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 […]
Graphics for the Commons: Learn the tools and techniques of collaborative image making with The Beehive Design Collective, masters of the form, exploring the potential for cartoons to communicate global […]
Highlights of new work by the Beehive Collective, swarming in from Machias, Maine. The wildly creative group of artists, activists, educators, and organizers who explain global political issues in an […]
2012: Time for Change (2010) presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom, directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim. The film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling […]
The best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) introduces the themes of his forthcoming book, Death of the Liberal Class. Chris Hedges spent nearly two […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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