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 […]
Graphics for the Commons: Learn the tools and techniques of collaborative image making with The Beehive Design Collective, masters of the form, exploring the potential for cartoons to communicate global issues in an engaging way. Join in as we deconstruct the complex and overwhelming issues that are shaping our world, using bio-regionally accurate depictions of […]
Highlights of new work by the Beehive Collective, swarming in from Machias, Maine. The wildly creative group of artists, activists, educators, and organizers who explain global political issues in an engaging way with large-scale cartoons! This presentation will be preceded by the Peace Pole Dedication in the Sanctuary’s Wish Garden at 5:15, and a community […]
2012: Time for Change (2010) presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom, directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim. The film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the ancient wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As […]
The best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) introduces the themes of his forthcoming book, Death of the Liberal Class. Chris Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has […]
A fire-spitting evening with drummer Denardo Coleman, featuring a voice celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and include the books of poetry Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere, Coagulations: New and Selected Poems, Poetic Magnetic, Firespitter, Mouth on Paper, Scarifications, and Pissstained […]
Photographer Ellie Markovitch and writer Amy Halloran team up to lead a digital storytelling workshop that focuses on food as a tool to capture powerful personal histories. Please join them for an afternoon of sharing food and stories about food, and documentation that will result in an online community recipe box. Bring a meaningful recipe, […]
The Sanctuary is proud to present a new musical production of an original historical play by Michael Monasterial illuminating the life and musical genius of singer and Civil Rights movement pioneer Sam Cooke, who wrote, performed and produced dozens of hits during almost a decade at the top of the pop music charts. His early […]
In The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber (2010), award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings, taking us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. More than […]
Join artist Stephanie Rothenberg as we create an alternative North Troy in Second Life. Imagine with us what community resources and other improvements can be created to fill the vacant urban landscape. Participants will work as a team to create 3D prototypes using Second Life’s building tools and real time collaborative environment to re-imagine our […]
Best Practices in Banana Time is a mixed reality talk show that takes place in a real life physical venue and simultaneously in the 3-D virtual environment of Second Life. Hosted by artist Stephanie Rothenberg’s virtual doppelgänger, Doctor Rodenberger, and her real life/Second Life co-host Robin Hoof (aka Alice Alexandrescu), the talk show explores new […]
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