Your videos can be used to build and strengthen communities! Learn how to take your finished work and strategically distribute it on the internet. We will post videos from Community Digital Storytelling Lab to the internet, demonstrating technical process and illustrating audience targets and social networking. If you have a video to post on-line, or are thinking about making one, this workshop is for you!

Email us if you're interested!

Or, to register, visit http://www.mediasanctuary.org/registration120609

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Here are a few  of the Community Digital Stories produced at the Sanctuary:

http://www.mediasanctuary.org/movie/1089

"Dear Mr. X" — Community Responses to War Digital Storytelling Project, #1
As part of the "Be The Media" digital storytelling workshop, a group of young Iraqi women refugees living in Albany worked with producers at The Sanctuary for Independent Media to tell their stories. Produced by Tethkar Ahmad, Wied Jassim, Shahad Jassim, Mais Salih, and Hiba Haitham Alsaffar, with support from the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange, Iraqi Families Project, and Branda Miller.

It's not all electronic! Share in a collective celebration of the history of community media with this quilt-making workshop.

Bring your community media t-shirts that you cherish, but no longer wear, and we will add them to our quilt. Whether you are an experienced quilter and/or sewer, or someone whose always wanted to participate, join us!  Please note: This is a two-day event, beginning on Saturday, October 17, and continuing on Sunday, October 18. 

The final quilt will be auctioned in the Spring '10 season as part of our upcoming 5th Anniversary Celebration...

Lynn Miller, San Francisco quilter, and Simone Stiegler Sleepr, our Youth Leader quilter, will help with this workshop! Please join us!

Below is an example of a similar quilt project at the 2008 Grassroots Radio Conference!  This GRC quilt is made from great community radio t-shirts. Each GRC conference the quilt is raffled, with the winner bringing it back the next year to be raffled again.

To register for workshops of for more info contact us at:
workshops@mediasanctuary.org -or- (518) 272-2390

We are offering a new workshop this fall at the Sanctuary that could help to tell the important story of your organization and/or your self.

This two-part workshop is aimed at organizations and citizens from the regional community, to get their stories heard! Let us help you turn photos and narration into a video to promote your group and the work you do.

Please note that registration for this workshop includes a 4-hour follow-up lab, by appointment, between October 26 and December 5, 2009.

Workshop Part 1: Script and Pre-production (on October 25)

Use digital storytelling as a tool for community engagement and empowerment by exploring mixed media storytelling techniques! Combine written and recorded narration, music and still images, to effectively communicate a compelling vision of yourself and/or your organization. We're looking for diverse community groups, organizations and individuals to share their stories. This first session lays groundwork for the finished product.

Video Archiving 101: How to Save and Access Your Video Collections

A Digital Preservation workshop for organizations and individuals

So you made your media and got it out there — now what? This workshop will help you safeguard that treasured masterpiece for generations to come. Learn what formats work — and which don't — for archiving your media projects.

To register for workshops of for more info contact us at:
workshops@mediasanctuary.org -or- (518) 272-2390

MORE ABOUT NAN RUBIN, Digital Preservation Pioneer: Since its start in 2005, the NDIIPP Preserving Digital Public Television Project has made significant progress in building infrastructure, creating standards and obtaining resources, and much of the credit goes to its project director, Nan Rubin.

Our Fall 2009 season has come to a close, and we'd like to thank everyone who presented, performed, played, spoke, shared media and art, and participated in our events in any way. Special thanks to volunteers, interns, and all-around Sanctuary heroes who helped make everything happen behind the scenes, behind the cameras, and below the Sanctuary space, at computers, video and audio controls downstairs.

We're actively planning the upcoming Spring 2010 season, which will start in February. If you'd like to receive a paper schedule of events, please send us your name, address, and email address using the "Contact" form linked above.

Orgasmic Birth brings the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Director Debra Pascali-Bonaro shares what she calls the "best-kept secret" as we witness women in the ecstatic release of childbirth.

Panel after the film--

Founded in 2000, BirthNet is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about maternity care in order to improve it.

BirthNet's goal is to encourage all women and families to learn about their rights and options during the childbearing year. Birth options, such as where, with whom, and how to give birth, are reproductive rights.

We work to improve maternity care for women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, races, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and socio-economic circumstances.

BirthNet coordinates programs with our Speakers Bureau. Our primary programs include:

6:30- 7:00  Nina Berman Artist Reception (sponsored by the Honest Weight Food Coop)

Join us during this artist's reception, and have an opportunity to view this great exhibition and meet Nina personally before the event begins!

7:00- 9:00 Nina Berman multi-media presentation and conversation with Kathy Kelly, followed by a poetry reading by Albany Veterans for Peace

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Acclaimed photo-journalist Nina Berman, internationally known for her photographs of wounded American military, will share a multi-media presentation and discuss her exhibit "Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life" with legendary peace activist Kathy Kelly. Berman will discuss work from her series "Purple Hearts," "Marine Wedding," and "Homeland."