Haiti’s preeminent band, RAM, straight from the famed Hotel Olo son in Port-au-Prince! Founded by band leader, Richard A. Morse, with over 25 years of consistently producing quality music, they released their 7th album, August 1791, their second album in just three years. Ancient Folkloric drums intertwine harmoniously with punk rock guitars and swinging Caribbean […]
You are invited to participate in a workshop co-led by artist Boryana Rossa and biologist Heidi Hehnly. Through the lens of an artist scientist collaboration, this experimental hands on workshop will stimulate conversations from the biological to the ethical — including discussion of genetic predisposition of behavior and policing, as well as scientific and media […]
Health Autonomy Clinic with Dr. Francis Coughlin and JJ Luceno. As part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s growing NATURE Lab, JJ Luceno and Dr. Frank Coughlin are working to establish a central space in Troy to share health skills, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health. Though caring […]
Learn tips and tricks for editing with appropriated footage from this award-winning nonfiction filmmaker! Penny Lane is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker who was named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner. Her most recent feature-length documentary HAIL SATAN? recently debuted at Sundance and released […]
Join us as we celebrate the 2019 Riverkeeper Water Quality sampling season and the volunteer partners who make it possible to gather samples from the Hudson River Watershed from May through October, with a focus on those working in the Upper Hudson River and Mohawk Delta. There will be a Water Quality Sampler Award, a […]
Join director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon) for a screening of her new documentary Hail Satan?, a film about The Satanic Temple, including its origins and grassroots political activism. The film shows Satanists working to preserve the separation of church and state against the perceived privilege of the Christian right. When media-savvy members of the […]
Join journalist Chet Hardin for a workshop on the techniques of investigative journalism. Hardin is known for his groundbreaking coverage of NXIVM for the Capital Region weekly Metroland. He co-authored the book, The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM with Toni Natalie and will be giving a […]
Chet Hardin is the only journalist to play a midnight game of volleyball with actress Allison Mack, Seagrams heiress Clare Bronfman, and the now-notorious Keith Raniere. That was in 2009, long before the eventual arrests of Raniere and Mack on the charges of sex trafficking and forced labor. Hardin's writing for the Capital Region weekly […]
Have you walked past our Collard City Growers permaculture garden lately? On the west side of 6th Avenue between Glen and 101st street in North Troy, we have a hoop house with a ton of potential! Join us to learn more about Collard City Growers, what a hoop house is and discuss ways it could […]
Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]
Combining their deep study of classical music with a naturally warm and exuberant approach to audiences and students, the Aizuri Quartet is passionate about creating diverse points of entry into the string quartet repertoire. Miho Saegusa, violin; Emma Frucht, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello, who came together to make the quartet in 2012 […]
Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]
Come learn about where our waste comes from, the issues associated with it, and how to reduce it! We will talk about refusing, reducing, reusing, recycling, and composting. Techniques will span from cheap or even money saving to expensive, easy and sometimes easier to hard, and from no to large effects on your health. There […]
Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]
Explore strategies that blur the lines between documentary and fiction, from script writing to media activism to studio production to post-production. Alex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores issues that impact the Latino community, particularly on subjects of labor, immigration, and gender. He is best known for his science fiction film, Sleep Dealer […]
Join director Alex Rivera for a screening of “The Infiltrators,” along with community organizers. The Infiltrators, director by Alex Rivera and Christina Ibarras, is a film about a rag-tag group of undocumented youth—Dreamers—who deliberately get arrested by Border Patrol to infiltrate a shadowy detention center. Nearly a decade ago, filmmaker Alex Rivera first encountered the […]
The quintet Pilgrim, founded by Zurich-based tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger, has over the years become one of the most exciting ensembles in young European jazz. They present their fourth recording, Crosswinds, in which there is a certain ambiguity. "Some compositions are freely improvised, while others are completely notated, yet most lie in between, with an […]
What happens when we preserve plants based on utility or agricultural use alone? What if the plants we value are not the ones that will survive the shifting ecology caused by anthropogenic climate change? The Next Epoch Seed Library is crowd-sourced seed library for spontaneous urban plants, otherwise known as weeds. Join environmental artist Ellie […]
Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Join us at The Sanctuary for the eighth annual North Central Troy Justice and Peace Holiday Celebration. We’ll have free food, portraits, art activities, a TBR bike give-away, and the lighting of the tree at Freedom Square (at the corner of 101st and 5th/6th Avenue), and more!! […]
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