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SUMMARY:The Insects are Present
DESCRIPTION:The Insects are Present is a participatory installation by artist Lisa Schonberg that engages with insects and their sound to compose music compositions. Alluding towards Marina Abramović’s 2010 work\, Schonberg’s installation asks audience members to spend an extended time listening to insects in real time\, both through hearing and touch. Schonberg developed this modular system during field research in Oregon\, the Brazilian Amazon\, the Mobile-Tensaw Delta (AL)\, and New York\, adapting recording and playback elements to insects and their sounds at each study site. Participants will be invited to contribute their own sounds to the work in an assertion of our ongoing connection with the insects in our shared living environments. \n\n\n\nThe installation will take place at Ellie Irons’ Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory\, part of NATURE Lab and the Sanctuary’s Eco-Art Trail in North Troy. Participants are encouraged to sign up for a listening session in advance at this form (or click the registration button below). A limited number of walk-in sessions will also be available.  \n\n\n\nDates/Times:  \n\n\n\nFriday Aug 11\, 3-6 pm (during Collard City Growers Open Hours)Saturday Aug 12\, 1-4 pm (during People’s Health Sanctuary Healing Day)Sunday Aug 13\, Sunset: 8-11 pmSaturday Aug 26\, 10am-1 pmSunday Aug 27\, 1-4 pm  Friday Sep 1\, Sunrise: 5-8 am \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · "The Insects are Present" at Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Schonberg is a composer and percussionist creating sound works based on ecological research. Informed by her background in entomology\, Schonberg is interested in how listening to cryptic sound can reveal and challenge assumptions about insects and other overlooked soundmakers. Since 2017 she has been collaborating with Brazilian entomologists on ATTA (Amplifying the Tropical Ants)\, a project investigating ant bioacoustics in the Amazon. Her other recent work includes investigations of old-growth forests in Oregon\, endangered Hawaiian Hylaeus bees\, mushrooms\, and plastics. Schonberg’s compositions are performed by percussion ensembles Secret Drum Band\, Antenna\, & UAU\, and presented as solo performance and installation. Schonberg presents workshops on methods for environmental listening\, including workshops with Allie ES Wist for their collaboration Sensory Kinship of the Third Kind. She is the author of Text Scores for Getting to Know the Invertebrates\, The Hylaeus Project\, and the The DIY Guide to Drums\, and has presented work or performed at FILE Festival (BR)\, the Pompidou\, the Brooklyn Museum\, Bosque da Ciencia (BR)\, the American Museum of Natural History\, and Museo Reina Sofia (SP). She has developed her work through residencies at Labverde\, the Banff Centre\, Pioneerworks\, HJ Andrews Experimental Station\, and Signal Fire.
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SUMMARY:Creative Place-Making on the Hudson: La Retoire "Sediments" Canoe Journey + Lewis Pugh Swim
DESCRIPTION:Where: Ingalls Avenue Boat Launch\, 1 Ingalls Avenue\, Troy\, NY \n\n\n\nJoin the Sanctuary and Riverkeeper at Ingalls Avenue Boat Launch in North Troy to celebrate creative engagement with the Hudson River.  \n\n\n\nLe Ratoire is creating a film project entitled “Sediments”. On September 2nd\, join us at 11:00-11:30 am as they depart from the Ingalls Avenue boat launch in North Troy with their canoes to travel south along the Hudson River to New York City. The artists will be traveling by canoe and will use foraged plants to process the film documentation of their trip. Le Ratoire will return in 2024 to lead a plant-based filmmaking workshop with us. Come celebrate the beginning of their river-based creative place-making journey! \n\n\n\n12:00 pm August 31st \n\n\n\nThe Lewis Pugh Foundation will join us on 8/31 at noon for a press event marking Pugh’s Hudson River Swim as he passes through the Capital Region. Members of the Sanctuary’s Water Justice Lab\, NATURE Lab\, and Eco-Art Trail projects are excited to commemorate this river-based journey! \n\n\n\nMore about the two projects: \n\n\n\nOn August 13 2023\, Lewis Pugh began his 315-mile (507-km) swim down the Hudson River\, from its source to its end at New York City. He is doing this to highlight the critical role rivers play in a habitable planet. Lewis will explore the interconnectedness of rivers and oceans\, and stress the urgent need to restore\, protect and respect them. “If