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SUMMARY:Be5 STEM Saturdays
DESCRIPTION:Fun with Science & Health: Through hands-on activities\, students in grades 3-8 explore science topics vital to daily life\, including controlling disease with clean hands\, healthy drinking water\, and improved indoor air quality. \n\n\n\n\nregister\n\n\n\n\nStudents will engage in hands-on activities using Micro:bit technology to explore themes like water purification\, biodiversity\, air quality\, and UV radiation. These activities foster scientific inquiry skills and real-time data analysis while deepening understanding of ecological systems. Concurrently\, participants will begin exploring their personal strengths through activities focused on identifying talents\, passions\, and career interests. This session sets the foundation for a transformative STEM journey and personal growth. \n\n\n\nQuestions: reach Dr. Emilly Obuya at 518-258-7356\, obuyae@sage.edu
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be5-stem-saturdays/2024-10-12/
LOCATION:NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:PHS Community Acupuncture
DESCRIPTION:PHS is excited to begin hosting regular Community Acupuncture on most Friday afternoons in the fall.  Community acupuncture is a grassroots technique developed to offer the healing benefits of acupuncture at an accessible cost as well as coupled with the benefit of healing in community.  Folks can sign up ahead of time or walk in!   \n\n\n\nSessions are spaced every 15 mins and usually last about an hour. Please only register if you are sure you can make it\, holding spots doesn’t allow others to sign up. Contact fxcoughlin@gmail.com to if you need to cancel. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Community Acupuncture \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou will be seated in a cozy lounge chair\, in a large semi-circle with up to 4 other people.\n\n\n\nThe acupuncturist will ask a few simple questions about your health\, then place appropriate needles in your arms\, legs and ear.  People find it quite relaxing and often take a nap!\n\n\n\nAcupuncture is a subtle healing energy and best works with 3-4 visits over the space of one to two months.\n\n\n\nPlease wear comfy clothes that can easily be pulled above your elbows and knees. If you often get cold\, please bring a blanket. And drink plenty of water.\n\n\n\nWe are asking for sliding scale donations to make these sessions sustainable. Please plan to donate between $20-40 per session\, these go to cover costs\, provide a stipend for the acupuncture team\, and take care of the space. If you are able to donate more\, it will help cover costs for someone else. If you are unable to donate\, please come for healing regardless\, no one will be turned away. You can send money via venmo to @ HAC NE (please put CAP in comments)\, Paypal at fxcoughlin@gmail.com\, or cash at the session.\n\n\n\nAcupuncture will be performed by Xavier\, a NYS certified physician-acupuncturist. He was trained in a Japanese style formulated by Kiko Matsumoto through the Acumed program.\n\n\n\n\nWhat is acupuncture? \n\n\n\nJohn Hopkins Medicine writes\, acupuncture is the practice of penetrating the skin with thin\, solid\, metallic needles which are then activated through gentle and specific movements of the practitioner’s hands or with electrical stimulation.  \n\n\n\nAcupuncture is part of the ancient practice of Traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe the human body has more than 2\,000 acupuncture points connected by pathways or meridians. These pathways create an energy flow (Qi\, pronounced “chee”) through the body that is responsible for overall health. Disruption of the energy flow can cause disease. By applying acupuncture to certain points\, it is thought to improve the flow of Qi\, thereby improving health. Read more \n\n\n\nMore about community acupuncture\n\n\n\nCommunity acupuncture is a grassroots model designed to increase access to acupuncture. It is done in a group setting\, mainly using points mainly in your hands\, feet\, and ears.  In the US\, specifically at the Lincoln Hospital Detox Program in the Bronx\, the practice was brought over in the 70’s from China by Black Panther and Young Lord activists.  It has been refined and spread through the work of the Peoples Organization of Community Acupuncture (POCA).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/phs-community-acupuncture-3/2024-10-11/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:PlaceKnowing and Ruderal Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Join us and guests Dr. Ted Jojola and Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore for a presentation and conversation to discuss how place-knowing concepts connect with land restoration concerns in current-day North Central Troy\, informed by a series of case studies with Indigenous communities\, and having walked the Sanctuary campus with local land stewards. They will talk about how changemakers can engage Indigenous planning methods as they remediate contaminated and neglected land and make way for healthy communities.  \n\n\n\n\n\nGuests Dr. Ted Jojola and Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore will share insights from their recently completed PlaceKnowing podcast series\, connecting them to the Sanctuary’s ongoing investigation into caring for urban lands shaped by stress informed by our two Ruderal Ecologies convenings (2018\, 2021). