Trashlantis
Returns to the Parking Lot behind
Sebastopol Community Center
Youth Annex
October 17 11am to 5pm!
Returns to the Parking Lot behind
Sebastopol Community Center
Youth Annex
October 17 11am to 5pm!
DJ Wolverine • DJ Señor CityZen's Love Van Stage
We are offering festival merch over on Etsy
Trashlantis is a DIY, grass-roots, free immersive experiential discovery festival with music and more!
Located near two major Sonoma bike trails, you can leave your car at home
Costumed Bike Rides! We'll have informal group rides leaving every hour or so, to explore the trails and bike lanes in Sebastopol
Park your bike in our hosted bike parking corral, bring your own camp chair and stay at the festival and rock out at one of our stages and cheer for your favorite upcycled ensemble at our Trashlantean Fashion Pageant
Bring your own utensils: we're offering vegetarian fare from Viva Mexicana and beer will be for sale for those over 21. Be sure you bring your own mug!
We'll spend the afternoon celebrating the creative, innovative ways we can embrace a zero waste future with activities and events showcasing artists and the emerging technologies and businesses who are repurposing, recycling and developing zero waste packaging and durable goods
Stay till the end to help us deconstruct the venue by sorting materials into their proper bins to can re-enter our resource stream!
Cheer on your favorite trashletes as they pedal their creations on a few of our local, outstanding bike trails. Join up a group leaving roughly every hour on the hour and ride around the Barlow, through the No Kings demonstration, or..?
Come in costume and join the ride!
Who is the fairest in the Gyre? Contestants imagine Trashlantean physiology and fashion and compete for your attention! Send an email to bobpixel@gmail.com if you've got an upcycled garment to show off!
Who is really working to close the loop on refuse and recycling? Meet industry leaders and local officials working towards a sustainable and equitable economy, and shop for fantastic upcycled and sustainable products and services from our wonderful vendors!
Trashlanteans live in the Neopelagic zone beneath vast floating rafts of durable and buoyant plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They've built a thriving civilization using our cast-offs. What can we learn from them? How do we shift from an extractive economic model to a circular, restorative set of solutions?
Trashlantis is an active-transportation eco-festival and bike ride through the streets and trails of Sebastopol. Watch this space for more information and ways to participate!
Trashlantis is proud to be part of Sonoma Zero Waste's Zero Waste Week.
Part human, part fish and part garbage, Trashlanteans rely upon a steady stream of abandoned nets and floats to sustain their growing population. The rafts of plastic have been readily available - until now.
Suddenly, Drylanders are cleaning up the ocean. Trashlantean food forests are being pulled up onto barges as "garbage" and being hauled away.
Trashlanteans are starving. They are coming to Dryland, seeking the source of their lifegiving plastic.
Hungry Trashlanteans are coming to Sebastopol in October 2026 to continue to collect plastic discarded by thoughtless humans. Join them in this one-of-a-kind celebration! Trashlantis is an active-transport, zero-waste, leave no trace celebration of sustainability and community connection, featuring a bike rally through the streets and trails of Sebastopol, tabling by local organizations creating a future that works for everyone... PLUS whatever future-proofing solutions YOU want to bring!
Team Pineapple built Trashlantis as a mobile performance piece, a backdrop for deep meaningful conversations about the myth of recycling and the hazards of living in a "plastisphere." Humans (and Trashlanteans!) are #AddictedtoPlastic. As we combed the beaches and byways, sidewalks and highways for more plastic to build our Trashlantean civilization, we spoke with humans about their relationship to this amazing material, –and provided a splash of hope to those who are already working towards a toxin and trash free future. After we won some awards, we re-imagined our art into a festival so YOU could come play, too!
We're a creative collective of artists and athletes using humor, ingenuity and muscle power to engage the public. We use whimsy and a personal approach to bypass advertising supersaturation. Our foolishness slips past people's message fatigue, prompting a fresh start for better conversations about the civilization-scale crises facing humanity.