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SUMMARY:Black August: People’s Clinic
DESCRIPTION:Black August originated in California prisons in the 1970s as a month of reflection and a time to honor political prisoners\, freedom fighters\, and martyrs of the Black freedom struggle. In 2020\, Black August came in the wake of Black Lives Matters protests against police brutality and racism sparked by the murder of George Jackson. While Black Americans observe Black August\, they are also bracing for the months and years ahead. \n\n\n\nTroy 4 Black Lives will emcee\, bringing historical context to the day’s events. Luz Marquez-Benbow from I Am Negrx led a teach-in on the history of Black August. Amani O+ and Genesis Cooper will bring the healing powers of art and music. Our many partners will offer resources for COVID-19 safety\, water justice\, blood pressure checks\, herbal remedies\, kids arts activities\, census form guidance\, protest safety and much more. We are especially grateful to Urban Grief for offering emergency counseling to those impacted by ongoing gun violence in our communities.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by People’s Health Sanctuary\, a project of NATURE Lab at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, Troy 4 Black Lives\, I am Negrx\, Urban Grief\, Troy Central Little League\, SNUG\, NAACP Troy\, Troy Bike Rescue\, Street Medics and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the People’s Health Sanctuary\n\n\n\nAs part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s growing NATURE Lab\, the People’s Health Sanctuary’s goal is to establish a central space to share health skills\, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health. This project has been created in direct response to the NATURE Lab Environmental Education Center Community Design Think Tank\, which identified the critical need for self-care and resources for care in the community. \n\n\n\nThe People’s Health Sanctuary is focused on the care we share\, need and desire. So many of us give care to loved ones\, children\, those suffering in our lives\, those we want to be well\, in our work lives\, at home\, in ourselves and beyond. Though caring for our elders\, our children\, or cooking soul-nourishing food for family or friends may not be deemed ‘real’ healthcare\, they know that in fact\, it’s what holds us together and keeps us sane.n a time where self-care can become co-opted by messages of consumerism; we want to create a space that truly nourishes ourselves and each other.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’ll offer an array of health modalities you can experience and a space where you can share care as well\, if you choose. We’ll also offer free blood pressure screenings and train you on how to take your own blood pressure! \n\n\n\nLed by JJ Luceno and Dr. Frank Coughlin\, out growing network sharing skills to build a space where creative\, joyful health is possible and accessible.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/black-august-peoples-clinic/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Norlite Town Hall Meeting II: The Sequel
DESCRIPTION:For our second Norlite Town Hall\, our panelists will include Jane Williams from the National Sierra Club Clean Air Team; Sean Mahar\, chief of staff for NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos; and Joe Ritchie\, longtime Cohoes resident in the Saratoga Sites apartment complex. This meeting will focus on Norlite\, Senate bill 7880B / Assembly bill 9952B\, and the Albany Clean Air Law\, Local Law B. Sponsored by Assemblymember John McDonald and State Senator Neil Breslin\, the bill was passed unanimously in the NYS Legislature. However\, it is unclear if Governor Cuomo will sign or veto the bill. This will be discussed\, along with questions from participants.The Albany County Legislature is considering a county Clean Air Law\, Local Law B. There is a public hearing on Zoom for the proposed county law on the evening of Tuesday\, July 28. Will the Albany County Legislature stand up for clean air? The Norlite incinerator in Cohoes has been burning toxic waste for decades. What are the environmental and health impacts of the operations in Cohoes\, Colonie\, Green Island\, Watervliet\, Troy\, and the entire region? Join a distinguished panel of guests for an online discussion of this important issue. There will be adequate time for questions and answers. The moderator is Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Corinne Carey. This event is co-sponsored by NATURE Lab\, Lights Out Norlite\, and the Hudson Mohawk Environmental Action Network.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/norlite-town-hall-meeting-ii-the-sequel/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200625T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200625T220000
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop: Sage Against the Machine - Listening to Indigenous Voices and Spiritual Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:Explore with the filmmakers how media can have impact keeping Indigenous voices front and center. This “Be The Media!” virtual workshop features indigenous filmmakers Jade Begay from NDN Collective; Ecuadorian media maker Leo Cerda from HAKHU Project; and The Condor and the Eagle protagonist Bryan Parras. The presenters were joined by filmmaker Clément Guerra\, Director of The Condor and the Eagle\, and Branda Miller\, Arts & Education Coordinator at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Together they will explore how media highlighting Indigenous voices can impact a shift from witnessing environmental destruction to practical actions for sustainable community based initiatives. This virtual workshop kicks off a following full week of action beginning on June 21st with daily screenings of The Condor and the Eagle\, using media as an impact tool. The Condor and the Eagle Impact Campaign\, connecting media artists\, indigenous voices and environmental groups across the country. In The Condor and the Eagle\, Indigenous leaders embark on a trans-continental\, liberating journey to shine a light on Climate Change. This Be The Media! workshop will take place following a screening of The Condor and the Eagle. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n[RESCHEDULED FROM APRIL 2020] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiographies of Workshop Participants\n\n\n\nClément Guerra\n\n\n\nClément Guerra \n\n\n\nClément is currently the European Director of Survival Media Agency and have been producing high-quality visual media for climate and social justice movements. Along with Sophie Guerra\, Clément Guerra has been working on The Condor and The Eagle for the past four years. The vision for this project is driven by the necessity to shift from witnessing environmental destruction to actively taking part in solution-based strategies. We hope to share clear and practical actions that people can take to support this shift after watching this film. By contributing to this project\, you will help bring these impacted communities together for strategic events and actions. \n\n\n\nWhile the Amazon rainforest has been on fire for a month\, UN climate scientists are predicting unprecedented global catastrophe. “The Condor & The Eagle” features Indigenous leaders\, from the global North and the global South deploying an unparalleled joint and coordinated global response. Facing this overwhelming current political climate\, a great many people are looking for answers that are adapted to today’s urgency. Our film and campaign show tangible actions “anybody” can take\, inviting white and privileged people to follow the call from Indigenous communities. \n\n\n\nFour Indigenous environmental leaders embark on an extraordinary trans-continental adventure from the Canadian Boreal forests to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of “Climate Justice”. The Condor & The Eagle documentary offers a glimpse into a developing spiritual renaissance as the film four protagonists learn from each other’s long legacy of resistance to colonialism and its extractive economy. Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey\, which will forever change their attachment to the Earth and one another. \n\n\n\nMost of our work focuses on America energy hotspots that are the tar sands in Alberta and Houston industries. As Fossil Fuel developments get out of control (largest-ever open pit tar sands mine is quietly making its way through a government review – dramatic impacts of climate change on Houston and the Gulf)\, some of the most bio diverse places in South America are being sold to oil companies (Sarayaku\, Sapara\, Yasuni\, Rio Tigre\, etc.). The urgency is real and our film and campaign will make sure that these large-scale destructive projects are made public and lift up the voices of resistance from North and South America. \n\n\n\nBryan Parras\n\n\n\nBryan Parras \n\n\n\nBryan Parras is one of the Gulf Coast’s most dynamic environmental justice organizers fighting along the entire central and eastern United States. Bryan grew up in a community on the east side of Houston\, Texas\, near one of largest concentrations of petrochemical plants\, refineries and storage tanks in the world. \n\n\n\nBryan is deeply involved in the documentation of environmental racism experienced by marginalized communities from Houston and throughout the greater Gulf Coast region. Bryan has maintained his indigenous roots by core values that have survived over 500 years of suppression. Bryan hopes to learn more about his indigenous roots by reconnecting with other indigenous communities and practices. \n\n\n\nIn 2016\, Bryan helped organize the Peace & Dignity Journey along the Gulf Coast\, connecting New Orleans with Houston and for the first time opening up the Gulf Coast to the continental journey awakening old trails and trade routes from South to North. Bryan continues to help lead the rising environmental justice movement and is currently helping people in Houston and the Gulf Coast fight for a just Recovery after Hurricane Harvey. For Harvey’s one-year anniversary Bryan organized a People’s Tribunal with a coalition of housing\, immigration\, labor and environmental organizations. \n\n\n\nJade Begay \n\n\n\nJade Begay\n\n\n\nJade Begay\, (Diné and Tesuque Pueblo)\, is a filmmaker and Creative Director\, leading NDN Collective’s multimedia content development through strategic narrative development and creative content design. In May 2015\, Jade completed the Environmental Leadership MA program at Naropa University which trains students\, like Jade\, in how to lead organizational and community transformation towards an environmentally and socially just and sustainable society. Currently Jade works on a wide range of issues from Women’s and reproductive rights to Climate Change to racial justice and to nuclear guardianship. Jade is also a facilitator and trainer in diversity and inclusion work. At the foundation of Jade’s work is her life’s purpose to support First Nation communities in restoring ecological balance and protecting their cultures. Her camera\, her communications skills\, and her passion for justice are her tools for amplifying Indigenous and marginalized people’s voices and movements. \n\n\n\nLeo Cerda \n\n\n\nLeo Cerda\n\n\n\n\nLeo Cerda\, Executive Director\, Hakawati is a member of the Kichwa community of Serena in the Ecuadorian Amazon. As a climate activist and indigenous rights defender he focuses on efforts to build a more just and sustainable society. Like many indigenous people at a young age he had no choice but to learn about the struggles of his people and started working with local grassroots organizations to create awareness about the environmental and cultural impacts caused by the oil industry. He is the Founder of the HAKHU Project\, a young organization that supports community-based economic initiatives as a way to fight against exploitative oil and mining development in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He currently serves and works with many organizations locally and internationally bridging indigenous community initiatives and international support. \n\n\n\n\nHeather Bruegl \n\n\n\nHeather Bruegl\n\n\n\nA curiosity of her own heritage lead Heather Bruegl to Wisconsin\, where she has researched the history of the Native American tribes in the area. While Heather calls Michigan home\, she has recently moved to Wisconsin and is now the Director of Cultural Affairs for the Stockbridge Munsee Community. \n\n\n\nIn addition to that she also currently travels and speaks on Native American history\, including policy and activism.a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin\, is a graduate of Madonna University in Michigan and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in U.S. History. Inspired by a trip to Wounded Knee\, South Dakota\, a passion for Native American History was born. She has spoken for numerous groups including the University of Michigan\, College of the Menominee Nation\, Shawano County Historical Society\, the Kenosha Civil War Museum\, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans\, and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She has spoken at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for Indigenous Peoples Day 2017. Heather also opened up and spoke at the Women’s March Anniversary in Lansing\, Michigan in January 2018. She also spoke at the first ever Indigenous Peoples March in Washington\, DC in January of 2019. Summer 2019\, she spoke at the Crazy Horse Memorial and Museum in Custer\, South Dakota for their Talking Circle Series. She has also become the ‘’accidental activist’’ and speaks to different groups about intergenerational racism and trauma and helps to bring awareness to our environment\, the fight for clean water and other issues in the Native community. \n\n\n\nBranda Miller\n\n\n\nBranda Miller \n\n\n\nBranda Miller is a media artist and educator\, dedicated to art\, ecology and community interdisciplinary arts. She is the Arts and Education Coordinator at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, where she has developed numerous media literacy/community arts/youth media and creative place-making projects. She is a Professor of Media Arts at Rensselaer\, teaching courses in documentary\, art\, community and technology\, and independent art production. Miller is an Emmy award-winning editor who worked in the media industry of L.A. and N.Y.C.\, and whose media art works have been screened\, exhibited and broadcast nationally and internationally. Branda Miller has three decades of experience in participatory design and praxis\, and a history of transdisciplinary collaborations created to stimulate cultural animation\, build community\, and create dialogue around freedom of expression and environmental justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBe The Media! workshops teach multimedia skills to community members in order to develop urgently needed independent local voices. Our goal is to empower the public through independent media making\, supplying them with the tools to tell their own stories through different mediums of media including video\, radio and journalism.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-clement-and-sophie-guerra-and-bryan-parras-sage-against-the-machine-listening-to-indigenous-voices-and-spiritual-pedagogy/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200625T190000
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SUMMARY:"The Condor and the Eagle\," Virtual Screening with Filmmaker Clément Guerra and Bryan Parras
DESCRIPTION:Join filmmaker Clément Guerra and Indigenous media makers in an online HD screening of “The Condor and the Eagle\,” followed by a Be The Media! workshop: “Indigenous Voices: Media for Environmental Organizing.” During this time of COVID and a health crisis disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities\, how can independent media work build solidarity in the pandemic and in the increasingly critical struggle against Climate Change?  \n\n\n\nIn The Condor and The Eagle\, four Indigenous environmental leaders embark on an extraordinary trans-continental adventure from the Canadian Boreal forests to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of “Climate Justice”. The Condor and The Eagle documentary offers a glimpse into a developing spiritual renaissance as the film four protagonists learn from each other’s long legacy of resistance to colonialism and its extractive economy. Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey\, which will forever change their attachment to the Earth and one another.