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SUMMARY:HMM Community Radio Day
DESCRIPTION:Community Radio Days are opportunities for folks to gather around the importance of community radio. Every month a different Hudson Mohawk Magazine producer leads a discussion or exercise\, and anyone is welcome to join. Topics range from how to create grassroots radio\, pursuing a story\, creating a community\, and amplifying lesser heard voices. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer producer or if you just want to be a part of community around the importance of civic journalism\, join us!  \n\n\n\nHMM Community Radio Days take place on the first Monday of each month (unless it’s a holiday)\, and we serve some light food and beverages. If you are interested in joining the discussion but are remote\, please email HMM@mediasanctuary.org in advance.  \n\n\n\nTimeline:4:00-4:30pm: arrive\, meet our producers\, get some food\, settle in4:30-6:00pm: group discussion (this takes place in our basement in the colder months. If stairs are an accessibility barrier\, please be in touch so we can prepare our accessible level)6:00-7:00pm: sit in on a live airing of HMM7:07-8:00pm: sit in on our weekly production meeting
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/hmm-community-radio-day-2025/2025-11-03/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Riverkeeper and NATURE Lab along with our community science volunteers\, fellows\, family and friends to celebrate the sixth season of Water Justice Lab. Activities include researcher and youth fellow presentations and a community meal followed by a 7pm film screening of The Story of Plastic and panel. \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n\n4:30 pm: Water Justice Lab open house and mural tours\n\n\n\n5:00 pm: Welcome and youth fellow presentations\n\n\n\n5:30 pm: Research talks by professor Sarah Cadieux and artist Nicole Chrochrek\n\n\n\n6:00 pm: Community meal and volunteer appreciation\n\n\n\n7:00 pm: screening of The Story of Plastic in the main Sanctuary space followed by a panel including artists\, community organizers\, activists and researchers. Register for the screening here.\n\n\n\n\n7pm: “The Story of Plastic” Screening and Panel Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Water Justice Lab programming is made possible by funding from Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust\, The McCarthy Charities\, Water Resources Institute\, and The NY Department of Environmental Conservation. \n\n\n\nKey partners for this event include Riverkeeper and Beyond Plastics.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/2025-wjl-celebration/
LOCATION:NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:"The Story of Plastic" Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration\, join us for a screening of the documentary “The Story of Plastic.” This sweeping look at the human-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on planetary and human health will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion organized by Professor Sarah Cadieux including artist Nicole Chochrek\, scholar Heather Davis\, and Beyond Plastics National Organizing Director Alexis Goldsmith\, and moderated by Water Justice Lab Youth Mentor Ileya du Boulay. This event is co-sponsored by Riverkeeper\, Beyond Plastics. and iEar Presents. \n\n\n\n4:30-7pm Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicole Chochrek holds an MFA from the University at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Science from the University of North Texas. As an interdisciplinary artist\, she has exhibited nationally and internationally\, from Al Shaheed Park in Kuwait (2016) to El Museo Gallery in Buffalo\, New York (2022). She created Broken Plastics\, an arts and education initiative that has launched Microplastic Recycling Art Bins across New York state and beyond. Photo by Pat Cray. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Davis is associate professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College\, The New School. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in environmental humanities\, media studies\, and visual culture\, she is interested in how fossil fuels have shaped contemporary culture. Her most recent book\, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press\, 2022)\, explores the transformation of geology\, media\, and bodies in light of plastic’s saturation. Davis is an active member of the Synthetic Collective\, an interdisciplinary team of scientists\, humanities scholars\, and artists\, who investigate and make visible plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIleya Du Boulay served as the 2025 Water Justice Lab youth mentor. A 2025 graduate of RPI with a Bachelors of Science in Biology and Arts Minor in Video\, Performance\, and Social Practice\, Ileya is a passionate researcher\, ecologist\, artist\, and multidisciplinary creator. She centers her work in using healing as a modality within scientific discovery. They are a proponent in advancing scientific discovery while maintaining awareness of developing alternative methods that slow down or stop our planet’s degradation.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexis Goldsmith is the National Organizing Director for Beyond Plastics\, a nonprofit focused on ending plastic pollution. An energetic grassroots organizer\, she previously worked at the Sanctuary\, coordinating the permaculture campus and the Hudson Mohawk Magazine radio program. She has produced hundreds of interviews\, largely on petrochemicals and environmental activism. She co-founded the Hudson Mohawk Environmental Action Network\, a grassroots consortium fighting for environmental justice and Indigenous rights along the Hudson River.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Sarah Cadieux is an Earth and Environmental Sciences professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding biogeochemical cycling within freshwater systems by combining limnology\, aquatic chemistry\, isotope biogeochemistry\, sedimentology and geomicrobiology. She is researching microplastics contamination in local surface water and drinking water\, including through her Microplastics Watch project at NATURE Lab.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-story-of-plastic-screening-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:A Big Gay Market
