We are a group that meets on the first Sunday of Every month. Our main purposes are to explore alternative economies, divert unnecessary landfill waste, connect with our neighbors, and have fun doing it! We are like freecycle.org, but at a Location! As a community we have many more resources than we do as individuals. If we share our resources we won't need to buy as many new ones. This uses fewer of the Earth's resources, and fewer of our working hours, leaving us more time to devote to ourselv …

Pique assiette is an old French folk art, where one takes broken china and anything else that's interesting to look at and turns it into something creative and amazingly beautiful! We get together on Sat. afternoons to laugh, drink, do therapy and, oh, mosaics.

The Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a world-wide event that helps a community explore creativity and re-use through a clothing swap and series of DIY craft and sewing workshops. Erin Scholl and Jennifer Alexander are the local coordinators of this amazing and inspirational event and every year Swap-O-Rama-Rama gathers for the ultimate celebration of creativity at Maker Faire in San Mateo in May. This group is a way to keep it going year round, bringing people who are interested in sharing and learning ideas …

Join fellow Islanders to make UPCYCLE COUTURE! Develop your signature style. Rethink how you clothe yourself and your family. Have creative, collaborative, skill-building fun. No sewing experience? No worries. WE HAVE THREE COACHES with impressive skills and creativity who will guide and teach us. Let's create an upcycling fashion mob right here on the Island! Join us for a series ($90 for six sessions) or individual evenings ($20) and get ready to have fun! 7-9pm, Monday evenings. Doors open at …

The Origaminizers is a visionary collective that sees the world through a lens of folded space. Join us to discuss, create and invent outside of the grid, the cube, and matrix. We build anything with the music of the spheres, using point's, peaks and valleys. Our world is modular, organic, recyclable and always in motion. Are you a mechanical engineer with exotic linkages? ...an architect with non-Cartesian constraints? ...an artist with kinetic visions? ...a biologist with a knack for steering …