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Place-knowing” (rather than “place-making”) acknowledges that a place may already be made. One must “walk the land” to learn about it and about the world-views of the communities that inhabit it. Place-knowing as a framework in the context of brownfield remediation on Indigenous lands is explored in depth on the PlaceKnowing podcast. Hosted by Dr. Ted Jojola\, the series supports “social changemakers to engage Indigenous planning methods as they remediate contaminated and neglected land and make way for healthy communities.” Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore’s approach to media-making is explored in a Hudson Mohawk Magazine interview: Indigenous Media-Making: Land\, Language\, Relationship. \n\n\n\n“Ruderal\,” from the Latin rudus (rubble)\, refers to plant species that are first to repopulate disturbed habitats. “Ruderal ecologies” are formed by hardy\, adaptive communities of human and more-than-human life who begin the healing process in the wake of damaging processes like colonization\, urbanization\, and industrialization.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenters\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore is an independent filmmaker\, podcaster\, and educator. Moore is Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand River territory where she is based. She is a founding member and co-owner of The Aunties Dandelion (TAD): a media organization informed by traditional Onkwehon:we (Indigenous) teachings and focused on revitalizing communities through stories of land\, language\, and relationships. TAD recently completed their short film titled VESS\, featuring Mi’kmaq actor Glen Gould and Six Nations community members. The film is about love\, listening and returning to the Rez. \n\n\n\nTAD projects include The Aunties Dandelion’s monthly podcast which in its third year. Moore completed a trilogy of films with Free Speech TV about the 2016/17 Standing Rock water protection actions and from 2017 – 2019 was an affiliated professor of Indigenous media and philosophy at Northland College in Ashland\, Wisconsin. \n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · Storytelling About PlaceKnowing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheodore (Ted) Jojola\, PhD\, is a Distinguished Professor and Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the Community & Regional Planning Program\, School of Architecture + Planning\, University of New Mexico (UNM). He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Hawaii at Manoa where he attended the EastWest Center. He has a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and a BFA in Architecture from the UNM.  \n\n\n\nHe is an enrolled tribal member of the Pueblo of Isleta. From 2008-2010\, he was Visiting Distinguished Professor at Arizona State University where he was a member of the faculty of the School Geographic Sciences and Planning. He was Director of Native American Studies at UNM from 1980-1996\, and established the interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Native Studies. He is the founder of the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute and a cofounder of the Indigenous Planning Division of the American Planning Association. He is President of a non-profit foundation\, The Society for the Preservation of American Indian Culture\, as well as board member of other foundations including the Chamiza Foundation\, Tricklock Theatre Company\, and the BataanCorregidor Foundation of New Mexico.  \n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · Supporting Communities Rather than Extracting from Them Benefits All\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\nRespondents\n\n\n\nThese invited guests have unique perspectives on connecting with land in North Central Troy. \n\n\n\nA’Livija Mullins-Richard\, affectionately known as Livi or Olive\, is the new kid on the block at the Sanctuary for Independent Media. Her multifaceted roles as the Air Justice Lab (AJL) Project Lead at NATURE Lab and Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator for The Sanctuary reflect her dedication to fostering collective action and  filling data gaps in underserved communities. A first-generation college graduate\, she holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Justice from Siena College.  As the Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator\, she is determined to forge stronger connections with organizations\, schools\, and individuals throughout Troy. Through her work with AJL\, a community air monitoring initiative\, A’Livija aims to gather data that validates the lived experiences of individuals residing in sacrifice zones\, commonly known as environmentally unjust areas. By collecting this data\, she seeks to cultivate awareness and encourage participatory action concerning air quality issues.  In addition to her primary roles\, A’Livija is involved in various projects at The Sanctuary\, including tending to the Collard City Garden and contributing to radio production via Hudson Mohawk Magazine. A’Livija’s areas of focus include racial health disparities\, urban ecology\, cartography\, and New York State History. Her unwavering dedication is focused on cultivating a culture of care in spaces where complacency often prevails. She firmly believes that this transformative journey begins with her—and with you. \n\n\n\nAzuré Iversen-Keahi is a mixed Kanaka ‘Ōiwi\, mother\, grower\, writer\, and administrator based on Mohican soils of Upstate New York. Transitioning from the landscape of the Koʻolau Mountains to the Hudson Valley of the Northeast\, she began to explore earthwork as healing for herself and the surrounding community centering her commitment