“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 […]
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Prometheus Radio Project Presents “The Spectrum Roadshow”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThe 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 […]
Bread and Puppet Theater Presents: “How to Turn Distress Into Success: A Parable of War and Its Making”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesHow to Turn Distress into Success: A Parable of War and its Making is a funny, poignant, radical, occasionally violent response to the 9/11 attacks, filtered through the coolest puppets […]
“Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage” with Filmmaker and Author Heather Rogers
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesAuthor and filmmaker Heather Rogers will screen her documentary on the political history of rubbish in the United States, "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage" and talk about her […]
“Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesLee 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 […]
Galen Joseph-Hunter & Tom Roe of free103point9 on “Transmission Arts” 
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesGalen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe will discuss the field of "Transmission Arts," and free103point9. Free103point9 has an array of goals toward which it is perpetually working, each ultimately focused on […]
“Two Square Miles” with Filmmaker Barbara Ettinger and Friends of Hudson Founder Sam Pratt
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesBarbara 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 […]
“The Next Industrial Revolution” Screening with Community Potluck
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesIn 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 StatesWhile 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 StatesArt 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 StatesThe 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 StatesJoin 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, […]
African Film Fest: “Dôlè (Dollar)” and “Africains poids moyens (African Middleweights)”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesIn 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 […]
Culture with Joseph Hill at The Egg
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesRoots reggae from Jamaica, by the masters.
African Film Festival: “Le ballon d’or (The Golden Ball)” and “Be Kunko (Everybody’s Problem)”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesThe 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 […]
Deep Listening at The Sanctuary with Pauline Oliveros, David Dove, and Chris Cogburn
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesA 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 […]
African Film Festival: “Niiwam” and “Safi La Petite Mere (Safi the Little Mother)”
Based on a novel by Ousmane Sembene, Niiwam (Clarence Thomas Delgando, Senegal, 1991, 80 min) recounts the travails of a young couple’s attempt to save the life of their infant […]
Michael Hurley, Tara Jane O’Neil, and Samara Lubelski
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesMichael 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 […]
African Film Festival: “Malentendu Colonial (The Colonial Misunderstanding)” and “Nkan Mii (Something Else)”
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesMalentendu 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 […]
In-the-Works Film and Video Festival
The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United StatesA screening of film and video works in progress.