we want healthy oceans we also need healthy rivers — it’s that simple.” \n\n\n\nThe end of the swim will coincide with the UN General Assembly Week\, Climate Week NYC 2023\, and the UN Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit. Learn more on the Lewis Pugh Foundation website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLe Ratoire is a filmmaking collective composed of Léa Lanoë\, Pierre Borel  (Labo L’argent\,Marseille\, France)\, Katherine Bauer\, Joyce Lainé\, and Loïc Verdillon (Atelier MTK\, Grenoble\, France). Since 2019\, they have elaborated a methodology for collective filmmaking wherein each film is defined by a particular set of parameters; both technical and\, especially\, situational. Sometimes referring to their practice as “action-filming”\, the members of le Ratoire meet to create all aspects and stages of the film in a single go\, from filming\, processing\, and printing to the final edit. The name “Le Ratoire” refers to the verb in french\, rater\, that means “to miss\, fail\, or flunk” and laboratoire\, indicating the analog hand-made laboratory practices that each film is made with. \n\n\n\n“Sediments” is a film conversation of “The River that flows both ways” or Muhheakantuck in Machican (The Hudson River) made from the water and plants with those who live along her shores. They will canoe down the river’s tidal estuary from the Federal Dam in Troy to the mouth of the ocean in NYC. This portion is a unique body of brackish waters with four tides per day\, influenced by the ocean. They plan their travels to go with the ebb and flow. Camping along her shores for roughly 3 weeks and filming in 16mm\, they will process during the journey with a non-toxic developer made only with plants\, wood ash\, and sea salt. They will also record sounds and conduct interviews with local people\, and give free workshops and screenings along the river. They will harvest the commonly referred to invasive plants\, as they are too plentiful and choking out other plant diversity. This can also raise awareness about the different plants existing along the river. They hope that these interactions create a two-way flowing dialogue about life along the river; the flora and fauna as well as the inhabitants of towns\, estates and industries; their buildings both abandoned and active. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe process of making a film about the first industrialized river of the United States needs to be a conversation and collaboration with its inhabitants\, exploring what it is today and what it carries from the past. They will be using 16mm film (produced in New York\, by Kodak) which emerged from the Industrial Revolution using by-products of the industries; steel\, coal and cattle; but they are also moving in the opposite direction by processing with only non-industrial products and moving slowly with our own bodies as power. The public events they host will help all of us engage in the river in a new way. “As more people play in or near our waterways\, public concern and awareness grow\, leading to increased community advocacy.” declares Riverkeeper in their campaigns on how to help the Hudson River.1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between the iEAR Presents series with support from RPI’s ARTS department and School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, and from the New York State Council for the Arts/ NYSCA\, with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and from NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant. \n\n\n\nIn 2024 NATURE Lab will invite La Ratoire return to screen “Sediments” along with their other films. They will also teach a “Plant Processing Workshop”. In this plant processing workshop students will learn how to make a plant- based developer that will develop black and white 16mm film (also works to process 35mm film\, still or moving images\, or any film emulsion\, including photo paper emulsion). This workshop will cover the material history and ingredients of celluloid\, what happens during exposure and development\, how industrial chemicals were developed over plant based ones and why. Then\, we will learn the ingredients in plant developers that can create the same results as the industrially produced ones. We will learn about how to harvest\, when to harvest\, and the preparation of the tea/extraction in order to achieve the desired results\, as well as how to embrace the nature of chance and the destandardization of development. Plant developers are not trying to just mimic their industrial counterparts but