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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
The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble was formed 35 years ago. Kahil El'Zabar is the founder of the band and led its first performance at Child City Arts Center, in Chicago, in 1973. This was a year after he had returned from the University of Ghana. His goal was to combine concepts of African American music making with the earlier roots of traditional African music and make it something new. After 35 years, this legendary band is still serving the people worldwide with their special brand of 21st century Griot music.
The Capital Region premiere film screening of the documentary King Corn takes place at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 6th Avenue, Troy, on Friday, February 15, 2008 from 6 PM to 9 PM (film begins at 7 PM). Admission is by donation: $10 suggested and $5 for students/low income.
One of the emerging voices of feminist African filmmaking, the Cameroonian director Osvalde Lewat-Hallade is well on her way to becoming her continent’s Kim Longinotto or Barbara Kopple, forging direct cinema with activist power.
Osvalde Lewat-Hallade will be present for audience questions at a screening of her film A Love During the War at 7 PM on Friday, February 22, 2008 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Avenue in Troy. Admission is by donation ($10 suggested, $5 student/low income).
The music of Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures heralds a new and vital direction in the evolution of American music. Grounded in the American improvisational tradition, the ensemble embraces music forms, languages, instrumentation, and cosmologies of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora. Decades of performance and research into these music cultures have given the artists the background and experience to create a unique and unprecedented improvisational art form.
