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SUMMARY:Underground Gallery Exhibition by Nina Berman: "Evidence and Fantasy - Militarism in American Life"
DESCRIPTION:Nina Berman is an award-winning documentary photographer based in New York City\, widely publicized and exhibited\, with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. Her work examines the influence of war and militarism on American life at this time in our history when so many resources\, both human and material\, are dedicated to military pursuit. Many of the soldiers Nina met said they thought it would be fun\, but their experiences told a different story. She became interested in how as a culture we visualize and fantasize war and what role the burgeoning homeland security state plays in the creation and dissemination of these fantasies. This exhibition featured her series Homeland\, Purple Hearts\, and Marine Weddings. The exhibition will be on view from September 26th through December 12th\, 2009.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/underground-gallery-exhibition-by-nina-berman-evidence-and-fantasy-militarism-in-american-life/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:Indymedia 10th Anniversary Film Festival: Where Do We Go from Here?
DESCRIPTION:Ten years after the Battle of Seattle and the explosion of global grassroots citizen journalism\, known as Indymedia\, the legacy reverberates in villages\, cities\, and countrysides around the world.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for a retrospective screening of seminal Indymedia films\, including\, This is What Democracy Looks Like\, Indymedia Showcase\, Fourth World War\, A Tribute to Brad Will and plenty of others. The film festival will go all day on Saturday November 7\, 2009\, will include a potluck dinner with Indymedia guests\, and will end with Iranian-American singer Haale’s psychedelic Sufi trance rock!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/indymedia-10th-anniversary-film-festival-where-do-we-go-from-here/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Performance,Screening
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SUMMARY:Haale: Psychedelic Sufi Trance Rock
DESCRIPTION:Psychedelic Sufi Trance rock returns to the Sanctuary! To conclude the 10th Anniversary Indymedia Film Festival\, the Persian-American poet/singer/songwriter will perform at 9 pm. Drawing on Persian mystical and American folk traditions\, Haale weaves engaging lyrics and trance-inducing melodies in a rare solo acoustic set.  She will sing new songs as well as songs from her album No Ceiling\, hailed by the Boston Globe as “one of the most memorable releases of 2008.” \n\n\n\nDrawing on Persian mystical and American folk traditions\, Haale weaves engaging lyrics and trance-inducing melodies in a rare solo acoustic set.  She will sing new songs as well as songs from her album No Ceiling. \n\n\n\n“Haale is… a star on the rise… her raw sound owes as much to ’60s psychedelic rock as it does to the ancient Middle East…” WASHINGTON POST \n\n\n\n“[Haale] sings with a supple\, blissful Persian flair and the intensity of an arena rocker.” BOSTON GLOBE \n\n\n\nHaale (as in halle-lujah or jalepeno)\, is a Bronx-born woman of Iranian descent whose name means the “halo around the moon.” \n\n\n\nShe released two mesmerizing EPs in January 2007: Morning and Paratrooper– and spent the year touring across the country and in Europe\, at venues such as the Bonnaroo Festival\, SXSW\, and the Mimi Festival in France. She performed at David Byrne’s Nonesuch-sponsored series at Carnegie Hall\, recorded with Sean Lennon (on Before the Skies)\, and shared the stage with such diverse artists as the legendary Hugh Masekela and Odetta. \n\n\n\nOn the breathtaking full-length debut\, No Ceiling Haale explores themes of transformation and evolution\, singing in English and Persian through a riveting soundscape of percussion\, psychedelic guitars\, and soaring strings.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/haale-psychedelic-sufi-trance-rock/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091111T183000
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SUMMARY:Veterans Day Reflections on Casualties of War with Veterans’ Poetry Reading and Presentation by Nina Berman and Kathy Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Nina Berman discusses her exhibit Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life\, and poet David Smith-Ferri and veterans\, including members of Albany Veterans for Peace\, read poems exploring their personal experiences with the realities of war. In conversation with Kathy Helly\, Berman will also discuss work from her series Purple Hearts\, Marine Wedding and Homeland.  \n\n\n\nAn exhibition opening reception\, sponsored by Honest Weight Food Co-op\, will precede the presentation.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by: Albany Veterans for Peace; Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange; Women Against War; Schenectady Unitarians Social Action group; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Chatham Peace Initiative. \n\n\n\nMore About Nina Berman:\n\n\n\nNina Berman is a documentary photographer\, widely published and exhibited\, with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape.   \n\n\n\nHer work has been recognized with awards in art and journalism from the New York Foundation of the Arts\, the Open Society Institute Documentary Fund and the World Press Photo Foundation. She is internationally known for her photographs of wounded American military\, and her Marine Wedding portrait showing a disfigured marine and his bride on their wedding day\, is considered an iconic image from the Iraq war. \n\n\n\nShe is the author two monographs Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq\, Trolley\, 2004 and Homeland\, Trolley\, 2008. Her work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in New York\, Chicago\, Seattle\, Los Angeles\, London and Berlin. \n\n\n\nShe is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones and has worked for top editorial clients including TIME\, Newsweek\, The Sunday Times Magazine\, The New York Times Magazine\, Colors\, German Geo\, National Geographic\, Fortune\, and Marie Claire. She frequently lectures on photography\, conducts workshops and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in her hometown of New York City.   \n\n\n\nMore About The Veteran Poets:                                             \n\n\n\nThomas Brinson served in 11 Corps Vietnam in ‘67-68 to include surviving the Tet Offensive. He has been writing poetry since 1966 and performing his work at open mikes since 1995 throughout the New York City area and Long Island\, Arizona and the Hudson Valley. He has been published in several “little magazines” both in print as well as on the web and this year had his first chapbook Love And War published by Post Traumatic Press in Woodstock. Retired with a 100% VA disability for PTSD\, he lives and writes in Woodstock\, NY.  \n\n\n\nDayl Wise was drafted into the US Army in 1969 and served in Viet Nam and Cambodia in 1970. He lives in The Bronx and Woodstock\, New York with his wife\, the poet Alison Koffler. He is the author of Poems and Other Stuff (Post Traumatic Press) and most recently published a book\, Post Traumatic Press 2007\, an anthology of work by three generations of veterans. \n\n\n\nDan Wilcox was drafted in 1969 and served his time at Fort Knox\, KY. He is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany\, N.Y. and is a member of the poetry performance group “3 Guys from Albany”. As a photographer\, he claims to have the world’s largest collection of photos of unknown poets. He has been a featured reader at all the important poetry venues in the Capital District & throughout the Hudson Valley and is an active member of Veterans for Peace.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/veterans-day-reflections-on-casualties-of-war-with-veterans-poetry-reading-and-presentation-by-nina-berman-and-kathy-kelly/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show,Panel Discussion,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091114T170000
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SUMMARY:Kathy Kelly: Community Response to the Casualties of War
DESCRIPTION:Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly’s eyewitness accounts offer a message of hope through creative non-violence. Built around tangible community responses to the casualties of war\, this multi-media event networks members of the local peace\, justice\, Iraqi refugee\, veteran\, artist communities\, and aid agencies and the many volunteers who work with them.  \n\n\n\nDuring the event\, Kathy Kelly and the audience will view a screening premiere of local digital stories\, and then have a dialogue with their creators.  Groups featured include: the Iraqi refugee immigrant young women with Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange and Iraqi Family Project; Women Against War; Schenectady Unitarians Social Action group; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace. We will also be introduced to the Fort Drum Soldiers Billboard project\, and artist Suzanne Opton.  \n\n\n\nThis coalition-building program is part of the nationwide Peaceable Assembly Campaign\, which seeks an end to the U.S. wars in Iraq\, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by: Iraqi Refugee Project; Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange; Women Against War; Schenectady Unitarians Social Action group; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Albany Veterans for Peace; Chatham Peace Initiative
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/kathy-kelly-community-response-to-the-casualties-of-war/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T210000
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SUMMARY:The River Runs Both Ways: Reconsidering Dutch Exploration
