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"Media Nodes" series visually articulates the transforming activities and environments of our news media at a time when hard-core, investigative journalism is in peril. 

Welcome, Youth Media Sanctuary!

The Sanctuary for Independent Media introduces Youth Media Sanctuary - a new community media peer-training program in North Central Troy.  The program teaches multimedia skills to young people (ages 15-25) in the neighborhood, helping to develop urgently needed independent local voices.

Check out these aspiring media makers in action:

^{Madena, learning shots with Ellie (Photo: Abby Lublin)}

^{Jonathan, Kayleara, and Diana checking footage of Hoosick Street  (Photo: Ellie Markovitch)}

^{Diana shooting from the Hoosick Street median  (Photo: Abby Lublin)}

Bike!Bike! NE happened!

HUGE THANKS to everyone who made this a weekend to remember, and for sending me your digitized memories. KEEP SENDING STUFF IF YOU HAVEN'T YET -- chris DOT gang AT gmail DOT com!!

here's your evidence:

PHOTOS

faced-book photos from Worcester Earn-A-Bike, incl.: TBR workshops, bike piles, Blister Pack, indoor tallbiking, group ride, polo

flickr set by E.P. of tri-county sunday ride with AWESOME "share the road" billboard and abandoned gas station takeover photos

Exhibit looks at women in poverty
By Sara Foss

TROY — A young woman named Dana Aftab wanders through a cramped hallway, gazing at blank white walls that will soon be covered with pictures. Dozens of photographs lie on the floor.

“Brenda, how can I help you?” Aftab asks.

Without hesitation, Brenda Ann Kenneally replies, “Hang up your photos.”

“Is there any specific order you want?” Aftab asks.

“However you want,” Kenneally tells her. “It’s your life.”

Aftab takes a plastic sleeve filled with photographs and begins tacking them to the wall. An Albany native who now lives in Brooklyn, Kenneally has spent the past five years photographing Aftab, her sisters and mother and other women who live in Troy. She has taken hundreds of pictures of birthday parties and births and homecomings from prison.

“Upstate Girls,” an exhibit featuring many of these photographs, will open Saturday in the Troy-based Sanctuary for Independent Media’s Underground Gallery; an opening reception will be held at 6 p.m. on Feb. 21.