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Louis Massiah and Patricia Zimmerman Present “We Tell” 50 Years of Participatory Community Media: Environments of Race and Place [CANCELED/COVID]

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Environments of Race and Place zeroes in on issues surrounding immigration, migration, and racial identities unique to specific environments. These works embrace and amplify the micro rather than the macro in scope. They move from the national to the hyperlocal, advocating that understanding conflicts and contradictions can lead to change. Discussions of police brutality in […]

KitchenSanctuary Presents: Home is Where the Maqlouba is with Jude Abu Zaineh [CANCELED/COVID]

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Jude Abu Zaineh (MFA, University of Windsor) is a Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker. Her practice relies on the use of art, food, and technology to investigate meanings of culture, displacement, diaspora, and belonging. She’s interested in ideals of home and community while working to develop aesthetics rooted in her childhood and upbringing in […]

Health Autonomy Clinic: Harm Reduction in the Age of Pandemic

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join NATURE Lab and the Health Autonomy Network for a workshop focused on harm reduction solidarity in the age of COVID-19. We will view the opiate epidemic as a crisis within a crisis, and examine the history of harm reduction networks as well as current harm reduction initiatives and resources. The event also features guests […]

Troy Bike Rescue’s BikeFest 10 [CANCELED/COVID]

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join Troy Bike Rescue for their 10th annual fundraiser. It's a celebration of bikes, burritos, and cakes along with the many things TBR represents: youth empowerment, health and wellness, recycling, transportation independence, and alternatives to wasteful and exploitative models of business. Now more than ever TBR is reliant on community support and dollars. Put your […]

Escalating Resistance: Mass Rebellion Training with Lisa Fithian

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

As part of her Shut It Down book tour, organizer Lisa Fithian will be offering a three hour training to hone our strategies and tactics to impact power holders and create social disruption at increasingly larger scales. This organizing requires attention to how we build collective power that heals and liberates us from our socialization […]

Be The Media! Workshop with Renée Feltz: Muckraking with a Conscience – Reporting during COVID

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us for a Be The Media! Radio Workshop with Senior Producer Renée Feltz, sharing her expertise in the trenches at Democracy Now! during the COVID crisis! Renee will cover: How Democracy Now! has changed in response to COVID; the impact of COVID on other stories; muckraking with a conscience: creative ways to cover stories, […]

Be The Media! Workshop with Master Documentary Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán

In addition to our virtual screening of The Cordillera of Dreams we presented a Be The Media!  workshop featuring a talk and Q&A with filmmaker Patricio Guzmán live from Paris on Friday, May 22, 2020.  Local filmmaker Daniel Mosquera, professor of Hispanic and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Union College, provided simultaneous translation.   This […]

Media Activist Reflections From #ShutItDown Pipeline Protest with Filmmaker Deia Schlosberg [CANCELED/COVID]

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us for a workshop with Deia Schlosberg before the screening of her film, The Story of Plastic, at 6pm! Deia Schlosberg (DIRECTOR/PRODUCER) made national news in October, 2016, when she was arrested and charged with 45 years’ worth of felonies for filming the #ShutItDown pipeline protest in North Dakota. Part of a worrying pattern […]

“The Cordillera of Dreams” Screening with Patricio Guzmán

Join us for an on-demand screening of The Cordillera of Dreams and a workshop featuring master documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán with translator Daniel Mosquera. Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's The Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (Nostalgia for the Light, and The Pearl Button) investigating […]

Sanctuary Campus Permaculture Virtual Workshop with Sujin Chung

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Emma Willard student Sujin Chung will lead a virtual permaculture workshop and tour of the Sanctuary for Independent Media, from her home in South Korea. In this interview, she talks about how learning about permaculture at the Sanctuary has affected her life, and what inspired this project. Originally scheduled for a physical walk through Media […]

“All We’ve Got” with Filmmaker Alexis Clements, and Special Guests Tandra LaGrone and EP [CANCELED/COVID]

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

A personal exploration of LGBTQI women’s communities, cultures, and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create, from bars to bookstores to arts and political hubs. This investigation of spaces that have managed to stay open when so many others have closed offers a perspective on why having a place to […]

PREMIERE! Virtual Exhibition “Acquired Immunity” [FEMeeting WEB 2020] and Virtual Dialogue

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

On March 11th we announced the cancelling of the first FEMeeting Troy and FEMeeting Paris for reasons connected with the COVID-19 pandemic. The two events scheduled for March 20th-21st 2020 marked the start of FEMeeting communities, focusing on the support of research and artistic creation developed locally by individuals who identify as women. Instead, Spring […]

Freedom Festival

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Featuring Taina Asili and free music, food and arts activities outdoors at Freedom Square. Rain site is adjacent at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.

Health Autonomy Clinic: Addressing Social Disparities and the Crisis

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us for a Health Autonomy Clinic focused on social disparities and the crisis, ways that POC communities/oppressed/marginalized communities are being affected, and programs and resources caring for essential workers, incarcerated and the detained. The goal of “Addressing Social Disparities and the Crisis” is to counter the narrative that “everyone is in this together” and […]

Virtual Book Talk with Organizer and Author Lisa Fithian “Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance”

For decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Fithian has supported countless movements including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, rebuilding and defending communities following Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, and the […]

Norlite Town Hall Meeting

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The Norlite incinerator in Cohoes has been burning toxic waste for decades. What is the health impact of their operations on the surrounding communities throughout the NY Capital Region, southwestern Vermont, northwestern Massachusetts, and beyond? Join Cohoes Mayor William T. Keeler, longtime Saratoga Sites apartment resident Joe Ritchie, Dr. David Carpenter of the Albany School of […]

“The Condor and the Eagle,” Virtual Screening with Filmmaker Clément Guerra and Bryan Parras

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join filmmaker Clément Guerra and Indigenous media makers in an online HD screening of “The Condor and the Eagle,” followed by a Be The Media! workshop: “Indigenous Voices: Media for Environmental Organizing.” During this time of COVID and a health crisis disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities, how can independent media work build solidarity in the pandemic […]

Be The Media! Workshop: Sage Against the Machine – Listening to Indigenous Voices and Spiritual Pedagogy

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Explore with the filmmakers how media can have impact keeping Indigenous voices front and center. This "Be The Media!" virtual workshop features indigenous filmmakers Jade Begay from NDN Collective; Ecuadorian media maker Leo Cerda from HAKHU Project; and The Condor and the Eagle protagonist Bryan Parras. The presenters were joined by filmmaker Clément Guerra, Director […]

Norlite Town Hall Meeting II: The Sequel

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

For our second Norlite Town Hall, our panelists will include Jane Williams from the National Sierra Club Clean Air Team; Sean Mahar, chief of staff for NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos; and Joe Ritchie, longtime Cohoes resident in the Saratoga Sites apartment complex. This meeting will focus on Norlite, Senate bill 7880B […]

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