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SUMMARY:State of Science with CapSci!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel on science activism and advocacy in the Capital Region with public officials\, scientists\, and activists focusing on how we\, as concerned citizens\, can get involved most effectively. The event\, which replaces this year’s March for Science\, is produced by CapSci. This informal panel will be followed by a Q&A with some prepared questions. Then we will open it up to Q&A: we are open to some lively discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMORE ABOUT CapSci:This CapSci event is a “Fact Finding Mission”.  Since our group has organized the March for Science\, and since there is no National March\, we were asked by the National organization to plan a “Day of Science Activism” instead.  We asked ourselves\, “what does that actually look like?  Is it letter writing\, some other form of protest? What would make a Day of Science Activism look different than an Earth Day event?  What are the best ways for individuals to have an influence and be able to speak about Science in a relevant manner?” \n\n\n\nCapSci aims to advance the public understanding of science in the New York Capital Region. Our mission is to foster interactions between scientists and nonscientists\, to promote science-based public policy and scientifically literate policy makers\, and to nurture diversity within the scientific community. We hold monthly Science lectures in area bars\, Science communication workshops using Improv techniques\, Science-themed poetry nights and theater performances\, and youth STEM outreach activities. Please join us to get involved!  PANELISTS FOR CapSci:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCara Ocobock is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany  \n\n\n\nProfessor Ocobock’s research focuses on how humans physiologically and behaviorally acclimatize and adapt to extremes of physical activity and environment. She recently started a field site in northern Finland working with reindeer herders to better understand modern human adaptations to cold climates and the physical work of herding reindeer. She is the co-founder of CapSci—a non-profit organization that focuses on science outreach and education in the New York Capital Region. In her spare time\, she an avid powerlifter. \n\n\n\nBobbi Wilding- Deputy Director\, Clean and Healthy NY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBobbi Wilding\, MS\, Deputy Director of Clean and Healthy NY\, has two decades of experience as an environmental health advocate. She directs the national Getting Ready for Baby coalition and CHNY’s Reducing Toxics in Child Care Program. Bobbi is an author and co-author of numerous reports and guides\, including most recently the Getting Ready for Baby campaign’s Safe Baby Products Guide. Her past writing includes Selling Safer Products\, about retailers to the child care community\, The Mattress Matters: Protecting Babies and Toddlers While They Sleep; Flame Retardants Finally Fade\, No Silver Lining\, Hazardous Chemicals in Health Care\, and numerous other reports. \n\n\n\nShe has trained hundreds of child care providers to avoid chemicals of concern\, and organized the NYS Healthy Economy and Environment conference of 2011. She is a NYS Pollution Prevention Institute Advisory Board member\, and serves on the Governance\, Outreach and Recruitment\, and Data Collection workgroups of the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse. She has co-led the Coming Clean coalition’s Emerging Technologies and Fenceline Action Workgroups\, and served as the coalitions’ BPA Coordinator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaty Dunn – District Office Congressional Aide for Paul Tonko \n\n\n\nKaty Dunn is the Field Representative for the Office of Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20). Katy is responsible for staffing\, briefing\, and attending all meetings and events with Congressman Tonko when he is in the district. She is also responsible for meeting with groups\, organizations\, and individuals on the Congressman’s behalf in addition to performing constituent outreach out of the Albany District Office. She has helped plan and execute multiple district-related outreach events\, including the office’s monthly Mobile Office Hours program. She is passionate about advocacy\, public service\, and social justice. \n\n\n\nPrior to her current position\, Katy worked primarily on various state\, local\, and federal political campaigns. Katy received her B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Public Law from the University at Albany\, SUNY. Outside of the office\, Katy enjoys spending time outside and exploring all the Capital Region has to offer. \n\n\n\nCongressman Paul Tonko represents New York’s 20th Congressional District\, including the communities of Albany\, Schenectady\, Troy\, Saratoga Springs and Amsterdam. He represents all of Albany and Schenectady Counties and parts of Montgomery\, Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties. He is serving his sixth term\, after first being sworn into Congress in 2009. \n\n\n\nPaul serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee\, the oldest standing committee in the House\, created in December of 1795. He is the first Upstate New York Democratic member to serve on the committee since Leo O’Brien\, who resigned the post in October 1966. He was elected by his peers in the 116th Congress to chair the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. He was also selected to continue his service on the Science\, Space and Technology Committee\, as well as on the Natural Resources Committee. \n\n\n\nHe has previously served on the Education and Labor Committee and the Budget Committee. \n\n\n\nDr. Abby Kinchy- Associate Professor of Science and Technology\, RPI \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbby Kinchy studies how social movements\, such as the alternative agriculture movement and anti-fracking activists\, resist and shape the development of controversial technologies. Her forthcoming book\, Science by the People (Rutgers\, Sept. 2019)\, explores how citizen science—research by people who are not professional scientists—can advance goals of environmental justice and social transformation. She is also the author of Seeds\, Science\, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops(MIT Press\, 2012). Kinchy completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is currently an associate professor in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Emilly Obuya\, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry\, Sage Colleges \n\n\n\nDr. Obuya is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at The Sage Colleges in Troy\, NY. She graduated with a BSc. in Chemistry from Kenyatta University (Kenya) and obtained her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from The State University of New York in Binghamton. Emilly has worked on nanotechnological solutions for environmental remediation that includes removal or organic dyes from water systems. Her current research interest are to develop solar disinfection (SODIS) as a reliable water treatment technology for residents of Obunga slums in Kisumu\, Kenya. Emilly is passionate about citizen science and has speared-headed a number of initiatives geared towards the youth in Troy\, including the “GO GREEN” summer institute at the Troy Boys and Girls Club and The Troy YMCA Teen Mentor program.  