are their own wild selves. \n\n\n\nBiographies of Le Ratoire Members\n\n\n\nKatherine Bauer manipulates celluloid film and the cinematic apparatus encompassingthe practices of moving and still image\, installation and live performance. Bauer invokesmythologies and folklore as told through the means of obsolete technologies fusing them with mineral and vegital communications. She is represented by Microscope Gallery (New York). Her work has been exhibited and screened at; Hybris Festival (Brazil)\, The Pompidou Center (France)\, Lausanne Underground Film Festival (Switzerland)\, Estudio Teorema (Mexico)\, Shoot the Lobster (Germany); Anthology Film Archives\, The Knockdown Center\, The Museum of the Moving Image (New York) among others. Bauer received a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant (2023)\, ESP TV Unit 11 residency (2017)\, Handmade Film Institute research grant (2016)\, a Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Residency (2012-13)\, and a Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation Fellowship (2012-13). She holds a BA in Film Arts from Bard College and a MFA from NYU Steinhardt in Studio Art. She is on the Board of Directors for The Film-Makers Cooperative of New York and a member of the film collectives Optipus (NY)\, Le Ratoire\, and Atelier MTK (France). She also studied herbalism and worked on various medicinal gardens throughout her life. In the Hudson Valley\, NY she worked for Good Fight Herb Company\, Common Hands Farm\, and The Abode. She currently lives and works between New York and France.  \n\n\n\nPierre Borel is a saxophonist\, composer and filmmaker\, working in the field of improvised and experimental music and experimental cinema. From 2006 to 2017 he was residing in Berlin taking part of the high flow of ongoing creativity that is centered there. He has performed in most European countries\, Japan\, Russia and USA and is a regular playmate of Joel Grip\, Hannes Lingens\, Sven-Are Johansson\, Christian Lillinger\, Axel Dörner\, Tobias Delius to name a few. He obtained a master degree at the Jazz Institute in Berlin in 2008\, and continues questioning sound and composition through his studies in electro-acoustic music in Marseille. Together with Florian Bergmann and Hannes Lingens\, he was running the Umlaut Berlin collective that in recent years released a great number of records and organized four festivals of improvised music. He moved to Marseille in 2017\, and co-founded LaboLargent\, an artists run organization for experimental filmmakers. \n\n\n\nAfter studying history of art and literature in Paris (Université Paris-Diderot) and Berlin (TU)\, Léa Lanoë studied at Ecole National Superieur dʼArt in Bourges\, working on sound installations and collages. Between 2013 and 2017\, she lived in Berlin\, performed in the group Vermulscht\, and focused more on experimental filmmaking. In her work\, she often collaborates with musicians. In 2017\, she takes part in the Master degree of Documentary filmmaking in Lussas\, France\, where she makes her firstdocumentary film Nul Nʼest Censé\, screened in Les États Généraux du film documentaire\, Lussas\, Le Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont- Ferrand\, Festival les inattendus\, Lyon\, 2019. She now lives in Marseille\, where she created with Pierre Borel and other filmmakers LʼArgent\, an artists run laboratory for Analog filmmaking\, and works more and more with 16mm. \n\n\n\nLoïc Verdillon is a musician\, performer\, and printmaker. Between 2012 and 2019 he composed music for theater pieces by the company “mais ou l’as-tu.” Since 2010\, he’s been an active participant of the musical and cinematographic program at Le 102 in Grenoble\, France. Currently\, his research is focused on sound\, its materiality and forms. He built “yotta-phone\,” a performance for multiple megaphones\, played at different festivals in the summer of 2015. His graphic works focus on the sound shapes of Ernest Chladni in experimental engraving. In 2015\, he combined plastic and audio art for theinstallation of an “attraction park” made up of dissected loudspeakers\, working with the primitive elements of copper\, paper\, and magnets. Since 2016\, he has run and worked at Atelier MTK Independent Cinema Laboratory in Grenoble\, France. He has presented Expanded Cinema performances and organized 16mm workshops around the world\, in such places as Norway\, Italy\, Switzerland\, Germany\, France\, Czech Republic\, Belgium\, and Indonesia.  \n\n\n\nAlongside studies in physics and comparative literature\, Joyce Lainé (aka Lucrecia) begins making films through the encounters with people & visions from the NYC film scene (Anthology Film Archives\, Microscope Gallery\, and Christine Choy). She moves to Grenoble\, France and becomes involved in programming at the 102\, an alternative venue for experimental film\, music and collective organizations. She also joins Atelier MTK and after participating in a research seminar seeking to fabricate the 1903 autochrome color photography process on film\, creates a collective performance called “Fecula est-tu là?” (2017) with Clovis LeMaireCardoen\, Loic Verdillon\, and Etienne Caire. Her first personal film made in France was “40 active warheads” (2016)\, an adaptation of a poem by Daniel Owens\, mixing found and personal footage. Recent works include performances with the Un Ensemble\, Etienne Caire\, Pavel Viry\, and the films within the collective called “Le Ratoire.” Today she continues to work at Atelier MTK.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/le-ratoire-sediments-canoe-journey-launch/
LOCATION:Ingalls Avenue Boat Launch\, 1 Ingalls Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hudson Mohawk Magazine Open Hours
DESCRIPTION:Hudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) is radio for the community\, by community volunteers. If you are curious about the radio and have questions\, if you’re interested in getting involved\, or if you need some support in production\, these open hours are a perfect time to come to the main Sanctuary space to work directly with HMM producers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur volunteer HMM producers come with a range of skills and experiences. Many volunteers join with little to no experience. These sessions give support to producers of all levels. This is also an opportunity to train new engineers and hosts.  \n\n\n\nJoin our excellent team of grassroots journalists and report on local stories that interest you. Feel free to reach out to us by emailing HMM@mediasanctuary.org or call 518-272-2390.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/hudson-mohawk-magazine-open-hours/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Corn Workshops: Fermentation Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Let’s ferment food and ideas in preparation for StoryHarvest 2023. Join Amy Halloran and Ellie Markovitch in making corn kvass or “Aluá de Milho\,” a fermented drink. This virtual workshop is part of the corn workshop series. \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nWe invite you to a series of remote and in person workshops to study and explore corn\, one of the few grains native to the Americas. This is a grain we question and love\, a food with deep cultural roots – not just of one culture\, but of many. Let’s appreciate these roots\, and shower this amazing food with love and wonder. We will discuss this staple food\, and our many histories of it\, and use it in a variety of ways\, including fermentation.  \n\n\n\nThe first two workshops are online\, and part of a series called Fermentation Fridays. These are hosted by Ellie Markovitch and Amy Halloran\, and we will be thinking about corn. In the first class we will make a beverage\, corn kvass or “Aluá de Milho.” The second class will consider how corn is such an adept and adapting traveling. We’ll make some of corn’s many shapes\, from corn pones to puddings. When we meet in person\, please bring your own corn stories and recipes. We will cook as a community and make a variety of cornbreads \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Halloran is a writer and change agent\, working to add social values and economic viability to farms and communities. The author of THE NEW BREAD BASKET\, her activism for specialty grains and changing emergency feeding programs share a common thread of restoring human values to the work of farming and the act of feeding each other. She is working on a history of herself\, bread\, and Troy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllie Markovitch is a Lecturer at the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism. Her work revolves around media and food literacy. Applying her passion for innovative and sustainable food practices\, she uses food as a starting point for conversations and community building. Her approach draws individuals into engaged visual storytelling that build experiences and engage communities. Born in Brazil\, Ellie spent childhood weekends at her grandparents’ small farm. “There was a story behind everything we did with our food – how it was grown\, harvested\, cooked\, and shared.”
