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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: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100313T070000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100302T190000
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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:"Day Night Day Night" with Filmmaker Julia Loktev
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Julia Loktev presents her feature film\, Day Night Day Night (2006)\, the story of a 19-year old preparing to become a suicide bomber in TImes Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent\, and it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never see the bomb; we only see the backpack and headphones that disguise the detonator. Inspired in part by a Russian newspaper story about a Chechen in Moscow\, the film could take place anywhere.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. \n\n\n\nThe 19-year-old\, known only as She\, is a Tabla Rosa\, with no discernible accent\, ethnicity or family history. She is extremely vulnerable\, alone\, except for the men in masks who take her through the motions of preparation for her mission. The viewer never learns why she has made her momentous decision\, we just know it’s been made. We are also left in the dark as to who She represents or what She believes in: we only know she believes it absolutely. The film strips the story down to its existential core\, focusing on microscopic movements\, the smallest of gestures\, an economy of banal details. \n\n\n\nDay Night Day Night is divided into two visually and aurally distinct parts: Preparation and Action. In the first part\, the film faithfully follows the chronological order of events over the span of day to night as She prepares to execute her mission. She washes her socks\, is dressed and fitted into the backpack\, waits. Then the action begins: she’s in Times Square\, alone. The film now becomes a series of trials\, missteps and setbacks. \n\n\n\nThe film has no music and a minimal\, at times improvised\, script. Director Loktev draws out a powerful and emotional performance from untrained\, first-time actress Luisa Williams in the lead role. Loktev also uses an extraordinary sound design track to cleverly build the tension and suspense\, making the experience all too real. \n\n\n\nIt happens to take place in Times Square\, a target whose symbolism is so specific that it becomes generalized; a target so simple because it’s so obvious. Playing off a history of Joan of Arc films\, the movie transpires mainly on the young woman’s face. The minimalism of her expressions is contrasted by the visual and aural noise of New York City as faith comes face-to-face with the possibility of failure. \n\n\n\nAbout the Director\n\n\n\nAt the age of nine\, Julia Loktev emigrated to the United States with her family from St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and currently lives in New York City. \n\n\n\nAs her graduate thesis film from NYU\, Loktev directed the intimate but unsentimental 1998 documentary Moment of Impact\, about the aftermath of a car accident that left her own father severely brain-damaged and bedridden. Shot and edited without a crew\, the film won numerous awards\, including The Directing Audience Award at Sundance\, and the Grand Prize at both Cinema du Reel and the Munich International Documentary Festival. \n\n\n\nLoktev also creates multiple-screen video installations in a museum/gallery context\, and has shown work at the Tate Modern in London\, P.S.1 in New York\, Haus der Kunst in Munich\, Bienal de Valencia\, and Mito Art Tower in Japan. \n\n\n\nWhen asked to talk about her inspiration for Day Night Day Night\, Loktev responded: “It started with an article I read in a Russian newspaper about a girl walking down a main street in Moscow with a bomb in her bag. What really drew me to the story was the elephant in the living room\, the ending. We can’t talk about that. But I can say that it definitely doesn’t turn out how you expect it to. But also I had been walking the same street as this girl was about a week before\, in Moscow\, like tourist with a backpack\, not knowing where I was going and I thought up until you have the explosion from the outside it really looks like the same thing\, two girls walking around disoriented. What fascinated me was that under the surface something completely different was going on and I thought is there a way to make a film that gets out what is happening under this girl’s skin that isn’t about how something looks from the outside but feels from the inside.” \n\n\n\nOn her research for the film\, Loktev told ioncinema.com: “I’ve read more about suicide bombers than any sane person really should…in Russian newspapers\, American and Israeli newspapers… there are interviews available with people who set out to be suicide bombers and for one reason or another didn’t go through with it\, either the thing didn’t work out or they backed out…these interviews are fascinating because often people reveal the most banal details that are part of this story. \n\n\n\nFor instance\, there was one girl who backed out because she felt ‘she was doing it maybe because my boyfriend broke up with me and when I get to heaven god is going to know I came for something that wasn’t a pure reason.’  