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SUMMARY:"Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War" with Author Scott Christianson
DESCRIPTION:Scott Christianson\, author of Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War\, will give a multimedia presentation that looks at the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle. In an almost unimaginable act – and the most dramatic slave rescue in American history – Nalle was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and hundreds of protesters on April 27\, 1860 in our own Troy\, New York.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event:\n\n\n\nAn Abolitionist History of Troy Through the Life of Charles Nalle \n\n\n\nThe forcible liberation of a captured fugitive slave\, Charles Nalle\, by Harriet Tubman and hundreds of protesters on April 27\, 1860 constituted the most dramatic slave rescue in American history and arguably the most significant event in the history of Troy and Watervliet. Yet until now\, the episode has received little public attention. \n\n\n\nAward-winning author Scott Christianson has spent eighteen years reconstructing Nalle’s life and escape from bondage\, the operation of the Underground Railroad\, and the riots that pitted an interracial mob of local abolitionists against armed proslavery forces.  Now his long-awaited book\, Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War (University of Illinois Press)\, has just appeared in time for the 150th-year anniversary of Nalle’s rescue.  \n\n\n\nIn a spirited public discussion\, Christianson will share this amazing story\, joined by African American artist Mark Priest\, who has spent the past several years reconstructing the incident in a series of monumental paintings.  Mark’s talk will be accompanied by a short video he produced on the making of the Charles Nalle images.  Local historians\, activists\, church and other community folks\, and actual descendants of Charles Nalle’s family are expected to attend.  \n\n\n\nNoted author Fergus M. Bordewich says Christianson “guides us unflinchingly along the heartbreaking fault line of racial relations that warped life in America–in both the North and the South–in the age of slavery\,” and Tubman’s leading biographer\, Kate Clifford Larson\, has called it “a true testament to those sometimes-ordinary people who did extraordinary things for other human beings.” \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nSCOTT CHRISTIANSON is an award-winning author\, investigative reporter\, curator\, filmmaker and scholar who lives and works in New York’s Capital District.  He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the State University of New York at Albany\, and his B.A. from the University of Connecticut. He has taught at Bard College\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Union College\, SUNY-Albany and other universities\, and lectured throughout the U.S. and abroad.  His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Nation\, Christian Science Monitor\, Newsday\, Mother Jones\, New York Law Journal\, Journal of American History\, American Legacy\, and many other journals and independent media.  He also appears on national TV and radio and has worked on films for HBO\, PBS\, History Channel\, Discovery\, Arte (France)\, WDR (Germany)\, and Hollywood. He is the author of With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America (winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Distinguished Honors Book Award\, cited by the U.S. Supreme Court)\, Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House\, Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases and other books.  A strong supporter of the Sanctuary for Independent Media\, he lives in Sand Lake in a house that was part of the Underground Railroad.  \n\n\n\nMARK PRIEST is associate professor of art at the University of Louisville. He received his master’s degree from Yale University. His series of paintings on the rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle is being exhibited at the Rensselaer County Historical Society and Russell Sage College in February and March 2010.   \n\n\n\n                     \n\n\n\nPress About Freeing Charles:\n\n\n\n“Extensively researched and finely analyzed\, Freeing Charles tells the gripping story of a fugitive slave rescue that has largely escaped our attention until now.” –Richard J. M. Blackett\, author of Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War \n\n\n\n“In this magnificently conceived and subtly rendered book\, Scott Christianson not only brings to life the men and women of the Underground Railroad as they carry out one of the most dramatic rescues of a fugitive slave on record\, he also guides us unflinchingly along the heartbreaking fault line of racial relations that warped life in America–inå both the North and the South–in the age of slavery.” –Fergus M. Bordewich\, author of Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America \n\n\n\n“Absorbing and eminently readable. With a large cast of characters\, this stirring historical narrative centered on one incident also uses a wide-angle lens to reveal many other facets of slavery’s impact during the antebellum years.” –Jean M. Humez\, author of Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories \n\n\n\n“Scott Christianson’s beautifully written real life story of fugitive slave Charles Nalle\, whose dramatic escape\, recapture\, and then rescue is one of the long forgotten yet incredibly important events in our nation’s history\, is as compelling as the most thrilling contemporary fiction. Simmering tensions between freedom and slavery are abruptly thrown into dramatic public confrontation as notions of race and identity are challenged in ways long ignored by most Americans.  