to food sovereignty and intersectional justice. Her stories of diaspora\, ʻāina-based healing and ancestral reunion have been published in The Greenhorns’: New Farmer’s Almanac\, Tropic Magazine\, GRIST\, Atmos and The Daily Yonder. Having managed a food business in NYC\, farmer’s markets for Denison Farm\, holding worker-ownership at Capital Bookkeeping Cooperative\, and having served as the Business Manager of Soul Fire Farm\, she weaves indigenous ways of knowing into the design of administrative systems that cultivate care and support for teams centering collective liberation. \n\n\n\ndamaris miller (they / them) is a community organizer\, facilitator\, and grower committed to creating spaces of rest\, discovery\, and connection for Black\, Indigenous and other People of Color\, queer and trans folks\, and activists. They have been creating & curating transformative spaces for over 10 years through practices of breath\, Buddhist-based meditation\, Ancestral Wisdom and Earth reverence. Damaris has over 10 years of experience working for and with nonprofits in the spheres of environmental action\, food justice\, healing justice and abolition. This experience includes (though is not limited to) working with WE ACT For Environmental Justice\, Khoryug Environmental Network\, Soul Fire Farm and Troy 4 Black Lives. In their work to unpack the nonprofit industrial complex\, they created Rested Root’s framework to “T.R.A.N.S.F.O.R.M. the NPIC.” As a Queer and Trans survivor\, they strive to live into personal healing as a practice of communal liberation and community healing as the root of personal liberation. Damaris has a B.A. in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Princeton University.  \n\n\n\nEllie Irons (she/her) is an artist and educator living and working on Mohican land in current-day Troy\, New York\, USA. From foraged watercolor paintings to un-lawning experiments\, her work combines socially engaged art\, ecology fieldwork\, and embodied learning. She is a co-founder of the Next Epoch Seed Library and the Environmental Performance Agency\, collaborations investigating relationships between humans and spontaneous urban plants (aka weeds). Ellie received a BA from Scripps College in Los Angeles and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. In December 2021\, She completed a PhD in arts practice at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, focused on socially engaged environmental art. She is currently a community science educator and lab manager at the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab. One iteration of her ongoing Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory project enlivens a lawn south of Collard City growers on the Sanctuary campus. \n\n\n\nKathy High is an artist / educator who collaborates with scientists and others\, and considers living systems\, animal sentience\, and ethical dilemmas of biotechnology and medical industries. High is Professor of Video and New Media in the Arts department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is NATURE Lab coordinator at the Sanctuary for Independent Media. \n\n\n\nMargaretha Haughwout  works with humans\, and the more-than-human\, across technologies and ecologies\, to cultivate a radical imagination that challenges proprietary regimes\, colonial temporalities\, and capitalist forms of labor. Her work manifests as speculative fabulation\, intervention\, participatory event\, walking tour\, experimental pedagogy\, installation\, and biological processes. Haughwout’s active collaborations include the Coven Intelligence Program\, with efrén cruz cortés\, the Guerrilla Grafters\, and Ruderal Witchcraft with Oliver Kellhammer. She created and maintains the Food Forest Studio in Central New York\, and is working with the Sanctuary to create the living installation De-Fence.  \n\n\n\nWanonah Spencer is an Indigenous youth advocate visiting her Mohican homelands from current-day Wisconsin. She is Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican and Oneida. She received the Alliance for a Viable Future’s first ever Mohican Ancestral Healing Fellowship to deepen her relationship with her homelands and The Berkshires. In 2023 she visited the Sanctuary with her daughter Gracie who participated in Water Justice Lab. Wanonah’s long-term plan is to establish a sister organization dedicated to cultural revitalization and climate education on her reservation in Wisconsin.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/placeknowing-and-ruderal-ecologies/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:StoryHarvest 2024
DESCRIPTION:Join us for StoryHarvest\, our annual food justice celebration\, connecting the community over stories of food. This year’s theme is civic action to fight for water justice! This annual event takes place at Freedom Square\, bringing together community groups and offering activities\, games\, music\, and food.*rain location indoors at our main space\, 3361 6th Ave \n\n\n\nDo you know how clean Troy’s water is? Water Justice Lab fellows have been testing local waters and will let you know where is safe and what is not. How have every day folks protected our water? We will have activities and games around the history and future of protecting water. What to macroinvertebrates look like? We will have a viewing station of critters from our streams. How can we protect our local waterways? We will have local organizations engage us in this questions. \n\n\n\nThis event is FREE and open to anyone! \n\n\n\nSchedule:Family Singalong with Kim Tateo\, 2:45pm-3:15pm\, hear an interview with KimHeartspace Yoga\, “Flow Like Water” workshop\, 4:00-4:45pmParticipating organizations:League of Women Voters of Rensselaer CountyChildren’s Museum of Saratoga \n\n\n\nThanks to Stewart’s for their grant to make this event possible.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/story-harvest-2024/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Community Garden Work Day