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. [RESCHEDULED FROM APRIL COVID CANCELATION] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout “The Condor and the Eagle”\n\n\n\nEnergy companies are actively planning to triple Canadian tar sands (world’s largest industrial project) production in the coming years\, which would mean “game over” for climate change. Such an increase in production is possible if the planned pipelines are actually built and permitted in the US and Canada. Our four protagonists live alongside the pipeline routes. The Condor & The Eagle brings to light the major role played by Indigenous women in the build-up of the Environmental Justice Movement. \n\n\n\nOur film documents the stories of four well-known Native environmental spokespeople who are at the forefront of a perspective shift in the identity of their people\, from forgotten voices to powerful and influential leaders. They have struggled with feelings of isolation their entire lives and are now discovering the power of their shared voices to bring change to the entire world. With the continuous expansion of pipeline projects throughout the Americas these Indigenous women and men represent the last remaining landholders who refuse to sacrifice their territories to transnational oil companies. Their unification in New York first and later in Paris are among many similar and burgeoning initiatives\, mostly led by Indigenous women\, that have inspired people around the world to rise for the protection of the earth and give life to the climate justice movement. \n\n\n\nMelina Laboucan-Massimo and Bryan Parras’s lands were devastated by the oil industry and it has remained an acceptable secret\, with no coverage from the media\, and limited support from their governments. Even as her people were dying in the Alberta tar sands\, Melina’s sister was recently murdered: violence against the Earth\, begets violence against women. This tragic event set into motion her quest for justice\, which will lead her half way across the globe. Bryan has always lived in the energy capital of the world\, Houston. He grew up uprooted from his Indigenous origins until the day he met with other Indigenous people who vowed to bring back respect for the land and ancient cultures. So begins his journey to rediscover his true self\, the meaning of being Indigenous. \n\n\n\nFilmed in the verdant jungles of the Amazon (Ecuador and Peru)\, the brightly colored cultures of the Pan American First Nations communities (Vancouver\, Alberta) and the United States Indian tribes (Oklahoma)\, viewers glimpse extraordinary beauty in the places\, faces and regalia of traditional people. The Indigenous heartfelt pursuit for self- discovery\, self- reclamation\, and a way of life\, is chronicled as they build alliances around the world (in Peru\, Ecuador\, Paris\, Washington and New York) because to them a crime against Mother Earth is a crime against humanity. \n\n\n\nWe follow our protagonists as they develop a resistance strategy that matches the level of their opponents – taking their effort to South America\, Europe and beyond. Their task is to make local battles an International concern and finally expose criminal corporations responsible for serious crimes. Our film promotes an intercultural dialogue by showing how non-Indigenous and Indigenous people come together. \n\n\n\nStill from The Condor and the Eagle (Sophie Guerra and Clément Guerra\, 2019\, 82 min)\n\n\n\nSophie and Clément Guerra Bios\n\n\n\nWe are Sophie and Clément Guerra. Most of our work focuses on America energy hotspots that are the tar sands in Alberta and Houston industries. Clément is currently the European Director of Survival Media Agency and have been producing high-quality visual media for climate and social justice movements. We have been working on The Condor and The Eagle for the past four years. \n\n\n\nAs Fossil Fuel developments get out of control (largest-ever open pit tar sands mine is quietly making its way through a government review – dramatic impacts of climate change on Houston and the Gulf)\, some of the most bio diverse places in South America are being sold to oil companies (Sarayaku\, Sapara\, Yasuni\, Rio Tigre\, etc.). The urgency is real and our film and campaign will make sure that these large-scale destructive projects are made public and lift up the voices of resistance from North and South America. \n\n\n\nWhile the Amazon rainforest has been on fire for a month\, UN climate scientists are predicting unprecedented global catastrophe. The Condor and The Eagle features Indigenous leaders\, from the global North and the global South deploying an unparalleled joint and coordinated global response. Facing this overwhelming current political climate\, a great many people are looking for answers that are adapted to today’s urgency. Our film and campaign show tangible actions “anybody” can take\, inviting white and privileged people to follow the call from Indigenous communities. Our vision for this project is driven by the necessity to shift from witnessing environmental destruction to actively taking part in solution-based strategies. We hope to share clear and practical actions that people can take to support this shift after watching this film.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-condor-and-the-eagle-with-filmmakers-clement-and-sophie-guerra-and-bryan-parras/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200622T200000
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SUMMARY:Norlite Town Hall Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Norlite incinerator in Cohoes has been burning toxic waste for decades. What is the health impact of their operations on the surrounding communities throughout the NY Capital Region\, southwestern Vermont\, northwestern Massachusetts\, and beyond? Join Cohoes Mayor William T. Keeler\, longtime Saratoga Sites apartment resident Joe Ritchie\, Dr. David Carpenter of the Albany School of Public Health\, Dr. David Bond from Bennington College\, and former EPA Region 2 administrator Judith Enck for an online discussion of this important issue. There will be adequate time for questions and answers. The moderator is Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Corinne Carey. This event is co-sponsored by Lights Out Norlite and the Hudson Mohawk Environmental Action Network.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/norlite-town-hall-meeting/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200616T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200616T220000
DTSTAMP:20220311T231619Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk with Organizer and Author Lisa Fithian "Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce\, Loving Resistance"
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant\,” Fithian has supported countless movements including the Battle of Seattle in 1999\, rebuilding and defending communities following Hurricane Katrina\, Occupy Wall Street\, and the uprisings at Standing Rock and in Ferguson. For anyone who wants to become more active in resistance or is just feeling overwhelmed or hopeless\, Shut It Down offers strategies and actions you can take right now to promote justice and incite change in your own community. It is a veteran activist’s guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change\, with a special strategy session for action in the midst of the social distancing and the pandemic.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-with-organizer-and-author-lisa-fithian-shut-it-down-stories-from-a-fierce-loving-resistance/
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T200000
DTSTAMP:20220313T000420Z
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SUMMARY:Health Autonomy Clinic: Addressing Social Disparities and the Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Health Autonomy Clinic focused on social disparities and the crisis\, ways that POC communities/oppressed/marginalized communities are being affected\, and programs and resources caring for essential workers\, incarcerated and the detained.  \n\n\n\nThe goal of “Addressing Social Disparities and the Crisis” is to counter the narrative that “everyone is in this together” and to highlight how this crisis is unmasking already existing social disparities. The session also focuses on how the crisis is being used to augment structural violence with the use of “essential workers\,” and how the crisis is affecting communities of color\, undocumented\, economically marginalized\, and indigenous communities. We will touch upon the way institutionalized healthcare training is being affected and how that affects historically marginalized communities. Some basic questions will include how narratives around “chronic disease” can often gloss over structural violence\, and the way the rhetoric around “essential workers” hides a more true “disposable” worker narrative. In addition\, we will showcase how communities have organized themselves to address such issues and organize for broader support.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/health-autonomy-clinic-addressing-social-disparities-and-the-crisis/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200602T200000
DTSTAMP:20220317T061332Z
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SUMMARY:Health Autonomy Clinic [CANCELED/COVID]
DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID rates and concern for community safety\, this event has been CANCELED.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHealth Autonomy Clinic workshop on sexual health.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/health-autonomy-clinic-canceled-covid/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200531T120000
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SUMMARY:Freedom Festival
