In Orgasmic Birth (2009) director Debra Pascali-Bonaro shares what she calls the "best-kept secret" as we witness women in the ecstatic release of childbirth, challenging educating cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. A panel discussion with follow the screening, organized by Birthnet. More about BirthNet […]
This two-part workshop with facilitator Devorah Hill, is aimed at organizations and citizens from the regional community, to get their stories heard! Let us help you turn photos and narration into a video to promote your group and the work you do. Use digital storytelling as a tool for community engagement and empowerment by exploring […]
Join us in this creative event for reproductive rights! The evening will include an excerpted reading from the newly published and acclaimed book Front Lines: Book of Plays, a discussion with editor Alexis Greene, as well as a creativity workshop around reproductive rights issues led by Words of Choice creator Cindy Cooper. The New Press […]
Ten years after the Battle of Seattle and the explosion of global grassroots citizen journalism, known as Indymedia, the legacy reverberates in villages, cities, and countrysides around the world. Join us for a retrospective screening of seminal Indymedia films, including, This is What Democracy Looks Like, Indymedia Showcase, Fourth World War, A Tribute to Brad […]
Psychedelic Sufi Trance rock returns to the Sanctuary! To conclude the 10th Anniversary Indymedia Film Festival, the Persian-American poet/singer/songwriter will perform at 9 pm. Drawing on Persian mystical and American folk traditions, Haale weaves engaging lyrics and trance-inducing melodies in a rare solo acoustic set. She will sing new songs as well as songs from […]
Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Nina Berman discusses her exhibit Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life, and poet David Smith-Ferri and veterans, including members of Albany Veterans for Peace, read poems exploring their personal experiences with the realities of war. In conversation with Kathy Helly, Berman will also discuss work from her series Purple Hearts, […]
Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly's eyewitness accounts offer a message of hope through creative non-violence. Built around tangible community responses to the casualties of war, this multi-media event networks members of the local peace, justice, Iraqi refugee, veteran, artist communities, and aid agencies and the many volunteers who work with them. During the […]
The evening will present a scintillating exploration of colonization, imperialism and historical revisionism as the 400-year anniversary celebration of Henry Hudson’s exploration winds down! First, a special screening of Mother Dao the Turtlelike (1995), an adventurous award-winning assembly of songs, poetry and nitrate films of 400-years of Dutch occupation of Indonesia from acclaimed Dutch film […]
Captured is a documentary by Dan Levin. Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. “Little brother is watching big brother”–traversing the outside edge, he’s recorded a dark and […]
Your videos can be used to build and strengthen communities; learn how to take your finished work and strategically distribute it on the Internet! We will post videos from Community Digital Storytelling Lab to the internet, demonstrating technical process and illustrating audience targets and social networking. If you have a video to post on-line, or […]
Join the live studio audience as we recede an evening of performances by some of the Capital Region's top gospel talents, hosted by the Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singers! Legendary Capital Region performers the Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singers will be joined by the men's chorus of Schenectady's Duryee AME Zion Church and the men's chorus of […]
The rumors are true. Join us on Friday night, December 18, for a Shopocalyptic Revival. The Rev, the choir and members of the Not Buying It band promises our old church a performance we will not forget. Confess your shopping sins! Cast out the demons of overconsumption! Go beyond the market to a life after shopping! […]
Filmmaker Julia Loktev presents her feature film, Day Night Day Night (2006), the story of a 19-year old preparing to become a suicide bomber in TImes Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never see the bomb; we only see the backpack and headphones that disguise the […]
Scott Christianson, author of Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War, will give a multimedia presentation that looks at the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle. In an almost unimaginable act – and the most dramatic slave rescue in American history – Nalle […]
In Fanny Armstrong's (McLible, 2005) The Age of Stupid (2009), Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? In advance of the screening Honest Weight Food will sponsor a reception where […]
Master the art of archiving - and muscle your data into place for order, access and ease - with digital archivist and preservation consultant David Rice. "Media Management in a Digital Universe" is an afternoon designed to help you master the art of archiving and muscle your data into place for order, access and ease. […]
Four decades after leaving this country for exile in Tanzania, Mama Charlotte Hill O'Neal returns to share the inspirational story of how she and her husband's past as Black Panthers affects their work among the urban and village youth of East Africa and America. She will be screening an excerpt from A Panther in Africa, the […]
From the Palace to the People: A Global Griot Saves a West African Tradition with Rock ‘n’ Roll Revelations and Blues Muses! Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso picker and musical visionary from Mali who blurs the lines between West African and American roots music. His work with banjo maverick Bela Fleck just won a Grammy […]
In celebration of their debut album War Cry, Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde will play a soulful infusion of Afro-Caribbean, reggae, rock, hip hop and flamenco, with local and international guest dancers, singers, and percussionists. They will be celebrating this grand accomplishment with a BIG CD release party, and it will also be Taína’s […]
The celebrated NYC-based Matthew Shipp Trio (featuring Matthew Shipp, piano; Michael Bisio, bass; Whit Dickey, drums) will perform live at the opening of a new gallery show at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street in downtown Troy NY. The exhibition, which features locally-produced videos and still photos of internationally-known musicians, is […]
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