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/corn-workshops-fermentation-fridays/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Campus-Wide Open House\, Fall 2023
DESCRIPTION:Curious about our organization?Want to get involved?Drop-in and check out our programs! \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nThroughout our campus\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media will have various ways to engage with our organization and our various initiatives. We invite neighbors\, students\, visitors\, and anyone curious about what we do to drop by and engage with our staff\, volunteers\, and programming.  \n\n\n\n3319 6th Ave11am-4pm: Healing Day at People’s Health Sanctuary\, yard and 2nd floor1pm-4pm: NATURE Lab open house\, 1st floor \n\n\n\n3337 6th Ave12pm-4pm: Collard City Growers garden open house \n\n\n\n3361 6th Ave12pm-3pm: Sanctuary Radio open house with Hudson Mohawk Magazine & Jazz Sanctuary \n\n\n\n\n\nHealing Day at People’s Health Sanctuary is a way to connect with community members\, healers\, providers and anyone invested in building a robust network for communal health across the Capital District. See full schedule here.  \n\n\n\nSanctuary Radio invites you to ask questions\, record a station ID\, and meet the people behind the voices. Hudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) and Jazz Sanctuary‘s Susan Brink will be available for questions.  From 1-2 pm there will be playful activity stations to engage with producers through tasks that mimic the experience of being a HMM producer. \n\n\n\nCollard City Growers will offer tours\, flowers\, medicinal plants and herbs\, self-guided veggie and fruit harvesting. What’s In season are apples\, pears\, collard greens\, kale\, peppers\, and more! \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab invites you to tour the lab\, see art & science displays\, and observe Be5 STEM kids’ activities with Dr. Emilly Obuya\, microplastics viewing with Dr. Sarah Cadieux\, and more!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/open-house-fall-2023/
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SUMMARY:September Healing Day (Campus-Wide Open House)
DESCRIPTION:People’s Health Sanctuary is excited to host our third and final Healing Day of the season as part of the Sanctuary’s Campus Wide Open House. Healing Day is a way to connect with community members\, healers\, providers and anyone invested in building a robust network for communal health across the Capital District.  As in July and August\, we will be offering services from holistic healers\, resource sharing by healthcare providers and service groups\, children’s activities\, and free food.  \n\n\n\nWe strive to “re-member” what community health can look like\, so we welcome community members\, and we will be offering healing work on donation basis including body work\, yoga\, and energy work. In addition there will be community resource & healthcare information\, movement activities\, food\, and child and family-friendly activities! \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\nSchedule:  \n\n\n\n11:30- Opening circle \n\n\n\n12p- Yoga with Desirea (in PHS space)/ 3p-yoga \n\n\n\n1p- Breathe Deep workshop with Ophra (in PHS space) \n\n\n\n1-2p Root3d Family activity (outside) \n\n\n\n2:30p- Community Dance Work Out with Hana (outside) \n\n\n\n2-3p- Elderberry Syrup/ Herbal remedies with Tara (PHS kitchen) \n\n\n\n2:30p- NATURE Lab open house (kiosks) \n\n\n\n3p- Yoga with Desirea (in PHS space) \n\n\n\nIn addition\, we will be announcing the following during the day: \n\n\n\n\nMedicinal Plant Drawings with Margaretha Haughwout\n\n\n\nWellness Chats with JBA Concierge Medicine \n\n\n\nGarden tour/meditation with Sienna\n\n\n\n\nThroughout the day\, come sign up with our healers\, offering services on a donation basis: \n\n\n\n\nMassage with Sara Swan\n\n\n\nOne-on-One Listening sessions with Hana van der Kolk– In these 20 minute sessions\, individuals will be invited to receive attention and to rest\, breath\, and share. If you like\, bring a few objects from home to be incorporated into your session. (12-2p only)\n\n\n\n\nIn addition\, healers will be offering these group activities:  \n\n\n\n\nCommunity dance workout for every body with Hana van der Kolk– One part accessible workout\, one part dance party\, and one part community ritual\, this 45-minute class offers every body a supportive and playful container for moving\, strengthening\, sweating\, feeling\, and connecting with self\, others\, and the world. It is a practice I have been shaping for almost fifteen years and have led in universities\, community centers\, public parks\, and private homes all over the world.