Meghan Marohn- Green Sanctuary Committee of the Albany Unitarians and Extinction Rebellion \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeghan Marohn is an artist\, environmentalist\, and educator. She’s the founder of a community art project\, the Troy Poem Project\, and has been a high school English teacher and an adjunct professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Recently\, she’s been working with the students of the ALP School 12 in Troy\, Troy Prep\, Lansingburgh Middle School and Shaker High to create youth segments for WOOC. Her favorite moments of teaching\, radio\, and the poem project have been those in which people young and old share the vulnerable parts of themselves and are received in kindness\, joy\, and connection. She’s now working to build shared storytelling communities as a board member and education consultant for A Little Creative Class\, Inc.\, a nonprofit that seeks to strengthen youth in the most economically and socially vulnerable parts of New York State. \n\n\n\nTrained as a Climate Reality Leader in Denver in March of 2017\, Meghan has also presented on the climate crisis at various religious and academic institutions in New York and New Jersey. Through the Climate Reality Project and Uptown Summer at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, she has worked with young people to develop their creative expression of environmental changes in the Anthropocene. She heads the Green Sanctuary Committee of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany\, and since this past winter\, she has joined up with activists worldwide to support the mission of Extinction Rebellion\, a movement of nonviolent direct action addressing the imminence of anthropogenic climate change. \n\n\n\nHer personal work includes poetry and stories focused on the internal lives of everyday people\, particularly women\, as they navigate power structures in late capitalism and search for portals to spiritual freedom.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/state-of-science-sos/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190413T150000
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop: Sticky Situation- The Magic of Grafting and More
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we dig up root stock\, transplant saplings\, and make new trees with some old school genetic engineering.  \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab [North Troy Art Technology and Urban Research in Ecology] is the Sanctuary’s resident ecological education program. NATURE Lab promotes sustainability\, and urban research in ecology using art\, technology and science. Programming is open to novices and experts alike. We are currently in development of the NATURE Lab Urban Environmental Center\, a resource for community science.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-sticky-situation-the-magic-of-grafting-and-more/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T203000
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SUMMARY:Hope in Charm City / Collar City
DESCRIPTION:In memory of youth victims of violence\, a screening of “Charm City” with cinematographer Andre Lambertson\, followed by an informational discussion and candlelight vigil which will be held in memory of local youth victims. Please join us for an informational discussion about unreported crime and under-served youth victims for youth community conducted by various speakers. This event is part of National Crime Victims’ Week. Youth participants will receive NCVRW themed t-shirt. \n\n\n\nThis event begins with a community meal and victim resource info tables from 5:00 – 6:00\, an introduction to the screening at 6:00.  Following the film\,  a panel of Lisa Good\, Urban Grief\, Andres Lambertson\, Charm City\, and Messiah Cooper\, Justice for Dahmeek\, will discuss the issues and lead the audience in a discussion. The evening will end with a vigil for youth victims. \n\n\n\nCHARM CITY delivers a candid portrait of citizens\, police\, community advocates\, and government officials on the frontlines during three years of unparalleled\, escalating violence in Baltimore. The film highlights the positive actions undertaken by groups and individuals\, optimistically offering  humanity as common ground. \n\n\n\nOn the streets of Baltimore\, shooting is rampant\, the murder rate is approaching an all-time high and the distrust of the police is at a fever pitch. With nerves frayed and neighborhoods in distress\, dedicated community leaders\, compassionate law-enforcement officers and a progressive young city councilman try to stem the epidemic of violence. Filmed over three tumultuous years covering the lead up to\, and aftermath of\, Freddie Gray’s death in police custody\, CHARM CITY is an intimate cinema verité portrait of those surviving in\, and fighting for\, the vibrant city they call home.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/hope-in-charm-city-collar-city/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190409T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190409T200000
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop with Ecovative: Mushroom Day
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to grow materials compatible to the earth\, and reduce the amount of plastic\, with this overview of the development of mycelium materials. Followed by a “grow-it-yourself” workshop.  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEcovative Design LLC is a biomaterials company headquartered in Green Island\, New York that provides sustainable alternatives to plastics and polystyrene foams for packaging\, building materials and other applications by using mushroom technology. \n\n\n\nMORE ABOUT ECOVATIVE:  \n\n\n\nEcovative is a diverse group of engineers\, biologists\, artists and designers — dedicated to the development of high-performance\, environmentally conscious materials. Creating next generation materials through mycelium biofabrication\, and making these capabilities and materials ubiquitous and accessible to everyone\, from bespoke local producers to industrial scale facilities. “We help people around the world grow better materials for everyday needs.” \n\n\n\n“Packaging food with food to reduce waste” -New York Times \n\n\n\n“Can mushrooms be that platform we build our future on?” – \n\n\n\n“Bioengineered Bacon? The Entrepreneur behind mushroom-root packaging says his test version is tasty” -Forbes  \n\n\n\n“A startup that turns mushrooms into IKEA packaging has introduced a new platform that could change the way lab-grown meat is made” -Business Insider \n\n\n\n“Wiping out polystyrene with fungus and farm waster” -Wired  \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsored by: Design for America  \n\n\n\n VISITING WORKSHOP LEADERS: \n\n\n\nVik | R&D Engineer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictor serves as both a Research Scientist and Engineer for Ecovative joining in 2019. He has a B.S. in both Biology and Mechanical Engineering from the illustrious North Carolina A&T State University. With years of uncommon experience spanning from research to startups\, he offers diverse and critical insights that streamline systems and generate creatively effective solutions. He loves biking on a fixie and designing with a sustainable focus on interiors\, systems\, and consumer products. \n\n\n\nSam | MycoFlex Lab Technician
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSam began working at Ecovative in 2018 and holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Ithaca College. Sam grew a full chess set out of mycelium as an undergrad to show the possibilities of growing complicated shapes with mycelium. His background in exploring the possibilities of fungus as a sustainable fabrication material allowed for the transition to a research technician position here at Ecovative. \n\n\n\nDanielle | Industrial Designer
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDanielle is Ecovative’s Packaging and Product Designer. She studied Industrial Design and Packaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology\, with a focus in sustainability. After that she worked as a community garden organizer for almost two years. On the side\, she has her illustrations published in two books. When she’s not at work\, Danielle can be spotted on a bicycle\, in the mountains\, or perhaps even writing bad poetry. \n\n\n\nLuke | Engineering Technician