And so something like that I would work into the story. Not in a direct way\, but with little pieces: girls who would talk about the clothing they wore for the mission because there’s always this part of dress up when they are transformed\, first to look one way for the video\, where they present this image of militancy\, to hold a gun\, to wear a military jacket before the mission and there’s this second part of the dress up which is the way they are dressed up for the mission itself\, to blend in. \n\n\n\nSo in the film they take this very conservative looking girl..this almost clinical but very true scene where these guys select clothes for her to wear to blend in with the other girls in Times Square. No matter how giant the overall task\, extreme events are made up of the most daily details. And that’s usually what people remember after the fact. I was struck by when you hear about people talking about 9/11 and some woman who remembered losing her shoe while she was running\, and for her it will always be associated with that shoe she lost in the street. \n\n\n\nOne Chechen girl in Moscow blew up a truck bomb by running it into a convoy\, but before she did\, she stopped and bought some bananas\,” explains Loktev. “I thought\, it’s not about the truck bomb\, it’s the bananas.” Or the pretzel. In Day Night Day Night\, actress Luisa Williams stands in front of the Duane Reade on 42nd Street\, eating one. With mustard.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/day-night-day-night-with-filmmaker-julia-loktev/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091218T210000
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SUMMARY:Reverend Billy and The Church of Life After Shopping
DESCRIPTION:The rumors are true. Join us on Friday night\, December 18\, for a Shopocalyptic Revival. The Rev\, the choir and members of the Not Buying It band promises our old church a performance we will not forget. Confess your shopping sins! Cast out the demons of overconsumption! Go beyond the market to a life after shopping! Strangalleiuah\, children!  \n\n\n\nThe Rev says: “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit. Blessed are the jobless who force us to change the economy. Blessed are the homeless who unlock empty buildings. Blessed are the evicted who resist with their children watching! Blessed are the broke who re-introduce the what-can-I-do-for-no-money? Blessed are the recycled gifts and home-made art and swap-o-ramas and farmer’s markets. Blessed is the local Christmas. Local-ujah! On this tour there is no room in the inn. We are not paid much – but our hosts have a lot to share. We’re forced out into public space\, nuzzled by cows and sheep with angels over-head! Out into the commons\, out into the new funky Garden of Eden. We’re starting over!”
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/reverend-billy-and-the-church-of-life-after-shopping/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091212T220000
DTSTAMP:20230705T190039Z
CREATED:20091212T220700Z
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SUMMARY:Live From Lock One: The Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singes Presents a Capital Region Gospel Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join the live studio audience as we recede an evening of performances by some of the Capital Region’s top gospel talents\, hosted by the Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singers! Legendary Capital Region performers the Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singers will be joined by the men’s chorus of Schenectady’s Duryee AME Zion Church and the men’s chorus of Lansingburgh’s Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church for a special edition of “Live From Lock One” on Saturday\, December 12\, 2009 at 8 PM\, part of an ongoing concert recording series at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.  \n\n\n\nThe show will be emceed by Don Wilcox\, music writer for the Troy Record and editor of the Blues Wax and Folk Wax on-line magazines.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/live-from-lock-one-the-heavenly-echoes-gospel-singes-presents-a-capital-region-gospel-showcase/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091206T170000
DTSTAMP:20230705T185853Z
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop: Using the Web for Video Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Your videos can be used to build and strengthen communities; learn how to take your finished work and strategically distribute it on the Internet! We will post videos from Community Digital Storytelling Lab to the internet\, demonstrating technical process and illustrating audience targets and social networking. If you have a video to post on-line\, or are thinking about making one\, this workshop is for you!  \n\n\n\nAs part of the “Be The Media” digital storytelling workshop\, a group of young Iraqi women refugees living in Albany worked with producers at The Sanctuary for Independent Media to tell their stories in “Dear Mr. X” — Community Responses to War Digital Storytelling Project\, #1.  \n\n\n\nProduced by Tethkar Ahmad\, Wied Jassim\, Shahad Jassim\, Mais Salih\, and Hiba Haitham Alsaffar\, with support from the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange\, Iraqi Families Project\, and Branda Miller.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-using-the-web-for-video-distribution/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091205T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T185717Z
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SUMMARY:"Captured" Documentary Screening