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Taina Asili and free music\, food and arts activities outdoors at Freedom Square. Rain site is adjacent at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. [CANCELED/COVID]
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/freedom-festival-2020/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200529T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200529T170000
DTSTAMP:20230306T190204Z
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SUMMARY:PREMIERE! Virtual Exhibition “Acquired Immunity” [FEMeeting WEB 2020] and Virtual Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:On March 11th we announced the cancelling of the first FEMeeting Troy and FEMeeting Paris for reasons connected with the COVID-19 pandemic. The two events scheduled for March 20th-21st 2020 marked the start of FEMeeting communities\, focusing on the support of research and artistic creation developed locally by individuals who identify as women. Instead\, Spring ’20 brought the flourishing of FEMeeting WEB\, dedicated to the presentation of digital\, alternative forms of gathering and overall encouragement to collective personal exchange in times of physical lock-down.  \n\n\n\nFEMeeting WEB 2020 is organized with Kathy High and Branda Miller\, from Media Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab Initiative (North Troy Art\, Technology\, and Urban Research in Ecology)\, and Annick Bureaud\, from Leonardo/Olats\, together with FEMeeting co-founders Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato\, with the support of Cultivamos Cultura. \n\n\n\nFEMeeting’s main purpose is to disseminate projects that are being carried out by women in its broadest interpretation (individuals who identify themselves as women\, cis-gender and non-cis-gender\, gender-fluid\, and independent of their sex and gender) in order to contribute (a) to the development of research methodologies in art and science and (b) to the development of collaboration strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities together. \n\n\n\nFEMeeting WEB 2020 includes the “Acquired Immunity” video podcasts sent by the members of the FEMeeting community at large\, the “All Women Crew Podcasts\,” and the 2020 Space Art Science Workshop organized to celebrate women in art\, astronautics and astronomy.  Artistic submissions were created in direct response to the COVID-19 crisis.  \n\n\n\nFEMeeting WEB 2020 is organized with Kathy High and Branda Miller\, from Media Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab Initiative (North Troy Art\, Technology\, and Urban Research in Ecology)\, and Annick Bureaud\, from Leonardo/Olats\, together with FEMeeting co-founders Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato\, with the support of Cultivamos Cultura. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFEMeeting Herstory:\n\n\n\nLaunched in 2017\, the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art\, Science and Technology” was driven by the desire to develop and promote more direct collaboration between individuals who identify as women. The idea behind FEMeeting was orchestrated by the Portuguese artist Marta de Menezes and scholar Dalila Honorato\, after realizing that women in the field of Art and Science have an unquestionable presence worldwide. FEMeeting acknowledges the social relevance of a core community and its role for the future.  \n\n\n\nThe two first FEMeetings took place in Portugal and were organized by Cultivamos Cultura. The outcomes of 2018 and 2019 conferences have been many and\, though most are intangible\, among the project’s distinguishable objectives there are: (a) a strong personal support through instant internet communication between women doing research work (in the broadest sense of the term) in art\, science and technology (b) and the encouragement towards the formation of local nodes to support research and artistic creation developed to enable a wide network of direct communication among them and encourage trust. In recognition of the vital role of grassroots creative praxis in building our growing global network\, FEMeeting announces its first community meetings taking place this Spring: FEMeeting: Troy 2020 and FEMeeting: Paris 2020. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVOICES: All Women Crew\n\n\n\nCelebrating Women in Art\, Astronautics and Astronomy \n\n\n\nFor the “All Women Crew” 2020 workshop\, we have created\, like last year\, a deck of cards. The workshop having been cancelled we have asked each of the participant to “play” remotely. Each participant has been asked to answer the same first question “what has attracted you to space” and then two other questions picked up by chance. Deck of Cards Proposition & Questions: Annick Bureaud. Cards Graphic Design: Quentin Aurat. Podcasts Sound Design: Jean-Yves Leloup.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnnick BureaudLeonardo/Olats DirectorArt critic and Curator \n\n\n\nAnnick Bureaud is an independent art critic\, curator and event organiser in the field of art and technosciences. She wrote numerous articles and contributes to the French contemporary art magazine art press. She organised many symposia\, conferences and workshops among which Visibility – Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flight\, project in collaboration between Leonardo/Olats and the International Festival @rt Outsiders\, Paris\, 2003. In 2009\, she co-curated the exhibition (Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments\, Festival @rt Outsiders\, MEP/European House of Photography\, Paris. In 2018\, she curated the Bourges Bandits-Mages Festival Mending the Fabric of the World. In 2019\, she published-curated the online hypertext video capsule about the artwork Neotenous Dark Dwellers – Lygophilia by Robertina Šebjanic. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYulia Akisheva \n\n\n\nCockpit Operations Research Engineer at AltenEvent Manager of SG [France2020 – Our Giant Leap at SGAC \n\n\n\nTwo nationalities\, Russian and Swedish; three Master’s degrees\, and 25 years of age make one aerospace engineer and young scientist. In space\, I am above all passionate about human exploration of Mars and international collaboration. Born in 1994\, I am at the beginning of my career path but its Martian roots go far back and it has already been a journey for me to get here. Precisely\, 10804 km of aspirations\, dreams\, limitations\, failures and successes. Apparently\, a space trip is a bumpy ride.  \n\n\n\nMy roots stretch back to Khabarovsk a Far Eastern city in Russia so far from the space industry\, I hid my space dream so deep that not a single person knew of my passion until 18 years later\, already in Stockholm\, Sweden\, after I had applied exclusively for Aerospace Engineering at KTH. Having evolved from someone who had once buried her dream to dig it back up half way around the globe to somebody friends call “the Mars girl”\, I would like to tell you never to give up on your dreams.  \n\n\n\nYou know\, there are many severe dust storms on Mars\, but remember to dust off your dream and remind yourself of what it was before the storm; my enduring dream is to contribute to the international human exploration of Mars. Nurture your dreams\, in many ways they make us who we are. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHélène Ben Aïm DrieuxPhD Engineer – Open Innovation Project Manager – CNES \n\n\n\nHélène Ben Aim Drieux is a “Maker”. Whatever the issues that are entrusted to her\, she provides end-to-end solutions. Expert\, project manager\, auditor\, strategic plan manager\, or space representative in a ministerial office … enforced by 30 years of experience at CNES\, she’s been responsible for open innovation for 7 years. Hélène’s Project COMET strengthens the skills and know-how of some 5000 experts in networks including 800 CNES engineers. The goal is to keep all of them at their highest technical levels\, to face the current exponential increase of knowledge. Being pragmatic and collaborative\, Helene implements frugal concrete solutions using the “test and learn” methodology. His motto: “the best is the enemy of good”. Convinced of the richness of diversity\, she is Chairwoman of the Paris group of “Women in Aerospace Europe”.Engineer (INSA 1984)\, PHD in Physics (INPT 1990)\, Auditor (IFACI\, 1997)\, High military studies (SHEAR2000) Green Belt Lean (2017)\, trained facilitator and creative methods @LinkedIn H.BenAim – @COMET – @WIA-E \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFabiane BorgesDoctor in Clinic Psychologyst – PUC/SP & Post-phd fellow at PGETE/INPE / Director of Space/Art Platform SACI-E/INPE/Brazil \n\n\n\nFabiane M. Borges is an articulator of the Technoshamanism and Intergalactic Commune network. She is a graduate\, master and doctor in Clinical Psychology\, a researcher who works at the intersection between Subjectivity\, Art\, Science and Technology. In 2015 she was curator and organizer with Pedro Soler of the “Art in Orbit” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Quito / Ecuador. She is Director and Curator of the SACI-E / INPE Platform – A platform for Space Culture and Artistic Residencies at the National Institute for Space Research / Brazil. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarie-Pier BoucherAssistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto\, Canada \n\n\n\nMarie-Pier Boucher research focuses on the design of habitats for sustaining life in extreme environments. She is the co-editor de Being Material (MIT Press\, 2019)\, Heteropolis (2013)\, and Adaptative Actions (Madrid\, 2010). She is a collaborator of the plateform Adaptative Actions. She has taken part in group exhibitions in Tokyo Wonder Site (TWS)\, Japan\, 2015; Galerie d’art Leonard & Bina Ellen\, Montréal\, 2010; Biennale Madrid Abierto\, Spain\, 2010). Her research residencies include: Banff Center\, Canada (2011)\, Max Planck Institue for the History of Sciences\, Germany (2010) and SymbioticA\, Center for excellence in bioart\, Australia (2006). She is assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto\, Canada. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKitsou DuboisFrench Choreographer\, Dance Researcher\, Artistic Director of “Ki Productions” \n\n\n\nIn 1990\, Kitsou Dubois\, choreographer and researcher in dance\, became the first artist to experience weightlessness in parabolic flight with the French Space Agency (CNES). Since then\, Kitsou has flown on a series of 21 parabolic flights. In her creations\, from stage choreographies to video installations or hybrid productions\, Kitsou uses her experience and knowledge of weightlessness to explore movement\, perception of the environment and also the sensation of time\, the relation to matter\, the relation to others and the poetry of an environment where all familiar references seem to have been transformed. She works with performers (dancers and acrobats) in environments where the sensation of gravity has been altered: in water\, in parabolic flights\, in virtual reality set-ups (with sound and sensorial sensors) and also works closely with researchers in science and technology. In her artistic approach\, she works\, from the dance gesture perspective\, on the legibility of another space-time “nor heavy\, nor light”. She made dream-like pieces which trouble the perception of the audience. Movements alternate between losing point of reference and anchoring. A connection is made between the bodies of the dancers and that of the spectators\, uniting both in a common vertigo. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFélicie d’Estienne d’OrvesArtist \n\n\n\nThe work of Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves combines light\, sculpture and new technologies. Her research focuses on vision\, its processes and conditioning. Her immersive installations use a phenomenological approach to reality\, they underscore the perception of time as a continuum. Since 2014\, the artist’ researches focused on space in relation to astrophysics and to study the natural light cycles. Her work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou – Nuit Blanche (Paris) – New Art Space / Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) – Watermans Arts Center (London) – Elektra Festival / BIAN (Montreal) – Maison des Arts of Créteil (Créteil/FR) – Le Centquatre / Nemo International Biennial of Digital Arts (Paris) – OCAT (Shanghai) – ICAS (Dresden) – Aram Art Museum (Goyang /KR). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizaveta GlukhovaResearcher and media artist \n\n\n\nElizaveta Glukhova is a researcher and a media artist. She studied applied arts at the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts. In 2014 she continued her education at the Graphic Design department of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague\, from where she graduated in 2018. She considers herself a curator of ideas and a storyteller and implements this approach to her autonomous as well as applied practice. At the end of 2018 Elizaveta joined the ArtMoonMars group and became a co-curator of the Moon Gallery (www.moongallery.eu) project. Together with Anna Sitnikova and Bernard Foing\, she works on the promotion of interdisciplinary collaborations and innovative design thinking inspired by the challenges of human space exploration.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSégolène GuinardPh.D Candidate in Philosophy\, University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis \n\n\n\nSégolène Guinard is a doctoral student at Labex Arts-H2H and Paris 8 University\, under the supervision of Dominique Lestel. It is also part of the Pirate Philosophy Laboratory\, the accretion of young researchers whose research aims to explore the conceptual consequences of the profound technological and ecological transformations that affect humans and non-humans. As part of her thesis\, which aims to formulate an ecology of places of extra-terrestrial life\, she is interested in attempts to export humans beyond the Earth’s atmosphere\, and ecosystems resulting poor\, that is\, environments where interactions between humans and non-human living are extremely limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle HanlonCo-Founder and President\, For All Moonkind and Co-Director at the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi. \n\n\n\nMichelle is the Co-Director of the Air and Space Law Program at the University of Mississippi School of Law and its Center for Air and Space Law. Preserving Human History in Space – a Path to Sustainable Development and Peace She is also a Co-Founder and President of For All Moonkind\, Inc.\, a nonprofit corporation that is the only organization in the world focused on protecting human cultural heritage in outer space. For All Moonkind has been recognized by the United Nations as a Permanent Observer to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Michelle Chairs the International Committee of the National Space Society and serves as the Co-Chair of the Cultural Considerations Working Group of the Moon Village Association. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Yale College and her J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. Michelle earned her LLM in Air and Space Law from McGill University where the focus of her research was commercial space and the intersection of commerce and public law. Prior to focusing on space law\, Michelle was engaged in a private business law practice. Her legal career commenced with the restructuring of sovereign debt for a number of South and Latin American countries and evolved into the negotiation and implementation of cross-border technology mergers and acquisitions. Her subsequent solo practice advised entrepreneurs across four continents on all aspects of bringing their innovative ideas to market: from basic corporate formation to financings and buyouts. Michelle continues to provide advice and counsel in respect of all aspects of air\, space and cyber law through the consulting firm of ABH Aerospace\, LLC. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlis HollandArtist\, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. \n\n\n\nI practise depression and I’m trying to get worse at it. I’m a doctoral candidate at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts\, a Finn Brit\, a slow writer. My short story Sigh-fi was published in Kontur journal’s ‘Decline’ issue (link above). I spent 2019 developing an iterative performance ‘Gravity doesn’t keep you down I do’\, which culminated in a New York residency to research asteroid strike simulations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDalila HonoratoInArts Lab – Ionian University \n\n\n\nDalila Honorato\, Ph.D is Tenured Assistant Professor in Aesthetics and Visual Semiotics at the Ionian University\, Greece. One of the founding members of the Interactive Arts Lab\, where she coordinates the Art & Science Research Group\, she is also a collaborator at the Center of Philosophy of Sciences – University of Lisbon. Her research focus is on embodiment\, monstrosity\, the uncanny and the acrobatic balance between phobia and paraphilia. The starter of the conference “Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science”\, Dalila Honorato launched together with Marta de Menezes “FEMeeting: Women in Art\, Science and Technology”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdriana KnoufArtist/Writer/Xenologist; Assistant Professor of Art + Design\, Northeastern University \n\n\n\nAdriana Knouf (she/her/hers\, sie/hir/hirs) works as a xenologist\, as an artist-scientist-writer-designer-engineer. She engages with topics such as space art\, satellites\, radio transmission\, non-human encounters\, drone flight\, queer and trans futurities\, machine learning\, the voice\, and papermaking. She is the Founding Facilitator of the tranxxeno lab (https://tranxxenolab.net)\, a nomadic artistic research laboratory that promotes entanglements amongst entities trans and xeno. Adriana is also an Assistant Professor of Art + Design at Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, USA. Adriana publishes widely\, including a book\, _How Noise Matters to Finance_ (University of Minnesota Press\, 2016); journal articles about radio art and xenological temporalities; book chapters about biohacking and the intersection of handpapermaking and electronics; and conference papers about surveillance\, xenology\, and human-computer interaction. Adriana’s research has been supported by residencies such as Field_Notes and Wave Farm. She exhibits nationally and internationally and regularly presents at conferences and festivals around the world. For more information see http://zeitkunst.