Explore strategies that blur the lines between documentary and fiction, from script writing to media activism to studio production to post-production. Alex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores issues that impact the Latino community, particularly on subjects of labor, immigration, and gender. He is best known for his science fiction film, Sleep Dealer […]
Join director Alex Rivera for a screening of “The Infiltrators,” along with community organizers. The Infiltrators, director by Alex Rivera and Christina Ibarras, is a film about a rag-tag group of undocumented youth—Dreamers—who deliberately get arrested by Border Patrol to infiltrate a shadowy detention center. Nearly a decade ago, filmmaker Alex Rivera first encountered the […]
The quintet Pilgrim, founded by Zurich-based tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger, has over the years become one of the most exciting ensembles in young European jazz. They present their fourth recording, Crosswinds, in which there is a certain ambiguity. "Some compositions are freely improvised, while others are completely notated, yet most lie in between, with an […]
What happens when we preserve plants based on utility or agricultural use alone? What if the plants we value are not the ones that will survive the shifting ecology caused by anthropogenic climate change? The Next Epoch Seed Library is crowd-sourced seed library for spontaneous urban plants, otherwise known as weeds. Join environmental artist Ellie […]
Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Join us at The Sanctuary for the eighth annual North Central Troy Justice and Peace Holiday Celebration. We’ll have free food, portraits, art activities, a TBR bike give-away, and the lighting of the tree at Freedom Square (at the corner of 101st and 5th/6th Avenue), and more!! […]
As part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s growing Nature LAB, JJ Luceno and Dr. Frank Coughlin are working to establish a central space in Troy to share health skills, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health. Though caring for our elders, our children, or cooking soul-nourishing food for […]
This Martin Luther King Labor Celebration, begun in 1999 by the Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, will be held in Troy for the first time. A short segment will be shown of M.L.K.'s 1967 speech "The Three Evils of Society," where he talks about the need for a redistribution of wealth in America. Following […]
PLEASE NOTE: Roger was unable to get permission to enter the U.S. so he's Skyping in! What can we all do to avert catastrophe and avoid extinction? Roger Hallam has answers. In his new book, "Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse," Roger Hallam outlines […]
Air pollution is one of the more pervasive and invisible environmental health hazards of cities and has been in the public consciousness for several decades. The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 3.4 million people globally die prematurely as a result of outdoor air pollution each year. In the US a 2019 study, contradicting previous […]
Join Kitchen Sanctuary resident Intaba Liff-Anderson as she shares culinary tips on creating delicious dishes from ingredients found in food pantries. A combo of demo and hands on, we will utilize basic ingredients and build skills which empower greater confidence in the kitchen. Intaba Liff-Anderson is a graduate of Anne Marie Colbin’s Natural Gourmet Cooking […]
Kira O’Reilly and Marta de Menezes share their research methodologies in this public keynote of FEMeeting, a gathering to disseminate art and science projects carried out by women, followed by a strategy session to increase collaboration, knowledge sharing and bringing communities together. Co-sponsored by iEAR Presents!
Join us for an evening with radioactivist Norm Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive. Previously, for over 20 years, he served as WORT Community Radio’s Operations Coordinator in Madison, Wisconsin. He also coordinated the Iraq Journal website in 2002-2003. In 2011, he regularly reported on protests in Madison for Iran’s Press TV and other outlets. His […]
In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental mediaPatricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world. Collected here for the first time are her celebrated essays and speculations about documentary, experimental, and new […]
On Nothing But Love, her soulful and timeless song-cycle of folk, pop, world, blues, reggae, and jazz-tinged originals, singer-songwriter Jana Herzen (who happens also to head up the Multi-GRAMMY®- winning Motéma label,) reaches new heights as a musical storyteller, composer, and guitarist. Supported by an ace band led by world-renowned jazz bassist Charnett Moffett, Herzen’s […]
Whether you're on a traditional farm or working on a city lot, raising chickens comes with the same basic requirements. Join us for an afternoon building a safe coop for the chickens at Collard City Growers. In this workshop we'll go over what it takes to raise chickens and how to incorporate them into a […]
Jude Abu Zaineh (MFA, University of Windsor) is a Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker. Her practice relies on the use of art, food, and technology to investigate meanings of culture, displacement, diaspora, and belonging. She’s interested in ideals of home and community while working to develop aesthetics rooted in her childhood and upbringing in […]
We are in the midst of a “tsunami of social life” that is unprecedented in modern life. The age-old ideas we had barely begun to formulate around community health and care are now being required in ways that no one was prepared for. Medical staff don’t have the protective equipment they need, children are out […]
Discriminating jazz and world music listeners alike will love Boston’s festive eight piece dance band featuring the Latin Bugalu style pioneered by Puerto Rican musicians in 1960's New York City. Fusing R&B and rock into the Afro-Caribbean matrix, the music unfolds at tempos everyone can dance to. You don't need salsa chops or double jointed […]
Join the arborists of the More Trees Collective for a workshop in the urban forest. Learn to identify common opportunist species of urban trees, discuss different techniques and objectives of pruning, when to remove trees, when to plant trees and help the crew manage the Sanctuary's fledgling reforestation projects. More Trees Arborist Collective is a […]
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