Christianson deftly weaves the complex realities of antebellum America – the ownership of human beings and the absolute control it endowed on owners and masters who were sometimes related by blood\, and the legal and social structures that defined life for African Americans – through the lives of those who lived it. Not all white northerners were anti-slavery\, and therefore life for refugees could be insecure and fraught with danger. But this book is a true testament to those sometimes-ordinary people who did extraordinary things for other human beings. Christianson serves up history like a master storyteller – a great dose of good vs. evil drama in the form of tragedy\, triumph\, love\, illicit sex\, and a cast of characters that will surprise and delight you.” –Kate Clifford Larson\, Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman\, Portrait of an American Hero \n\n\n\n“A vivid and arresting biography that focuses on one mid-nineteenth century man and his family\, whom slavery constantly imperiled even after they freed themselves not only once\, but several times. It is such stories that help us learn how much was at stake for anyone held to slavery and the lengths to which some white people would go to reverse attempts at self-emancipation.” –Philip J. Schwarz\, author of Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/freeing-charles-the-struggle-to-free-a-slave-on-the-eve-of-the-civil-war-with-author-scott-christianson/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:"The Age Of Stupid" Screening
DESCRIPTION:In Fanny Armstrong’s (McLible\, 2005) The Age of Stupid (2009)\, Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055\, looking at old footage and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?   \n\n\n\nIn advance of the screening Honest Weight Food will sponsor a reception where there will be information tables from local organizations.  \n\n\n\nScreening co-sponsored by The Community Renewable Energy (CoRE) Project\, Capital District Local First\, and Honest Weight Food Co-op. \n\n\n\nThe Climate Crisis Film That Focuses on the Big\, Moral\, Human Stuff\n\n\n\nIn the year 2055 – now a ravaged\, war-torn\, flooded world – an unnamed archivist\, played by Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite\, is entrusted with the safekeeping of humanity’s surviving store of art and knowledge. Alone in his offshore repository\, he reviews archive footage from back “when we could have saved ourselves\,” trying to discern where it all went wrong. Amid news reports of the gathering effects of climate change and global civilization teetering towards destruction\, he alights on the stories of seven individuals whose lives in the early years of the 21st century seem to illustrate aspects of the impending catastrophe. These stories take the form of interweaving documentary segments that report on the lives of real people in the present\, and switch the film’s narrative from fiction to fact. \n\n\n\nMore on the film\n\n\n\nThe 2009 film by award winning British director\, Franny Armstrong\, is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid shot in seven countries over a period of three years. The original plan – begun in 2002 – was to borrow the narrative structure of Steven Soderbergh’s movie\, Traffic\, and make a documentary about climate change by following the stories of seven characters However\, after seeing the finished documentary\, Armstrong decided to add a dramatic component to awaken her audience to the impending global crisis.  \n\n\n\nArmstrong Biography\n\n\n\nBorn in 1972\, British documentary film director Franny Armstrong became obsessed with the issue of climate change in high school. Working through her own company\, Spanner Films\, her first documentary\, McLibel\, told the inside story of the infamous McDonald’s trial. Filmed with no commission\, no budget\, and a voluntary crew\, the film took years to both make and screen. It was recently chosen for the prestigious British Film Institute series “Ten Documentaries That Changed the World.” \n\n\n\nNext came the 2002 documentary Drowned Out\, which followed an Indian family who chose to stay with their home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam. After being sold to Television worldwide\, it went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 2004 British Independent Film Awards\, and was released theatrically in the U.S. in 2006. Another documentary on climate change\, Baked Alaska\, was never completed.  \n\n\n\n10:10\n\n\n\nAn offshoot of The Age of Stupid project\, 10:10 is a UK-wide campaign encouraging everyone in Britain to reduce their carbon emissions by at least 10 percent during 2010. While the documentary is aimed at raising awareness of climate change as a pending global humanitarian crisis\, 10:10 is presented as a strategy for people to take positive action in the face of such an urgent and daunting problem. \n\n\n\nCrowd-Funding and Distribution\n\n\n\nAlmost as interesting as the film itself is the way it was made and funded. The film was “crowd-funded”\, with the £450\,000 budget being raised by selling shares to 223 individuals and groups\, who donated between £500 and £35\,000. This manner of funding the film gave it the best chance of reaching a mainstream audience while allowing the Armstrong and her crew to retain complete editorial control. \n\n\n\nIn May 2009\, The Age of Stupid team launched their Indie Screenings model\, a new form of film distribution which allows anyone\, anywhere to buy a license to hold a screening of the film – with the price set according to the screeners means. The model immediately proved extremely popular\, with 682 screenings booked in the first four months.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-age-of-stupid-screening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop with Dave Rice: Media Management In a Digital Universe
DESCRIPTION:Master the art of archiving – and muscle your data into place for order\, access and ease – with digital archivist and preservation consultant David Rice. “Media Management in a Digital Universe” is an afternoon designed to help you master the art of archiving and muscle your data into place for order\, access and ease. Dave Rice consults on a wide range of preservation topics while focusing on open source applications\, digital formats\, asset and metadata. There are four broad areas he will be covering in his workshop: Cataloging and Metadata; Don’t Be Scammed by DAMS; The Archivist’s Guide to Video Digitization; The Archivist’s Guide to Audio Digitization.  \n\n\n\nCataloging & Metadata \n\n\n\nTired of ambiguous buzzwords?  Lost in a maze of machine-readable machinations? Disambiguate the out-of-control vocabulary of cataloging and metadata for audiovisual materials.  There are many cataloging options out there.  Learn what you need to consider for choosing the best path for you and your collection.  Topics include: What kind of software is right for me?  