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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 […]

James Howard Kunstler

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Author Jim Howard Kunstler will speak on the multiple crises in capital markets, world energy supplies, and the need to make other arrangements for daily life in the years ahead. In particular, the implications for how we inhabit the landscape. Co-sponsored by the Uptown Initiative. James Howard Kunstler has written extensively about the mutilated everyday […]

SubMedia’s End of Civilization Tour: “END:CIV” with Filmmaker Frank Lopez

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

This culture will eat you alive…Fight back, resist and survive! If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water, fouled the air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? If creatures from outer space made the water so poisonous you wouldn’t dream of drinking it, would you try […]

Be The Media! Workshop with Frank Lopez: It’s the End of the World as We Know It- Social Media and Global Resistance

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us for a Survivalist Media Workshop with Media Pirate, "The Stimulator" Frank Lopez as he explains the who, what, why of his snarky show and learn how the f@*k he does it! This workshop is on DIY distribution, radical aesthetics, stealing stuff from the internet, collaborating with video ninjas across the land, and funding it […]

Screening with Franklin Lopez

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

As a substitute for Richard Wolff’s canceled presentation, radical media maker Franklin López will be appearing instead with a program of new work!  Franklin López is an anarchist filmmaker from occupied Borikén (Puerto Rico.)  He is the founder of SubMedia.tv, an independent video ensemble that cranks out anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial films and agit-prop. The films […]

Be The Media! Workshop with NY Youth Shout Out: Media Production

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join in an afternoon of creative production, networking youth media makers and newbies from across the state to discuss issues shout out by youth.  Youth media makers will break into teams to create short video projects about key issues and challenges in their lives.  Their work will be premiered that evening at the NY Youth […]

NY Youth Shout Out! Second Annual Youth Media Festival

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us for our Second Annual NY Youth Shout Out! Media Festival. Come witness a cavalcade of creativity featuring youth media makers across New York State, providing a window on the next generation of filmmakers as well as networking, skill-sharing, and media making opportunities for these young artists and organizers.  At a potluck that precedes […]

Northeast Animal Liberation Festival 

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The Northeast Animal Liberation Festival begins with a vegan potluck BBQ. It will be followed by a panel discussion which will include animal liberation activists Peter Young, Jenny Brown of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, and Camille Hankins of Win Animal Rights and No Kill New York. The panel will be followed by Peter Young's new […]

Reception for Underground Gallery: “Scrappin’ Upstate” by Brenda Ann Kenneally with Presentation by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Narrative journalist  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc will respond to questions by photo journalist Brenda Ann Kenneally about her current Sanctuary exhibit, Scrappin’ Upstate. LeBlanc will explore the issues addressed in Scrappin’ Upstate, and the vital role of independent journalism, with a focus on marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. One […]

Be The Media! Workshop with Jim de Sève: How to Shoot Hands-on Digital Video

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

This hands-on lab is specifically designed to improve your shooting skills. The key areas covered include: going off automatic, motion and stability, covering the action, and engaging the emotive potential of the camera. Bring a video camera if you have one – but it is not necessary. For adults and teens. Jim de Sève is an […]

“Not Just a Game” with Filmmaker David Zirin

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

In the powerful 2010 documentary Not Just a Game: Power Politics & American Sports (based on Zirin's best-selling book, The People's History of Sports in the United States), author and activist Dave Zirin argues that, far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the center of some of the major political […]

Troy Bike Rescue: BIKE PARTY Fun(d)raiser

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

We’ve got new neighbors!!!! Welcome!! Troy Bike Rescue is moving to North Troy.  What began as a pile of old bikes and a series of parking lot workshops has evolved into a group of dedicated volunteers running and maintaining regular shops in both Albany and Troy.  This bike month, they will be moving the Troy […]

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