Community Event

Cultivate community through cooking and eating, sharing stories, making music, and watching films. Bring your seeds, spoons, and stories!

StoryHarvest

Saturday, October 15, 2011, 4-7pm
at Collard City Growers: 3337 6th Avenue, between Glen Avenue and 101st Street, Troy, NY; and The Sanctuary for Independent Media:  3361 6th  Avenue, Troy, NY
free and open to the public

Contact Ellie Markovitch for more information: elmark20@yahoo.com

Check out Times Union article:

Brazilian-American artist Ellie Markovitch designs a harvest celebration culminating in a community potluck.

Help us welcome the "Peace Pilgrimage for a Nuclear Free Future" as the walkers pass through Troy on their journey from Boston to Albany. Bring a dish and join us for supper at the Missing Street Ministry (across from Freedom Square, corner of 5th and 6th Avenues and 101st Street, a few doors north of The Sanctuary for Independent Media)!

They will walk a total of 300 miles, beginning each day at 8 am and typically walking 15-18 miles per day. The walkers will be spending their night in Troy at the Missing Link Street Ministry.

We've got new neighbors!!!! Welcome!!

Here's a Recap of Some documentation of this wonderful event.  Thanks for sharing!

A Flickr set from Victoria Kereszi
A Photo Series from Dylan on Facebook
Timothys photos on mediasanctuary.org
A blog post from food workshop facilitator, Amy Halloran

A day of skillsharing and planning as we build a local network of shared values and knowledge around urban gardens, food networking, food preservation, passive and alternative energies, water catchment, and social justice.

Friday, November 19

Meet award winning photographer Samantha Box for a artist reception of "Invisible: The Crisis of LGBT Youth Homelessness" and a hip hop concert by S.K.A.T.E. (Stop Killing All The Entertainment), as we examine the crisis LBGTQ youth face in our society and celebrate reclaiming hip hop with anti-violence, anti-homophobia and anti-sexism messages.

Join youth groups from around the region in a community potluck, info exchange and LGBTQ Human Rights Vigil before this event, and an open discusssion afterwards!

Co-sponsors: In Our Own Voices, CDGLCC, GRL Sorority at UAlbany, the Albany chapter of The Trevor Project and The National Trevor Project, A Thousand Moms (Capital Region Chapter and NY State).

5:30 PM Community Potluck/ Artist Reception, Samantha Box*/ Community Resources

6:30 PM LGBTQ Human Rights Vigil

Part of our amazing season opener weekend. The day begins with workshops by the Beehive Collective, swarming in from Machias, Maine, and our own Troy Bike Rescue. Create collaborative graphics or wrench on that bike... or both! At 5:15, join us for our Peace Pole Dedication in the Sanctuary "Wish Garden." At 6PM, there will be a Sanctuary Community Potluck to ring in the autumn and full calendar of many great events to come. Bring a dish and lend a hand! Then, at 7PM The Beehive Collective will present some of their work on the big screen, followed by a Capital Region Premiere of 2012: Time for Change.

1-5 PM Workshops with Beehive & Troy Bike Rescue

5:15 PM Peace Pole Dedication, Sanctuary "Wish Garden"

6 PM Community Potluck

7 PM Beehive Presentation

8 PM 2012: Time For Change screening

WORLD WAR 3 ILLUSTRATED COLLECTIVE CELEBRATES 30th ANNIVERSARY!

Creators of America's longest-running political comic book storm Capital Region with performances, workshop, gallery show opening

Join the creators of World War 3 Illustrated, the NYC-based independent comic book anthology magazine, for their 30th anniversary gala celebration on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 8 PM at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Avenue in Troy.  Admission to the event is by donation ($10 suggested, $5 student/low income). 

Bicycle organizers from not-so-far-off lands will converge on our post-industrial town for a meeting of the minds on all things bicycle culture in the northeast US. Discussions, skillsharing sessions, and bicycle fun. More info & Registration at http://www.troybikerescue.org/bikebikene.

SATURDAY SESSION

Ten years after the Battle of Seattle and the explosion of global grassroots citizen journalism, known as Indymedia, the legacy reverberates in villages, cities, and countrysides around the world. Join us for a retrospective screening of seminal indymedia films, including, This is What Democracy Looks Like, Fourth World War, A Tribute to Brad Will and plenty of others.

The film festival will go all day and include a potluck dinner, followed by music by Persian-American musician Haale.

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Schedule for Saturday, November 7th.

UNIQUE EVENT: CHOICE All Night in Troy NY

On October 30, 2009 at 7 pm, Words of Choice is teaming up with The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY, to present an entirely unique evening on reproductive freedom. "Here's a scary thought the night before Halloween — women losing their rights!"

To download a flyer for this event, click here (PDF requires Acrobat Reader or Apple Preview).

We're doing a Creativity Workshop with participants, led by Cindy Cooper, award-winning playwright, journalist, and creator of the social-activist theatre organization Words of Choice.. We're hearing selections from Words of Choice by the wonderful Words of Choice actresses Claudia Schneider and Abigail Ramsay. We're showing DVD excerpts. AND, we're being joined by Alexis Greene, co-editor of the hot new book "Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women." (Alexis trained as an actress ... and she'll be doing some of that, too!)