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMinna LångströmArtist filmmaker\, MFA \n\n\n\nMinna Långström is a media artist and film maker from Helsinki\, Finland. Her artistic work consists of participatory cinematic installations\, short films and documentaries. Her work processes tend to be extensively researched and interdisciplinary. Her latest film “The Other Side of Mars” (56 min\, 2019) brought her in contact with geologists\, astrobiologists and Nasa engineers involved with the current Mars missions. Premiering at the DocPoint Documentary Film Festival 2019\, and screened at festivals around the world\, the film looks at the role of images in these missions. Her previous films and artwork have been selected to numerous film festivals and exhibited at museums such as Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and Frankfurter Kunstverein and in galleries such as InterAccess gallery in Toronto. Långström was an assistant professor in Moving Image at the Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki 2008-2012\, where she also developed course concepts critically connecting media art\, science and technology. She has been an artist in residency at FACT\, Liverpool\, IASPIS\, Stockholm and Space Studios for Art and Technology in London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife van Linden TolArtist\, Vice Chair ITACCUS \n\n\n\nAoife van Linden Tol is a London based artist working with explosives. Beginning in 2000 her work with explosives fuses her interests in nature\, cosmology\, chemistry and physics. She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture\, installation\, drawing\, photography\, film and performance. She creates abstract\, visceral and immersive works which often examine concepts of time\, density and matter as well as deep human emotions and motivations. Aoife is the Director of FERAL\, an arts and events organisation which tunes into the wild and beautiful instincts of the human condition. She graduated from Central St Martins College of Art and Design\, with BA Hons in Art & Design. She also graduated from The International School for Safety and Explosive Engineers with a national qualification in explosive handling 2001. She was was awarded the position of Artist in Residence at the European Space Agency & Ars Electronica Futurelab during 2017. Some of her other roles include Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Vice Chair for the IAF Committee for the Cultural Utilisation of Space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniela de Paulis (Amsterdam)Artist\, Astronomers Without Borders \n\n\n\nDaniela de Paulis is a media artist\, licensed radio operator (IU0IDY) and trained radio telescope operator. From 2009 to 2019 she has been artist in residence at the Dwingeloo radio telescope\, where she has developed a large body of work using innovative radio technologies in live performance art. She is member of the permanent international SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) committee\, the only worldwide forum for SETI scientists\, and member of the METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) advisory panel.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMirjana PovicAssistant professor and Head of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research and Development Division\, Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute\, Ethiopia / Associate researcher\, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia\, Spain Honorary professor\, Mbarara University of Science and Technology\, Uganda \n\n\n\nMirjana Povic (1981\, Serbia) is assistant professor and Head of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research and Development Division at the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI)\, associate researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia in Spain\, and honorary professor at Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda. She obtained her PhD in astrophysics in 2010 at the Institito de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain). Her main research interests are related with galaxy formation and evolution\, in particular with nuclear activity in galaxies\, star formation\, morphological classification of galaxies\, and galaxy clusters. In addition\, over more than last 10 years\, she worked on development in astronomy\, science and education in different parts of Africa\, and in particular in Ethiopia\, Rwanda\, Uganda\, Tanzania\, South Africa\, Kenya\, Ghana\, Zambia\, and Morocco\, through joint research collaborations\, institutional development\, students supervisions\, trainings\, lecturing\, regulation development\, and outreach. In 2018 she was a winner of the inaugural Nature Research Award for Inspiring Science. In May 2019 was invited by Serbian Government to be one of 16 selected Science Ambassadors. In June 2019 she received a recognition from the ESSTI and Ethiopian Ministry of Innovation and Technology for her contribution to the institutional development of ESSTI and development of astronomy and science in Ethiopia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNeha Satak \n\n\n\nCEO\, Astrome Technologies Private Limited \n\n\n\nNeha is the co-founder and CEO of a space startup\, Astrome\, which is working on making high-bandwidth satellite internet connectivity affordable. Astrome through its patented technology is solving the fundamental problem of the absence of quality internet backbone in most parts of the world. She holds a PhD from Texas A&M University and a Masters from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Aerospace Engineering. She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Florida in association with the Air Force Research Lab\, USA. She was awarded the Amelia Earhart Fellowship by Zonta Foundation and WEQ award jointly by AnitaB.org\, USISTEF and Government of India. She was also selected to be part of ITU’s EQUALS pro
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LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show,Screening,Speaker
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SUMMARY:"All We've Got" with Filmmaker Alexis Clements\, and Special Guests Tandra LaGrone and EP [CANCELED/COVID]
DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID rates and concern for community safety\, this event has been CANCELED.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA personal exploration of LGBTQI women’s communities\, cultures\, and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create\, from bars to bookstores to arts and political hubs. This investigation of spaces that have managed to stay open when so many others have closed offers a perspective on why having a place to gather matters\, particularly for marginalized groups.  \n\n\n\nPreceded by a Be The Media! workshop. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by In Our Own Voice.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/all-weve-got-with-filmmaker-alexis-clements-and-special-guests-tandra-lagrone-and-ep/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary Campus Permaculture Virtual Workshop with Sujin Chung
DESCRIPTION:Emma Willard student Sujin Chung will lead a virtual permaculture workshop and tour of the Sanctuary for Independent Media\, from her home in South Korea. In this interview\, she talks about how learning about permaculture at the Sanctuary has affected her life\, and what inspired this project. Originally scheduled for a physical walk through Media Sanctuary’s environmental education campus\, this zoom workshop will be presented from Sujin from her home in Seoul\, Korea\, while Alexis and Kevin will present from social distanced “boots on the ground.”  Please join us for a virtual adventure walk through our North Troy gardens and neighborhood and experience ways we can help support our local environments!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/sanctuary-campus-permaculture-virtual-workshop-with-sujin-chung/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:"The Cordillera of Dreams" Screening with Patricio Guzmán
