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SUMMARY:Super-Secret Brunch With Julian Assange!
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday May 15th\, a portal will open between The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy and the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The inimitable Julian Assange\, founder of Wikileaks\, will be piped in from his place of exile to tell participants about the latest and most twisted stories from the bleeding edge of journalism: the exciting business of information liberation in the public interest. This will be the highlight of a brunch experience hosted by the Yes Men. The ingredients will be hand-gathered by Anonymous food-hackers and prepared using secret recipes collected by the Yes Men from notable privacy activists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAssange’s appearance will be introduced by Mike Bonanno from the Yes Men\, who will also show an exclusive\, never-before-seen film from the time The Yes Men learned from Assange that they were being spied on by a private spy firm called Stratfor – and they were invited inside the wikileaks machine to help with the release five million emails that had been liberated from the firm by Anonymous hackers. \n\n\n\nThe super secret\, VIP brunch preceding the Assange appearance will be a totally unique experience. A year in the making\, the menu will feature free-flowing “Adirondack Champagne” (apple cider fermented with sparkling wine yeast) as well as locally gathered flora and fauna – hunted by Tito Ybarra and members of the Sanctuary board. The menu (which will have plenty for vegetarians) will include many of the foods hidden in plain sight in the woods around us including ramps\, fiddleheads\, wild rice\, duck eggs\, and locally landed striped bass. It will be prepared with traditional methods and musical blessings by Tito Ybarra\, who is coming in from Red Lake Minnesota for this event\, and to participate in the Albany hub for protests against fossil fuels. At the end of the event Tito will lead a delegation from the Sanctuary to the ongoing blockade of the oil trains in Downtown Albany. \n\n\n\nMORE ABOUT SUPER SECRET GUESTS and HOSTS\n\n\n\nMore about Tito Ybarra \n\n\n\nPeter Ybarra\, also known as “Tito.” is an enrolled member of the Red Lake band of Ojibwe. \n\n\n\nFor years he has traveled the powwow trail as a powwow singer competing with many drum groups across Indian Country. But for the last 4 years\, comedy has been his focus. Tito has built quite a following in the U.S.A. and Canada via his YouTube channels\, “Tito Comedy” and “The Powwow Friends.” \n\n\n\nTito loves to role play as many different characters in his videos\, which is uncommon in the Native Comedy community. “I enjoy doing stand up comedy and have performed at schools\, conferences\, banquets\, graduations and casinos. My goal is to continue to travel and visit different communities showing how I use humor as healing and as a way to teach young people what can happen when a person ventures out of their comfort zone.” Please keep Tito Ybarra Comedy in mind for future gatherings or events. \n\n\n\nMore about Julian Assange \n\n\n\nBorn on July 3\, 1971\, in Townsville\, Australia\, Julian Assange used his genius IQ to hack into the databases of many high profile organizations. In 2006\, Assange began work on Wikileaks\, a Web site intended to collect and share confidential information on an international scale. The information his organization released earned him strong supporters and powerful enemies. For his efforts\, the internet activist earned the Time magazine “Person of the Year” title in 2010. After arriving at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in June 2012\, seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden\, Assange was granted political asylum by the Ecuadorean government in August 2012. Julian will visit us all at the Sanctuary via Skype! \n\n\n\nMore about Yes Man Mike Bonnano \n\n\n\nMike Bonanno is a writer and director\, known for The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)\, The Yes Men (2003) and The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014). In these films\, they impersonate entities that they dislike\, a practice that they call “identity correction.” \n\n\n\nThe Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters. Through actions of tactical media\, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about what they consider problematic social and political issues. The Yes Men operate under the mission statement that lies can expose truth. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they intend to spoof\, which have led to numerous interview\, conference\, and TV talk show invitations. They espouse the belief that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/super-secret-brunch-with-julian-assange/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:"NUTS!" with Filmmaker Penny Lane
