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Be The Media! Workshop with Brenda Ann Kenneally, Alan Chin and Andrew Lichtenstein: Facing Change- Photojournalism

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join internationally acclaimed photographers for a seminar in the streets! Learn how to use your camera to raise social awareness, expand public debate, and frame critical issues, working with experienced photojournalists who have dedicated their life to the belief that the personal is always political. With "Facing Change: Documenting America" photographers Brenda Ann Kenneally, Alan […]

Facing Change: Weather Underground Meets Occupy Wall Street

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

David Gilbert's new book, Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond, sparks a dialogue about what social justice movements can learn from each other.  Currently serving a 75 year to life sentence in the New York State prison system, Gilbert chose a political path – an Eagle Scout turned member […]

Marco Calliari

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Born in Italy but raised in Quebec, vocalist and guitarist Marco Calliari was a member of Montreal-based Anonymous for 15 years before setting out as a solo artist. Though the band had been an outlet for his love of hard rock and metal, his parents instilled a love for both opera and Italian pop, and […]

Joseph Bowie/Adam Rudolph Duet

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Free Jazz and electronica meet the rhythms of the world. Adam Rudolph and Joseph Bowie first performed together in 2000 at Lincoln Center with Yusef Lateef. They have collaborated in numerous projects since then, including a trio with Omar Sosa and, most recently, in Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures. Their music is grounded in the American improvisational […]

“Guerrilla Midwife” Screening and Potluck

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Guerrilla Midwife (Deja Bernhardt, 2010) depicts the courage of mothers and their midwives as they hold hands across barriers of language and culture, guiding us toward a reinvention of medical protocols. It is the story of a war waged gently in the belief that peace on earth can be achieved, one baby at a time. […]

Fred Ho: Book Signing, Music, and Community Raw Food Reception

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Artist and raw food radical, Fred Ho, returns to the Capital Region with his new books Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level and Raw Extreme Manifesto! Fight cancer and capitalism through raw food and revolutionary music, featuring Fred Ho and Ben Barson, baritone saxophonists. With Raw Food […]

Declaration of the Occupation with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir are activists, a New York City-based radical performance community with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. They are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters, earth loving urban activists who have worked with communities on four continents defending land, life and imagination from reckless development and the extractive […]

Democracy Now! Co-Host Juan Gonzalez

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Two-time Polk Award-winning New York Daily News columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez has emerged as one of the country’s best-known and most-respected Latino journalists during a turbulent career spanning more than 35 years.  Even before he entered journalism, Gonzalez distinguished himself as a leader of the Young Lords, a militant civil rights organization […]

Be The Media! NY Youth Shout Out: “Youth Resolutions” Media Production Workshop

Youth media makers join forces to create short videos. Tweens through young adults brainstorm ideas around the theme "Re:solution/Re:volution/Re:Mix," then shoot and edit in a whirlwind of production throughout the afternoon. The workshop is facilitated by media artists from North Troy's Youth Media Sanctuary and Albany's Youth FX. The workshop is followed in the evening […]

NY Shout Out! 3rd Annual Youth Media Festival

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Celebrate the power of the Youth Media movement! Media offers a megaphone to the hearts and minds of young people. Come see the best of their work! Witness the wisdom and talent of New York State filmmakers during the NY Shout Out! Youth Media Festival. The excitement grows as many youth participants return for their third […]

Premiere Screening of “The Apple Pushers,” and Panel Discussion

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The Apple Pushers (Mary Mazzio, 2011) is a new documentary that tells the inspiring stories of immigrant street cart vendors who sell fruits and vegetables in the “food deserts” of New York City. A panel discussion will follow the premier screening.

Flaherty on the Road

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Drawn from the program of the 57th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, the 2011 Flaherty on the Road film series explores the audio dimension of documentary.  Two programs will screen: The Artist and the Process, featuring From Zero, a portrait of American composer, philosopher and renaissance man John Cage, and Heart and Soul, a film […]

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Be The Media! Workshop with Jim de Séve: The Camera as an Interface to the World

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Explore the discipline of seeing and the subconscious of the camera.  Through observational and experimental practice, reveal your personal vision. For beginners to pros with award-winning filmmaker and educator Jim de Séve. Jim is an award-winning documentary producer and director. He has an MFA from the Arts Department at Rensselaer, and teaches film production classes at Union College. […]

BikeFest: Troy Bike Rescue Spring Fundraiser and Film Festival

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Help support Troy Bike Rescue's self-service community shop as they educate and advocate for alternative transportation and people-powered revolution. At a meet and greet, join North Troy Environmental Education Consortium partners Troy Bike Rescue, Collard City Growers, Missing Link Street Ministry and Youth Media Sanctuary for the start of another Uptown Summer. The Troy Bike […]

Live from Lock One: Tisziji Muñoz Quartet

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Electric guitarist Tisziji Muñoz, formerly of Schenectady, is considered by many to be among the greatest and least-known living musicians. His music evokes the cosmic free jazz of John Coltrane's later work and, like a saxophonist, Muñoz plays only one note at a time, yet he can play with such velocity that the notes blur, […]

Juneteenth! With Shokazoba and The Ameros

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us for the last event of our Spring 2012 season–a spectacular free show to mark the Juneteenth holiday! There'll be lots of music, food, pedal-powered smoothies, bike and helmet decorating, and more as we celebrate the struggle for freedom, equality, culture and community, and commemorate the day two years after the end of the Civil […]

Underground Gallery Opening with Patrick Dodson, Brian Jones, Brenda Ann Kenneally and Ellie Markovitch: Planting Seeds- Four Lenses on North Troy (9/29-12/8/12) 

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

An exhibition of local photojournalism featuring Patrick Dodson, Brian Jones, Brenda Ann Kenneally and Ellie Markovitch focusing on one long block- home to the Sanctuary for Independent Media, Collard City Growers, Missing Link Street Ministry, Troy Bike Rescue and Upstate Girls. On view from September 29-December 8, 2012.

Rupa and the April Fishes

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Four years, festivals and village concerts on three continents, two previous albums, several languages from Hindi to Tzotzil to French, many musical traditions, and countless moments of joy, sorrow, loss, and transformation were the construction materials that came together for Rupa and the April Fishes’ riveting new album, Build. Traveling the long road from solitude […]

Bike! Bike! Northeast 2012

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join bicycle organizers and volunteers from near and not-so-far-off lands for this regional gathering of activists building the networks, infrastructure, and pedal-powered machines for a car-free future, featuring practical workshops and DIY demonstrations.

“Roadmap to Apartheid” with Filmmakers Eron Davidson and Ana Noguiera 

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join filmmakers Eron Davidson and Ana Noguiera for a screening of Roadmap to Apartheid (2012), a riveting new film that juxtaposes the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa with the harsh reality of life in Palestine today. Davidson is a Jewish Israeli, while Noguiera is a white South African.  Both live in the United […]

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