Fall 2009 Season Ends
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.
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We are committed to lowering the barriers to access for events at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. For people who are hard of hearing or deaf, blind or low-vision, or whose physical limitations can interfere with a satisfying experience, let us know two weeks in advance so we can make appropriate arrangements.
Admission to all events is by donation — $10 suggested, $5 student/low income.
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PAST EVENTS
Live From Lock One
Saturday, December 12 • 8pm
Join the live studio audience as we record an evening of performances by some of the Capital Region’s top gospel talents, hosted by the Heavenly Echoes Gospel Singers!
Screening of “Captured”
Saturday, December 5 • 7pm
A wild story about Clayton Patterson’s efforts to document the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds
The River Runs Both Ways: Reconsidering Dutch Exploration
Friday, November 20 • 7pm
A screening of Vincent Monnikendam’s “Mother Dao the Turtlelike,” an award-winning assembly of songs, poetry and nitrate films of 400-years of Dutch occupation of Indonesia, followed by discussion of the broad implications of Dutch “discoveries” across the globe... and right here.
Screening of “The Baader Meinhof Complex”
Friday, October 2 • 7pm
A new Academy Award-nominated drama by Uli Edel shows how founders of the Red Army Faction graduated from rhetorical debates to revolutionary violence, as terrorism rocked the fragile 1970s German democracy.
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Screening of “The Yes Men Fix The World” w/ filmmaker Mike Bonanno
Tuesday, October 6 • 7pm
Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways. Don’t miss this North American theatrical premiere!
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Screening of “Orgasmic Birth” with panel discussion
Thursday, October 22 • 7pm
Director Debra Pascali-Bonaro shares what she calls the “best-kept secret” as we witness women in the ecstatic release of childbirth, challenging enduring cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Co-sponsored by BirthNet.
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Ten years after the Battle of Seattle, the legacy of Indymedia reverberates around the world. The film festival will go all day, including a potluck dinner, and end with Persian-American singer Haale’s psychedelic Sufi trance rock!
Gallery opening Nina Berman & Veterans Day Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 11 • 7pm
Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer Nina Berman discusses her exhibit “Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life,” and members of Albany Veterans for Peace read poems exploring their personal experiences with the realities of war. Kathy Kelly will be on hand to facilitate
Kathy Kelly: Community Response to the Casualties of War
Saturday, November 14 • 8pm
Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly’s eyewitness accounts offer a message of hope through creative nonviolence. Responding to the casualties of war, this event networks members of our community—including local refugees, veterans, aid agencies and the many volunteers who work with them.
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Join us for the conclusion of the Sanctuary's fall 2009 season as we present, live and in-person,Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping with The Not Buying It Band this Friday, December 18 at 8pm!
Part of a national slate of Church Of Life After Shopping appearances this holiday season, this is the "Blessed are the Jobless! Blessed are the Broke!" Christmas Tour.