DESCRIPTION:Captured is a documentary by Dan Levin. Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side\, a neighborhood famed for art\, music and revolutionary minds. “Little brother is watching big brother”–traversing the outside edge\, he’s recorded a dark and colorful society\, from drag to hardcore\, heroin\, homelessness\, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.  \n\n\n\nThe event was originally scheduled to include filmmaker Dan Levin who was unable to attend the screening and participate in a Q&A.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/captured-documentary-screening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T185446Z
CREATED:20091121T223500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T185446Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091114T210000
DTSTAMP:20220415T190445Z
CREATED:20220217T224805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T190445Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091111T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091111T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T184643Z
CREATED:20091111T225500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T184643Z
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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:20091107T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091107T220000
DTSTAMP:20230705T184001Z
CREATED:20091107T233000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T184001Z
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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:20091107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091107T220000
DTSTAMP:20230705T183547Z
CREATED:20091107T231100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T183547Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091030T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T183331Z
CREATED:20091030T152400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T183331Z
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SUMMARY:Front Lines: Words of Choice
DESCRIPTION:Join us in this creative event for reproductive rights! The evening will include an excerpted reading from the newly published and acclaimed book Front Lines: Book of Plays\, a discussion with editor Alexis Greene\, as well as a creativity workshop around reproductive rights issues led by Words of Choice creator Cindy Cooper. \n\n\n\nThe New Press has just released Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women\, edited by Alexis Greene and Shirley Lauro. From the country’s leading female playwrights\, seven brilliant plays on the hot-button issues of our time. Words of Choice — in its original version — is among the seven contemporary plays from the country’s leading female playwrights on “hot-button issues” of our time. \n\n\n\nThe New Press writes: Front Lines is a pathbreaking collection of the most important\, critically acclaimed plays written by the country’s leading con-temporary female playwrights. In the preface\, Shirley Lauro writes: Ever since this country came into being\, women have waged battles for rights in the pages of their plays\, and on the stages where those plays were performed. \n\n\n\nThe Library Journal writes: Plays tell stories\, and the best ones stay with us. Compiled by theater critic Greene (Women Who Write Plays) and playwright Lauro (Open Admissions)\, the stories in this collection of critically acclaimed works by seven leading female playwrights address some of the most contentious of contemporary issues\, and they will stick in readers’ minds for a long time. Cindy Cooper’s Words of Choice looks at the issue of reproductive choice in first-person accounts\, poems\, and satire. In Elliot\, A Soldier’s Fugue\, Quiara Alegría Hudes deftly interweaves the tales of three gener-ations of Latino men who served in Korea\, Vietnam\, and Iraq. The Exonerated\, by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen\, is based on interviews with men and women on death row for crimes they did not commit. Also included are plays by Paula Vogel\, Emily Mann\, Lauro\, and Nilaja Sun. Recommended for all academic and public drama collections. \n\n\n\nWriting in the introduction\, Alexis Greene describes Words of Choice:\n\n\n\nWords of Choice\, a compilation of first-person accounts\, satiric sketches\, and poems\, illuminates the many angles from which Americans approach the issues of reproductive choice\, especially the choice of whether or not to have an abortion. Among other things\, the play is intended as a warning about the consequences of reversing the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade\, which made abortion legal in the United States. A father describes how his daughter was assaulted and raped one Fourth-of-July evening\, as she walked home through Washington\, D.C. [originally from a book of interviews by Angela Bonavoglia.] There is an excerpt from entertainer Kathy Najimy’s stand-up comedy show Parallel Lives and a sprightly riff about an imaginary “morning-after burrito” from Taco Bell [originally from The Onion.] There is also nurse Emily Lyons’s account of being blown nearly apart by a bomb\, which antiabortionist Eric Rudolph exploded at a Birmingham\, Alabama\, women’s clinic in 1998. “I’ve been to war\,” Lyons says. “I’ve gone to hell\, and I’ve come back.” Greene begins her comments by saying\, “Playwrights have a responsibility to address the social and political issues of their time\,” and concludes with noting that the underlying political issue of all of the plays in the volume is the drive to preserve an individual’s freedom.” \n\n\n\nMore about Cindy Cooper: Cindy Cooper is an award-winning playwright and journalist in New York City. Her plays have been produced in New York\, regional theaters\, Canada and parts of Europe\, including at the Women’s Project\, Primary Stages\, Art and Work Ensemble\, the Women’s Project in Minneapolis\, Venus Theater\, and elsewhere. Among her works is How She Played the Game about six women in sports history. A member of the Dramatists’ Guild\, her plays are contained in eleven volumes\, including ‘Great Monologues for Women’ and ‘On The Edge.’ With a background as a lawyer\, she was communications director in the field of reproductive justice\, she first created ‘Words of Choice’ in 2000. Read a commentary by Cindy here: On the Road with Choice. \n\n\n\nThe following is a poem\, created by the audience during the Words of Choice event:\n\n\n\nSanctuary for Independent Media\, Troy NYPoem by Audience:Reproductive Freedom \n\n\n\nMY BODY. \n\n\n\nThe right of any person to choose whether or not to parent.Freedom for MY BODY\, my mind\, my spirit…for my own choice.The ability to decide when\, where and why.Rights to one’s own mind\, spirit\, life & livelihood! \n\n\n\nMY BODY. \n\n\n\nThe ability to make decisions on what birth control to use\, to enjoy MYSELF with the same consequences a man would have. \n\n\n\nFreedom to learn\, understand and exercise the right to decide when and whether to be a parent\, and to access quality care\, regardless of MY choices. \n\n\n\nMY BODY. \n\n\n\nThe freedom to choose how I love myself in the present & future; the freedom to choose the legacy I have.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/front-lines-words-of-choice/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Speaker,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091025T170000
DTSTAMP:20220708T150359Z
CREATED:20091025T160200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220708T150359Z
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop with Devorah Hill: Community Digital Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:This two-part workshop with facilitator Devorah Hill\, is aimed at organizations and citizens from the regional community\, to get their stories heard! Let us help you turn photos and narration into a video to promote your group and the work you do. Use digital storytelling as a tool for community engagement and empowerment by exploring mixed media storytelling techniques! Combine written and recorded narration\, music and still images\, to effectively communicate a compelling vision of yourself and/or your organization. We’re looking for diverse community groups\, organizations and individuals to share their stories.  \n\n\n\nThis first session lays groundwork for the finished product. Workshop Part 1: Script and Pre-production; Workshop Part Two: Post Production Work in Lab is a four hour session (by appointment between October 26th and December 5th\, 2009) with a Be The Media! artist educators or Media Alliance Staff member (Andrew Lynn\, Brenda Ann Kenneally\, Vickie Kereszi\, Branda Miller\, Bhawin Suchak\, Jamie Kay\, Chris Gang\, Nicole Belanger\, Chris Gang\, Jill Malouf\, and Steve Pierce).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-devorah-hill-community-digital-storytelling/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091022T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T182524Z
CREATED:20091022T161800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T182524Z
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SUMMARY:"Orgasmic Birth" Screening and Panel Discussion with Birthnet
DESCRIPTION:In Orgasmic Birth (2009) director Debra Pascali-Bonaro shares what she calls the “best-kept secret” as we witness women in the ecstatic release of childbirth\, challenging educating cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional\, spiritual\, and physical heights attainable through birth.  \n\n\n\nA panel discussion with follow the screening\, organized by Birthnet. \n\n\n\nMore about BirthNet\n\n\n\nFounded in 2000\, BirthNet is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about maternity care in order to improve it. \n\n\n\nBirthNet’s goal is to encourage all women and families to learn about their rights and options during the childbearing year. Birth options\, such as where\, with whom\, and how to give birth\, are reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nWe work to improve maternity care for women of all ages\, ethnic backgrounds\, races\, religions\, abilities\, sexual orientations\, and socio-economic circumstances. \n\n\n\nBirthNet coordinates programs with our Speakers Bureau. Our primary programs include: \n\n\n\n\neducation in the classroom (middle school through college)\n\n\n\ncommunity forums or workshops\n\n\n\nmedia outreach\n\n\n\ngathering and distributing information about maternity care\n\n\n\nnetworking with professionals and policy makers\n\n\n\n\nBirthNet has endorsed the evidence-based Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative\, developed by the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. BirthNet also supports the Midwives Model of Care.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/orgasmic-birth-screening-and-panel-discussion-with-birthnet/
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091017T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T182140Z
