The Matthew Shipp Trio launches the Spring 2014 season at The Sanctuary for Independent Media while celebrating the release of their new recording, Root of Things (Relative Pitch Records), and the Sanctuary's newly donated 9 foot Baldwin concert grand. With Matthew Shipp, piano; Michael Bisio, bass; Whit Dickey, drums.
NATURE Lab, in collaboration with the Arts Department at RPI, is offering the following workshop the day before his speaking event on 3/19/14. Catts will lead this workshop which will cover some of the main techniques of regenerative biology that are used for in vitro meat and will explore the broader cultural and artistic implication […]
Join Oron Catts (who will be presenting his BioArt work later in the evening) and Kathy High in an informal walk-through of "Ecological Interventions" and celebrate the launching of NATURE Lab! Internationally-renowned environmental artists Brandon Ballengée (U.S.) and Oliver Kellhammer (Canada) care deeply about our ecology and our future. Their projects explore how we as citizens of […]
Oron Catts is an artist, researcher, and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project, which he established in 1996, is considered a leading biological art project. He is the founding director of SymbioticA, which he co-founded in 2000, an artistic research centre housed within the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human […]
Hip Hop and tradition equals positive community vibes! Teens, we want to hear your voice! A hands-on production session to create a short spoken-word piece about hot button issues such as gun and police violence, focusing on positive strategies for moving forward. Join teens from Troy and the surrounding Capital Region, in a poetry and hip hop […]
Former Black Panther, Mama Charlotte Hill O'Neal is an accomplished poet, musician and visual artist, and Founding Director of Tanzania's United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC), a community-based organization which promotes community development in rural Africa. The UAACC has a number of independent media projects as part of its powerful community work including hip hop, […]
Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles offers an intensive course in the principles, process, production and post-production of “Direct Cinema,” with personal advice on how to survive and thrive as an independent media maker. Albert will screen short clips from the new film The Art of Observing Life, USA/Russia, 2013. The film features Albert and other pioneers […]
A leading force in the direct cinema style of documentary film making, including Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1976). Co-sponsored by iEAR Presents!
Sultry, seductive, and infused with that inimitable samba swing, the music of Luísa Maita embodies the modern spirit of Brazil. Inspired by the bustling urban life found in her native city of São Paulo, her first album, Lero-Lero, has a contemporary vibe with influences from alternative pop and downtempo electronic music melded with an acoustic […]
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