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuke started at Ecovative in 2018 as an Engineering Intern and now works developing the presence of Ecovative on our Instagram. He is pursuing dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before college\, Luke served in the Air Force as a Photojournalist and Public Affairs specialist. \n\n\n\nGrace | Industrial Designer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrace Knight is a Designer\, Artist\, and Woodworker on Ecovative’s Marketing team. Grace believes designs taste best over-easy with a sprinkle of science on top\, bridging the Market needs with the capabilities of R&D. Grace holds a BFA in Industrial Design with a concentration in Nature\, Culture\, and Sustainability Studies from Rhode Island School of Design\, and was awarded the Yousef Karsh Student of Design Science Award in 2016 and the Rachel Carson Award in 2018. \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab [North Troy Art Technology and Urban Research in Ecology] is the Sanctuary’s resident ecological education program. NATURE Lab promotes sustainability\, and urban research in ecology using art\, technology and science. Programming is open to novices and experts alike. We are currently in development of the NATURE Lab Urban Environmental Center\, a resource for community science.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-ecovative-mushroom-day/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T210000
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SUMMARY:"How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance" with Author L. A. Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:In L.A. Kauffman’s new book\, How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance\, the mobilizing coordinator of the 2003-2004 Iraq War protests explains what makes today’s grassroots resistance different from past movements in America. \n\n\n\n\nWhen millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches\, there was an unmistakable air of uprising\, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It feels empowering to march\, and record numbers of Americans have joined anti-Trump demonstrations\, but when and why does marching matter? What exactly do protests do\, and how do they help movements win? \n\n\n\nIn this original and richly illustrated account\, organizer and journalist L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America’s major demonstrations\, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington\, to reveal the ways protests work and how their character has shifted over time. Using the signs that demonstrators carry as clues to how protests are organized\, Kauffman explores the nuanced relationship between the way movements are made and the impact they have. How to Read a Protest sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the decentralized\, bottom-up\, women-led model for organizing that has transformed what movements look like and what they can accomplish. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nL.A. Kauffman has spent more than thirty-five years immersed in grassroots movements\, as a journalist\, historian\, organizer\, and strategist. Her writings on organizing and social movement history have been published in The Guardian\, The Nation\, The Progressive\, Mother Jones\, the Village Voice\, n+1\, The Baffler\, and many other outlets. \n\n\n\nKauffman was a central strategist of the two-year direct action campaign that saved more than 100 New York City community gardens from bulldozing in 1999; she masterminded the campaign’s most notorious action\, the release of 10\,000 crickets in One Police Plaza during a city land auction. \n\n\n\nKauffman was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive antiwar protests of 2003 and 2004\, which remain some of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history. More recently\, she was a key organizer of successful campaigns to save two iconic New York City public libraries from being demolished and replaced by luxury towers. She is currently involved in a range of organizing projects to oppose the Trump presidency. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with L.A. Kauffman on the importance of standing in solidarity in the fight to end oppression against minorities through protest!  \n\n\n\nADVANCED PRAISE FOR HOW TO READ A PROTEST \n\n\n\n“A seasoned activist shares her wisdom on the struggle for social change\, using political movements such as Black Lives Matter\, the Women’s March\, and the Bonus Army as examples.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine \n\n\n\n“Explores protesting as an act of faith . . . How to Read a Protest argues that the women’s marches of 2017 didn’t just help shape and fuel a moment—they actually created one.”—Masha Gessen The New Yorker \n\n\n\n“Kauffman’s new book offers critical historical analysis and strategic insights\, raising provocative and complex questions about the relationship between protests and movement building. Every organizer and social movement historian should read it.”—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/how-to-read-a-protest-the-art-of-organizing-and-resistance-with-author-l-a-kauffman/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190401T173000
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SUMMARY:"Nature?" with Marta De Menezes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of how modern science can be incorporated into the artistry field with the help of an internationally-renowned pioneer of biological arts. \n\n\n\nIn her talk Nature\, Marta de Menezes will reflect on the possibilities and strategies of identity and nature\, and how they interconnect and entangle. The lecture will include an educational demonstration of using scientific technology as a creative form. Followed by a 3-day CRISPR workshop with Marta. Come with an open mind and be ready to discuss and debate this gene editing technology\, CRISPR.  Please remember that this a workshop to promote creative thinking using a DIY version of this technology\, combining art and science and interdisciplinary investigations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about Marta de Menezes \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon\, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon\, and a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford. She has been exploring the interaction between Art and Biology\, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies\, DNA\, proteins and live organisms can be used as an art medium. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions\, articles and lectures. She is since 2005 artistic director of Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory and from 2009 director of Cultivamos Cultura – Association. \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes’ work explores the possibilities modern biology offers to artists. She has been developing the use of biology and biotechnology as new art media\, conducting her practice in research laboratories that also are her art studios. She has been trying to not only portray the recent advances of biological sciences\, but to incorporate biological material into her art as a way to convey a discourse that is not possible with any other medium: using DNA\, proteins\, cells and bodies offer an opportunity to explore novel ways of representation and communication. In the artistic research and practice that Marta de Menezes has been developing over the last 20 years\, she experiments with living and pulsing material\, changing that material to express her concepts. \n\n\n\nThrough her art works she positions herself and the audience in a range of perspectives that allow different understanding of self through other\, through nature and our alternative selves. \n\n\n\nThe works to be discussed include de Menezes’ first seminal bioart project entitled “Nature?” (1998) that questions the definition of nature through a non-genetic manipulation of live butterfly wing patterns\, and her most recent projects that use the technology of CRISPR-cas9 to reengage with questions of identity as a species\, as animals\, as composites\, and multiples – and how we understand these concepts in relation to our future. The works discussed are a series called The origin of Species: Post evolution using CRISPR-Cas9 to silence a transgenic modification of corn\, creating a new variety simultaneously natural and genetically modified\, developed in collaboration with Mexican philosopher Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valeiro (UNAM-Mexico)\, with geneticist and immunologist Luis Teixeira (IGC-Portugal)\, Truly Natural – using genome editing of GMO organisms through CRISPR-Cas9 leading to removal of transgenes\, Immortality for Two– where the author and her collaborator (her partner)\, Luís Graça\, immortalize each other immune cells\, achieved by introducing cancer-inducing genes in the cells with a viral vector\, and the most recent project\, Anti-Marta: self and non-self\, looking at antibodies between parents\, in collaboration with her partner\, immunologist Luís Graça (UNICEL Group\, Intituto de Medicina Molecular – Portugal). For more information\, please visit  http: http://martademenezes.com/ \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab [North Troy Art Technology and Urban Research in Ecology] is the Sanctuary’s resident ecological education program. NATURE Lab promotes sustainability\, and urban research in ecology using art\, technology and science. Programming is open to novices and experts alike. We are currently in development of the NATURE Lab Urban Environmental Center\, a resource for community science. \n\n\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by the Vollmer Fries Lecture series\, the Arts Department and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-with-marta-de-menezes/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T235959
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop With Marta De Menezes: 3-day DIY CRISPR
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a three-part DIY Workshop series on CRISP-CAS9\, a genome editing system.  Explore the possibilities modern  science offers artists\, with an internationally-renownedpioneer of biological arts. \n\n\n\nPrior to the workshop will be an introductory lecture from 5:30-6:30. de Menezes will reflect on the possibilities and strategies of identity and nature\, and how they interconnect and entangle. Then roll up your sleeves for three evenings of do-it-yourself scientific investigation with CRISPR! \n\n\n\nCRISPR refers to a range of novel gene editing systems that can be programmed to edit DNA at precise locations. It allows the permanent modification of the genes in cells of living organisms. CRISPR enables novel basic research and promises a wide range of possible applications from biomedicine and agriculture to environmental challenges. The previously unknown precision and simplicity of CRISPR and its possibilities has led to a wide diversity of reactions. While some welcome it as a gene editing revolution others urge for a worldwide moratorium\, especially when it comes to human germline modifications. Particularly controversial is the CRISPR given possibility to intervene in the evolution of organisms. \n\n\n\nWe will investigate and work with DIY CRISPR\, look into its materiality and artistic possibilities\, and discuss and explore socio-cultural\, political and ethical implications within our transdisciplinary group over the course of three days!  \n\n\n\nMore about Marta de Menezes \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon\, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon\, and a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford. She has been exploring the interaction between Art and Biology\, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies\, DNA\, proteins and live organisms can be used as an art medium. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions\, articles and lectures. She is since 2005 artistic director of Ectopia – Experimental Art Laboratory and from 2009 director of Cultivamos Cultura – Association. \n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes’ work explores the possibilities modern biology offers to artists. She has been developing the use of biology and biotechnology as new art media\, conducting her practice in research laboratories that also are her art studios. She has been trying to not only portray the recent advances of biological sciences\, but to incorporate biological material into her art as a way to convey a discourse that is not possible with any other medium: using DNA\, proteins\, cells and bodies offer an opportunity to explore novel ways of representation and communication. In the artistic research and practice that Marta de Menezes has been developing over the last 20 years\, she experiments with living and pulsing material\, changing that material to express her concepts. \n\n\n\nThrough her art works she positions herself and the audience in a range of perspectives that allow different understanding of self through other\, through nature and our alternative selves. \n\n\n\nThe works to be discussed include de Menezes’ first seminal bioart project entitled “Nature?” (1998) that questions the definition of nature through a non-genetic manipulation of live butterfly wing patterns\, and her most recent projects that use the technology of CRISPR-cas9 to reengage with questions of identity as a species\, as animals\, as composites\, and multiples – and how we understand these concepts in relation to our future. The works discussed are a series called The origin of Species: Post evolution using CRISPR-Cas9 to silence a transgenic modification of corn\, creating a new variety simultaneously natural and genetically modified\, developed in collaboration with Mexican philosopher Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valeiro (UNAM-Mexico)\, with geneticist and immunologist Luis Teixeira (IGC-Portugal)\, Truly Natural – using genome editing of GMO organisms through CRISPR-Cas9 leading to removal of transgenes\, Immortality for Two– where the author and her collaborator (her partner)\, Luís Graça\, immortalize each other immune cells\, achieved by introducing cancer-inducing genes in the cells with a viral vector\, and the most recent project\, Anti-Marta: self and non-self\, looking at antibodies between parents\, in collaboration with her partner\, immunologist Luís Graça (UNICEL Group\, Intituto de Medicina Molecular – Portugal). For more information\, please visit  http: http://martademenezes.com/ \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab [North Troy Art Technology and Urban Research in Ecology] is the Sanctuary’s resident ecological education program. NATURE Lab promotes sustainability\, and urban research in ecology using art\, technology and science. Programming is open to novices and experts alike. We are currently in development of the NATURE Lab Urban Environmental Center\, a resource for community science. \n\n\n\nPictures from the Event: \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by the Vollmer Fries Lecture series\, the Arts Department and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-marta-de-menezes-diy-crispr/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T220000
DTSTAMP:20230327T181313Z
CREATED:20211214T174234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T181313Z
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SUMMARY:Resiliencia with Taína Asili y la Banda Rebelde