\n\n\n\nBreathe Deep workshop with Ophra Wolf– In this introductory workshop\, you’ll learn techniques and acquire simple tools to transform tension\, pressure and anxiety in your body into a sense of support\, ease and spaciousness – simply by experiencing your breath more fully.\n\n\n\nYoga with Desirea\n\n\n\nIntentional Space holding for families with Root3d– Helping families transition back to school\, also holding space for sound meditation.\n\n\n\nElderberry Syrup Herbal remedy making with Tara Quackenbush of The Botanical Classroom\n\n\n\nMedical Plant Sketching and Sensing with artist and herbalist Margaretha Haughwout: Ongoing collaborative drawing of neighborhood medicinal plants\, along with helping to find intersections between immune system health and neighborhood strength/defense. With participants’ consent\, the creative results of this workshop will be repurposed and made a part of the permanent\, living DE-FENCE installation.\n\n\n\nHerbal Medicine Garden tour/meditation with Sienna\n\n\n\n\n We will be hosting tabling with community partners:  \n\n\n\n\nBlood Pressure checks with Chasing Health: Founded by Dr Omorogbe\, Chasing Health Inc. teaches underserved communities of color about high blood pressure by providing free blood pressure screenings\, health education\, and coaching at barber shops\, beauty salons\, non-profit organizations\, churches\, and schools locally and abroad.\n\n\n\nSNUG/Trinity Alliance: A play on the word gun\, it is now an acronym that stands for Should Never Use Guns.  Each of us brings their own special something or quality you could say.  Together we work to reduce gun violence by mediating conflicts. With those that are at the highest risk of shooting someone and being. And unfortunately\, we have lost some along the way. But this in-turn only makes us stronger.\n\n\n\nCEK RN: When you need someone to accompany you to your medical appointments or help you understand your treatment\, turn to CEK RN Consulting\, Inc. in Albany\, New York.  Our team is guided by Coretta E. Killikelly\, our founder. She is a doctoral prepared nurse and she has a Master of Science in Nursing\, specializing in Adult Health Education\, and with more than 19 years of experience in the areas of Geriatric\, Ambulatory care\, Management\, Case Management\, and Health Education.\n\n\n\nWellness Chats with JBA Concierge Medicine: JBA’s mission to provide personalized concierge healthcare services\, solutions\, and education via extensive experience\, relationship building\, and trust is one that brings us all one step closer toward realizing the benefits of health\, nutrition\, and wellness. \n\n\n\nCornell Cooperative Extension with Felisha Chandler: The mission of Cornell Cooperative Extension Of Rensselaer County  is to put experience and research knowledge to work through educational partnerships that improve residents’ lives and communities.\n\n\n\nProject SafePoint: Narcan kits being offered for the community\n\n\n\nEquality for Troy: Combating systemic injustices and racial inequity in The City of Troy\, NY and Rensselaer County\n\n\n\nColorectal screening kits donated by Soul Fire in the City\n\n\n\n\nIf you can\, please come early to help set up or stay late to help us take down tents and clean up!   \n\n\n\nWe will be hosting community needs surveys throughout the day and we hope to use these Healing Days as a way to connect with the ever growing network of healers\, providers\, and community members.  We aim to “re-member” an ideal of communal health to aid us in the times to come.  We look forward to “walking while questioning” with you all. 
