Name: African Film Fest: “Dôlè (Dollar)” and “Africains poids moyens (African Middleweights)”
Start: 2006-05-04T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2006-05-04T21:00:00-04:00
Location: The Sanctuary

February 2006
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan,” “Children of the Decree”

February 8, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Petr Lom, 2005) is the first film to document the custom of bride kidnapping, an ancient marriage tradition in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic in Central […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Home,” with Filmmakers Jeffrey Togman and Pierre Defendini

February 8, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Home (2005) will be presented by director Jeffrey Togman and cinematographer Pierre Defendini. On a gang-controlled, dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help […]
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Land Mines: A Love Story”

February 9, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Dennis O'Rourke's latest documentary Land Mines: A Love Story (2004) is part observational and part essay – driven by a polemic that is both angry and subtle, and a damning […]
Steve Kurtz of the Critical Arts Ensemble Speaking on “Art and Discipline”

February 13, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

This lecture was built upon the following premises: first, any action within the cultural landscape performed from a minoritarian position will be perceived by authority as contestational act; and second, […]
Prison Activist Robina Courtin and “Chasing Buddha”

February 20, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Chasing Buddha (2000) is a documentary by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson about Robina Courtin, an Australian ex-Catholic, ex-political activist and feminist who has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. […]
March 2006
“Tying the Knot” with Filmmaker Jim de Séve

March 2, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Jim de Séve's 2004 documentary Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan […]
“The Trouble With Music” with Author Mat Callahan

March 6, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Mat Callahan's The Trouble with Music (2005) explores the crisis facing music. The signs are everywhere, from the saturation of public space by tuneful trivia to the digital downloading controversy. […]
“Quantum Leaps” with Video Curator Astria Suparak

March 22, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

Quantum leap, a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom), became the title of an […]
Prometheus Radio Project Presents “The Spectrum Roadshow”

March 23, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The creation of the Low Power FM radio service stands as one of the greatest successes in recent efforts for grassroots media reform. As a result, hundreds of new low […]
Bread and Puppet Theater Presents: “How to Turn Distress Into Success: A Parable of War and Its Making”

March 29, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

How to Turn Distress into Success: A Parable of War and its Making is a funny, poignant, radical, occasionally violent response to the 9/11 attacks, filtered through the coolest puppets […]
“Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage” with Filmmaker and Author Heather Rogers

March 30, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Author and filmmaker Heather Rogers will screen her documentary on the political history of rubbish in the United States, "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage" and talk about her […]
April 2006
“Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony”

April 6, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Lee Hirsch's 2002 film Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony documents South African musicians, playwrights, poets and activists as they recall the struggle against apartheid from the 1940s to the 1990s that stripped black citizens […]
Galen Joseph-Hunter & Tom Roe of free103point9 on “Transmission Arts”

April 10, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe will discuss the field of "Transmission Arts," and free103point9. Free103point9 has an array of goals toward which it is perpetually working, each ultimately focused on […]
“Two Square Miles” with Filmmaker Barbara Ettinger and Friends of Hudson Founder Sam Pratt

April 20, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Barbara Ettinger's 2006 documentary Two Square Miles tracks the conflicts in the small town of Hudson, New York as a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to reshape the community. With […]
“The Next Industrial Revolution” Screening with Community Potluck

April 21, 2006 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

In Chris Bedford's and Shelley Morhaim's The Next Industrial Revolution (2001), architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design. While some environmental observers predict doomsday […]
“Aristide and the Endless Revolution” with Filmmaker Nicolas Rossier

April 27, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

While the international community passively looked on, the democratically elected president of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere was violently deposed twice. Aristide: and the Endless Revolution (2005) investigates the events […]
“Inter/Play…” with Pauline Oliveros and Surajit Sarkar

April 28, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Art blends with politics as experimental music pioneer Pauline Oliveros and media artist Surajit Sarkar join creative forces at The Sanctuary For Independent Media! Even as internet use has grown […]
Broadcast Live Tour Finale

April 30, 2006 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The conscious hip hop group Broadcast Live brings music to The Sanctuary.
May 2006
The Beehive Design Collective Presents “Dismantling Monoculture: Globalization and Resistance in the Americas”

May 2, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join the Beehive Collective for a high-energy picture-lecture. According to the The Beehive Collective: Dismantling Monoculture is an anthology of three educational, visual narratives that illuminate the connections between colonization, […]
African Film Fest: “Dôlè (Dollar)” and “Africains poids moyens (African Middleweights)”

May 4, 2006 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

In director Imanga Ivunga's Dôlè (Dollar) (2000), the action takes place in Libreville, the capital city of Gabon, where four street kids scrape a living as a gang. Mougler, the […]

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February 2006

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan,” “Children of the Decree”

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Home,” with Filmmakers Jeffrey Togman and Pierre Defendini

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Land Mines: A Love Story”

Steve Kurtz of the Critical Arts Ensemble Speaking on “Art and Discipline”

Prison Activist Robina Courtin and “Chasing Buddha”

March 2006

“Tying the Knot” with Filmmaker Jim de Séve

“The Trouble With Music” with Author Mat Callahan

“Quantum Leaps” with Video Curator Astria Suparak

Prometheus Radio Project Presents “The Spectrum Roadshow”

Bread and Puppet Theater Presents: “How to Turn Distress Into Success: A Parable of War and Its Making”

“Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage” with Filmmaker and Author Heather Rogers

April 2006

“Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony”

Galen Joseph-Hunter & Tom Roe of free103point9 on “Transmission Arts”

“Two Square Miles” with Filmmaker Barbara Ettinger and Friends of Hudson Founder Sam Pratt

“The Next Industrial Revolution” Screening with Community Potluck

“Aristide and the Endless Revolution” with Filmmaker Nicolas Rossier

“Inter/Play…” with Pauline Oliveros and Surajit Sarkar

Broadcast Live Tour Finale

May 2006

The Beehive Design Collective Presents “Dismantling Monoculture: Globalization and Resistance in the Americas”

African Film Fest: “Dôlè (Dollar)” and “Africains poids moyens (African Middleweights)”

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