DESCRIPTION:The activist singer-songwriter celebrates her birthday and the release of a new album\, Resiliencia!\, with a full slate of special guests and her awesome band! And we’re celebrating resilience too! Join us for the launch of our Spring ’19 season and the kick-off of our Sanctuary Sustainer campaign. Resiliencia! is a wide-ranging anthology of stories told by women of color from all over the United States\, Puerto Rico\, and Canada that Taina has connected with and interviewed. These voices are rooted in strength and unconditional love in their passion to be heard. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTaina is a Puerto Rican singer and activist who fuzes her passion for culture and representation into a powerful Afro-Latin sound. She uses her empowered voice to create music promoting activism through messages of peace and resistance. One of her most prominent successes to date\, along with features in the Huffington Post and Billboard Magazine\, was her performance before an audience of more than half a million people during the Women’s March on Washington in January 2017. She’s an advocate for those facing oppression\, in songs such as her most recent hit\, “No Es Mi Presidente.” \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHYTaína Asili is  a New York based Puerto Rican singer\, filmmaker and activist carrying on the tradition of her ancestors\, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice. Her music combines powerful vocals carrying themes of social justice with an energetic fusion of Afro-Latin\, reggae and rock. For over 20 years she has brought the music of love and resistance to venues across the globe – From the Women’s March on Washington to the nationwide Rock Against the TPP Tour. After the 2016 election\, a bigger audience has caught up to the artist Huffington Post named one of “12 Freedom Fighting Bands to Get you Through the Trump Years.” Her protest songs “No Es Mi Presidente” and “Freedom\,” inspired by social movements against white supremacy\, mass incarceration\, and police violence\, have been lauded by the likes of Rolling Stone and Billboard. Taina Asili’s music offers a sound that spans continents\, exuding strength of Spirit\, and inspiring audiences to dance to the rhythm of rebellion. \n\n\n\nPRONUNCIATIONTaina is pronounced TIE-EE-NA (rhymes with hyena). Asili is pronounced AH-SEE-LEE. \n\n\n\nPHOTOGRAPHY & MUSICHigh res photos and select Mp3’s from Taina Asili’s three albums can be downloaded here:http://tainaasili.com/downloads \n\n\n\nWEB & SOCIAL MEDIAWebsite: TainaAsili.comFacebook: Facebook.com/TainaAsiliMusicYouTube: YouTube.com/TainaAsiliTwitter & Instagram: @TainaAsili \n\n\n\nQUOTES“new music video from Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde kicks racism in the teeth” – Tom Morello\, Guitarist of Rage Against the Machine \n\n\n\n“Every successful movement for social change has had music and culture baked into it. This is exactly the type of music our generation needs as we work to address the many issues facing our society.” – Cory Doctorow\, Boing Boing \n\n\n\n“In attempt to proliferate the messages of equality and justice\, Asili recently released a powerful new song and accompanying music video\, “Freedom\,” which features Black Lives Matter and prisoner justice activists in an attempt to invigorate and support their work.” – Julie Zeilinger\, Mic.com \n\n\n\n“The colorful video is the perfect companion to the track inspired by the jumping rhythms and political chants of Fela Kuti‘s signature afrobeat sound.” – Karas Lamb\, Okayplayer \n\n\n\n“Taína Asili is a Puerto Rican vocalist with a soulful Afro-Latin vibe that exudes authenticity. Her impactful message on “Freedom” is a battle cry for movement. While most of today’s urban music and Hip Hop is fraught with over sexualized images\, stereotypes and void of substance\, “Freedom” is a much needed helping of sonic empowerment.” – I. Vasquetelle\, Insomniac Magazine \n\n\n\n“Asili is an artist to take very seriously\, and this is an important\, political-yet-joyous work of passion and purpose\, using music to promote ideas and truth\, like it used to be.” – David Malachowski\, producer and journalist for The Times Union“… a pan-global roots-musical mélange that appeals to the struggle of tradition to envision a world of social justice.” – Josh Potter\, Assistant Editor for The Metroland \n\n\n\n“Her vocals penetrate your heart\, the lyrics stir your conscience\, the melodies are soothing and the rhythms are contagious.” – Bob Goepfert\, journalist for the Troy Record \n\n\n\n“Taína brings the struggles\, their drum beats and fists raised\, to her work\, safeguarding respect for those who have come and for those who are about to come.” – Gina Renzi\, Director of Foundation Arts
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/resiliencia-with-taina-asili-y-la-banda-rebelde/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T150000
DTSTAMP:20230327T181756Z
CREATED:20211214T175209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T181756Z
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SUMMARY:Media Strategy Session with International Peace Activist Kathy Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Join an informal discussion with Voices for Creative Non-Violence founder Kathy Kelly\, members of the local peace and justice community\, and WOOC Hudson Mohawk Magazine radio producers\, to develop strategies for expanding the media presence of the Capital Region’s peace and justice community.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsored by Women Against War.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/media-strategy-session-with-international-peace-activist-kathy-kelly/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190217T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190217T140000
DTSTAMP:20230327T182114Z
CREATED:20190217T180600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T182114Z
UID:10001143-1550401200-1550412000@archive.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:Collard City Growers Pruning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday February 17th from 11-2 for an informative interaction with our favorite friends\, the trees!! This pruning workshop officially kicks off the 2019 growing season\, woohoo!  \n\n\n\nOur food forest spans one city block and contains trees of all shapes\, sizes and functions. We will have a workshop and demonstration at freedom square and then break into groups to tackle the different areas\, and wrap up with block-wide brush gathering. The local arborists of Magai Arboriculture will be on hand and on limb to guide us in the pruning process to ensure healthy\, safe\, and productive trees. \n\n\n\nWe will attmept to cover: \n\n\n\n\nTree identification\n\n\n\nNeeds of urban trees\n\n\n\nTool selection\n\n\n\nClimbing and ladder safety\n\n\n\nMaking appropriate cuts\n\n\n\nPruning for fruit production\n\n\n\nThe art of dragging brush\n\n\n\nWhat to do with all those prunings\n\n\n\n\nPlease dress for the weather\, bring water and work gloves\, and any pruning tools you like to use.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/collard-city-growers-pruning-workshop/
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:20181218T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181218T180000
DTSTAMP:20230327T182432Z
CREATED:20181218T090014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T182432Z
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab: Futurology
