with Brooke Bridges of Unearthing Wellness This event is postponed until fall. Stay tuned for a new date! Join Brooke for a walk in the Collard City Growers garden where we'll meet and learn about aromatic plants and how aromatics can directly impact emotions and mood. After a group harvesting session, we'll return to the […]
Looking for a meaningful way to stay involved with the Sanctuary at your own pace? Join us every third Wednesday from 5–7PM for our monthly volunteer day. RSVP here! (this will take you to an external link to RSVP through the New York Foundation of the Arts Volunteer Portal) We’ll start with light refreshments and […]
Join us for StoryHarvest, our annual food justice celebration, connecting the community over stories of food. This year’s event kicks off our 20th Anniversary with the theme Altar to the Past, Altar to the Future! Join us for a campus-wide celebration, bringing together community groups and offering activities, games, music, and food-- all FREE! Featuring […]
Looking for a meaningful way to stay involved with the Sanctuary at your own pace? Join us every third Wednesday from 5–7PM for our monthly volunteer day. RSVP by sending an email to [email protected] We’ll start with light refreshments and a tour (plus a little campus clean up) and get an in-depth introduction to a […]
Join us for a workshop focused on alternative ways to develop images. Participants will use plant-based materials to develop photograms with Le Ratoire, a French group of artists. This workshop will span a few hours and is co-sponsored by iEar Presents! In this workshop, Le Ratoire artist collective will work with participants to learn how […]
Join us for screenings of 16mm plant processed performance films, presented by Katherine Bauer and Joyce Lainé, members of the film collective Le Ratoire and Atelier MTK. The images in each film emerge before our eyes through the process of a developer composed of plants, ashes, and water. The sun gives to the plants, the […]
with Brooke Bridges, sponsored by Air Justice Lab Join the PHS Community Apothecary and Air Justice Lab for a workshop where participants will learn how to use herbs to promote lung health and leave with a blend of herbs to take home. To protect all participants, registration and masking are required for this workshop. Please […]
Adobe Brick Workshop at Collard City Growers Open Hours Join us for a workshop on making adobe-style bricks using local clays and responsibly harvested plant matter from abundant non-native species with FSD.TEMP, a group which explores the accessibility of complex and expensive technologies through experimentation, hyper-local materials, and community collaboration. Join FSD.TEMP for a free […]
Join Air Justice Lab at Context Collective for a workshop on building your own air purification system using a box fan, air filter, duct tape, and cardboard. High quality masks/respirators (such as N95s) are required and provided for all attendees. There will also be air purifiers in the space. If a participant needs to unmask, […]
Taína Asili shares the story of her two-decade journey as a singer and activist creating music for social change. Through songs and personal narrative, she reflects on the challenges she has faced and the lessons she’s learned making art in service of love and liberation. Participants will explore how art can be a powerful tool for […]
Join us for Taína Asili’s interdisciplinary production of Fever Pitch, uniting decades of her original work into a one-hour spectacle designed to ignite climate justice action on local, national, and global scales. This tapestry of sound, movement, and imagery is a celebration, a ritual, and a bold vision for a just and sustainable world. *Tickets […]
Community Radio Days are opportunities for folks to gather around the importance of community radio. Every month a different Hudson Mohawk Magazine producer leads a discussion or exercise, and anyone is welcome to join. Topics range from how to create grassroots radio, pursuing a story, creating a community, and amplifying lesser heard voices. If you […]
What to Do When Interacting with ICE Agents Join members of the Capital Region Sanctuary Coalition to learn about how to assert your legal rights, be informed of your options, and feel prepared during an interaction with Immigration Customs and Enforcement. All are welcome.This event is not a replacement for legal advice.
Lead by Ángela Bartlett with Azuré Keahi In this workshop we will use small looms to weave bookmarks integrating plant fibers found in our local landscape. Participants have the option of bringing strands they'd like to weave into their project or share with others (Think of it as a fiber potluck!). Fibers that are a […]
Looking for a meaningful way to stay involved with the Sanctuary at your own pace? Join us every third Wednesday from 5–7PM for our monthly volunteer day. RSVP by sending an email to [email protected] We’ll start with light refreshments and a tour (plus a little campus clean up) and get an in-depth introduction to a […]
Drop in to Collard City Growers where we have activities for families and garden tasks for our adult volunteers. Community Work & Play Days take place on the 3rd Friday of each month, during the regular CCG Open Garden Hours which take place every Friday from 4:00 - 7:00 pm, from May through October. Join […]
For the remainder of the year, People’s Health Sanctuary will host monthly Healing Days at the Sanctuary main space, offering community acupuncture, herbal remedies from the Community Apothecary, a nourishing one pot meal, and a place to connect. All offerings will be donation based/sliding scale, so pay whatever you can— and bring a friend! PHS will […]
Robot Workshop with FSD.Temp For this follow up to the MYOB (Make Your Own Brick) workshop, bring a brick or just watch and chat as a low-cost, low-impact robot places bricks to create a wall and planter in the NATURE Lab yard. Bricks have shaped the industrial and visual language of Troy for centuries, while […]
Join Barry Rubinow, the director of “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them," for a Be The Media! workshop on recording someone's story for documentary filmmaking. Rubinow emphasizes that everybody has a story, and this workshop will explore discovering what that story is. “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them" is a documentary film about locally-based jazz […]
Join us for a screening of “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them,” a documentary film about locally-based jazz musician Tarik Shah who was incarcerated for almost 15 years on terrorist accusations, and panel discussion around the lasting impact of the war on terror. The event will conclude with a musical performance with Tarik Shah on […]
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