Broadcast Live Tour Finale
Broadcast Live Tour Finale
The conscious hip hop group Broadcast Live brings music to The Sanctuary.
The conscious hip hop group Broadcast Live brings music to The Sanctuary.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 son, who is gravely ill. Unable to find a cure in their village, Thierno and his wife take him to a city hospital, only to […]
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 […]
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, […]
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