DESCRIPTION:Where: 3337 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY 12180 \n\n\n\nCommunity Work & Play Days will happen on 3rd Fridays from 3:30-5:30 pm from May through October. We will have drop in activities for families and garden tasks for our adult volunteers. \n\n\n\nStay tuned for details about our family activities for this day! \n\n\n\nWe are open for regular open garden hours every Friday through October. Join us in tending\, harvesting\, and caring for the plants and the land\, or just take some time to rest amongst greenery and appreciate the gifts of the garden. These open hours are family-oriented and open to all!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-garden-work-day-5/
LOCATION:Collard City Growers\, 3337 6th Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,open hours
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SUMMARY:Sanctuary Campus Open House
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to visit our campus\, get a tour\, and hear about our various initiatives. Our campus open house events are ideal for potential interns and volunteers to get a peek into what we do before committing\, and it’s an opportunity for our local community to see what we’re all about. \n\n\n\nCampus tour schedule coming soon.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/sanctuary-campus-open-house/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open House
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SUMMARY:HMM Community Radio Day
DESCRIPTION:Community Radio Days take place on the first Monday of every month\, bringing interested and producing correspondents together to discuss grassroots news\, story ideas\, share experiences\, and create community. Hudson Mohawk Magazine is for everyone. Drop by to see what it’s all about.  \n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) is a volunteer-produced\, local news hour that provides sanctuary for the discussion of topics affecting our communities. Our program builds community in Troy and the surrounding Capital Region through broad grassroots participation. \n\n\n\n4:00pm: Meet folks\, get food\, check out our space. 4:30pm: Discussion on grassroots radio and volunteer production by one of our seasoned producers. 6:00pm: See a live recording of HMM. Hear the variety of stories on our program in real time\, and see how hosts and engineers in action. 7:07pm: Join our weekly programming meeting where producers come together to program the week ahead. Meet our team\, and share your ideas for for stories. \n\n\n\nDo you like to tell stories? Are you interested in reporting on issues you care about? Do you want to engage with your community? Do you have questions for decision makers? Are you interested in amplifying important issues of social and environmental issues? Do you like sound engineering? If you answered yes to any of these questions\, ask about getting involved in Hudson Mohawk Magazine by stopping by or emailing HMM@mediasanctuary.org
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/hmm-community-radio-day-4/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:open hours
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SUMMARY:Be5 STEM Summer Camp
DESCRIPTION:DISCOVER THE WORLD OF ELECTRONICS\n\n\n\nThis camp introduces students to the basics of electronics and circuitry. They will learn about various components of an electrical circuit and key terminologies used in microelectronics while gaining insight into careers in applied electronics\, computer science and engineering. Through hands-on experiences with tools like Makey Makey\, Micro:bit\, and Edison Robot\, students explore the real-world applications of electronics in robotics and physical computing\, sparking their curiosity and building essential STEM skills. \n\n\n\nCost: $150 for the weekGrades: 3 – 8For more into\, Contact 518-258-7356 or obuyae@sage.edu with any questions. \n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/be5-stem-summer-camp-1/
LOCATION:NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Music Together Summer Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Deb Cavanaugh is offering Music Together & Rhythm Kids six class summer sessions at NATURE Lab/People’s Health Sanctuary (3319 6th Ave in North Troy) starting the week of July 8th! You can join for the whole session\, or drop in to just one or two! These classes are a great way for parents and kids to move and sing and play together. Full and partial scholarships/sliding scale are available to local families if you need them.  \n\n\n\n\nMusic Together (birth- 4) will be offered Tuesdays at 4:30 pm (filling fast!)\n\n\n\nMusic Together (birth- 4) will be offered Thursdays at 10 am (if it fills)\n\n\n\nRhythm Kids (ages 4-7) will be offered Thursday afternoons at 4:30 pm (also if it fills!) \n\n\n\n\nRegistration here: https://www.heldebergmusic.com/register.aspx \n\n\n\nClass schedule here: https://www.heldebergmusic.com/calendar.aspx?start_date=07%2f01%2f24 \n\n\n\nInformation on classes here: https://www.heldebergmusic.com/Class-descriptions.html
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/music-together-summer-sessions/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Make Music Day at the Garden!
