SULLIVAN COUNTY – Standing People Together, a constituent-led grassroots program of Waste for Life based in Hankins, has received a Community Development grant from Sullivan 180 to support their newest theatre project, “On Belonging.”

Eric Feinblatt, Co-Founder and Director of Waste for Life which supports community strategies that facilitate environmental and social justice transformations, said that they are currently soliciting scripts that address the personal and social dimensions of belonging.

“It is particularly heartening to be supported and funded by two, seemingly, very different organizations: Sullivan 180 and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance,” Feinblatt said. “Their respective focuses on Health and the Arts coalesce around our project in recognition that On Belonging’s multivalent approach to community development strengthens the social fabric of the communities that both organizations serve.”

There are four acts to the project which begins with the playwriting competition where anyone in the region can submit a short script about their sense of belonging to the place they call home through May 30.

Interested playwrights can submit either via email to info@wasteforlife.org with the subject heading, “On Belonging” or by mail to Waste for Life, 76 Winkler Rd., Hankins, NY 12741. For more information, you can call 347-327-2180 and speak with either Eric or Caroline. 

The criteria for the plays are making sure to address the theme, “Belonging” as it relates to your sense of home, up to 15 minutes of performance time for the adult category, up to 10 minutes of performance time for the youth category and no play can have more than five characters. 

The second act is a workshop of the winning plays with the authors in June. The third is public-facing readings and rehearsals in venues throughout the region from August through October before final performances in November.