by wasteforlife | Feb 18, 2020
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,...
by wasteforlife | Dec 17, 2019 | spt, standing people together
We haven’t been back to Buenos Aires since 2014, which is going on 9 years now. Of the many things that have stayed with us and continue to inspire us are the examples of the Worker-Recuperated Enterprises. This is not simply because these factories have been...
by wasteforlife | Dec 11, 2019
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...
by wasteforlife | Sep 6, 2019
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!
by wasteforlife | Aug 25, 2019
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,...
by wasteforlife | Jun 2, 2019 | standing people together
So, after a couple of years of planning and preparing, we are now half-way through our very first Sullivan County based Forest Exploratorium for kids! Our eight-week Saturday Forest Play sessions for K-6 have as a recurring theme, ‘The power of myth and the forces of...
by wasteforlife | Mar 12, 2019
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....
by wasteforlife | Mar 11, 2019
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.
by wasteforlife | Mar 11, 2019
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...
by wasteforlife | Mar 11, 2019
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...
