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 […]
Freedom Through Collective Improvisation: iEAR Presents! Free Jazz from the Sanctuary is a new gallery show at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street in downtown Troy, New York. The exhibition celebrates a 13-part series of jazz performance videos and photographs featuring some of the world’s most talented improvisers performing a wide spectrum […]
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 […]
Sleep Dealer (2009) by filmmaker Alex Rivera is a dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a sci-fi adventure. Set on the US-Mexico border, Rivera's highly stylized, emotional and surreal narrative follows a migrant worker in the near future. Co-sponsored by the Department of the Arts at RPI, part of the iEAR Presents! series.
A Chat with Glendora (2010, 58 minutes, digital video) is Victoria Kereszi's portrait of Glendora Folsom Buell, a physicist, philosopher, and self-made television personality who continues to create weekly public access television programs at age 81. In this feature documentary, Glendora describes the early days of local broadcast and cable TV, and its connection to […]
Jeremy Scahill is an investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on global issues, most notably the use of private military companies. He is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, winner of a George Polk Book Award. Scahill also serves as a correspondent for the U.S. […]
Train your eye to think like a camera in this intensive hands-on workshop for beginners to pros with award winning filmmaker Jim de Sève. Explore the discipline of seeing through exercises geared to expand your observational and critical visual skills. Improve your visual/creative acuity through observational shooting techniques, light and movement walks, and exercises in […]
Bicycle organizers from not-so-far off lands will converge on our post-industrial town for a meeting of the minds on all things bicycle culture. Discussions, skill shares, and bicycle fun will ensue. The events will take place over the weekend: April 23 and April 24, 2010. Coordinated by Troy Bike Rescue and The Sanctuary for Independent […]
Veer explores America’s fast-growing bicycling culture by profiling five people whose lives are inextricably tied to bicycling and the bike-centric social groups they belong to. The film follows these characters over the course of a year, offering a behind-the-scenes look at their personal struggles and triumphs. Veer examines what it means to be part of […]
My Suicide (2009) by director David Lee Miller, is a dark romantic comedy that speaks candidly about the reality of contemporary teenage life and the effects of suicide in every town in America. The evening starts at 5:30 with a potluck and a meet and greet with the filmmakers, and the presentation of Daddyless, an […]
Celebrate 30 years of World War 3 Illustrated collective, creators of America's longest-running political comic book. The event will feature cutting-edge art with multimedia presentations, puppetry, performance, live music and members of the World War 3 Illustrated collective. Almost every vertical space at The Sanctuary for Independent Media is covered with art by the World […]
An arts activism intensive with members of the World War 3 Illustrated, including a discussion on zines and comics, and a hands-on collaborative workshop on zines and comics, and a hands-on collaborative workshop to make a digital mini-comic. From 1-3 PM: Small Press and DIY Publishing and Promotion of Activist Comics and Zines; panel discussion […]
In Ian Connacher’s Addicted To Plastic (2008), no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. This film probes what happens to all the plastic in water bottles, packaging, and hundreds of other everyday uses. Please join us for a reception and information-sharing session at 7pm. Representatives from local plastic-alternative […]
The Youth Media Shout-Out Workshop is a media-making event for teenagers. Make a PSA in a day about issues important to you, then screen it and shout out in this live-studio production workshop! Participants break into small groups to produce public service announcements (PSAs) with diverse responses to a teen-related theme. Members of each group […]
Community media centers throughout NY State are empowering young people to take back the media. Media offers a megaphone to the hearts and minds of young people. Come see the best of their work! Join us for a "meet the youth media makers" potluck. This youth media festival features the voices of youth active in […]
A series featuring some of the most creative artists of the local live music scene. Each performance is recorded with a studio audience and streamed live. This season we'll be focusing on some of the region's great blues talents, including Thomasina Winslow and Mother Judge, hosted by JV & The Cutters.
Some long time members of Earth First! who work on the EF! Journal are coming through town on tour with the Earth First! Journal Roadshow. in their veggie oil powered bus on the way to the annual rendezvous in Maine. The evening features a program about the international ecodefense movement called “Earth Nightly News” followed […]
Join us for our season opener! Experience desert defiance and womanly power as Malian diva Khaira Arby and her band invoke the mystery, history, and heart of Timbuktu, live in concert! Inspired by her cousin Ali Farka Toure, Arby turns to her mixed Berber and Songhai roots and draws on a sweet mixture of desert […]
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