Fall 2007 Season

The 10-piece jazz ensemble known as the "best little big band in America" makes a return appearance to the Capital Region in a free show to celebrate the 100th anniversary[...]

Working people are often defined solely by their occupation, yet there is so much more to the story. Each of our lives is comprised of layer upon layer of people,[...]

From Between Trio is a collaboration of musicians from three continents: Tatsuya Nakatani, percussionist from Japan and now living in the US; Michel Doneda, saxophonist from France; and Jack Wright,[...]

The longtime journalist, author and radio producer will speak about the challenge and necessity of creating for-the-people media in this era of corporate consolidation. Her most recent book is Blue[...]

A laugh-riot performance with equal emphasis on both "laugh" and "riot." The Lost Film Fest focuses on pranks vs. corporations and government institutions. You'll love the punk rock urgency of[...]

Will the United States and Iran Find Themselves at War? In The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis (Poli Point Press, 2007), author[...]

Haale, vocals, guitarMatt Kilmer, percussionChris Hoffman, cello Haale evokes both the spiritual and traditional culture of her parents' homeland of Iran and the energy of psychedelic rock and roll from[...]

A response to President Bush's statement made early in the Iraq War, Christine Heller's installation, Mission Accomplished is layered with the grey Muslim figures tangled in wire and fencing. Limp[...]

With the Army of None Project, David Solnit aims to counter military recruitment, end war, and build a better world. He is traveling across the United States to share his[...]

Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years.  He has reported extensively from inside Iraq for eight months and has also[...]

Working on a doc or thinking about it? Perplexed about how to tell your story? In this hands-on workshop award-winning filmmaker Jim de Séve leads students to uncover the secrets[...]

Michael Vlatkovich Quartet features Christopher Garcia, percussion; Jonathan Glove, electric cello; David Mott, baritone saxophone; Michael Vlatkovich, trombone. Trombonist, composer, and arranger Michael Vlatkovich is one of the leading talents[...]

How does filmmaker Joe Cultrera’s film Hands of God (2006), about Catholic clergy abuse, not descend into depression? It helps when the victim doesn't act like one but uses his[...]

The Devil Music Ensemble performs their original score live to Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (F.W. Murnau, 1922), the classic black and white vampire movie. Devil Music Ensemble, formed in[...]

Writer and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore investigates corporate America's inroads into-- and alliance with-- the cultural underground in her just- published book, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and Erosion of Integrity[...]

Multimedia performance artist Nicole Peyrafitte was born in Luchon (French Pyrenees) into the 5th generation of a family of restaurateurs. Since moving to Albany in 1992, she has dedicated herself[...]

You know that media is your #2 issue, but what can you do about it?  This workshop will examine an array of highly successful strategies and models of using media[...]

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. In Michaels Yates’s Cheap Motels and a Hot Place: An Economist's Travelogue (monthly review press, 2006) an economist hits the[...]

A Map With Gaps (2006), directed by Alice Nelson, uses a combination of archive audio recordings, still photographs, drama reconstruction, and animation. This surreal and comic tale is an account[...]

Photographers Andrzej Pilarczyk and Don McKever have specialized in photographing musicians across a broad spectrum of musical styles for several decades. By combining the visual principles of portraiture with a[...]

Meeting Resistance (2007) is set in the streets, alleyways and ubiquitous teashops of the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad.  It enters the physical and psychological heart of the "insurgency" against the[...]

Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first[...]

Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi. 2005. Cameroon). "Men are going to get the message now."  The lawyers and judges in one small courthouse in Kumba, Cameroon are[...]

The Thirteenth Assembly is a touring collective made up of four musicians (Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Taylor Ho Bynum and Tomas Fujiwara) organized into four different and musically distinct small[...]

Learn do-it-yourself stop-motion animation techniques in this fast-paced hands-on workshop.  Participants will work in small groups with clay, collage, and/or cut-outs to create animated scenes, characters and short stories.  Youth[...]

Flock of Dodos (Randy Olson, 2006). Who are the dodos in the current debate over evolution versus intelligent design?  With a Super Size Me - style good spirit, marine biologist[...]

Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience[...]

What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end[...]

Trio Tarana is led by percussionist/composer Ravish Momin, who currently resides in New York City but was born in India and has lived in the Middle-East and England.  Therefore, the[...]