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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our ongoing series of live recordings of local musicians performing before a studio audience continues with Todd Nelson’s TN3 featuring drummer Manual Quintana, electric guitarist Todd Nelson, and fretless bass player Kyle Epositio performing music from their new album, Here. They will be joined by John Hines playing trumpet and Bob Resnick on percussion.
A coalition of local community groups is launching Freedom Square–just up the block from the Sanctuary–with free outdoor live music. We call the collaboration between The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Missing Link Street Ministry, Troy Bike Rescue and Collard City Growers the Freedom Square Coalition- named after the grassy spot where 5th and 6th Avenues […]
Welcome the "Peace Pilgrimage for a Nuclear Free Future" as the walkers pass through Troy on their journey from Boston to Albany. They will walk a total of 300 miles, beginning each day at 8 am and typically walking 15-18 miles per day. The walkers will be spending their night in Troy at the Missing […]
Seabrook 1977 chronicles the dramatic events which made world headlines and sparked the creation of a grassroots antinuclear power movement across the United States. Scenes of the nonviolent demonstration and subsequent internment are interwoven with interviews with participants on all sides of the event, including local Seabrook residents, antinuclear activists, New Hampshire’s pro-nuclear Governor Meldrim […]
A weekend workshop on The Transition Movement, which is comprised of vibrant, grassroots community initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Transition Initiatives differentiate themselves from other sustainability and “environmental” groups by seeking to mitigate these converging global crises by […]
Our Fall 2011 season opens with music from Mail, the hotbed of new African music, featuring: Sidi Touré, guitar and vocals; Jambla Maiga, kuntigui; Domu Maiga, kurbu. Touré made his first guitar as a child, constructing it from his wooden writing slate in the ancient town of Gao, Mali. Once the heart of the Songhaï […]
October 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the Patriot Act. In the days following 9/11, fear and shock dominated the public and domestic security issues rose to the top of our agenda. The state of emergency that began during the Bush administration has continued into the Obama administration. But how many of actions taken to […]
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