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a potluck social to reflect on our great fall and to postulate the bright future to come. We will display all we have worked on and more! \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNorth Troy Art\, Technology\, and Urban Research in Ecology (NATURE) Lab is a volunteer-led urban ecology education initiative. Artist/scientist teams work to empower the community with knowledge about the local ecosystem and the skills to intervene in creative ways. Our programming includes community workshops\, public art installations\, artist residencies\, research activities\, and after school activities. We seek to combine global expertise with local knowledge to address the issues that are unique to the North Troy ecosystem and community.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for open hour workshops every Tuesday from 4-6pm at at 3334 & 3361 6th Avenue\, Troy\, NY 12180!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-futurology/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T160000
DTSTAMP:20230327T182751Z
CREATED:20211215T182135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T182751Z
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab and Collard City Growers Workshop: Fruit and Berry Propagation
DESCRIPTION:Experience the magic of sticks to propagate fruiting shrubs: grow our food forest with elderberries\, blackberries\, raspberries\, grapes and cuttings you bring to experiment with! \n\n\n\nAfterward\, join us inside the Sanctuary for the Holiday Celebration! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCollard City Growers is a volunteer-run food justice project where we connect arts and culture to growing a wealth of annuals and perennials including vegetables\, medicinal herbs\, natural dye plants\, grains\, and fruit trees. We share our homegrown harvest at neighborhood events that host hundreds of community members and passersby who come in search of nutrient dense food or “the best lettuce [they’ve] ever tasted.” During off-season\, we share our harvest in the form of preserved greens\, sauerkraut\, pickles\, and hot sauce.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-and-collard-city-growers-workshop-fruit-and-berry-propagation/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181215T170000
DTSTAMP:20230327T183437Z
CREATED:20181215T183600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T183437Z
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SUMMARY:7th Annual North Troy Justice and Peace Holiday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Join us at the Sanctuary for the seventh annual North Central Holiday Justice and Peace Celebration. We’ll have free portraits (special appreciation to Brenda Ann Kenneally and her team)\, arts activities\, music by Derrick Horton & The Jay Street Band plus Men of Faith (MOF)\, free food from Unity House\, Troy Bike Rescue bike give-away\, Fruit and Berry Propagation with Collard City Growers\, the lighting of the tree at Freedom Square (at the corner of 101st and 5th/6th Avenue)\, and more!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBack by popular demand! Free photos from internationally recognized photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally for families in the North Troy area! Call (518) 272-2390 to reserve a time. Spaces limited\, so please sign up! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Unity House\, North Troy Community Network\, Bella Napoli\, Troy Bike Rescue\, North Central Little League\, Troy Zero Waste\, TEAM Hero\, Urban Grief and Foto Care. \n\n\n\nMore about the studio portraiture:Kenneally’s deep connections with Upstate Girls\, and families in the North Troy community\, will form the basis of this workshop. Together\, we will celebrate the holiday season! While families wait for their turn getting their photo taken\, we’ll have arts activities in the main Sanctuary space. \n\n\n\nBrenda Ann Kenneally is a Guggenheim and Soros Criminal Justice Media Fellow. She attended the University of Miami\, where she earned a B.S. in sociology and photojournalism\, and New York University\, where she received an M.A. in studio art. Kenneally has focused on how families get lost in a culture of drugs and prison. She searches for ways to motivate inner-city women to empower themselves\, despite their limited social and economic opportunities. Kenneally’s work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, and Ms. Magazine\, among other publications. In 2000\, she won the Community Awareness Award from the National Press Photographer’s Association\, and in 2001 she was awarded the International Prize for Photojournalism in Gijon\, Spain. Kenneally’s work in Brooklyn has received support from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund\, the Mother Jones Documentary Fund\, and the Nikon Sabbatical Grant\, in addition to the Open Society Institute. Kenneally has worked with us exhibiting her photos\, teaching photojournalism workshops\, and curating several exhibitions. \n\n\n\nMore about Men of Faith: \n\n\n\nMen of Faith is a local North Troy band with Mac Henderson\, Bojack Theore\, Pastor Barber and Deacon James. \n\n\n\nMore about Derrick Horton and the Jay Street Band: \n\n\n\nDerrick Horton and the Jay Street Band grew out of downtown Schenectady and play all over the Northeast. They are a Motown-style party band is dedicated to community.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/7th-annual-north-troy-justice-and-peace-holiday-celebration/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181211T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181211T170000
DTSTAMP:20230327T183722Z
CREATED:20211215T184045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T183722Z
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop with Dylan Rees: Using Fish Poo to Feed a Family
DESCRIPTION:NATURE Lab educator Dylan Rees will lead a workshop on Fish Poo. Aquaponics uses fish poo to grow plants. See a small tabletop system\, learn how it works\, and how to build your own. \n\n\n\nAbout the NATURE Lab: \n\n\n\nNorth Troy Art\, Technology\, and Urban Research in Ecology (NATURE) Lab is a volunteer-led urban ecology education initiative. Artist/scientist teams work to empower the community with knowledge about the local ecosystem and the skills to intervene in creative ways. Our programming includes community workshops\, public art installations\, artist residencies\, research activities\, and after school activities. We seek to combine global expertise with local knowledge to address the issues that are unique to the North Troy ecosystem and community.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for open hour workshops every Tuesday from 4-6pm at at 3334 & 3361 6th Avenue\, Troy\, NY 12180!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-dylan-rees-fish-poo/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T213000
DTSTAMP:20230705T155523Z
CREATED:20181208T184900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T155523Z
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SUMMARY:Ras Moshe
DESCRIPTION:A multimedia performance of “Peace Be With You: Letters from Rap” with the Music Now! Unit. Theodore Burnett III performs music based on letters written by his father during deployment in Vietnam from 1968-1970.  Funded in part by New Music USA. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Music Now! Unit:Larry Roland–bass and narrationCharley Sabatino–bass Matt Lavelle–trumpet and bass clarinet.Leonid Galaganov–drumsDave Ross–guitarRas Moshe–tenor sax\, flute and narration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRas Moshe Burnett is a native of Brooklyn NY\, born on the 22nd of March 1968 into a family of musicians. He performs on the tenor sax\, soprano sax and flute in the metropolitan area as well as performing as a ten year member of Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble. \n\n\n\nHis paternal grandfather Theodore Burnett I (“Teddy Barnett” professionally) performed on alto and tenor saxophones in the bands of Chick Webb\, Lucky Millinder\, Earl Bostic\, Jimmy Mundy\, Henri Woode\, Don Redman\, Benny Carter and Sister Rosetta Tharpe among others after his arrival from Jamaica in 1929. He can be viewed in early film footage performing with some of the orchestras listed. He wrote music for New Canaan Baptist Church in Brooklyn from the early 70’s to the early 90’s \n\n\n\nHis father (Theodore Jacob Burnett II) played alto sax\, and bass clarinet in the Brooklyn area throughout the 70’s and 80’s. He resumed musical activity from 2000 until his passing in 2014.  