Support The Sanctuary for Independent Media! Please make a secure online financial contribution! If you prefer to send a check or money order, make it payable to "The Sanctuary for Independent Media" and mail it to us at:
PO Box 35
Troy NY 12181
Thanks!
The bulk of our support comes from volunteer labor plus hundreds of small (and some large) individual donations. Thank you! We also receive contributions from these organizations:
The New York State Music Fund
The Stewart's Foundation
A series of jazz performance videos featuring some of the world's most talented improvisers, recorded live in concert at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, is currently in production and will soon be available on television nationwide! Contact us for more information about "Free Jazz from the Sanctuary"!
SANCTUARY SUMMER MEDIA CAMP
July 28 - August 1, 2008
WHAT: A free week-long summer camp for the youth of North Troy, running Monday, July 28th through August 1, 2008 from 9 AM - noon for 5 days, with free breakfast (8:30 AM) and free lunch (noon), plus activities with computers, video, bikes, poetry, dance, food sculptures and more!
HOW: Space is limited to 25 participants between the ages of 8 and 18; pre-register by contacting us or calling (518) 207-6264 to reserve a spot!
A full Spring schedule marked by amazing speakers, films, music, workshops--and even a bit of controversy--has come to an end! We'll be taking a breather over the summer, with the exception of our free Summer Sanctuary Camp the week of July 28-August 1. Then we'll be back in September with an all-new program of exciting programming! Thanks for all your support...
In addition to our many activities at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, we also bring media literacy classes to schools throughout the Capital Region! Here's the warm-up exercise, The Flight of the Butterfly, from a 4-day intensive stop-motion animation workshop with a class of 6th graders at School 12 in South Troy. The rest are below...
Hudson Mohawk Indymedia has produced a definitive account of the whirlwind of events surrounding Wafaa Bilal's controversial art exhibit, "Virtual Jihadi."
"Art ≠ Terrorism" goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored--not once, but twice.
First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers.
When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
