Installed in the Underground Gallery, Facing Change: Documenting America is an exhibition features work by some of the nation’s most accomplished photographers, inspired by the Farm Security Administration photography project […]
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir are activists, a New York City-based radical performance community with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. They are wild anti-consumerist […]
Two-time Polk Award-winning New York Daily News columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez has emerged as one of the country’s best-known and most-respected Latino journalists during a turbulent career […]
Youth media makers join forces to create short videos. Tweens through young adults brainstorm ideas around the theme "Re:solution/Re:volution/Re:Mix," then shoot and edit in a whirlwind of production throughout the […]
Celebrate the power of the Youth Media movement! Media offers a megaphone to the hearts and minds of young people. Come see the best of their work! Witness the wisdom […]
The Apple Pushers (Mary Mazzio, 2011) is a new documentary that tells the inspiring stories of immigrant street cart vendors who sell fruits and vegetables in the “food deserts” of […]
Drawn from the program of the 57th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, the 2011 Flaherty on the Road film series explores the audio dimension of documentary. Two programs will screen: […]
Explore the discipline of seeing and the subconscious of the camera. Through observational and experimental practice, reveal your personal vision. For beginners to pros with award-winning filmmaker and educator Jim de Séve. […]
Help support Troy Bike Rescue's self-service community shop as they educate and advocate for alternative transportation and people-powered revolution. At a meet and greet, join North Troy Environmental Education Consortium […]
Electric guitarist Tisziji Muñoz, formerly of Schenectady, is considered by many to be among the greatest and least-known living musicians. His music evokes the cosmic free jazz of John Coltrane's […]
Join us for the last event of our Spring 2012 season–a spectacular free show to mark the Juneteenth holiday! There'll be lots of music, food, pedal-powered smoothies, bike and helmet decorating, […]
An exhibition of local photojournalism featuring Patrick Dodson, Brian Jones, Brenda Ann Kenneally and Ellie Markovitch focusing on one long block- home to the Sanctuary for Independent Media, Collard City […]
Four years, festivals and village concerts on three continents, two previous albums, several languages from Hindi to Tzotzil to French, many musical traditions, and countless moments of joy, sorrow, loss, […]
Join bicycle organizers and volunteers from near and not-so-far-off lands for this regional gathering of activists building the networks, infrastructure, and pedal-powered machines for a car-free future, featuring practical workshops […]
Join filmmakers Eron Davidson and Ana Noguiera for a screening of Roadmap to Apartheid (2012), a riveting new film that juxtaposes the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa […]
Many horror film fanatics call Nosferatu (1922), F.W. Murnau's silent German classic starring Max Schreck--who sports grotesque makeup that transforms him into a symbol of pestilence and decay--the scariest Dracula […]
Join the Youth Media Sanctuary production team as they head into the field to shoot footage for three short documentaries based in the North Central Troy neighborhood. These workshops are […]
The Bread and Puppet Institute for Subversive Papier Mache offers lessons in state-of-the-art puppet making and street theater technology and parades! Learn how to make picture stories (cantastoria), create signs […]
Just as farmers reap the harvest, providing sustenance for all, it is time to celebrate all our harvests--the results of seeds sown through art, education, agriculture, tolerance, and everything we […]
The Circus of the Possibilitarians is a satirical horse and butterfly circus, addressing pertinent national and international issues in a clownish fashion, including rotten ideas, a wild dancing horse and some mellow […]
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