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SUMMARY:"Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back" with Filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell
DESCRIPTION:The Kahnawake Mohawk ironworkers who helped to build the famed bridges and skyscrapers of New York City lived with their families in 10 square blocks in Brooklyn – a neighborhood known as Little Caughnawaga. In Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back (2008) Reaghan Tarbell traces her family roots to create a portrait of this vibrant community and the women who sustained it.  \n\n\n\nThis event is made possible by the Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds. The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. \n\n\n\nPress Release\n\n\n\nThe Kahnawake Mohawk ironworkers who helped to build the famed bridges and skyscrapers of New York City lived with their families in 10 square blocks in Brooklyn—a neighborhood known as Little Caughnawaga. Reaghan Tarbell traces her family roots to create a portrait of this vibrant community and the women who sustained it. \n\n\n\nSome notice has been given to the men of Little Caughnawaga: Mohawk steel workers\, whose work was exceptionally dangerous\, helped to build the city’s most famous bridges and skyscrapers.  But Tarbell\, who is from Kanhawake and whose grandmother migrated to Little Caughnawaga\, wanted to switch the focus and to tell the stories of the women. They held the little Brooklyn community together by taking in boarders\, running households during the Great Depression and caring for each other when one of their men fell to his death—which happened all too often. \n\n\n\nThe film touches on the tragic Quebec Bridge collapse in 1907. During this time\, the structure of the bridge fell into the St. Lawrence River. The tragedy killed 75 people\, those of which included 33 men from the Kahnawake community. A memorial was organized and served to remember and honor those who had perished on that day. \n\n\n\nIn making this interesting and beautifully-constructed documentary\, Tarbell discovered a lot about her own family’s history. She also provided a rare gift to her community\, which\, she recalls\, mobbed her with thanks after she premiered her film on the reservation. “But the greatest praise\,” Tarbell says\, “because it’s a very personal story\, was when I showed an early cut to my mother and she called me\, crying\, and thanked me for giving her mother a voice.” \n\n\n\n“Part of our desire to show this work was to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s ‘discovery’ of the Hudson River\,” says Penny Lane\, one of the programmers at the Sanctuary.  “We wanted to be sure that the statewide celebrations of this quadricentennial event include stories of the cultural and economic exchange between the white settlers and the Native people who met them here\, and how those interactions over the past 400 years affect us today.” \n\n\n\n“First and foremost\, I made this documentary for my community and for my family\,” Reaghan Tarbell.  “I never saw myself as a filmmaker\, still don’t… but regardless of how you see yourself… I think if you’re destined to tell a story it will find you somehow. Telling the story about my family and my community was at the same time the most challenging and most rewarding time of my life.” \n\n\n\nTarbell is a staff Program Assistant in the National Museum of the American Indian’s Film and Video Center and lives in Brooklyn\, not far from the neighborhood of Little Caughnawaga. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary for Independent Media is a telecommunications production facility dedicated to community media arts\, located in an historic former church at 3361 6th Avenue in north Troy\, NY.  The Sanctuary hosts screening\, production and performance facilities\, training in media production and a meeting space for artists\, activists and independent media makers of all kinds.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/little-caughnawaga-to-brooklyn-and-back-with-filmmaker-reaghan-tarbell/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090318T190000
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SUMMARY:A Best of "Fence": The First Nine Years
DESCRIPTION:Readings from Capital Region writers Chase Twichell\, Sam Truitt\, Christian Peet\, Laura Didyk\, and others in celebration of Fence magazine’s brand new anthology of poetry\, creative nonfiction\, short fiction and more.  \n\n\n\nArea authors Christian Peet\, Sam Truitt\, Jibade-Khalil Huffman and Laura Didyk will read in celebration of the publication of A Best of Fence\, a new anthology of collected works from Fence magazine’s first nine years of publication. Refreshments will be served and copies of A Best of Fence will be available for purchase. \n\n\n\nFounded in 1998\, Fence is a biannual journal of poetry\, fiction\, art\, and criticism that has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps\, schools\, or cliques. It is part of their mission to support writers who might otherwise have difficulty being recognized because their work doesn’t answer to either the mainstream or to recognizable modes of experimentation. \n\n\n\nEver idiosyncratic\, Fence evades the tedium of the decade with this anthology\, co-edited by eleven of Fence’s editors past and present\, including founding editor Rebecca Wolff; fiction editors Jonathan Lethem\, Ben Marcus\, and Lynne Tillman; poetry editors Caroline Crumpacker\, Katy Lederer\, Matthew Rohrer\, Christopher Stackhouse\, and Max Winter; and nonfiction editors Frances Richard and Jason Zuzga. In addition to presenting a stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry\, short fiction\, criticism\, and creative nonfiction\, much of it by younger writers who appeared in Fence at the beginning of careers that went on to be dazzling\, this volume includes reflective essays by editors on their experiences with selected texts\, with authors\, with the magazine as a collective\, and with their own editorial identities\, and serves as an indispensable record of the inception and continuation of one of the most influential literary journals of its time. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served and copies of A Best Fence will be available for purchase.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/a-best-of-fence-the-first-nine-years/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:Opening in the Underground Gallery: "Upstate Girls - What Became of Collar City"