Ras started music studies in the public schools from 5th grade throughout high school. He played with african drum groups and reggae bands from 1987 to the early 90’s before starting his own ensembles. He is a recent graduate with a B.A in music studies and preparing for a master’s program. He is a recently published poet\, his poems being featured in The Metropolitan Review. \n\n\n\nHe is the founder of the “Music Now!” series in 1999\, a monthly presentation of jazz and new music initially at The Brecht Forum and currently extant at The Brooklyn Commons since 2011. \n\n\n\nRas believes in the power of creative music’s effect on social and personal change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRas has brought and continues to bring his music to many venues including: The Knitting Factory\, The Sanctuary For Independent Media\, Roulette\, The Brecht Forum\, Issue Project Room\, Syracuse Film Festival\, Outpost 186 (Cambridge MA)\, University of Charlottesville\, Syracuse University\, Rhizome\, The Brooklyn Commons\, WBAI-FM\, WKCR-FM.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/ras-moshe-burnett/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jazz Music,Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T180000
DTSTAMP:20230327T184507Z
CREATED:20211215T190215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T184507Z
UID:10001307-1543939200-1543946400@archive.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop with Nathalie Dubois Calero: Tabletop Composting
DESCRIPTION:Life is a cycle\, let’s experience it by eating over decomposing food! Learn what can be composted and how to compost it. We will show you how to use bokashi and worms to compost indoors. \n\n\n\nMentor: Nathalie Dubois Calero \n\n\n\nOne foot in art\, one foot in science (I have a PhD in plant science)\, the head in stars\, I try to keep an uncertain balance. I worked with microalgae\, installed as a mobile or on a split object\, with airborne microorganisms -growing over a 10-foot specific fabric\, floating\, –  or with micro propagated cultures of genetically modified plants\, plastic\, found phones etc\, to create a man-made man. My works are a reflection about the world we construct around us to “protect” us\, the man-made nature we try to impose to the other organisms\, and to ourselves\, our fears of any organisms – specially the smallest and invisible ones- we cannot dominate or control\, but that are intimately in us. \n\n\n\nBorn in France and living in Montreal\, Canada\, I am affiliated to Milieux\, the Institute for Arts Culture and Technology at Concordia University\, in the Lab Cluster. I am an inviting researcher at  in the Art department as\, and at Nature lab -Troy. \n\n\n\nAbout the NATURE Lab: \n\n\n\nNorth Troy Art\, Technology\, and Urban Research in Ecology (NATURE) Lab is a volunteer-led urban ecology education initiative. Artist/scientist teams work to empower the community with knowledge about the local ecosystem and the skills to intervene in creative ways. Our programming includes community workshops\, public art installations\, artist residencies\, research activities\, and after school activities. We seek to combine global expertise with local knowledge to address the issues that are unique to the North Troy ecosystem and community.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for open hour workshops every Tuesday from 4-6pm at at 3334 & 3361 6th Avenue\, Troy\, NY 12180!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-nathalie-dubois-calero-tabletop-composting/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181130T213000
DTSTAMP:20230327T184821Z
CREATED:20211216T150659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T184821Z
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SUMMARY:Author Ronald Kitchen Presents "My Midnight Years"
DESCRIPTION:My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row tells the story of Ronald Kitchen’s 21 years in prison–including more than a decade on death row–and\, finally\, exoneration. Join author and activist Ronald Kitchen with author/professor/historian Thai Jones\, in a discussion of My Midnight Years. In conversation with Alice Green\, Executive Director\, Center for Law and Justice. Co-sponsored by: Justice for Dahmeek\, Urban Grief\, Amnesty International…. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1988\, Ronald Kitchen was tortured by Chicago Police detectives into confessing to a murder he did not commit. After 21 years in prison and more than a decade on death row\, he was finally exonerated. In My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row\, Kitchen and co-authors Thai Jones and Logan M. McBride tell his story. Check out the New Yorker story\, “How Chicago’s Public Schools Are Teaching the History of Police Torture\,” by Thai Jones\, September 27\, 2018. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRONALD KITCHEN BIO \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detectives picked him up for questioning. As the officers’ car headed toward the precinct\, the twenty-two-year-old called out the window to his family\, “I’ll be back in forty-five minutes.” It took him twenty-one years to make it home. \n\n\n\nKitchen was beaten and tortured by Chicago’s notorious police commander Jon Burge\, and his cronies\, until finally confessing to a gruesome quintuple homicide he did not commit. Convicted of murder and sentenced to die\, he spent the next two decades in prison—including a dozen years on death row—before at last winning his release and exoneration. Ronald Kitchen’s ordeal was not his alone. He was only one of scores of victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew\, a group of rogue Chicago police detectives who spent decades terrorizing\, brutalizing\, and incarcerating men—more than 120 have come forward so far—in Chicago’s African American communities. \n\n\n\nDuring his years in jail\, Kitchen co-founded the Death Row 10 from his maximum security cellblock. Together\, these men fought to expose the grave injustices that led to their wrongful convictions. The Death Row 10 appeared on 60 Minutes\, Nightline\, Oprah\, and Geraldo Rivera and\, with the help of lawyers and activists\, were instrumental in turning the tide against the death penalty in Illinois. Kitchen was finally exonerated in 2009 and won a high-profile lawsuit against the city of Chicago. My Midnight Years is the first book to be published about the Jon Burge scandal. \n\n\n\nTHAI JONES BIOThai Jones is a lecturer in history at Columbia University\, whose work examines radical social movements and political organizing. He is the author of two previous books his writings have appeared in a variety of national publications\, ranging from the New Yorker and the New York Times to The Nation and the Occupied Wall Street Journal.  \n\n\n\nALICE GREEN BIO \n\n\n\nDr. Alice Green is the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice\, a civil rights organization she founded in 1985. She has a doctorate in criminal justice and advanced degrees in education\, social work\, and criminology. \n\n\n\nIn 1985\, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Dr. Green to membership on the Citizens Policy and Complaint Review Council of the New York State Commission of Corrections. A year later\, with Senate approval\, he appointed her to the position of Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives. She was put in charge of strategic planning\, policy\, and information. After leaving state service\, she became Legislative Director for the New York Civil Liberties Union where she had served as Director of their Albany Office in 1982. \n\n\n\nAlice Green\, an adjunct professor at the University at Albany\, has also taught at Russell Sage and Siena College. She began her career as a secondary school teacher and social worker. For many years\, she directed Trinity Institution\, a youth and family services center in Albany’s South End.While there\, she also did community organizing and founded the South End Scene\, one of the longest published Black newspapers in Albany.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/author-ronald-kitchen-presents-my-midnight-years/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Speaker
