From the Palace to the People: A Global Griot Saves a West African Tradition with Rock ‘n’ Roll Revelations and Blues Muses! Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso picker and musical […]
In celebration of their debut album War Cry, Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde will play a soulful infusion of Afro-Caribbean, reggae, rock, hip hop and flamenco, with local and […]
Freedom Through Collective Improvisation: iEAR Presents! Free Jazz from the Sanctuary is a new gallery show at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street in downtown Troy, […]
The celebrated NYC-based Matthew Shipp Trio (featuring Matthew Shipp, piano; Michael Bisio, bass; Whit Dickey, drums) will perform live at the opening of a new gallery show at The Arts […]
Sleep Dealer (2009) by filmmaker Alex Rivera is a dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a sci-fi adventure. Set on the US-Mexico border, Rivera's highly stylized, emotional and surreal narrative […]
A Chat with Glendora (2010, 58 minutes, digital video) is Victoria Kereszi's portrait of Glendora Folsom Buell, a physicist, philosopher, and self-made television personality who continues to create weekly public […]
Jeremy Scahill is an investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on global issues, most notably the use of private military companies. He is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: […]
Train your eye to think like a camera in this intensive hands-on workshop for beginners to pros with award winning filmmaker Jim de Sève. Explore the discipline of seeing through […]
Bicycle organizers from not-so-far off lands will converge on our post-industrial town for a meeting of the minds on all things bicycle culture. Discussions, skill shares, and bicycle fun will […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Across America, a disproportionate share of the tragedy of youth homelessness falls on those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). Mostly poor and minority, many of these […]
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 […]
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