DESCRIPTION:The photographs are on display in the Underground Gallery at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, available for viewing an hour before\, during and an hour after events and by arrangement. Upstate Girls is a look at part of working class America\, that\, despite sweeping technological advances\, remains essentially unchanged since the heyday of the Industrial Revolution – an indictment of the by-products of globalization that shape the American social and visual landscape. The ongoing project aims deep into the emotional and psychological cycle of poverty from a women’s eye view.  \n\n\n\nAward-winning photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother and an independent journalist whose long-term projects are intimate portraits of social issues that intersect where the personal is political. She began reporting in 2004 on the lives of five teen girls from North Troy who would come of age in an industrial city in post-industrial America. She works to push the boundaries of the social document\, using the web as a tool to expand and contextualize her immersion style of reporting. Kenneally’s many awards include the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography\, a Soros Criminal Justice Fellowship\, the Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award\, the International Prize for Photojournalism\, a Nikon Sabbatical Grant\, the National Press Photographers Association best of Photojournalism award\, and the Cannon Female Photojournalism Grant. Born in Albany\, she now lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/upstate-girls-what-became-of-collar-city/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:Reception for Exhibit of Iraqi Refugee Children’s Murals at Albany Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Reception for Exhibit of Iraqi Refugee Children’s Murals at Albany Public Library. The murals painted by Iraqi children and teenagers are currently on exhibit on the second floor through March 27. In September 2008\, young Iraqi refugees recently arrived in the Capital District participated in a one-day mural painting workshop with American artist/teacher Claudia Lefko and Iraqi artist Thamir Dawood at the Sanctuary for Independent Media. They created five murals on canvas depicting their thoughts and feeling about having to leave their beloved home country in a time of war and upheaval.  \n\n\n\nThe exhibit if co-sponsored by the Albany Public Library\, the Sanctuary for Independent Media\, the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange\, USCRI and the Iraqi Refugee Project.  \n\n\n\nThe Iraqi Refugee Project is a coalition of Women Against War\, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace\, Women’s Association for Family Affairs whose goal is to support the needs of Iraqi refugees locally and internationally through direct assistance\, advocacy and education about the issue. \n\n\n\nClaudia Lefko is the director of the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange in Northampton\, MA. In the last seven years\, she has made two trips to Baghdad and two to Amman\, Jordan where she and her Jordanian and Iraqi partners work on making art with Iraqi refugee children and their families. Each time\, she takes art supplies and pictures created by children especially for other children. Thamir Dawood has collaborated with Claudia on a number of projects. He was born and educated in Baghdad. He fled with his family from Iraq in 2004. His work has been exhibited throughout the Middle East\, in Japan and the USA.  \n\n\n\nThe young Iraqis who painted the murals are part of a community of about 75 Iraqi refugees who have been resettled in the Albany Capital District over the past two years. They come here mostly from Jordan\, Syria and Turkey\, where they fled to escape the violence of the war in Iraq. There are currently an estimated two million Iraqi refugees living in countries neighboring Iraq in the biggest refugee crisis in recent history. \n\n\n\nThe reception gives the Iraqi refugees and American participants a chance to prepare for a two-day painting workshop (March 27 and 28)\, which is the next stage of the art project. The final murals created from the Capital Region will be displayed in Egypt next year as part of United Nations Educational\, Scientific\, and Cultural Organization “Decade of Peace and Nonviolence Among Children” international exhibit\, The Miles Mural Project.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/reception-for-exhibit-of-iraqi-refugee-childrens-murals-at-albany-public-library/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:Iraqi/American Youth Mural Workshop: “How Will They Know Us? Building a Culture of Peace”
DESCRIPTION:A two-day art workshop will bring together a group of local Iraqi and American youth to collaborate on a mural painting project. These youth share visions of a peaceful\, just coexistence in the workshop\, “How Will They Know Us? Building a Culture of Peace.” Guided by Claudia Lefko\, director of the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange\, among others\, these murals will be exhibited in Egypt next year for the “UNESCO Decade of Peace and Non-Violence Among Children of the World.”  \n\n\n\nThe workshop is being co-sponsored by the Sanctuary for Independent Media\, the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange\, and the Iraqi Refugee Project. The Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange in Northampton\, MA invites Iraqi and American children and youth to participate in art-inspired project to foster communication\, and promote peace and nonviolence. The Iraqi Refugee Project is a coalition of Women Against War\, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace\, Women’s Association for Family Affairs whose goal is to support the needs of Iraqi refugees locally and internationally through direct assistance\, advocacy and education about the issue. \n\n\n\nPress Release\n\n\n\nGuided by Claudia Lefko\, director of the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange\, Branda Miller\, Rensselaer professor of media arts\, and mural artists\, Linda Iannacone and Lauren Jacobs\, the American and Iraqi youth ages 8 to 18 will work together to shed light on the Iraqi refugee experiences and to share visions of a peaceful and just coexistence through artistic expression. \n\n\n\nProfessor Branda Miller’s students from her “Art\, Community\, Technology Class” at RPI and artist Linda Iannacone\, an experienced muralist\, will also help facilitate the workshop. Branda Miller is a media artist and educator and co-founder of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. \n\n\n\nThe ultimate destination of the mural is Egypt\, where in September\, 2010\, the end of the UNESCO Decade of Peace and Non-violence Among Children will be celebrated with a giant\, gala exhibition of thousands of murals created by children and youth from around the world. Claudia Lefko’s organization the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange is coordinating The Iraq Art Mile as part of The Art Miles Murals\, an international project that emerged in support of the UNESCO Decade of Peace. The Iraqi Art Mile will be a series of murals painted in the Middle East and in the US with the theme: Building a Culture of Peace: Who Are We/Who Are They.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/iraqi-american-youth-mural-workshop-how-will-they-know-us-building-a-culture-of-peace-3-28-09-and-3-29-09/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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