DESCRIPTION:A Big Gay Market is a designated intentional and affirmative space for LGBTQI+ individuals and their allies\, especially for those in our community that have intersecting marginalized identities\, to join together in queer and trans joy for a cause! This market features 30 vendors and participatory LIVE community quilt making provided by our beneficiary\, Project Linus.  \n\n\n\nThis is an INDOOR market which will have a mask-only hour and free KN-95 masks available for all attendees\, from 11AM – 12PM.This market’s beneficiary is Project Linus’s Albany & Rensselaer Counties Chapter. Their mission is to provide love\, a sense of security\, warmth\, and comfort to children who are seriously ill\, traumatized\, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new handmade blankets and afghans\, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.” \n\n\n\nSee Facebook event
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/a-big-gay-market/
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SUMMARY:Volunteer Orientation Day
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a meaningful way to stay involved with the Sanctuary at your own pace? Join us every third Wednesday from 5–7PM for our monthly volunteer day. RSVP by sending an email to Alivija@mediasanctuary.org \n\n\n\nWe’ll start with light refreshments and a tour (plus a little campus clean up) and get an in-depth introduction to a volunteer role that interests you – whether it’s helping in the garden\, setting up events\, cleaning shared spaces\, or spreading the word about our work! \n\n\n\nEach month has a different role focus\, so come find what fits you best! No experience needed – just bring your curiosity and commitment to building a stronger community together. Meet at the main space 3361 6th Ave. \n\n\n\nNovember’s Volunteer Orientation will be around being a Sanctuary Social Butterfly! Come help us make signs of varying types– materials will be supplied. Being a part of our events has the perk of attending events for free. \n\n\n\nVolunteer Role Training Descriptions:\n\n\n\nSanctuary Scene Setter (event set up/breakdown): Help set up for concerts\, film screenings\, workshops\, and other events by placing tables\, chairs\, beverages/food or getting behind the camera to help document the event! Frequency: One day/ Occasional  \n\n\n\nSanctuary Sweeper (cleaning): Help us keep our spaces clean and safe by cleaning indoor spaces and/or doing a street sweep!Frequency: Drop in style\, Occasional  \n\n\n\nSanctuary Social Butterfly (outreach): Help share our message\, increase visibility of our work for more connections\, funding\, and attendance at our events Frequency: drop in\, prescheduled leading up to events \n\n\n\nCollard City Growers Garden: help tend to our garden by watering\, weeding\, and harvesting for and with our neighbors!Frequency: Occasional\, weekly
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/volunteer-orientation-day-4/
CATEGORIES:Open House
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SUMMARY:White Pine Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Lead by Raei Bridges and Azuré Keahi\n\n\n\nJoin Raei Bridges and Azuré Keahi for an exploration of white pine. Participants will learn to make small containers out of white pine bark while learning about other medicinal aspects of this Vitamin C-rich tree. This event will run alongside The People’s Health Sanctuary November Healing Day at the Sanctuary’s main space.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhite Pine Therapy is one part of a workshop series called Strands of Regeneration. Started by artists Ellie Irons and Azuré Keahi\, Strands of Regeneration is an eco-socially engaged project rooted in participatory art and creative practice centered on reciprocity\, building connections between humans\, the land and more-than-human life. Hosted on the Sanctuary’s inner city Eco Art Trail\, these workshops offer an opportunity to learn from local artists and makers whose creative practices are intertwined with care for land. Together\, we will weave plant fibers and other strands into art and objects from natural materials as an act of care and reverence for earth\, celebrating how this cycle of care supports our movements. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator Bio:  \n\n\n\nRaei Bridges (they/them) is the founder of Black&Wild\, an organization dedicated to creating transformative experiences in nature. At the helm\, Raei orchestrates mindful wilderness trips and ancestral skills campouts specifically tailored for Black\, Indigenous\, & People of Color in the Northeast. Their work at Black&Wild is intended to support folks of the global majority to rekindle their wild animal self\, take more time to play\, and find their own personal pathway to attunement with the natural world. Raei’s work de-centers heady intelligence and seeks to uplift intuitive ways of knowing and being in kinship with the natural world. Black&Wild creates space to rest\, recenter\, and remember our wildness.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStrands of Regeneration is supported by the Arts Center of the Capital Region’s Arts Thrive Grow grant program. Arts Thrive and Grow has been funded by New York State\, Kathy Hochul\, Governor. We thank Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins for her extraordinary commitment and leadership\, and our elected officials who represent our grantmaking region: Senators Jake Ashby and Neil D. Breslin; Assemblymembers Scott H. Bendett\, Patricia Fahy\, John T. McDonald III\, Angelo Santabarbara\, Phil Steck\, and Mary Beth Walsh.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/white-pine-therapy/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:PHS Healing Day
DESCRIPTION:For the remainder of the year\, People’s Health Sanctuary will host monthly Healing Days at the Sanctuary main space\, offering community acupuncture\, herbal remedies from the Community Apothecary\, a nourishing one pot meal\, and a place to connect. All offerings will be donation based/sliding scale\, so pay whatever you can— and bring a friend! PHS will be continually donating 50% of all donations to CRSC. The November 21 Healing Day will also include the Strands of Regeneration workshop White Pine Therapy. \n\n\n\nMonthly\, 4-7 pm; dates include 10/17\, 11/21\, and 12/19.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/phs-healing-day-2/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:open hours
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