DESCRIPTION:Due to potential thunderstorms\, this event is being moved inside to our main space\, at 3361 6th Avenue! \n\n\n\nHi kids\, hi families! Did you decorate a flower pot at Freedom Fest? Whether you did or not\, we invite you to join us in celebrating Make Music Day during our open garden hours! Join in music-making\, then enjoy the garden. \n\n\n\nMiss Deb\, who offers Music Together at People’s Health Sanctuary\, will lead Flowerpot Music! Bring your flowerpot and play along in the garden! Everyone can come and play their flowerpot in the garden (limited amount of flowerpots will be available on-site)\, no experience necessary! Vic Firth Mallets will be provided to all participants courtesy of Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and the Make Music Alliance.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/make-music-day-at-the-garden/
LOCATION:Collard City Growers\, 3337 6th Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:PHS Community Acupuncture
DESCRIPTION:PHS is offering the first People’s Health Community Acupuncture as part of our Healing Days.  Community acupuncture is a grassroots model to increase access to acupuncture. It is done in a group setting (about 5 people at a time) in comfortable recliners and uses points mainly in your hands and feet.   \n\n\n\nThe last appointment of the day is at 3:10p. Walk-ins are welcome\, if there is space. Please wear comfy clothes and drink plenty of water!  Acupuncture will be performed by Xavier\, a NYS certified physician-acupuncturist. He was trained in a Japanese style formulated by Kiko Matsumoto through the Acumed program. \n\n\n\n\nSign up here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is acupuncture?\n\n\n\nJohn Hopkins Medicine writes\, acupuncture is the practice of penetrating the skin with thin\, solid\, metallic needles which are then activated through gentle and specific movements of the practitioner’s hands or with electrical stimulation.  \n\n\n\nAcupuncture is part of the ancient practice of Traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe the human body has more than 2\,000 acupuncture points connected by pathways or meridians. These pathways create an energy flow (Qi\, pronounced “chee”) through the body that is responsible for overall health. Disruption of the energy flow can cause disease. By applying acupuncture to certain points\, it is thought to improve the flow of Qi\, thereby improving health. Read more \n\n\n\nMore about community acupuncture\n\n\n\nCommunity acupuncture is a grassroots model designed to increase access to acupuncture. It is done in a group setting\, mainly using points mainly in your hands\, feet\, and ears.  In the US\, specifically at the Lincoln Hospital Detox Program in the Bronx\, the practice was brought over in the 70’s from China by Black Panther and Young Lord activists.  It has been refined and spread through the work of the Peoples Organization of Community Acupuncture (POCA).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/phs-community-acupuncture-2/2024-06-14/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:"Host!" with Ellie Markovitch
DESCRIPTION:Host! Tea\, Pie\, and Dialogue. \n\n\n\nDuring this workshop\, we will explore what it means to host. Hospitality is an important part of my art. I will share my meditations on what the word “host” means to me and invite you to do the same. We will make tea\, pie and weave our meditations together into a community art piece. \n\n\n\nStoryCooking\, my practice\, involves developing recipes\, facilitating cooking and storytelling workshops\, and producing multimedia. “Host!” project engages with the local community\, creating opportunities for skill sharing\, the use of local food\, and food rescue. At the core Ellie’s work is an exploration of the aesthetic of the quotidian and hospitality as art and community building.More background on Ellie’s extensive work with the Sanctuary: One of our key annual food justice celebrations is “StoryHarvest: From Seed to Table\,” encouraging diverse members of the community to celebrate and connect through music and stories of food. Initiated back in 2012 by food artist Ellie Markovitch\, Ellie returned to North Central for in September 2023 for an NEA Our Town Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail Residency to focus on the Indigenous and diverse cultural legacies of food. Born in Brazil\, Ellie now lives in Maine with her family\, where she teaches at the University of Maine.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/host-with-ellie-markovitch/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240610T140000
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SUMMARY:Restore Retreat with Healing Ki Connections
DESCRIPTION:Restore Retreat: Sooth the Soul with time for you!  \n\n\n\nSuggested donation $25-45\, no one turned away for lack of funds. \n\n\n\nFlow of Retreat \n\n\n\n\n11 am Welcome Gathering light snacks\n\n\n\n11:30-12:30 Healing Offerings: Reiki or Massage (6 spots open only)\n\n\n\n12:45-1:45 Sound Ceremony with Earth Meditation and the bronze singing bowl you can stand in. Aka The blessing bowl\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/restore-retreat-with-healing-ki-connections/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T180000
DTSTAMP:20240712T193049Z
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SUMMARY:"Last of James Fenimore Cooper"
