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“Two Square Miles” with Filmmaker Barbara Ettinger and Friends of Hudson Founder Sam Pratt

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Barbara Ettinger's 2006 documentary Two Square Miles tracks the conflicts in the small town of Hudson, New York as a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to reshape the community. With its thriving main street, diverse population, and healthy rate of revitalization, Hudson, New York could be seen as a model of small-town America. But underneath […]

“The Next Industrial Revolution” Screening with Community Potluck

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

In Chris Bedford's and Shelley Morhaim's The Next Industrial Revolution (2001), architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design. While some environmental observers predict doomsday scenarios in which a rapidly increasing human population is forced to compete for ever scarcer natural resources, Bill McDonough sees a more exciting and hopeful […]

“Aristide and the Endless Revolution” with Filmmaker Nicolas Rossier

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

While the international community passively looked on, the democratically elected president of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere was violently deposed twice. Aristide: and the Endless Revolution (2005) investigates the events in Haiti that led to the second brutal deposition of Jean Bertrand Aristide. The archival footage and interviews soon make it clear that the United […]

“Inter/Play…” with Pauline Oliveros and Surajit Sarkar

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Art blends with politics as experimental music pioneer Pauline Oliveros and media artist Surajit Sarkar join creative forces at The Sanctuary For Independent Media!  Even as internet use has grown exponentially, the hierarchy of metaphors that describe it has remained constant: The internet is most of all a mail pigeon, then a library, then an […]

Broadcast Live Tour Finale

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The conscious hip hop group Broadcast Live brings music to The Sanctuary. 

The Beehive Design Collective Presents “Dismantling Monoculture: Globalization and Resistance in the Americas”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join the Beehive Collective for a high-energy picture-lecture. According to the The Beehive Collective:  Dismantling Monoculture is an anthology of three educational, visual narratives that illuminate the connections between colonization, militarization, and industrial development in the Americas. To create the graphics, the Beehive interviewed hundreds of community members about the effects of globalization on their […]

African Film Fest: “Dôlè (Dollar)” and “Africains poids moyens (African Middleweights)”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

In director Imanga Ivunga's Dôlè (Dollar) (2000), the action takes place in Libreville, the capital city of Gabon, where four street kids scrape a living as a gang. Mougler, the unwilling hero of this story, finds his life hard to bear, between an ailing mother and an absent, alcoholic father. Yet, the four friends continue […]

African Film Festival: “Le ballon d’or (The Golden Ball)” and “Be Kunko (Everybody’s Problem)”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The Golden Ball (Le ballon d’or) directed by Cheik Doukouré, Guinea/France, 1992, 90 minutes. Cheik Doukouré’s second feature celebrates the powerful dream of becoming an African soccer star, a dream that is pursued by kids in innumerable small villages who play in the dust with bare feet and footballs made of rags. A thoroughly engaging […]

Deep Listening at The Sanctuary with Pauline Oliveros, David Dove, and Chris Cogburn

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

A concert with Pauline Oliveros (electronics), David Dove (trombone), Chris Cogburn (percussion), with the Children of the Ark Community Charter School (percussion). Students from the Ark Community Charter School in Troy are performing an improvised composition with a combination of xylophones, drums and percussion as a result of their workshop with Dove and Cogburn.

Michael Hurley, Tara Jane O’Neil, and Samara Lubelski

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Michael Hurley is an American folk singer-songwriter who was essential to the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to playing a wide variety of instruments, Hurley is also a cartoonist and a painter. Hurley's music has been described as "outsider folk". Tara Jane O'Neil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, audio engineer and visual artist. She creates melodic and […]

African Film Festival: “Malentendu Colonial (The Colonial Misunderstanding)” and “Nkan Mii (Something Else)”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Malentendu Colonial (The Colonial Misunderstanding) directed by Jean-Marie Teno, Cameroon, 2004, 78 minutes. The Colonial Misunderstanding is a bold exploration of Germany’s “African past”—specifically, its attempts to colonize parts of Africa through religion and trade. Jean-Marie Teno looks at the role that missionaries played in laying the groundwork for colonialism in countries like Togo, Cameroon, […]

Performance of “The Wonders of the World: Recite” by Totally Realistic Productions of Montreal

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

It's a macabre coming of age story taking place on a lighthouse on the last day of the world--the play features two writers/performers (Donna Sellinger and Madeline ffitch), one live musician (Leo Gebhardt, formerly of Subpop punk quartet The Catheters), Ulysses S. Grant as the ideal male specimen, a pop-up diorama, and a felt pigeon.

“Who is Bozo Texino” with Filmmaker Bill Daniel

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The secret history of hobo and railworker graffiti. Shot on freight trips across the western US over a period of 16 years, Who is Bozo Texino? chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous rail graffiti--a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, "Bozo Texino"--a drawing seen on railcars for […]

Either/Orchestra

The Either/Orchestra has received rave reviews around the world.  The Boston Globe called them "the leading little big-band in the jazz world."  And the Village Voice said "this amazing ensemble does just about everything right."  Even jambands.com chimed in, saying "the ingenuity and power expressed by the Either/Orchestra can not be matched by any band, […]

“i” with Filmmakers Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

“i” (2006), a documentary by film makers Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia, is a mediation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the world's largest all-volunteer network of media activists – Indymedia. The feature-length film follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst […]

“Salvador Allende” Premiere with Editor Fernando Leiva

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Salvador Allende's brief rule as President of Chile from 1970 to 1973 is a central moment in the modern history of South America. However, who was Salvador Allende? Was he a Marxist, as many claim? Was he too civilized to govern in a world of international power politics? A moving biographical portrait, Salvador Allende (2006) […]

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