DESCRIPTION:Welcome Penny Lane\, co-founder of The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, as she joins us to celebrate our 10th year anniversary with an in-person presentation of her new documentary NUTS! The Sundance Film Festival sensation\, Lane’s documentary is her good old story about a big fat liar and some goat balls. The film presents an opportunity for viewers to actively wrestle with the ethical and epistemological issues central to the narrative nonfiction form. Because who says smart films have to be boring?  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by iEAR Presents! and RPI’s School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences. \n\n\n\nAbout the film\n\n\n\nNUTS! is a feature-length documentary directed by Penny Lane about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley\, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure and a million-watt radio station. \n\n\n\nUsing animated reenactments\, interviews\, archival footage\, and a hilariously unreliable narrator\, NUTS! traces Brinkley’s rise from poverty and obscurity to the heights of celebrity\, wealth and influence in Depression-era America. \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, he transplants tens of thousands of goat testicles; amasses an enormous fortune; is (sort of) elected Governor of Kansas; builds the world’s most powerful radio station; invents junk mail\, the infomercial\, the sound-truck and Border Radio; hosts some epic parties; and annoys the heck out of the establishment\, until finally his audacious actions force the federal government to create regulations to stop him. How he does it\, and what happens when it all comes crashing down\, is the story of NUTS! \n\n\n\nPenny Lane\n\n\n\nPenny Lane was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012. Her debut feature-length documentary\, Our Nixon\, world premiered at Rotterdam\, had its North American premiere at SXSW\, won the Ken Burns Award for “Best of the Festival” at Ann Arbor\, and was selected as the Closing Night Film at New Directors/New Films. The film is currently in wide distribution\, and has aired on CNN\, ARTE and many other television outlets worldwide. Penny’s films have also screened at AFI FEST\, Antimatter\, IMPAKT\, Images Festival\, Oberhausen\, FLEX FEST\, Hot Docs\, Full Frame\, Rooftop Films\, MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and many other venues. \n\n\n\nHer second feature-length documentary\, NUTS!\, world-premiered in competition at Sundance in January 2016 where it won a Special Jury Prize for Editing. \n\n\n\nShe has been awarded grants from Creative Capital\, Cinereach\, TFI Documentary Fund\, Jerome Foundation\, LEF Foundation\, NYSCA\, Experimental Television Center\, IFP and Puffin Foundation. She was named “Most Badass!” at the Iowa City Documentary Film Festival in 2009. \n\n\n\nShe received her MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her BA in American Culture and Media Studies at Vassar College. She has taught film\, video and new media art at Bard College\, Hampshire College and Williams College. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Colgate University\, where she lives in a very old house and shows movies in her barn when she is not working on her upcoming feature documentary NUTS!. And yes\, Penny Lane is her real name. \n\n\n\nDirector’s Comments\n\n\n\nI started dreaming up a film about John Brinkley in 2009\, after coming across the book Charlatan in my local public library. In conversations with friends I would mention this guy who transplanted goat testicles into men to cure impotence. And a lot of people would ask me\, “Well\, did it work?” \n\n\n\nWell… no\, of course it didn’t. But I began to think about how much people want to believe in miracle cures. The weirder the better\, really. How “one weird trick to melt belly fat” is way better click-bait than “eat less to lose weight.” Who doesn’t sometimes wish the world was more interesting\, more magical\, more colorful than it really is? This is why the highest-rated Animal Planet program of all time was a fake documentary about mermaids. This is why Water Kirn falls for Clark Rockefeller. Why conspiracy theories are so compelling. And why we fall for quack doctors\, time and time again: they sell us a story we want to believe. \n\n\n\nI believe that more than any other single human quality\, it is our love of great stories that makes us so endlessly susceptible to being conned. We believe the stories we want or need to believe\, and we believe anyone who tells them to us. Con men know this. So do politicians\, propagandists\, pitchmen\, cult leaders\, televangelists\, pick up artists and manipulators of all kinds – including documentary filmmakers. \n\n\n\nAnd so\, NUTS! is not a film that allows us to sit back and laugh at the dummies who fell for Brinkley’s bullshit. Instead\, it’s a film that shows we are all those dummies. Unlike Brinkley\, however\, I seduce you\, and then I show you how I did it. Brinkley’s story is not presented as the object of a neutral nonfiction gaze\, but as an opportunity for viewers to actively wrestle with the ethical and epistemological issues central to the narrative nonfiction form. \n\n\n\nAnd since I am on a mission to prove that watching documentary films isn’t just about eating your vegetables\, the viewer is supposed to have fun while they wrestle with this stuff. Ultimately\, NUTS! is still just a good old story about a big fat liar\, some goat balls and a million-watt radio station. Because who says smart films have to be boring?