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/september-healing-day-campus-wide-open-house/
LOCATION:NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Corn Workshops: Fermentation Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Let’s ferment food and ideas in preparation for StoryHarvest 2023. Travel with Amy Halloran and Ellie Markovitch through many different dishes\, from corn pones to puddings. This virtual workshop is part of the corn workshop series. \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nWe invite you to a series of remote and in person workshops to study and explore corn\, one of the few grains native to the Americas. This is a grain we question and love\, a food with deep cultural roots – not just of one culture\, but of many. Let’s appreciate these roots\, and shower this amazing food with love and wonder. We will discuss this staple food\, and our many histories of it\, and use it in a variety of ways\, including fermentation.  \n\n\n\nThe first two workshops are online\, and part of a series called Fermentation Fridays. These are hosted by Ellie Markovitch and Amy Halloran\, and we will be thinking about corn. In the first class we will make a beverage\, corn kvass or “Aluá de Milho.” The second class will consider how corn is such an adept and adapting traveling. We’ll make some of corn’s many shapes\, from corn pones to puddings. When we meet in person\, please bring your own corn stories and recipes. We will cook as a community and make a variety of cornbreads \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Halloran is a writer and change agent\, working to add social values and economic viability to farms and communities. The author of THE NEW BREAD BASKET\, her activism for specialty grains and changing emergency feeding programs share a common thread of restoring human values to the work of farming and the act of feeding each other. She is working on a history of herself\, bread\, and Troy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllie Markovitch is a Lecturer at the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism. Her work revolves around media and food literacy. Applying her passion for innovative and sustainable food practices\, she uses food as a starting point for conversations and community building. Her approach draws individuals into engaged visual storytelling that build experiences and engage communities. Born in Brazil\, Ellie spent childhood weekends at her grandparents’ small farm. “There was a story behind everything we did with our food – how it was grown\, harvested\, cooked\, and shared.” Follow her at storycooking.com and @elliemarkovitch
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/corn-workshops-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Collard City Growers Jam-Jam!
DESCRIPTION:Location: NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd floor \n\n\n\nThe Collard City Growers team has been harvesting and freezing fruit and berries all summer! We’ve got currants\, mulberries\, service berries\, gooseberries\, raspberries\, and grapes\, and now we’re ready to make jam. Join us at the People’s Health Sanctuary in the second floor of NATURE Lab to help us process and can this sweet summer goodness for enjoyment this winter.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/collard-city-growers-jam-jam/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T100000
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SUMMARY:Corn Workshops: Community Cooking with Corn
DESCRIPTION:Bring your corn stories\, your corn recipes and your thoughts about corn! Join Amy Halloran\, Azuré Keahi\, and Ellie Markovitch as they cook as a community and make a variety of cornbreads for our annual StoryHarvest later that afternoon. This workshop will take place in person in the kitchen at People’s Health Sanctuary\, which is located on the 2nd floor of NATURE Lab at 3319 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY 12180.   \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\nVolunteer Application\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Halloran is a writer and change agent\, working to add social values and economic viability to farms and communities. The author of The New Bread Basket\, her activism for specialty grains and changing emergency feeding programs share a common thread of restoring human values to the work of farming and the act of feeding each other. She is working on a history of herself\, bread\, and Troy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllie Markovitch is a Lecturer at the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism. Her work revolves around media and food literacy. Applying her passion for innovative and sustainable food practices\, she uses food as a starting point for conversations and community building. Her approach draws individuals into engaged visual storytelling that build experiences and engage communities. Born in Brazil\, Ellie spent childhood weekends at her grandparents’ small farm. “There was a story behind everything we did with our food – how it was grown\, harvested\, cooked\, and shared.” Follow her at storycooking.com and @elliemarkovitch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAzuré Keahi is a mixed race Kanaka ʻŌiwi mother\, grower\, writer\, creator and record keeper continuing the sacred legacy of her ancestors on Mohican soils of Upstate New York. Centering land-based healing\, she offers her values as an islander to post-industrial landscapes through poetry\, plants\, and play. 
