Events

Prison Activist Robina Courtin and “Chasing Buddha”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Chasing Buddha (2000) is a documentary by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson about Robina Courtin, an Australian ex-Catholic, ex-political activist and feminist who has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. […]

“Tying the Knot” with Filmmaker Jim de Séve

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Jim de Séve's 2004 documentary Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan […]

“The Trouble With Music” with Author Mat Callahan

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Mat Callahan's The Trouble with Music (2005) explores the crisis facing music. The signs are everywhere, from the saturation of public space by tuneful trivia to the digital downloading controversy. […]

“Quantum Leaps” with Video Curator Astria Suparak

Quantum leap, a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom), became the title of an […]

Prometheus Radio Project Presents “The Spectrum Roadshow”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The creation of the Low Power FM radio service stands as one of the greatest successes in recent efforts for grassroots media reform. As a result, hundreds of new low […]

“Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony” 

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Lee Hirsch's 2002 film Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony documents South African musicians, playwrights, poets and activists as they recall the struggle against apartheid from the 1940s to the 1990s that stripped black citizens […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

Broadcast Live Tour Finale

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

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

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