Spring 2010 Season

Filmmaker Julia Loktev presents her feature film, Day Night Day Night (2006), the story of a 19-year old preparing to become a suicide bomber in TImes Square. She speaks with a[...]

Scott Christianson, author of Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War, will give a multimedia presentation that looks at the life and[...]

In Fanny Armstrong's (McLible, 2005) The Age of Stupid (2009), Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage and[...]

Master the art of archiving - and muscle your data into place for order, access and ease - with digital archivist and preservation consultant David Rice. "Media Management in a[...]

Four decades after leaving this country for exile in Tanzania, Mama Charlotte Hill O'Neal returns to share the inspirational story of how she and her husband's past as Black Panthers[...]

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[...]