Waste for Life

On Belonging Performance
2024-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Tusten Theatre, Bridge Street 210, Narrowsburg, NY, 12764, United States
This November, the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) is delighted to present On Belonging at the Tusten Theatre in Narrowsburg. On Belonging is an initiative by Standing People Together Theatre designed to draw on the voices of the community. The project was developed in part through funding provided by a Sullivan 180 grant.
The evening promises to showcase both the wealth of writing and acting talent in the area, with performances of four original plays written by local playwrights, each exploring a different response to the idea of “belonging” (or not) in a particular place and time.
“We aim to highlight the issues surrounding the concept of ‘belonging’ and ‘place’, to raise awareness of their connection to well-being and health and to start a conversation which we hope will lead to a greater civic muscle in Sullivan County.”
You can purchase tickets for the performances here: https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/event/on-belonging-11-02-2024/

ESJP Planning Meeting
2024-09-07 08:00 - 2024-09-08 17:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States

On Belonging - ACT 2
2024-06-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Delaware Valley Opena Center, 6692 NY-52, Lake Huntington, 12752, United States

Critical Conversations
2023-06-20 09:00 - 2023-06-21 17:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
Engineering and Care for our Communities
This year, Caroline Baillie, Eric Feinblatt, and Sarah Brownell from RIT, will be hosting conversations around the theme, ‘Engineering and Care for our Communities’ – we invite you to bring your own questions, conversation topics, and activities. Just to get started …. How can engineering incorporate design principles with the aim of developing closed-loop, symbiotic, self-sustaining human habitats and productions systems that do not result in ecological degradation or social injustice?
Many of you have attended before and know what to expect, but for those who haven’t, here are some details.
June 19th: arrival for overnight retreat guests
June 20th: 9 AM breakfast followed by retreat workshop until 5PM. Lunch provided. Afterwards, there is open space for enjoying the forest, swimming, kayaking on the pond, and dinner
June 21st: 9 AM breakfast followed by retreat workshop until 5PM. Lunch provided. You are welcome to stay overnight and travel the following day if you need to.
The registration fee is $50 or $100 depending on your ability to pay. This covers the cost of food and materials. If you have special requests or needs regarding payment or anything else, please email Caroline Baillie. Also, let us know if you’d like to pay for someone else.
Travel: We are located at about 2.5 hrs from NYC or 1.5 hrs from Binghamton by car, or you can catch a train or bus from NYC, and we can arrange transport from the station. Let us know if you will do this and we can share further details.
Please fill out this survey, which we will use for registration: https://ggle.io/5kHj

Critical Conversations
2022-06-04 09:00 - 2022-06-05 17:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
Engineering for ‘whole health’ (people and planet
The theme for this year’s Critical Conversations Retreat emerges from discussions around Caroline’s new online Masters program, MESH – MS in Engineering for Sustainability and Health, which is explicitly transdisciplinary and grounded in the principles of social and environmental justice.
It’s always tricky to bring disparate disciplines together and focus on problems that, at first glance, seem only tangentially related (if at all) to the expert knowledge of one’ particular discipline. Our first challenge, then, is to discover new ways of communicating and exchanging knowledge, to knowledge-build across disciplines, and apply that knowledge to real world problems that are oblivious to disciplinary boundaries. How do we bring a public health perspective to engineering – and look after our ‘whole health’; what does planetary health look like from an engineering systems perspective; how does engineering and urban development affect the emergence of pandemics; and how can we bring social ecologists, ecosystem and climate change experts as well as public health professionals and peace and justice activists into the same space as engineers, and co-design heterodox practices?
Details
Dates 4th/5th June
One day hiking in the Catskills – a ‘walk shop’ One day outdoors in the forest at Cala Munda
Accommodation – due to Covid we will not offer any on site accommodation, but we welcome you to camp on our land or stay at a local Airbnb/Guest house. (Book early as it’s popular in the summer).
Transport – Hankins is located 2/12 hours NW of NY City – self drive from Binghamton or NY airports or train from NY + shared rides from Middletown train station 75 minutes away
$150 registration fee – includes all meals
To ensure equity of access to this event, please contact us if you need financial support for the registration fee as we may be able to find funds to cover this and/or limited travel costs.

TREE KIDS: forest film school
2021-09-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
Standing People Together and The Wizard School are excited to come together this fall to bring you our first Tree Kids event.
Like stories and role-playing? Love to play in the woods? Like films?
In this unique 6-week program, your children can take part in nature-based challenges and games, as well as story telling, role playing, story boarding, developing mask, sets, and costumes — and, finally, creating a short film around the book, The Tree Kids.
*****(participant numbers are very limited to allow for appropriate safety precautions)*****

Drama in the Woods
2020-09-15 15:30 - 17:00 | online, NY, United States
Standing People Together invites you to enroll in our Autumn 2020 Forest Exploratorium.
Like to Act or, at least, give it a try? Love to be outside? This may be for you!
Drama in the Woods is an 8-wk out-of-doors, at-a-distance after-school program for elementary age children. Participants will improvise stories, make masks, music and sets, and use movement to create and perform an original virtual production inspired by Uno’s Garden, Graeme Base’s story of a forest rich with phantasmagoric animal and plant life that is slowly and almost irretrievably eroded by the needs of the people who begin to inhabit and dominate that special place.
Our team will be based in our forest studio, and participating children will be in their backyards or local nature spaces with mobile devices where possible, and/or they will move outside to engage in nature-based activities and return inside for shared zoom sessions.
Thanks to the support of Sullivan Renaissance and our own team, we are offering this program at very low cost. We do ask for a small fee to register your child as places are limited and, please, attendance throughout the eight week program is necessary to make the production possible.

