Waste for Life

09/26/2025

Take Time to Talk offers time and space to gather, meet people, make connections, talk, and listen. To simply enjoy each others' company. No agenda, no program, just community every Tuesday evening at the Callicoon Depot from 5:30-7:00 PM.

Bring whatever makes you feel at home—snacks, a meal, drinks, a cozy jacket if it’s chilly, or some games for the kids. Just a heads-up: the Depot doesn’t have bathrooms yet, so plan ahead.

Begins this Tuesday, September 30 at 5:30 PM.

06/14/2025

Join us on Monday, June 16th @ 6 PM at The Black Library in Monticello or @5 PM on Saturday, June 21st at Arts Nest in Lake Huntington for a FREE public rehearsal/workshop exploring the themes - anti-immigrant racism, refugee status, precarious work, and camaraderie - of our latest theatre project, Diner Stories.

05/20/2025

Diner Stories: coming to a theatre near you.

10/31/2024

Errin Gilmore rehearses Cynthia Nash's play, The Crossing, one of four plays in On Belonging, which we're directing this weekend, Nov. 2nd and 3rd, at DVAA's Tusten Theatre in Narrowburg, NY.

Want to learn more about the project? Listen to the WJFF interview that aired this morning with the directors and three of the playwrights: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16bUa96Pvc8HWIasnjbdqb2QuFntLL-I4/view?usp=sharing

Purchase tickets here: http://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org

10/23/2024

Save the Dates. November 2nd and 3rd

10/10/2024

Art Walk: join us this Sunday @ 4PM in the Callicoon Depot. Live musical accompaniment by Poison Love.

Rehearsal video teaser:
https://vimeo.com/1017565197

09/12/2024

Adela and her local community have been beavering away to fulfill their 1st order of 500 notebooks for the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at USD, which is a huge step up from creating one-of-a-kind artisanal products to a manufacturing order of this magnitude. She has taken the challenge without compromising her aesthetic as evidenced by this 'tie-dyed' notebook that is just one of several motifs that make her work and this ReCREA project so unusual.

With special thanks to Fabiola Rizo and for their tireless support.

07/19/2024

Almost 5 years ago, with the help of Camilo Navarro, who is now Dean of Engineering at Fundación Universitaria Salesiana in Colombia, and Ana Equiarte from the The Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve in San Diego, we facilitated several community workshops in and around Tijuana's Cañón de los Laureles to assess the feasibility of and identity potential partners for a new WFL project in Mexico. Adela Bonilla, a local artisan who works with variety of waste materials, expressed interest. 5 years later, and after many fits and spurts, the project had a name - ReCREA (Repurposing Waste for Coastal Resilience), several partners, and support from the San Diego Foundation as part of their Binational Resilience Initiative. We are concluding the capacity building and R&D phase of the project and moving into the implementation phase with the launch of a community-based waste plastic composite business led by Adela. Her first client is the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego, which has just placed an order for 1000 notebooks!

06/02/2024

04/13/2024

We just received a generous Community Development grant from to support our newest theatre project, On Belonging, and are looking for playwrights, wanna be playwrights, never thought I'd write a play playwrights - you get the picture - who have something to say or some inchoate feeling they'd like to express about belonging. Not more than 15 minutes performance time. Submission due date: May 30th.

03/22/2024

Eyeglass case and the raw sheet it was fashioned from