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Jayne Cortez: A Dialogue between Voice & Drums

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

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 […]

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Be The Media! Workshop with Amy Halloran and Ellie Markovitch: Digital Story-telling and Photography – Online Recipe Box

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

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, […]

Michael Monasterial’s “Sam Cooke: Where You Been Baby?”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

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 […]

Author Scott Christianson, “The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

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 […]

Be The Media! Workshop with Stephanie Rothenberg: Second Life for Community Development & Re-imagining Your Neighborhood Through Virtual Reality

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

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 […]

Stephanie Rothenberg “Best Practices in Banana Time,” with Alice Alexandrescu

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

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 […]

“Girls to the Front!” with Sara Marcus plus Mountain Man

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

In an evening celebrating female creativity past and present, author Sara Marcus discusses her new book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (2010) with rock journalist Will Hermes (NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin), and highly acclaimed indie folk trio Mountain Man, fresh off a national tour and slot at Wilco's […]

Anti-Nuclear Activist, Helen Caldicott

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Dr. Helen Caldicott will talk about the past, present and future of anti-nuclear activism. She will be introduced by Lawrence Wittner, longtime historian at SUNY Albany who has written extensively about the impact of the worldwide nuclear disarmament movement upon nuclear weapons policies. The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the […]

Live From Lock One: “Invisible: The Crisis of LGBT Homelessness” with a Musical Performance by S.K.A.T.E.

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Meet award winning photographer Samantha Box for an artist reception of “Invisible: The Crisis of LGBT Youth Homelessness” as we examine the crisis LBGTQ youth face in our society and celebrate reclaiming hip hop with anti-violence, anti-homophobia and anti-sexism messages. Join youth groups from around the region in a community potluck, info exchange and LGBTQ Human Rights […]

The Afro Asian Scientific Soul Duo Featuring Fred Ho and Dr. Salim Washington

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Two saxophone giants, Fred Ho and Dr. Salim Washington, combine instrumental virtuosity and intellectual-political revolutionary luminance in a "saxophonistic dialogue" and discourse.  Imagine the impossible: music, multimedia and revolution.  Also featuring new music videos of Fred Ho's big band work and excerpts from Ho's "The Black Panther Suite," with video imagery by Paul Chan.   Co-sponsored […]

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Be The Media! Workshop with Jim de Seve: Documentary Bootcamp

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Learn everything you need to know about planning, shooting, editing and marketing your documentary in four information-packed hours. Veteran documentary filmmaker Jim de Seve leads an energizing session to get you off your couch and make the documentary you've been dreaming about. All welcome, but not for the faint-of-heart! De Sève is an award-winning documentary producer/ […]

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Be The Media! Workshop with Devorah Hill & Victoria Kereszi: Trojan HerStories

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Trojan Herstories is a women's oral history project that will train local women from diverse communities in audio/video and oral history production.  This two-day workshop is for Troy women to become active participants in the representation of their communities, and raise awareness about the disenfranchisement of women. This workshop is designed for community organizations who serve […]

“Freeing Silvia Baraldini” with Filmmakers Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The award-winning documentary Freeing Silvia Baraldini (2009), by filmmakers Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas, is a profound inquiry into the life of an Italian woman who became an American radical. It records the life of former political prisoner Silvia Baraldini, who was arrested by the FBI  in 1982 and sentenced to 43 years in prison. […]

Exhibition Opening for Underground Gallery: Scrappin’ Upstate

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The personal becomes political in an exhibition integrating stories of young women in North Troy today with those of their turn-of-the-century counterparts. This exhibit juxtaposes large-scale prints of contemporary scrapbooks alongside images of diaries kept by young women growing up in the 1900's Victorian-era Troy. Brenda Ann Kenneally with the Upstate Girls. In partnership with […]

“Guerrilla Mischief” with The Yes Men’s Mike Bonanno

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Want to know how to derail a $100 million dollar green-washing campaign? Need to raise the ire of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? Ready to strike back at the agents of greed and corruption that have sent the world into a tailspin? Mike Bonanno will show you how The Yes Men do it!

Jayme Stone and Room of Wonders

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Two-time Juno award-winning banjo master Jayme Stone's last album Africa to Appalachia, was a boundary-crossing musical collaboration. His tour, in support of the new CD Room of Wonders, inspired by folk dances from around the world, features a stellar band with fiddle pioneer Casey Driessen.

“Nostalgia for the Light” with Filmmaker Patricio Guzman

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

In Nostalgia for the Light (2010) acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman traveled to the driest place on earth, The Atacama Desert of Chile, for his new film, Nostalgia for the Light. The sky is so translucent astronomers see right to the boundaries of the universe. The harsh heat of the sun keeps intact the human […]

Raw Food Reception and The Afro Asian Scientific Soul Duo with Fred Ho and Salim Washington

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Raw, extreme and revolutionary, saxophonists Fred Ho and Dr. Salim Washington will concertize with interactive video on the nature and ecology of anti-manifest destiny Marxist visions.  This is a not-to-be-missed event in which the Original Asiatic Black Man meets the Original Africanistic Yellow Man for a convocation of revolutionary love, imagination and musical ecstasy. Food […]

Hudson Mohawk Re-Skilling Festival

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

A day of skill-sharing and planning featuring workshops with many local and regional teachers to help build a network of shared values and knowledge around urban gardens, food networking, food preservation, passive and alternative energies, water catchment, and social justice. Together we can manifest the critical and necessary transition from resource-rich industrial capitalism to bio-regional […]

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