Drama in the Woods
2020-04-21 15:30 - 17:00 | Sullivan West Elementary School, 33 Schoolhouse Road, Jeffersonville, NY, 12748, United States
Drama in the Woods is an 8-wk out-of-doors after-school program for Grades 1-3 at Sullivan West Elementary School. Participants will improvise stories, make masks, music and sets, and use movement to create and perform an original production inspired by Uno’s Garden, Graeme Base’s story of a forest rich with phantasmagoric animal and plant life that is slowly and almost irretrievably eroded by the needs of the people who begin to inhabit and tame that special place.

Saturday Forest Play (K-6)
2020-04-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in Spring beginning April 18th, 2020 and running through June 6th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and teamwork skills, embark on adventures, develop resilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature.

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) in the Forest
2019-09-17 15:30 - 17:00 | Sullivan West Elementary School, 33 Schoolhouse Road, Jeffersonville, NY, 12748, United States
Spend time in the forest developing scientific discovery and inquiry skills, learning to design, create and build like engineers, finding out how nature solves its problems!

Saturday Forest Play (Grades 1-4)
2019-09-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM. Based onthe European model of ‘Forest school’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities,learn craft and teamwork skills, create artwork, embark on adventures, developresilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature. Parents andcarers may accompany their children and have fun in nature or relax with a tea or coffeewhilst the children play and learn.

Prefer to pay by check? Mail to: Waste for Life / 76 Winkler Rd / Hankins, NY 12741. Please write ‘Forest Play’ in the memo field.

Critical Conversations Retreat #3: Engineering and Degrowth
2019-06-15 13:00 - 2019-06-19 17:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
The magnitude of the human-driven degradation of our planet’s life support systems can easily leave us at a loss at where to begin – all the more so because efficiency and productivity (those twin poles of an unfettered growth paradigm) are in the DNA of most engineers who have scant practice separating the aims of growth from its increasingly dire consequences.

Missing in conversations between environmentalists, activists, and political economists is the voice of the engineer who can tackle this head on. What would design and production look like if, like the natural world, we created just enough and wasted nothing? What role would automation play if it were to be fair to workers and to the planet?

Surrounded by the forest, and inspired by the elegance of nature’s complex ecosystem, our conversations about degrowth will begin to grapple with these critical issues and consider pathways to further the conversations about the future of engineering practice.

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ESJP 14
2019-06-13 12:00 - 2019-06-15 13:00 | Sky Lake Camp and Retreat Center, 501 William Law Rd, Windsor, New York, 13865, United States
The Engineering, Social Justice and Peace annual conference on the theme of Removing Borders Among Disciplines will be held at nearby Sky Lake Camp and Retreat Center. Standing People Together is co-hosting this conference with a special Saturday morning session at Cala Munda.

HASTAC 2019
2019-05-16 09:00 - 2019-05-18 17:00 | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education. Caroline Baillie, Standing People Together, will be presenting a paper on land based pedagogy entitled Decolonizing and Re-inhabiting Engineering Practice.

STEAM Forest School (Pre-K & Homeschoolers to age 9)
2019-05-06 10:00 - 13:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
This 8-week program will be held every Monday from 10AM -1PM beginning May 6, 2019 through June 24th. Intended as a nature immersion program, participants will engage in fun, unstructured and structured activities, while learning science, math, and engineering in the woods! We will address many NY Engage topics within Science, Design, Technology and Math, integrated with Reading, Art, and Social Studies.

Saturday Forest Play (K-6)
2019-05-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in spring and autumn: May 4th – June 22nd & again on Sept 7th – October 26th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and teamwork skills, embark on adventures, develop resilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature.

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Prefer to pay by check? Mail to: Waste for Life / 76 Winkler Rd / Hankins, NY 12741. Please write ‘Forest Play’ in the memo field.

Outdoor Math, A Webinar
2019-04-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Cala Munda, 76 Winkler Road, Hankins, NY, 12741, United States
Outdoor Math to enhance student engagement and improve learning. This is an online event: a webinar presented by Caroline Baillie – Standing People Together – for the Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools (ERAFANS).

http://erafans.org/event-3342116

Outdoor Story Time with the Forest School
2019-04-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Western Sullivan Public Library – Delaware Free Branch, 45 Lower Main Street, Callicoon, NY, 12723, United States
Standing People Together and the Callicoon Branch of the Western Sullivan Public Library will be hosting an outdoor reading session for local homeschoolers and others. Gather at the Library at 3PM, and we’ll move outside from there.

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