CREATED:20091018T171500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T182140Z
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SUMMARY:"Workers' Republic" with Filmmaker Andrew Freund
DESCRIPTION:Workers’ Republic (2009) is a story of the courage\, resolve\, creativity\, and solidarity of the workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago\, who stood up for their rights after being thrown out of work three weeks before Christmas 2008.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace and the Troy Area Labor Council. \n\n\n\nWorkers’ Republic(Filmmaker: Andrew Freund\, 2009\, 62 min)“When the economy fell\, they stood up.” \n\n\n\nThree weeks before Christmas 2008\, in the depths of the economic crisis\, Chicago company Republic Windows and Doors told their workforce that the factory was closing shop. Republic executives complained about dwindling sales due to the crash of the housing market. Three days later\, when the Republic employees came in to pick up their final paychecks\, they were informed that they would not be paid for their final week or receive their accrued vacation pay. Their insurance benefits were cut immediately\, and they were denied the 60-day severance guaranteed under the federal WARN Act. \n\n\n\nWhat those workers did next reverberated across the country\, reminding the working class it possesses a power long forgotten. They occupied the doomed factory 24-hours a day for six days\, declaring they would not leave until they were given what their employer owed them. \n\n\n\nWorkers’ Republic conveys the courage\, the resolve\, the creativity\, and the solidarity of those window-builders who vowed to stand up for their rights. From the opening moments to the final settlement and culminating in the surprise fate of the Chicago factory\, the film commits one of American society’s most grievous sins: speaking in favor of radical action as a solution to exploitation. \n\n\n\nFilmmaker and union steward Andrew Freund has assembled the accounts of several of the main fighters in the Republic struggle\, including front line workers\, the organizers of their tiny union United Electrical\, Radio\, & Machine Workers\, and a few of the thousands of everyday people that supported them through small acts of solidarity. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nFilmmaker Andrew Freund is an Emmy-nominated videographer whose work has appeared on PBS and Chicago television stations. He worked on the upcoming documentary film\, Immigrant Nation. Freund has produced several half-hour episodes for the non-profit\, pro-union TV show Labor Beat\, and serves as chairman of its board. He resides in Chicago and is an activist against war and domestic violence\, and uses his video skills to campaign for workers’ rights. He is an IBEW steward. His new film\, Workers’ Republic\, documents the December 2008 factory occupation of Republic Windows and Doors by its laid-off employees.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/workers-republic-with-filmmaker-andrew-freund/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091017T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091018T235959
DTSTAMP:20230705T182307Z
CREATED:20091017T164000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T182307Z
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SUMMARY:Community Media Quilt Project
DESCRIPTION:Share in a collective celebration of the history of grassroots communication with this quilt-making workshop\, to be held October 17th and 18th 2009. Bring your community media t-shirts\, and we will add them to our quilt. Whether you are an experienced quilter and/or sewer\, or someone whose always wanted to participate\, join us! The final quilt will be auctioned in the Spring ’10 season as part of our upcoming 5th Anniversary Celebration.  \n\n\n\nLynn Miller\, San Francisco quilter\, and Simone Steigler Sleeper\, our Youth Leader quilter\, will help with this workshop. We actually have in our donation box a few of these t-shirts to make in our quilt– Prometheus Radio’s great flame\, and Pacifica Radio’s “Feel the Love.” Please check out your old community media t-shirts and add to our SANCTUARY QUILT!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-media-quilt-project/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091006T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091006T210000
DTSTAMP:20230705T181616Z
CREATED:20091006T181100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T181616Z
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SUMMARY:Theatrical Sneak Premiere of "The Yes Men Fix the World" with Filmmaker Mike Bonanno
DESCRIPTION:The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who\, armed with nothing but thrift-store suits\, pose as top executives of giant corporations\, lie their way into big business conferences\, and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks\, parodying their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways.  \n\n\n\nFrom New Orleans to India to New York City\, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed. Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun? Don’t miss this North American theatrical premiere\, presented by Yes Man Mike Bananno.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/theatrical-sneak-premiere-of-the-yes-men-fix-the-world-with-filmmaker-mike-bonanno/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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