DESCRIPTION:The evening will present a scintillating exploration of colonization\, imperialism and historical revisionism as the 400-year anniversary celebration of Henry Hudson’s exploration winds down!  First\, a special screening of Mother Dao the Turtlelike (1995)\, an adventurous award-winning assembly of songs\, poetry and nitrate films of 400-years of Dutch occupation of Indonesia from acclaimed Dutch film auteur Vincent Monnikendam.  The screening will be followed by an insightful discussion with Union College Professor of History Andrew Feffer and RPI Professor of Anthropology Tamar Gordon about the broad implications of Dutch “discoveries” across the globe and our peculiar location at the end of this long historical tether. \n\n\n\nThe featured film for the evening is Mother Dao the Turtlelike\, an international award-winning compilation of clips from documentaries and propaganda films shot by Dutch cameramen between 1912 and 1932 in their former colony of Indonesia. The film contrasts the lives of wealthy colonial rulers\, who bark out orders while clad in immaculately white outfits\, with the hopeless situation of the native people\, who are victims of a brutal economic exploitation. Much of the footage used to be shown in the Netherlands as an illustration of the beneficial effect of the Dutch presence\, but nowadays it merely evokes negative associations. Apart from images of economic repression\, Mother Dao the Turtlelike contains archive footage that details the cultural and religious expressions of the indigenous people. The original footage had no soundtrack\, but the filmmaker has added natural sounds from Indonesia\, indigenous music\, and recited poetry\, but no voice-over. The film’s title refers to a mythical story that\, according to the inhabitants of the island of Nias\, situated to the west of Sumatra\, explains the origin of creation. \n\n\n\nConstructed entirely from colonialist documentaries shot by whites in the former Dutch East Indies\, this film succeeds in giving these racist clips a new meaning.  This film uses the colonizers’ own propaganda to condemn their mission to Westernize indigenous groups\, revealing how colonialism corrupted the culture of everyday life. Moreover\, the Dutch settlers are shown living in isolated capsules of Western life\, reproduced and maintained by forced labor. \n\n\n\nMother Dao the Turtlelike has been screened at forty-eight international film festivals and has received eighteen awards and prizes\, among them five Golden Awards. The film was proclaimed the best Dutch film of 1995. \n\n\n\nDirector’s Statement\n\n\n\nClose to a million feet of 35mm documentary nitrate film footage from the Dutch film archives served as the source material for this documentary. In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. The usual commentary has been omitted and in its place poems and songs in Bahasa Indonesia have been included in a digital sound composition. \n\n\n\nIn “Mother Dao the Turtlelike\,” the viewer sees how the colonial machinery in the 1920s was implanted in a world so different from Western Europe. He or she will witness various phenomena and aspects of that colonial enterprise–then at its peak–which\, thanks to cinematography\, were recorded. The shoots for the more than one thousand 35mm nitrate documentary films took place in the Dutch West Indies between 1912 and about 1933. All belong to the collections of the two Dutch film archives\, and in the meantime the main corpus has been preserved. \n\n\n\nThe documentary starts with a shortened version of the legend of the inhabitants of Nias\, an isle to the West of Sumatra. It was told that the earth was created by Mother Dao. When standing on the beach\, the inhabitants of the island could see the horizon half curved like the shell of a turtle. So they called the creator of the world “Mother Dao the Turtlelike.  At some point in time eternal\, she collected the dirt off her body and kneaded it on her knee into a ball. That was the world. Later\, she became pregnant\, without knowing a man\, and gave birth to a girl and a boy. They were the first people and they lived in a fertile world. And it was this fertile world that attracted the Europeans\, and especially the Dutch\, in their colonial endeavors. \n\n\n\nAbout The Director\n\n\n\nVincent Monnikendam was born in 1936 in Hague\, the Netherlands. For 30 years from 1964 onwards\, worked as director\, producer\, editor of documentary film for NOS-TV and NPS-TV. In 1995 he went independent\, and continues his activities as a documentary filmmaker. Most of his works concern issues such as immigrants and race problems. They include: District 69\, depicting the life in the immigrants ghetto in Hague; The Ten Token\, a five-part film on Turkish and Greek immigrants in the Netherlands; and The Illegals\, a documentary on illegal Turkish and Moroccan workers in the Greenhouse industry\, for which Monnikendam spent 6 months living amongst the workers. In 1995 completed Mother Dao the Turtlelike which took 6 years in production\, and was acclaimed at documentary film festivals all over the world.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-river-runs-both-ways-reconsidering-dutch-exploration/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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