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/nuts-with-filmmaker-penny-lane/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Collard City Growers and NATURE Lab ’16 Garden Workshop #3: Garden Building Garden Beds\, Planting and Dividing Perennials
DESCRIPTION:May is an exciting and busy month in the garden. For this workshop\, we will be reshaping beds that need sprucing\, planting a variety of seedlings\, and dividing perennials and moving the self-seeded plants to more convenient locations. \n\n\n\nPerennials are a great addition to the garden as they come back every year. At Collard City\, we enjoy a bountiful harvest of perennials such as rhubarb\, sorrel\, lovage\, walking onions\, asparagus\, horseradish and a variety of hardy herbs. Each spring\, we look forward to the return of these generous plants as they are the first to shimmy to the earth’s surface. This year\, we hope to expand our bounty\, by dividing clumps of perennials and transplanting to otherwise empty areas. The overall goal is to build a landscape that is largely self-sustaining and productive. Come and help us green the food desert\, one plant at a time!
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/collard-city-growers-and-nature-lab-16-garden-workshop-3-garden-building-garden-beds-planting-and-dividing-perennials/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Dinner with Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman and Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join Amy Goodman\, the producer and host of the daily independent news program Democracy Now!\, the world’s largest and most successful public media collaboration on radio\, television and the Internet\, for riveting stories from  20 years of award-winning journalism and a discussion of the vital role of media in democracy. She’ll be the guest of honor from 6:30-7:30 PM at an intimate dinner made from local\, farm-fresh and wild ingredients. The dinner is $105.30 to benefit our community radio station WOOC 105.3 FM\, where Amy can be heard daily hosting Democracy Now! at 3 PM and 5 PM.  \n\n\n\nThen\, at 7:30 PM Amy will be talking about her new book Democracy Now! Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America and the importance of independent media in these troubled times. Admission is by donation ($10 suggested\, $5 student/low income). \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Women Against War \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the presenter\n\n\n\nAmy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!\, a national\, daily\, independent\, award-winning news program airing on over 1\,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. \n\n\n\nThe Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award\, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award\, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone\, and was later selected for induction into the Park Center’s I.F. Stone Hall of Fame. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration.” \n\n\n\nGoodman has co-authored five New York Times bestsellers. Her latest two\, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings\, Occupations\, Resistance\, and Hope\, and Breaking the Sound Barrier\, both written with Denis Moynihan\, give voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power. She co-authored her first three bestsellers with her brother\, journalist David Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008)\, Static: Government Liars\, Media Cheerleaders\, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians\, War Profiteers\, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She co-writes a weekly column with Denis Moynihan (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features\, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting. \n\n\n\nGoodman has received the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award; and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards\, including the George Polk Award\, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting\, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts\,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. PULSE named Goodman one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009. \n\n\n\nShe has also received awards from the Associated Press\, United Press International\, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting\, and Project Censored. Goodman received the first ever Communication for Peace Award from the World Association for Christian Communication. She was also honored by the National Council of Teachers of English with the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/diner-with-democracy-now-host-amy-goodman-and-presentation/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Speaker
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