Haute, pronounced /oat/, is French for fashionably elegant or high class, so prepare for some fashionably elegant trash fashions!

RhythmTrash Orchestra, an imaginative group of trash marauders, are re-imagining garbage and discarded items into musical instruments, and artists from western Canada are TRASH-forming waste into fashion to bring you an inspiring runway style trash fashion show. The RhythmTrash Orchestra will delight with original rhythms (and dance!) played on myriad garbage and reclaimed items, and models will grace the stage with trash fashions that will alter the lens through which we view post consumer waste. Let’s gain some awareness about the garbage we generate, our relationship to it and creative ways to spare items from landfills while enjoying some trashtastic entertainment.