Kick off your summer with a day-long community-driven skill share and party!  Includes educational sessions on media and technology, sunny local walking and bike tours, hula hoop competitions, screen printing lessons, delicious food, and information tables staffed by local organizers.  Followed by an evening exploration of the myth-poetic animistic scene to reveal new ancient sounds of the future, and even a sassy dance party! Co-sponsored with the “Arts, Community Education” course in the Department of the Arts at RPI.

Day’s Schedule

10:00 am – 12 noon (Concurrent Sessions)
– Making Local Connections: North Troy and Beyond
An interactive conversation between community groups (including North Central Communities That Care, Capital District Local First, and the Hudson Mohawk Community Renewable Energy Project/CORE). This session will include resource mapping, identifying challenges, consider alternative infrastructure, and create an action plan to sustain connections.

-Kids Activity: Making Media and Media Props with Dee Dee Halleck

– Crocheting, Writing to Prisoners with the Prison Action Network, Songwriting

-Vegan Cooking Session 1 with the Honest Weight Food Co-op (this is limited to 7 participants on a 1st come, 1st serve basis)

-Outdoor Activity (weather permitting): Planting a Wish Garden, Bike Tour with Andrew Lynn (Bring your bike to participate!)

12 Noon
Break for Lunch – please bring your own bag lunch

12:30
518 Positive Reinforcement will perform their youth based positive hip-hop original dance and music. (This is a kid friendly activity.)

1:30 – 3:00 (Concurrent Sessions)

-Magic Planet Students from Mountain Road School in New Lebanon will be performing excerpts of their play, dedicated to environmental education. An Original Play by Cindy L. Parrish; Directed by Meg Agnew Music by Mark Kelso; Rhythms by Ryan Tiven. (This is a kid friendly activity.)

-Road Maintenance with Troy Bike Rescue

-IWW, a graphic history

-Vegan Cooking Session 2 with the Honest Weight Food Co-op (this is limited to 7 participants on a 1st come, 1st serve basis)

-How to shoot a Paper Tiger TV Show with Dee Dee Halleck and George Stoney

-Outdoor Activity (weather permitting): Planting continued, Bike Tour with Lauren

3:00 – 5:00 (Concurrent Sessions)

-Media Reform Assembly
An all state assembly to insure that the airwaves belong to the people.
with Betty Yu (Manhattan Neighborhood Network), Dee Dee Halleck (PPTV/Deep Dish TV), George Stoney (“Father of Community TV”), Michael Eisenmenger (SaveAccess.org), and Steve Pierce (NY Media Alliance)

-Making props for a media reform action

-Kids Cooking Session with the Honest Weight Food Co-op (this is limited to 7 participants on a 1st come, 1st serve basis)

-Shape Note Singing with Carrie Dashow and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg

5:00 -6:00
Art Auction! (main stage)
*begins with “Ramp It Up” Fundraiser Opening Ceremony (front of Sanctuary)

6:00- 7:00
Potluck Bar-B-Q (bring grill items or food to share)

7:00 – 12:00

Music, Videos, and Dancing with:
C. Ryder Cooley; graystar; Back From Japan; skfl; THE JESSE STILES 3000++

We are committed to lowering the barriers to access for events at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. For people who are hard of hearing or deaf, blind or low-vision, or whose physical limitations can interfere with a satisfying experience, let us know two weeks in advance so we can make appropriate arrangements.