Free Entry!
Saturday, April 22nd
Annual Trashion Fashion show on Earth Day!
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Sonoma Veteran’s Memorial Hall. 126 1st St West, Sonoma
Saturday, April 29th
Dogs on the Catwalk & Trash bash!
11:30 – 12:30 PM
Sonoma Community Centers Back Patio.
Free Entry!
Workshops and Studios
Trashion Open Studio
Saturday, April 1st, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Room 201, Fiber Arts Studio. Free for everyone!
Come and have access to space, tools, supplies, and recycled materials to work on your runway, barbie, and/or dog trashion fashion design!
Limited space – registration is recommended.
Choose 1 or all 4 of the Open Studio dates.
Amanda Ahlborn
Instructor / Artist
Bottle caps, gift cards, metal tins, electrical wire, maps, buttons and used coffee bags. I love the challenge of making new things with unconventional materials. I have participated in Trashion fashion for three years now and I look forward to it every year. I have always been inspired ever since they started the tradition over 12 years ago. I myself I’m a jeweler by trade and my unique style sets me a part because most all my pieces are made 50% or more of recycled materials.
When you register for a class, you’ll be offered three price tiers. The middle tier comes closest to what our registration fees used to be, and covers about 50% of the full cost of your participation in the class – with the other 50% covered by community donations. The first tier creates accessibility for people with limited income, while the third tier covers the full cost of participation – so that we can use community donations to support other people’s registration costs. When you choose to register at the third tier, you directly help support the Center’s efforts to remove financial barriers for others.
The Sonoma Community Center (the Center) strives to create an inclusive, safe community where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. The Center is committed to creating such an environment because it brings out the fullest potential in each of us, which, in turn, contributes directly to creating a community of belonging. In order to ensure a positive, safe, and welcoming experience for everyone, all program participants are asked to abide by the following policies, community agreements, and restorative safety protocol.
Financial aid is handled on an individual basis. If you think you qualify, follow the link below to apply.
Eco-Art Cuff Bracelets with Debra Rapoport
Tuesday, April 25th, from 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Room 201, Fiber Arts Studio
All Skill levels welcome! Sliding scale fees from $30 / $50 / $65.
Financial aid available.
Join special guest instructor Debra Rapoport (51.7K followers on Instagram) as she guides you in making artful and fanciful cuff bracelets from found materials. Learn Debra’s ABC technique of Assembling, Building and Constructing. Start with a paper cardboard roll as a base, then build a composition using an image from a postcard, a label, a photograph, or a magazine image. Next, add found objects such as bottle caps, Nespresso pods, buttons and shells, and finish with textures – fabric scraps, yarn, rope. Make a fashion statement by wearing several at a time!
All materials are provided but you are welcome to bring any images, textural material and objects you might like to create with.
Debra Rapaport
Instructor / Artist
New York style icon Debra Rapoport is wild about sustainable fashion. Working with non-traditional and repurposed materials since the 1960’s, she creates exquisite accessories using found materials. Since “Frugality is Fun” she’d rather reinvent and curate her closet than be a conspicuous consumer. Her work is in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), MAD (Museum of Art and Design), Los Angeles County Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Helen William Drutt Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the IIias Lanounis Jewelry Museum, to name a few.
When you register for a class, you’ll be offered three price tiers. The middle tier comes closest to what our registration fees used to be, and covers about 50% of the full cost of your participation in the class – with the other 50% covered by community donations. The first tier creates accessibility for people with limited income, while the third tier covers the full cost of participation – so that we can use community donations to support other people’s registration costs. When you choose to register at the third tier, you directly help support the Center’s efforts to remove financial barriers for others.
The Sonoma Community Center (the Center) strives to create an inclusive, safe community where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. The Center is committed to creating such an environment because it brings out the fullest potential in each of us, which, in turn, contributes directly to creating a community of belonging. In order to ensure a positive, safe, and welcoming experience for everyone, all program participants are asked to abide by the following policies, community agreements, and restorative safety protocol.
Financial aid is handled on an individual basis. If you think you qualify, follow the link below to apply.
Entry Forms & Applications
“BARBIE: Reclaimed & Reinvented,” Exhibit & Silent Auction
April 13th – April 29th
Gallery 212, Sonoma Community Center. FREE!
Opening Reception and Silent Auction opens: Thursday, April 13th, from 5:30 – 7:30 PM.
Gallery & Auction open daily from April 14th – April 29th
Upcycle Barbies and Dolls into new works of art for Gallery 212’s in-person Art Exhibit and Silent Auction. Mail in submissions are accepted.
Free dolls available at the Main Office at the Center!
DOGS ON THE CATWALK & TRASH BASH!
Sat, April 29
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM – Dogs on the Catwalk
Sonoma Community Center’s Back Patio. Free entry!
12:30 – 3:00 PM – Trash bash!
Sonoma Community Center. Free entry!
- A Trashion runway show for doggies
- Trashion outfits exhibited
- Trashion Winners awarded
- Final Barbie bids
- Recology information table
- Refreshments, Activities & more!
Turn your dog into a Trashionista using only recycled materials in this fun and casual local event, Dogs on the Catwalk at the Trash bash.
Every April, Trashion Fashion celebrates the intersection of fashion, art, and environmental sustainability.
The main event is a runway show that features unique garments, made by community members from recycled or found and unlikely materials. Trashion also includes a gallery show of Barbies, saved from our local landfill and dressed in unique upcycled fashion, a free community Trash Bash party, and a Dogs on the Catwalk show for four-legged companions.
To learn more, please contact Molly Spencer at (707) 928-4626 ext. 4, or molly@sonomacommunitycenter.org.
Outrageous outfits made from recycled materials walk the runway in this fashion show where art, design, and ecology come together.