What kind of schema is right for me?  How much metadata is enough?  What is metadata?  How can I capitalize on my metadata to help manage my collection?  Cataloging is an art\, not a law.  Don’t let it define you! \n\n\n\nDon’t Be Scammed by DAMS \n\n\n\nArchives (perhaps even yours!) are full of examples where the promises of new technology fell short of their realities.  As we move further into the age of digital preservation\, Digital Asset Management Systems hold great promise and importance\, but not always great follow through.  DAMS are large investments and are generally developed for production – not archives – or for documents and still images – not audio and moving images.  Learn how to research DAMS – what to look for\, what questions to ask\, how to develop functional requirements before talking to software vendors – that will help you make the right decision. \n\n\n\nThe Archivist’s Guide to Video Digitization \n\n\n\nThe realities of reformatting and migration require that archivists now at least understand how video digitization works and how to talk about it\, if not how to do it themselves.  From equipment to processes to the alphanumeric soup of standards\, there is a whole new mindset and language to learn.  Whether you’re sending your video to vendors or building a digitization station of your own\, the better you understand digitization the better your preservation needs will be met.  Learn how to select equipment\, digitization workflows\, quality assurance\, recommended outputs\, asset management\, preservation standards\, and everything else you need to .mov your collection into the future. \n\n\n\nThe Archivist’s Guide to Audio Digitization \n\n\n\nThe realities of reformatting and migration require that archivists now at least understand how audio digitization works and how to talk about it\, if not how to do it themselves.  From equipment to processes to the alphanumeric soup of standards\, there is a whole new mindset and language to learn.  Whether you’re sending your audio to vendors or building a digitization station of your own\, the better you understand digitization the better your preservation needs will be met.  Learn how to select equipment\, digitization workflows\, quality assurance\, recommended outputs\, asset management\, preservation standards\, and everything else you need to .wav goodbye to confusion. \n\n\n\n“Digital formats and materials are inherently fragile and any strategy that can help you access and preserve them for future use is essential.  Media management is a basic necessity for anyone working in a digital environment\,” says Jeanne M. Keefe\, who took last season’s digital archiving workshop.  Keefe is Media & Digital Assets Librarian for the Architecture Library at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. \n\n\n\nDate of workshop changed from March 7th to March 14\, 2010.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-dave-rice-media-management-in-a-digital-universe/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Warrior Woman of Peace: Mama Charlotte Hill O'Neal
DESCRIPTION:Four decades after leaving this country for exile in Tanzania\, Mama Charlotte Hill O’Neal returns to share the inspirational story of how she and her husband’s past as Black Panthers affects their work among the urban and village youth of East Africa and America. She will be screening an excerpt from A Panther in Africa\, the award winning PBS documentary about the life\, work and inspiration of Charlotte’s husband\, former Kansas City Black Panther leader and founder of UAACC (United African Alliance Community Center)\, Pete O’Neal\, and a clip from Spirit of Resistance–the story of the UAACC’s work with Prometheus radio to build an independent radio station. In addition she will share hip hop videos created by youth at the UAACC\, as well as perform poetry from her book Warrior Woman of Peace.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/warrior-woman-of-peace-mama-charlotte-hill-oneal/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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SUMMARY:Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba
DESCRIPTION:From the Palace to the People: A Global Griot Saves a West African Tradition with Rock ‘n’ Roll Revelations and Blues Muses! Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso picker and musical visionary from Mali who blurs the lines between West African and American roots music. His work with banjo maverick Bela Fleck just won a Grammy award and his new release is I Speak Fula\, on Sub Pop Records.   \n\n\n\nThis tour is presented in collaboration with World Music Institute and is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  \n\n\n\n“To all the rock ‘n’ rollers of the USA\, I’m coming!”–Bassekou Kouyate
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/bassekou-kouyate-and-ngoni-ba/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:African Music,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100327T200000
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SUMMARY:Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde with DJ Trumastr
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of their debut album War Cry\, Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde will play a soulful infusion of Afro-Caribbean\, reggae\, rock\, hip hop and flamenco\, with local and international guest dancers\, singers\, and percussionists. They will be celebrating this grand accomplishment with a BIG CD release party\, and it will also be Taína’s birthday!  \n\n\n\nThe evening will start with an opening reception at 8 pm featuring music by DJ Trumastr of Beatchot Productions\, with wine\, beer and snacks as well as CD’s and t-shirts available for sale.  \n\n\n\nThe following performance by Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde will feature Victorio Reyes (Emcee\, Broadcast Live); Ayana D (Soul Vocalist); Los Gringos (Brazilian Samba Percussion); Charlotte Oniel (Vocalist from Tanzania); Leah Young (African Dancer); Lisa Martinez (Flamenco Dancer); Marcus Anderson (Live Art); and more to be announced.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/taina-asili-y-la-banda-rebelde-with-dj-trumastr/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Performance
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