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/corn-workshops-3/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:StoryHarvest with Stockbridge-Munsee Musician Bill Miller
DESCRIPTION:Join us for StoryHarvest–– a festival to celebrate the harvest with music\, food\, and community! Corn will be a source of food\, games\, crafts\, and jokes in this family-friendly celebration with three-time Grammy award winning musician Bill Miller of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans sharing music and stories on his ancestral homeland at Freedom Square.   \n\n\n\nActivities will include corn arts & crafts\, face painting\, and a bicycle-powered mill. Come and play corn hole\, eat corn\, and participate in the CORNy joke open mic. There will also be community resource tables\, tours to the Medicine Garden\, and listening sessions with Lisa Schonberg at her The Insects are Present listening performance.  \n\n\n\nThis is a rain or shine event! Rain location: The Sanctuary main space\, 3361 6th Avenue\, Troy\, 12180 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our key annual food justice celebrations is “StoryHarvest: From Seed to Table\,” encouraging diverse members of the community to celebrate and connect through music and stories of food. Initiated back in 2012 by food artist Ellie Markovitch\, we invite you to celebrate with us after a three-year hiatus! A KitchenSanctuary workshop ahead of the workshop with Ellie Markovitch\, Amy Halloran\, and Azuré Keahi will provide food for the festival and context around the importance of corn\, one of the few grains native to the Americas\, in Indigenous food and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill Miller is an award-winning Native American recording artist\, performer\, songwriter\, activist\, painter\, and world-class native flute player. Over the entirety\, Miller has produced over a dozen albums\, received three GRAMMY® Awards\, numerous Native American Music Awards & Association (NAMA) awards (including a “Lifetime Achievement” Award) and led Wisconsin’s La Crosse Symphony Orchestra. Overcoming the hardships felt by the global community in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic\, 2021 finds the living legend living life— stronger with a renewed focus on healing through song\, art\, and speaking — as he prepares to release a fresh EP. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town creative placemaking grant\, connecting Indigenous legacy to an urban nature walk on 6th Avenue. The Eco-Art Trail weaves a journey from Freedom Square on 101st St south to our newest community platform\, NATURE Lab (with Citizen Science Laboratory and People’s Health Sanctuary) and on our growing permaculture forest reaching south to Glen St. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail is dedicated to celebrating the sacred Mohican soils we are honored to tend. We are beneficiaries of millennia of human history unfolding in a majestic river valley\, where the land has been nurtured by Indigenous hands and traumatized through industrial development and systemic inequity.  Embedding art\, ancestral history\, culture and local and Indigenous artist presentations\, the trail engages our rich local ecology and the struggle for environmental justice\, while offering settler communities insight into the history and living legacy of Indigenous peoples on these lands. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail is located on a block-wide environmental campus in North Central Troy\, near the Northern tip of the Mahicannituck (Hudson) River Estuary—just a few hundred feet from Federal Lock One of the Erie Canal. Part of the river’s historic flood plain and home to significant Mohican cultural sites\, this neighborhood is also one of the poorest in New York State\, with a long history of disinvestment and environmental contamination. The Eco-Art Trail acknowledges these layered histories as we dream and build towards restored biocultural diversity and robust Indigenous futures. \n\n\n\nSubject to change\, last updated in June 2023: Check out our developing schedule of events ranging from summer ’23 through spring ’24.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/story-harvest-2023/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T173000
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SUMMARY:Herb & Tea Blending
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Due to rainy weather\, this event will take place in the 2nd floor of NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Avenue. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us in the garden! For this week’s Collard City Growers open hours\, our garden ambassador Sienna Thiem leads us in making our own herbal tea blends! Choose from a selection of dried herbs harvested from CCG and foraged locally by Sienna earlier this season\, or gather a bundle from herbs that are currently ready to harvest to DIY (Dry It Yourself). \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\nVolunteer Application
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/herb-tea-blending/
LOCATION:Collard City Growers\, 3337 6th Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
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