DESCRIPTION:Composer Brent Michael Davids (Mohican/ Munsee-Lenape) has composed a charming quartet about James Fenimore Cooper. Davids\, who embraces Indigenous themes and subjects in his music\, considers Cooper’s ignorance of native culture in “The Last of the Mohicans” for this delightful work for string quartet\, featuring members of Albany Symphony. This event is featured as part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s Freedom Fest in collaboration with the American Music Festival. Join us at the Sanctuary Main Space for the culmination of our multi-year NEA Our Town Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail Project! \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\nBrent Michael Davids is an internationally celebrated Mohican and Munsee-Lenape composer\, and self-described music warrior. As an advocate for Native equity and parity\, Davids places Native voices front and center. He originated and co-founded the award-winning Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP)\, championing indigenous youth to compose their own written music. He uses indigenous instruments\, including handmade quartz flutes\, and pens performable notations that are themselves visual works of art. Davids is co-director of the Lenape Center in Manhattan\, and is enrolled in the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. His composing career spans nearly five decades\, with countless awards and commissions from America’s most celebrated organizations and ensembles. \n\n\n\n“When we collaborate and experiment in song\, we are discovering life benefits\, not simply musical ones. Our interactions as composers\, performers\, audiences\, students and teachers constitute important relational skills. If we can excite creativity and cooperation in each other\, we have accomplished a magnificent thing.” – Brent Michael Davids \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrent Michael Davids · LAST OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER\n\n\n\nGet a taste\, or rather\, a listen of what’s to come on June 9th\, 2024 with the string quartet version of\, “Last of James Fenimore Cooper.” Via Miro Quartet\, Brent Michael Davids. Copyright ©2001\, Brent Michael Davids. All Rights Reserved. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Albany Symphony Orchestra is a supporting partner of our NEA Our TownSanctuary Eco Art Trail Project.  \n\n\n\nThe Orchestra’s American Music Festival is a weekend-long festival of innovative concerts\, new music\, and artistic happenings around historic Troy\, NY. The Festival traditionally takes place on the first weekend in June and comes to North-Central Troy for the first time in collaboration with the Sanctuary’s Freedom Festival on Sunday\, June 9th\, 2024\, at 4PM.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/brent-michael-davids-with-albany-symphony-orchestra/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classical Music,Community Event,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T170000
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SUMMARY:Freedom Fest: Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail Celebration
DESCRIPTION:FREEDOM FEST HAS BEEN MOVED INSIDE TO OUR MAIN SPACE AT 3361 6TH AVE\, TROY! \n\n\n\nJoin us for our annual community celebration in our main space with free music\, food\, games\, and the launch of our Eco-Art Trail Walk! \n\n\n\nWe’ll start the day with a community BBQ followed by games\, art activities\, and live music by Jordan Taylor Hill and D.J. Shub! Community groups include Albany Symphony\, Soul Fire Farm\, Troy NAACP\, Troy Public Library\, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall\, TVCOG\,  \n\n\n\nActivities include: \n\n\n\n\nGuided tours along the Eco-Art Trail\n\n\n\nFace painting\n\n\n\nFlower Pot Drum-Making\n\n\n\nRaft making\n\n\n\nGarden & environmental justice demonstrations\n\n\n\nand more! \n\n\n\n\nPhotos by Robert Cooper\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelp us keep Freedom Fest free! Donate a one-time contribution below\, or consider becoming a Sanctuary Sustainer with a monthly\, quarterly\, or yearly contribution of any amount! We also accept Cash App\, PayPal\, or Venmo! \n\n\n\n\nDonate Here!\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\nDJ Shub is considered to be the Godfather of PowWowStep. Born Dan General\, he is a Mohawk\, turtle clan of the Six Nations of the Grand River located in Ontario\, Canada. His latest album War Club (2020) was released to critical acclaim during the pandemic\, featuring collaborations with other indigenous and BIPOC artists like Snotty Nose Rez Kids\, Boogát\, Fawn Wood\, and Phoenix Pagliacci to name a few. DJ Shub won the 2022 JUNO award for Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year\, and previously won Breakthrough Group of the Year in 2014 (with A Tribe Called Red).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJordan Taylor Hill gives captivating performances & workshops that bring the vibrant spirit of West African music and dance to your doorstep.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/freedom-fest-2024/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Performance
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SUMMARY:Indigiqueer Media Artist Theo Jean Cuthand: Participatory Radio Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join media artist Theo Jean Cuthand for a Be The Media! participatory radio workshop\, to focus on Indigiqueer and ecological issues.  \n\n\n\nUsing improvisational documentary techniques\, the Be The Media! workshop participants will create a short radio play with Theo Jean Cuthand\, loosely inspired by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast but based on the colonization of what is now Troy by European Settlers. This workshop will begin with a brief presentation of Cuthand’s work.  \n\n\n\nCuthand’s Sanctuary presentation is sponsored by iEAR Presents\, with NYSCA\, the School of Humanities and EMPAC at RPI\, and the NEA Our Town creative placemaking project Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\, which connects Indigenous legacy with environmental justice (in partnership with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians). The participatory radio play created in this workshop will be featured as a multimedia element on the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail.  \n\n\n\nHear Theo Jean Cuthand interview with Hudson Mohawk Magazine\n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · Participatory Radio Workshop Based on Welles' "War of the Worlds"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheo Jean Cuthand was born in Regina\, Saskatchewan\, Canada in 1978\, and grew up in Saskatoon. Since 1995 he has been making short experimental videos and films about sexuality\, madness\, Queer identity and love\, and gender and Indigeneity\, which have screened in festivals internationally. \n\n\n\nHis work has also exhibited at galleries including the MOMA in NYC\, The National Gallery in Ottawa\, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He completed his BFA majoring in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005\, and his Masters of Arts in Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2015. He has also written three feature screenplays and has performed at Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver\, Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium in Regina\, and 7a*11d in Toronto. In 2017 he won the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award. He is a Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. He is of Plains Cree and Scots descent\, a member of Little Pine First Nation\, and currently resides in Toronto\, Canada. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis is the second night of a series of two events in a collaboration between the Arts Department and EMPAC at RPI\, by Plains Cree and Scots artist Theo Jean Cuthand. At EMPAC on May 29\, Cuthand presents an artist talk and screening that explores his work and process through an Indigiqueer lens. At the Sanctuary on May 30\, Cuthand will engage directly in the community as part of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, with a particular focus on Indigiqueer and ecological issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between the iEAR Presents!series with support from RPI’s ARTS department and School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, and from the New York State Council for the Arts/ NYSCA\, with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/theo-jean-cuthand/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T160000
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SUMMARY:DE-FENCE Part 2: The Line Becomes a Territory 
DESCRIPTION:Join us at NATURE Lab for DE-FENCE Part 2: The Line Becomes a Territory with Margaretha Haughwout\, who will lead participants in the creation of DE-FENCE\, a living participatory art installation at NATURE Lab under the umbrella of the Sanctuary’s growing Eco-Art Trail. \n\n\n\nFor part 2 of DE-FENCE\, participants will help install deconstructed fence posts (specially carved with designs that emerge from ongoing community drawing exercises)\, and plant medicinal seeds and seedlings from the artist’s Food Forest Studio. We will continue to discover already existing medicinal plants growing in the marginal spaces and edge conditions of the neighborhood\, discuss neighborhood environmental health conditions\, and discuss the ways that marginal medicinal plants can participate in the bioremediation and protection of the ecosocial communities around NATURE Lab. “The Line Becomes a Territory” is the header from a section in a forthcoming book entitled Ruderal Witchcraft by Margaretha\, co-written with Oliver Kellhammer\, and explores the ways that communities who want to resist the forces of capitalist accumulation can find power in\, occupy\, and expand the boundaries\, edge zones and fence-lines established by regimes of private property.  \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\nMore about Margaretha Haughwout\n\n\n\n\n\nMargaretha Haughwout works with humans\, and the more-than-human\, across technologies and ecologies\, to cultivate a radical imagination that challenges proprietary regimes\, colonial temporalities\, and capitalist forms of labor. Her work manifests as speculative fabulation\, intervention\, participatory event\, walking tour\, experimental pedagogy\, installation\, and biological processes. Haughwout’s active collaborations include the Coven Intelligence Program\, with efrén cruz cortés\, the Guerrilla Grafters\, and Ruderal Witchcraft with Oliver Kellhammer. She created and maintains the Food Forest Studio in Central New York. \n\n\n\nHaughwout’s personal and collaborative artwork is exhibited nationally and internationally\, most recently\, at Stadwerkstatt in Linz\, Austria\, the Pixelache Festival in Helsinki\, Finland\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco\, California\, and at Bennington College in Benington\, Vermont. Haughwout received her MFA from the University of California Santa Cruz. She is Associate Professor of Emerging Media at Colgate University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between the iEAR Presents series with support from RPI’s ARTS department and School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, and from the New York State Council for the Arts/ NYSCA\, with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and from NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.Co-sponsored by NATURE Lab and People’s Health Sanctuary.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/de-fence-pt2/
LOCATION:NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T140000
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SUMMARY:Plant Swap 2024
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our 2024 Plant Swap at the Collard City Growers garden! \n\n\n\nWhere: 3337 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY 12180 \n\n\n\nThis is a free event for the community to get together and exchange plants for the spring season. Stop by to pick up some plants\, drop off any extras that you don’t have room for\, or just come on by to say “Hi!” \n\n\n\nWhat is a plant swap? An opportunity to share plant abundance!  \n\n\n\nHow to participate? Bring your extra plants and/ or saplings to trade for something new\, including perennials\, annuals\, house plants\, and more! You don’t have to bring a plant to participate.  \n\n\n\nWhy participate?  It’s an amazing excuse to explore the garden\, soak up the sun\, and meet some new people and plants!  \n\n\n\nAnd remember: All the plants that you give and take are free!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/plant-swap-2024/
LOCATION:Collard City Growers\, 3337 6th Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T210000