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an on-demand screening of The Cordillera of Dreams and a workshop featuring master documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán with translator Daniel Mosquera. Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival\, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (Nostalgia for the Light\, and The Pearl Button) investigating the relationship between historical memory\, political trauma\, and geography in his native country of Chile. It centers on the imposing landscape of the Andes that run the length of the country’s Eastern border.  \n\n\n\nAt once protective and isolating\, magisterial and indifferent\, the Cordillera serves as an enigmatic focal point around which Guzmán contemplates the enduring legacy of the 1973 military coup d’état.  The film screening (a benefit for The Sanctuary for Independent Media arranged by Icarus Films) is available on-demand during any 48 hour window through May 28\, 2020.  Tickets are $12. In addition to our virtual screening of The Cordillera of Dreams we presented a Be The Media! workshop featuring a talk and Q&A with filmmaker Patricio Guzmán live from Paris on Friday\, May 22\, 2020.  Local filmmaker Daniel Mosquera\, professor of Hispanic and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Union College\, will provide simultaneous translation.   \n\n\n\nThis event and screening is co-sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Film:\n\n\n\nAlong the way\, Guzmán interviews artists\, writers\, and documentarians\, drawing out their conflicted feelings towards the Cordillera and its relationship to Chilean national identity and history. Among the interviewees are Vincente Gajardo and Francisco Gazitúa\, sculptors who draw from the raw materials of the Cordillera to produce their artwork. Jorge Baradoit\, a writer of history and fiction\, discusses the continuation of Pinochet’s project in the social and economic structure of contemporary Chile. Musician Javiera Parra remembers the violence she witnessed as a child. The film’s prominent moral voice is Pablo Salas\, a filmmaker and archivist who has worked since the 1980s to document acts of political resistance and state violence. \n\n\n\nLooking at both the past and future\, Guzmán’s work rescues Chile from the threat of historical amnesia. He considers how the neoliberal economic policies introduced under the Pinochet regime have continued to stratify Chilean society along increasingly rigid class lines. The Cordillera may form an omnipresent backdrop to the Chilean landscape\, but\, like so many parts of the country\, much of it is privately owned and inaccessible to the vast majority of the population. Unflinching in its presentation of contemporary Chile\, The Cordillera of Dreams moves beyond despair and looks towards the possibilities of political change by linking the ideological struggles of the past with the inequalities of the present. \n\n\n\nPress about The Cordillera of Dreams:\n\n\n\n“Guzmán’s late-career trinity is a stunning achievement in the cinema of the hidden pattern and the startling\, unexpected connection.” —Variety \n\n\n\n“Deeply personal. In this poetic documentary\, Patricio Guzmán mediates on the past and future of his home country via the mountains that close it off from the rest of the world.” —Sight & Sound \n\n\n\n“Recommended! A fitting capstone to the director’s elegy for Chile’s tortured past that restates the trilogy’s fundamental point: like the Andes\, the nation survives\, but people must remember their past.” —Video Librarian \n\n\n\n“A prelude to Chile’s recent outcry.” —Americas Quarterly \n\n\n\n“Whatever the future holds for his native land\, Guzmán’s trilogy will have its place in their history.” —POV Magazine \n\n\n\n“Deeply beautiful and very deeply felt…one of the world’s finest working filmmakers.” —The Boston Globe \n\n\n\nAbout Patricio Guzmán:\n\n\n\nFrom The Battle of Chile\, filmed in black and white\, on 16mm film\, in the midst of social upheaval and revolution\, to Nostalgia for the Light\, filmed with modern digital technology\, filled with vibrant colors\, poetic connections and introspection\, Guzmán’s epic body of work is the unprecedented record of one country’s journey and one filmmaker’s evolution. \n\n\n\nBorn in Santiago de Chile in 1941\, Patricio Guzmán is one of the leading documentary filmmakers in the world. He studied filmmaking at the Film Institute at the Catholic University of Chile\, and at the Official School of Film in Madrid. \n\n\n\nAfter the 1973 Chilean coup Guzmán left the country and has lived in Cuba\, Spain and France\, where he currently resides. Six of his films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival\, including The Battle of Chile\, The Pinochet Case\, Salvador Allende\, Nostalgia for the Light\, for which he received the Grand Award from the European Film Academy in 2011. \n\n\n\nGuzmán’s The Battle of Chile remains one of the most widely praised documentary films of all time\, and was named “one of the 10 best political documentary films in the world” by Cineaste. His films have been extensively screened worldwide and he’s been the subject of numerous film retrospectives\, most recently at the British Film Institute\, Harvard Film Archive\, and BAMcinématek. In 2013\, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences\, and last February he was awarded with the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale for The Pearl Button\, his most recent production (which is due to open theatrically in the US this fall).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/screening-and-be-the-media-workshop-with-patricio-guzman-the-cordillera-of-dreams-2/
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Screening,Speaker
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T170000
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SUMMARY:Media Activist Reflections From #ShutItDown Pipeline Protest with Filmmaker Deia Schlosberg [CANCELED/COVID]
DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID rates and concern for community safety\, this event has been CANCELED.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a workshop with Deia Schlosberg before the screening of her film\, The Story of Plastic\, at 6pm! Deia Schlosberg (DIRECTOR/PRODUCER) made national news in October\, 2016\, when she was arrested and charged with 45 years’ worth of felonies for filming the #ShutItDown pipeline protest in North Dakota. Part of a worrying pattern of attacks on journalistic freedom\, her case led to an open letter to President Barack Obama co-signed by 30 celebrities. Deia produced Josh Fox’s climate change film\, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change (Sundance/HBO). Deia also co-produced Awake\, A Dream from Standing Rock (Tribeca/Netflix)\, and The Reluctant Radical (2018). Deia also co-directed and produced Cold Love. Her short film\, Backyard\, a look at the human impacts of fracking\, won two student Emmys (Best Documentary\, Bricker Humanitarian Award).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/media-activist-reflections-from-shutitdown-pipeline-protest-with-filmmaker-deia-schlosberg/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T180000
DTSTAMP:20220803T173930Z
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop with Master Documentary Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán
DESCRIPTION:In addition to our virtual screening of The Cordillera of Dreams we presented a Be The Media!  workshop featuring a talk and Q&A with filmmaker Patricio Guzmán live from Paris on Friday\, May 22\, 2020.  Local filmmaker Daniel Mosquera\, professor of Hispanic and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Union College\, provided simultaneous translation.   \n\n\n\nThis event and screening is co-sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Patricio Guzmán:\n\n\n\nFrom The Battle of Chile\, filmed in black and white\, on 16mm film\, in the midst of social upheaval and revolution\, to Nostalgia for the Light\, filmed with modern digital technology\, filled with vibrant colors\, poetic connections and introspection\, Guzmán’s epic body of work is the unprecedented record of one country’s journey and one filmmaker’s evolution. \n\n\n\nBorn in Santiago de Chile in 1941\, Patricio Guzmán is one of the leading documentary filmmakers in the world. He studied filmmaking at the Film Institute at the Catholic University of Chile\, and at the Official School of Film in Madrid. \n\n\n\nAfter the 1973 Chilean coup Guzmán left the country and has lived in Cuba\, Spain and France\, where he currently resides. Six of his films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival\, including The Battle of Chile\, The Pinochet Case\, Salvador Allende\, Nostalgia for the Light\, for which he received the Grand Award from the European Film Academy in 2011. \n\n\n\nGuzmán’s The Battle of Chile remains one of the most widely praised documentary films of all time\, and was named “one of the 10 best political documentary films in the world” by Cineaste. His films have been extensively screened worldwide and he’s been the subject of numerous film retrospectives\, most recently at the British Film Institute\, Harvard Film Archive\, and BAMcinématek. In 2013\, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences\, and last February he was awarded with the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale for The Pearl Button\, his most recent production (which is due to open theatrically in the US this fall). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBe The Media! workshops teach multimedia skills to community members in order to develop urgently needed independent local voices. Our goal is to empower the public through independent media making\, supplying them with the tools to tell their own stories through different mediums of media including video\, radio and journalism.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-master-documentary-filmmaker-patricio-guzman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T200000
DTSTAMP:20220407T173305Z
CREATED:20200512T171200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T173305Z
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop with Renée Feltz: Muckraking with a Conscience - Reporting during COVID
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Be The Media! Radio Workshop with Senior Producer Renée Feltz\, sharing her expertise in the trenches at Democracy Now! during the COVID crisis! Renee will cover: How Democracy Now! has changed in response to COVID; the impact of COVID on other stories; muckraking with a conscience: creative ways to cover stories\, including case studies and how to keep segments compelling; muckraking with a conscience:  open discussion.  \n\n\n\nRenée Feltz is an award-winning investigative journalist who covers immigration and criminal justice. She was a longtime senior producer for Democracy Now! and has also reported for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Mother Jones\, PBS Need to Know\, Rewire\, The Nation\, The Texas Observer\, The Indypendent\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBe The Media! workshops teach multimedia skills to community members in order to develop urgently needed independent local voices. Our goal is to empower the public through independent media making\, supplying them with the tools to tell their own stories through different mediums of media including video\, radio and journalism.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-renee-feltz-muckraking-with-a-conscience-reporting-during-covid/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200509T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200509T200000
DTSTAMP:20211201T180155Z
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SUMMARY:Escalating Resistance: Mass Rebellion Training with Lisa Fithian
DESCRIPTION:As part of her Shut It Down book tour\, organizer Lisa Fithian will be offering a three hour training to hone our strategies and tactics to impact power holders and create social disruption at increasingly larger scales. This organizing requires attention to how we build collective power that heals and liberates us from our socialization in the dominant culture of superiority – white\, male\, rich and Christian….
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/escalating-resistance-mass-rebellion-training-with-lisa-fithian/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200509T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200509T200000
DTSTAMP:20220407T165556Z
CREATED:20211201T185613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T165556Z
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SUMMARY:Troy Bike Rescue's BikeFest 10 [CANCELED/COVID]
DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID rates and concern for community safety\, this event has been CANCELED.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Troy Bike Rescue for their 10th annual fundraiser. It’s a celebration of bikes\, burritos\, and cakes along with the many things TBR represents: youth empowerment\, health and wellness\, recycling\, transportation independence\, and alternatives to wasteful and exploitative models of business. Now more than ever TBR is reliant on community support and dollars. Put your mouth and your money in the same place.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/troy-bike-rescues-bikefest-10/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T213000
DTSTAMP:20220407T165315Z
CREATED:20211201T191428Z
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SUMMARY:Health Autonomy Clinic: Harm Reduction in the Age of Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Join NATURE Lab and the Health Autonomy Network for a workshop focused on harm reduction solidarity in the age of COVID-19. We will view the opiate epidemic as a crisis within a crisis\, and examine the history of harm reduction networks as well as current harm reduction initiatives and resources. The event also features guests who will discuss current strategies in Harm Reduction and the current COVID-19 crisis\, including Nancy Campbell\, author of “OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose\,” who will speak about the history of an unnatural disaster—drug overdose—and the emergence of Naloxone as a social and technological solution. Additional participants include Frank Coughlin\, MD and Heath Autonomy Clinic Co-Coordinator; Ed Fox\, Harm Reduction Manager with Project Safe Point; Jasmine Landry\, co-founder of Albany Med Addiction Coalition; Leah Miller-lloyd\, harm reductionist and fourth-year medical student at Albany Medical College; and Ariela Zamcheck\, DO. Preceded by a community potluck. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Nancy Campbell\n\n\n\nNancy D. Campbell is Professor and Department Head of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy\, New York\, where she has taught for over two decades. Her most recent book is OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose Prevention (MIT Press\, 2020). She was a FRIAS Senior Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in 2017-2018. She is one of three editors of the Journal of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Other books include Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (University of Michigan Press\, 2007); Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World (co-authored with Elizabeth Ettorre; Palgrave\, 2011); The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts (co-authored with JP Olsen and Luke Walden; Abrams\, 2008); and Using Women: Gender\, Drug Policy\, and Social Justice (Routledge\, 2000).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/health-autonomy-clinic-harm-reduction-in-the-age-of-pandemic/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion,Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200428T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200428T190000
DTSTAMP:20220317T060901Z
CREATED:20211203T190558Z
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SUMMARY:KitchenSanctuary Presents: Home is Where the Maqlouba is with Jude Abu Zaineh  [CANCELED/COVID]
DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID rates and concern for community safety\, this event has been CANCELED.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJude Abu Zaineh (MFA\, University of Windsor) is a Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker. Her practice relies on the use of art\, food\, and technology to investigate meanings of culture\, displacement\, diaspora\, and belonging. She’s interested in ideals of home and community while working to develop aesthetics rooted in her childhood and upbringing in a muslim environment in the Middle East.  \n\n\n\nAbu Zaineh has exhibited her work internationally across: São Luis and Lisbon\, Portugal; Mexico City; NYC\, USA; Toronto\, London\, and Windsor\, Canada; and was one of the first artists to participate in collaborative residency with the Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto (Canada).  She is currently pursuing her PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy\, NY.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/kitchensanctuary-presents-home-is-where-the-maqlouba-is-with-jude-abu-zaineh/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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