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T190000
DTSTAMP:20230327T185544Z
CREATED:20211217T192000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T185544Z
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop with Heather Dewey-Hagborg: Who Do You Think You Are- DNA Ancestry and Biosurveillance
DESCRIPTION:How much can you learn about a stranger from a stray cigarette butt? Our DNA can reveal stories about us—including our ancestry\, disease risks\, physical characteristics\, and predispositions. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThese stories pass from parent to child hidden within our cells. Today\, millions of people have explored their DNA to uncover these stories using direct-to-consumer sequencing services. In the process\, new questions about ancestry and the predictive power of the genome have arisen.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nWhat does (and doesn’t) your DNA reveal? How are emerging genetic technologies reinforcing age old stereotypes and what can we do to subvert them? \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn this workshop we will take a tour of DIY biotech including DNA extraction\, phenotyping\, and concoction of our own genetic obfuscation spray. We will explore the present and future of biological surveillance and discuss what you can do to resist it. Funded by NEA BioArt Futures… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair\, cigarette butts\, chewed up gum) collected in public places. Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum\, the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale\, the Van Abbemuseum\, Transmediale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the New York Historical Society\, and has been widely discussed in the media\, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired. Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an artist fellow at AI Now\, and an affiliate of Data & Society. She is also a co-founder and co-curator of REFRESH\, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art\, Science\, and Technology.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-heather-dewey-hagborg-who-do-you-think-you-are-dna-ancestry-and-biosurveillance/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Workshop with Maya Sanders: Plastic Sucks
DESCRIPTION:Learn why plastic is bad for the environment and our health. We will discuss and brainstorm ways to reduce plastic in our everyday lives. Includes fun eco-friendly craft!  \n\n\n\nMaya Sanders is an Undergraduate Sustainability Studies major at RPI. She has a passion for grassroots science\, ecology and environmental science education. Maya was an Uptown Summer mentor with the Sanctuary this Summer\, and this Fall she continues her work here\, as an intern\, serving the role of the Sanctuary’s “Community Network Coordinator and Science Educator\,” as well as conducting an ethnographic study on the Sanctuary.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-workshop-with-maya-sanders-plastic-sucks-2/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:"Crime and Punishment" with Filmmaker Stephen Maing\, Manuel Gomez (Private Investigator) plus George Weddington (Justice for Dahmeek)
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Maing’s film Crime and Punishment chronicles the struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. The film will be presented by filmmaker Stephen Maing\, who will be accompanied by Private Investigator Manuel Gomez\, and George Weddington from Justice for Dahmeek.  \n\n\n\nAmidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas\, Crime + Punishment chronicles the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistle-blower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. A highly intimate and cinematic experience with unprecedented access\, Crime + Punishment examines the United States’ most powerful police department through the brave efforts of a group of active duty officers and one unforgettable private investigator who risk their careers and safety to bring light to harmful policing practices which have plagued the precincts and streets of New York City for decades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nSTEPHEN MAING | Director\, Producer\, Cinematographer\, Editor \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nStephen Maing is an Emmy-nominated Brooklyn-based filmmaker. His feature documentary\, High Tech\, Low Life\, chronicled the gripping story of two of China’s first dissident citizen-journalists fighting state-monitored censorship and was broadcast nationally on PBS. His short film\, The Surrender\, produced with Academy Award winner Laura Poitras\, documented State Department intelligence analyst Stephen Kim’s harsh prosecution under the Espionage Act and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary. He has directed numerous films for Time Magazine\, The Nation\, New York Times\, The Intercept\, PBS and Field of Vision including the Times Documentary Hers to Lose which was awarded a World Press Photo Award for Long Features. Stephen is a Sundance Institute Fellow and recipient of the International Documentary Association’s inaugural Enterprise Investigative Journalism grant as well as a John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Reporting Fellow. His most recent film Crime + Punishment was filmed over four years and received a Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. \n\n\n\n\nMANUEL GOMEZ | Private Investigator \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nManuel Gomez was born in Puerto Rico and served as an Air Force Reserve during the Gulf War. In 1998 he became a New York City Police Officer\, working in the Bronx until 2011. Twenty days after 9/11\, Gomez was called to active duty with the18th Air Borne conducting trainings and working in counter intelligence. In 2013\, Gomez returned to NYC to start BlackOPS Private Investigators establishing a policy of only taking innocent clients. In the last two years his company has been responsible for proving the innocence of 87 cases of falsely accused and arrested individuals. \n\n\n\nCheck out Manuel Gomez and Frank Serpico’s DEPARTMENT OF CIVILIAN JUSTICE (DOCJ) Legistlation Initiative! \n\n\n\n\nGEORGE WEDDINGTON | JUSTICE FOR DAHMEEK! \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nGeorge Weddington is a scholar and activist living in Troy. His work focuses on Black Resistance in the US\, especially the genesis of the Black Lives Matter movement. \n\n\n\nJustice for Dahmeek organized after unarmed Dahmeek was shot multiple times fired by police officer Jarrod Iler (two shots hit Dahmeek on his head and arm) on August 15\, 2017 (fortunately survived)\, and Edson Thevenin (shot eight times) and killed by police officer Sgt. Randall Frendh on April 17\, 2016. Justice for Dahmeek demands a full\, timely\, and transparent investigation and prosecution!• Prosecute Killer Cops• DA Abelove: Resign• End Racial Profiling• Civilian Review Board• Black Lives Matter! \n\n\n\n\n\nWatch the trailer for the film here!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/crime-and-punishment-with-filmmaker-stephen-maing/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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