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Appreciation to our local farmers and donors for StoryHarvest!
Thank you everyone who volunteer and donated for StoryHarvest '12, including:
Farmers:
Native Farm Flowers
Nine Mile Farm
Rock Hill Bakehouse
3 "StoryHarvest Cooking" workshops next week!
The "StoryHarvest Cooking" workshop series offers three opportunities to create the most delicious, on-the-go and on-a-budget, food for Bread and Puppet parade goers and StoryHarvesrt partricipants!
Feed the masses, home-made and with love! *Attention, Moms -- it's ok to bring your kids!
Free! Please RSVP or ask questions at: kitchen@medisanctuary.org
Moday, Oct. 15 Harvest Soup workshop, in the Sanctuary Kitchen
Join Nancy and Ellie to incorporate the harvest donated by local urban and rural farmers into a soup!
Thursday, Oct. 18 Pastor Willie's Oven, in the Missing Link Kitchen
Visit Pastor Willie Bacote's kitchen in the Missing Link Street Ministry, and learn from the expert how he feeds thousands!
Friday, Oct. 19 Burrito Making Workshop, in the Missing Link Kitchen
Join Nancy and Ellie as they make 200 burritos for StoryHarvest parade goers!
KitchenSanctuary Workshops!
Our KitchenSanctuary workshops are designed to create food and nurture the spirit of the Sanctuary!
We invite you to come cook with us, and join a dialogue about nutrition and the role of food in building communities.
• Make healthy, nurturing food on a budget!
• Share skills!
• Connect to food, where it comes from, cultural memories and personal stories.
• Build community!
• Have fun!
Come share your enthusiasm about food! No experience required!
Free! To register, email: kitchen sanctuary@mediasanctuary.org
WGXC Radio Explosion awesome radio piece on Uptown Summer '12!
Check out the radio project that youth from Hudson's WGXC Radio Explosion produced!
Uptown Summer: A Report from North Troy
Guerrilla Babies!
A world record of babies attended the screening of Guerrilla Midwife at the Sanctuary this past weekend!
Arab/Islamic contribution to science/ Albany College of Pharmacy
Please share this announcement with all your friends & relations! Thanks, Hiba Alsaffar.
The Department of Humanities and Communication and
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences presents the
Inaugural Talk in the SCIENCE, CULTURE AND MEDICINE SPEAKER SERIES:
The Impact of Arabic/Islamic Science on Medicine and Pharmacology
Youth Media Sanctuary Spring '12: 1st day!
YMS Spring 2012: Day 1, Feb. 8
Ready for fun, friends, and creative action in Spring 2012!
After introductions and paperwork, we watched other youth's work for inspiration. Check out: YMS Spring '11 Behind the Scenes!
Then, we started immediately on our new production, with "lap-top" media portraits!
Ellie's Delicious Snack: yogurt and granola:
Rediscovering the Every Day: Sheba Marx's blog
Sheba Marx, workshop participant of our last Be the Media! workshop, "Rediscivoering the Every Day: Basic Documentary Photography, with Brenda Ann Kenneally, created a post on her blog including her workshop photos:
On Sunday, I was lucky to attend a photography workshop at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York, led by Brenda Ann Kenneally who is an award winning photographer. As stated on her webiste, "her long-term projects are intimate portraits of social issues that intersect where the personal is political." In 2005, she began a project called Upstate Girls in Troy. As she desciribes it, the project follows seven women for now seven years "as their escape routes out of generational poverty have lead to further entrapments documenting early teen pregnancy."
Here are some of the photos that I took as we walked around a few blocks of Troy, the former home of Uncle Sam, as well as textile and iron industries employing thousands. A short history of Troy is available here. The photos below speak for themselves.
It was RAW!!!
This page is dedicated to eating RAW, and inspired by the raw food reception after the Afro Asian Scientific Soul Duo event with Fred Ho and Dr. Salim Washington at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on March 30, 2011. Special thanks to photographers Ellie Markovich and Chelsea Kereszi.
Created by raw food chef and holistic health counselor Caryn Halle, with support from May Yaul, pictured on left preparing for the raw reception!
Raw reception co-sponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop and iEAR Presents!
Don't forget to shop for all your raw ingredients at THE HONEST WEIGHT FOOD CO-OP!
Traveling 'Purple Hearts' exhibit honors Iraq war veterans - Times Union article
"Purple Hearts," a series of portraits by photojournalist Nina Berman, documents the return of 17 Army soldiers and Marines wounded in the Iraq war. "Youths tend to get wrong impression from video games, TV shows and movies that tend to romanticize and glorify combat," said Bob Alft.
Sanctuary volunteer Bob Alft has made a personal commitment to get Nina Berman's "Purple Hearts" photographs, exhibited at the Sanctuary in Fall '09, to schools and community organizations across the region.
Congrats to Bob, for arranging to have an exhibit at a local high school, and for getting an article written in the Times Union!
Check out this article in the Times Union: 'Purple Hearts' exhibit honors Iraq war veterans
"It's great to see this important work have a life in the Capital Region, beyond our gallery show. These are powerful and moving images that reflect and create an important debate about the role of military in society and recruiters in our schools," says Steve Pierce, Executive Director, Media Alliance at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.
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