Spring 2011 Season

The personal becomes political in an exhibition integrating stories of young women in North Troy today with those of their turn-of-the-century counterparts. This exhibit juxtaposes large-scale prints of contemporary scrapbooks […]

Want to know how to derail a $100 million dollar green-washing campaign? Need to raise the ire of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? Ready to strike back at the agents […]

Two-time Juno award-winning banjo master Jayme Stone's last album Africa to Appalachia, was a boundary-crossing musical collaboration. His tour, in support of the new CD Room of Wonders, inspired by […]

In Nostalgia for the Light (2010) acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman traveled to the driest place on earth, The Atacama Desert of Chile, for his new film, Nostalgia for the […]

Raw, extreme and revolutionary, saxophonists Fred Ho and Dr. Salim Washington will concertize with interactive video on the nature and ecology of anti-manifest destiny Marxist visions.  This is a not-to-be-missed […]

Anyone who has an interest in basic documentary photography can learn how to take a camera off automatic! You'll learn how to stop, look, listen, and find the meaning and […]

A day of skill-sharing and planning featuring workshops with many local and regional teachers to help build a network of shared values and knowledge around urban gardens, food networking, food […]

Author Jim Howard Kunstler will speak on the multiple crises in capital markets, world energy supplies, and the need to make other arrangements for daily life in the years ahead. […]

This culture will eat you alive…Fight back, resist and survive! If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water, fouled the air and contaminated […]

Join us for a Survivalist Media Workshop with Media Pirate, "The Stimulator" Frank Lopez as he explains the who, what, why of his snarky show and learn how the f@*k he […]

As a substitute for Richard Wolff’s canceled presentation, radical media maker Franklin López will be appearing instead with a program of new work!  Franklin López is an anarchist filmmaker from […]

Join in an afternoon of creative production, networking youth media makers and newbies from across the state to discuss issues shout out by youth.  Youth media makers will break into […]

Join us for our Second Annual NY Youth Shout Out! Media Festival. Come witness a cavalcade of creativity featuring youth media makers across New York State, providing a window on […]

The Northeast Animal Liberation Festival begins with a vegan potluck BBQ. It will be followed by a panel discussion which will include animal liberation activists Peter Young, Jenny Brown of […]

Narrative journalist  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc will respond to questions by photo journalist Brenda Ann Kenneally about her current Sanctuary exhibit, Scrappin’ Upstate. LeBlanc will explore the issues addressed in Scrappin’ Upstate, […]

This hands-on lab is specifically designed to improve your shooting skills. The key areas covered include: going off automatic, motion and stability, covering the action, and engaging the emotive potential […]

In the powerful 2010 documentary Not Just a Game: Power Politics & American Sports (based on Zirin's best-selling book, The People's History of Sports in the United States), author and […]

We’ve got new neighbors!!!! Welcome!! Troy Bike Rescue is moving to North Troy.  What began as a pile of old bikes and a series of parking lot workshops has evolved […]

Our ongoing series of live recordings of local musicians performing before a studio audience continues with Todd Nelson’s TN3 featuring drummer Manual Quintana, electric guitarist Todd Nelson, and fretless bass […]

A coalition of local community groups is launching Freedom Square–just up the block from the Sanctuary–with free outdoor live music. We call the collaboration between The Sanctuary for Independent Media, […]