Two-time Juno-winning banjoist, composer and instigator Jayme Stone appears with his band in an ambitious show paying tribute to the pioneering work of folklorist Alan Lomax. This collaboration brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to recycle, re-imagine and recast traditional music. Jayme Stone makes music inspired by sounds from […]
With his love of avant-garde and traditional jazz with world rhythms, Hudson Valley jazz percussion icon Tani Tabbal creates dynamic new music. He appears with his trio, featuring Troy native Michael Bisio on bass and Albany’s Adam Seigel on alto sax, in an adventurous program of modern jazz.
Troy author and activist Amy Halloran will speak about her new book The New Bread Basket: How the New Crop of Grain Growers, Plant Breeders, Maltsters, Bakers, Brewers, and Local Food Activists Are Redefining Our Daily Loaf (Chelsea Green, 2015). The book is the culmination of years of research into the regional grain movement, marrying […]
The award-winning filmmaker mixes media and activism to explore key threats to the regional environment, from the “bomb trains” in Albany, to the Kinder Morgan pipeline planned across the state, to the proposal to dump obsolete tank cars in the Adirondacks. What is the role of media, arts and activism in the struggle for environmental […]
Fracking isn’t banned in NY- learn about toxic infrastructure threatening the state. This community exchange is designed to pool resources, research, and best practices for effective organizing. Resistance to fracking and fracking infrastructure converges at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, as media makers, activists, scientists and just plain folks join forces to organize for family, […]
Electrifying jazz pianist Satoko Fujii performs with her quartet Tobira, featuring Natsuki Tamura, trumpet; Todd Nicholson, bass; and Takashi Itani, drums. A master of reinvention, Satoko Fujii transformed her New Trio into the wildly inventive quartet Tobira with the addition of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura. The pianist, composer, improviser and overall whirlwind, Fujii leads the quartet […]
Saeed "Shariff" Torres, a counterterrorism informant for more than two decades, takes on what he swears is his last job for the FBI and invites filmmakers to follow his covert efforts to befriend a suspected jihadist - without informing his superiors. (T)error explores how far we are going to prevent terror and exactly what liberties […]
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