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SUMMARY:"The Black Woods" Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join author Amy Godine for a book talk on her most recent work\, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier. The presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (2023\, Cornell University Press) chronicles the dramatic history of Black pioneers in New York’s northern wilderness. From the 1840s into the 1860s\, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new land they could hope to meet the $250 property requirement New York imposed on Black prospective voters in 1821\, and gain a cherished right of citizenship\, the ballot. \n\n\n\nIn 1846 and ’47\, three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120\,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith\, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith’s suffrage-minded plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and New York’s leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo\, a new Black neighborhood in the woods. \n\n\n\nSmith’s plan was prescient\, anticipating Black suffrage reform\, affirmative action\, environmental distributive justice\, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith’s offer fell radically short of his high hopes\, Smith’s zeal cooled. Timbuctoo\, Freemen’s Home\, Blacksville\, and other Black enclaves were forgotten. Local and regional historians would marginalize the Black experience for 150 years. In The Black Woods\, Godine retrieves the robust story of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. With stirring stories from archival sources\, Amy Godine returns these trailblazers and their descendants to their rightful place in the Adirondack narrative. This recovery is long overdue.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho is Amy Godine?\n\n\n\nAmy is a writer\, curator\, and lecturer with a longstanding interest in the social history of the Adirondack region. She has been writing articles and speaking about social trends\, marginalized communities\, and ethnic and Black neighborhoods in this high corner of New York since 1988. What do these pieces have in common beyond their focus on this region? One way or another\, they aim to challenge or confound entrenched ideas about Adirondack exceptionalism\, and reach for the guy lines that lash the region to the wider\, fractious world beyond. Miners’ strikes\, eastern European peddlers\, Klan rallies\, Spanish road workers\, the pseudo-science of eugenics and its impact on the early conservation movement\, suffrage activism\, and Black pioneers – her’s is not the Adirondack Country dear to Park historians\, nature writers or antiquarians. Amy goes for something else.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-black-woods/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T213000
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SUMMARY:"Spaces of Exception" Film Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:“Spaces of Exception” is a film profiling American Indian reservations alongside Palestinian refugee camps\, an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life\, community and sovereignty.  The screening is followed by a community conversation with film co-director Matt Peterson and Indigenous and Palestinian guests.  \n\n\n\n5pm – 6pm: Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media ProjectJoin Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” to learn about the process of creating a long-term media project.  \n\n\n\n7pm – 9:30pm: film screening of “Spaces of Exception” and community conversationAfter the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long)\, Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” will be joined with Indigenous and Palestinian/Arab guests about takeaways\, related personal experiences\, and reflections. Even if you have already seen the film\, please feel free to join later for complimentary tea and snacks and the subsequent discussion. \n\n\n\n“Spaces of Exception\,” directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny\, was filmed from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona\, New Mexico\, New York\, and South Dakota as well as Lebanon and the West Bank\, and comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee.  \n\n\n\nAfter the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long)\, film co-director Matt Peterson will be joined by Indigenous and Palestinian/Arab guests in a discussion about takeaways\, related personal experiences\, and reflections. See panel bios below.  \n\n\n\nIn showing “Spaces of Exception\,” Albany Jewish Voice for Peace\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, along with our co-sponsors hope to further understanding between all members of our community on this difficult and controversial issue and provide a safe space for dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\nFilmmaker Matt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine\, an experimental space in New York City. He co-directed the documentary features “Scenes from a Revolt Sustained” (2014) and “Spaces of Exception” (with Malek Rasamny\, 2018)\, and co-edited the books “In the Name of the People” (2018) and “The Mohawk Warrior Society” (2022). \n\n\n\nLayla Aburas Khafaga  is a first-generation Palestinian American. Her father was displaced in the 1967 conflict\, and her mother’s family in the 1948 Nakba. Layla embraces her Palestinian identity proudly\, striving to preserve its rich culture. Leaving the corporate world\, she founded a Middle Eastern Bakery to share her culture with the community. Layla also played a pivotal role in founding the Albany Muslim Advocacy Coalition (AMAC)\, advocating for unity and social justice. She amplifies unheard voices\, aiming for positive change and representation in her community. \n\n\n\nKanerahtiio Roger Jock is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Bear Clan Leader from the Akwesasne Reserve who carries a vision of return for his people to their ancestral lands in the Mohawk Valley of New York. Kanerahtiio has taught cultural awareness all over the U.S. for over 40 years as part of the White Roots of Peace Movement. He worked as an ironworker and foreman for several decades and is a leader in land and sovereign rights in the Akwesasne region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about how this film was made? If so\, join us prior to the screening: \n\n\n\n5pm – 6pm: Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media ProjectJoin Co-Director Matt Peterson to learn about the documentary-making process of creating “Spaces of Exception”” and a long-term media project.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between the iEAR Presents!series with support from RPI’s ARTS department and School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, and from the New York State Council for the Arts/ NYSCA\, with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/spaces-of-exception/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening
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