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SUMMARY:Community Acupuncture Clinic
DESCRIPTION:with Gina Mauro\, L.Ac of Albany Community Acupuncture (ACA)\n\n\n\nAlbany Community Acupuncture (ACA) is proud to offer a weekly clinic at People’s Health Sanctuary\, rooted in the belief that healthcare is a community responsibility—not a privilege. \n\n\n\nWhen: Wednesdays\, 10:00am–2:00pm (beginning January 21\, 2026)Where: NATURE Lab – 3319 6th Ave\, Troy NYCost: Sliding scale $10–$40Access: Walk-ins welcome or register here. \n\n\n\nCommunity acupuncture is a people-powered healthcare model designed to remove financial and structural barriers to healing. Treatments take place in a shared space\, allowing care to be offered affordably while fostering connection\, dignity\, and collective rest. Each person receives individualized acupuncture within a calm\, supportive community setting. \n\n\n\nThis clinic exists to support those impacted by stress\, trauma\, burnout\, chronic pain\, illness\, and systemic inequity—especially people who are uninsured\, underinsured\, or historically excluded from wellness spaces. Acupuncture has been shown to help regulate the nervous system\, ease pain\, support emotional resilience\, improve sleep\, and reduce craving and addiction\, promote overall well-being. \n\n\n\nGina Mauro\, L.Ac. is a licensed acupuncturist committed to healthcare as a form of activism and collective liberation. Her work challenges profit-driven wellness models by offering acupuncture that is accessible\, community-centered\, and rooted in dignity rather than extraction. \n\n\n\nLearn more about Albany Community Acupuncture at albanycommunityacupuncture.org.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-acupuncture-clinic/2026-02-18/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gathering Stories: Black Experiences in the Adirondacks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a hybrid session to learn about the importance of the Black archive and how you can contribute to the collection for The Black Experience in the Adirondacks\, a 2027 new permanent\, interactive exhibition at the Adirondack Experience\, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. Curator Charles Clark III will be at the Sanctuary to present about how your objects help to tell the full story of Black life in the Adirondacks. Join us in person or over zoom\, link will be set out with registration.  \n\n\n\nIn preparation for a landmark exhibition opening in 2027 on The Black Experience in the Adirondacks\, the Adirondack Experience is hosting collecting events around New York State\, including at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on February 18 & 28. The hybrid event on February 18th will be an opportunity to learn about the collection from curator Charles Clark III as well as a drop-off event for folks with physical contributions. February 28th is the event Frederick Douglass and the Power of the Black Archive: A Community Reading of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” and Collecting Black Experiences in the Adirondacks.  \n\n\n\nYour objects tell the full story of Black life in the Adirondacks. The Black Experience in the Adirondacks is seeking a wide range of materials\, including photographs\, souvenirs\, letters\, postcards\, recipes\, clothing\, and video clips from the Adirondacks. Any object or memory that holds a piece of the story is a vital piece of this history. Help your story be told by being a part of this upcoming exhibit! \n\n\n\nCan’t make it but have something to contribute? Fill out this online form.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCommemorative Metal:Roland Brown Sr. received the Congressional Gold Medal for his service in WW II. On June 25\, 2011\, Dr. Roland M. Brown\, Jr. donated his father’s medal to the Adirondack Experience.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Closet: In 1957\, a 17 year old Fulton Fryar was the first African-American to sing at the Seagle Music Colony. Today\, the Adirondack Experience exhibits his segregated housing as a historical reminder of racial inequality in the Adirondacks during the 50s.\n\n\n\n\n\nLake George Study: This landscape painting by Takeyce Walter is an example of a style of painting called en plein air. Takeyce’s work is currently on display in the Artists & Inspiration in the Wild exhibit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharles Clark III\, curator of The Black Experience in the Adirondacks  Charles employs a Pan-Africanist methodology\, enriched by material cultural approach\, to transform exhibition making in museums. His work addresses ethno cultural erasure and brings to light marginalized narratives within art history. His approach not only enhances the representation of diverse voices but also redefines the role of museums as spaces for critical dialogue and cultural exploration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · ADK Bx\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://localhost:8080/hudson-mohawk-magazine-episodes/2026/hmm_02-16-2026-special-adk-bx/
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/black-experiences-in-the-adirondacks/
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SUMMARY:Seed Swap at Healing Day
DESCRIPTION:Join Collard City Growers for our annual seed swap to start building towards spring awakening and growth. Bring seeds to share if you have them\, or just come to take some home! This year’s seed swap will take place alongside the People’s Health Sanctuary monthly Healing Day at the Sanctuary main space\, and will feature a table by Soul Fire Farm\, who will bring seeds and knowledge to share! \n\n\n\nHave you ever saved seeds from your garden to plant again? Maybe you’ve purchased seeds in the past\, but didn’t use them all\, and are ready to pass them on? Just curious about seeds? Join us! There’s no need to bring seeds or have any knowledge of seed-keeping to attend–you can also join for company\, conversation\, and learning! We’ll have food to enjoy together\, a kiddo corner\, and various healing modalities available by donation thanks to the People’s Health Sanctuary. We’re also excited to host a table by Soul Fire Farm\, whose seed saving program you can read about below! \n\n\n\nSeed Keeping at Soul Fire Farm\n\n\n\n“At Soul Fire Farm\, we grow dozens of native crops alongside culturally significant crops from African\, Indigenous\, and Palestinian lineages. Joining a global movement of land workers and Indigenous peoples working to defend seed sovereignty against an increasingly monopolized and homogenized seed industry\, we save 8-10 seed varieties annually for distribution through the Truelove Seeds and Ujamaa Seeds catalogues. Grounded in an understanding of seeds as inextricably linked with their heritages and histories\, we engage with seedkeeping not only as ecological preservation\, but also cultural and political work. Join Soul Fire farmers Danielle and Winter to learn more about our 2026 programs and how you can save seeds at home.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDanielle Peláez\, (they/she || elle/ella)\, Farm Education Manager at Soul Fire Farm is a queer farmer\, educator\, and land tender. A lover of plantitas\, fungi\, human and non-human beings\, Danielle dreams of serving her community through facilitating (re)connection to the soil\, drawing on her roots in the western highlands of Guatemala. As the Farm Education Manager\, Dani co-creates and co-leads earth-based educational offerings.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinter Exley (he/they)\, Farm Assistant at Soul Fire Farm\, was born with a passionate love for the world and the peoples in it\, so tending to the earth was instinctive. He grew up on his grandmother’s land where they woke when the roosters called and spent the days picking crabapples\, collecting water from the spring\, and exploring the woods. Winter continues to deepen his love for the trees and relationship with the woods as he tends land at Soul Fire.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/seed-swap-2026/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:PHS Healing Day
DESCRIPTION:This winter and spring\, the People’s Health Sanctuary will continue hosting Healing Days at the Sanctuary main space and other venues in the region. A variety of healing modalities will be on offer\, ranging from community acupuncture and energy work to herbal remedies from the Community Apothecary. You’ll also find a nourishing one pot meal\, and a place to connect. All offerings will be donation based/sliding scale\, so pay whatever you can— and bring a friend! PHS will continue to donate 50% of all Healing Day donations to the Capital Region Sanctuary Coalition (CRSC). The February 20th Healing Day will also include a Seed Swap with Collard City Growers and Soul Fire Farm. \n\n\n\nSanctuary Main Space: Feb 20th\, March 6th\, and April 17th.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/phs-healing-day-3/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:open hours
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