We are living in a challenging time. No one here has all the answers. But every day we are here building community resilience, pulling in new inspiring people, and learning together how to create a more harmonious world.
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Uptown Summer is a 5-week youth employment program that gives voice to Rensselaer County teens. The program combines art, science, media production, and environmental education. This year’s theme was telling stories of environmental justice and resilience. Each week was packed with programming, introducing youth to new skills and ideas, and developing their creativity and voice.
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Let me explain what happened. For almost a decade, we’ve been receiving general operating support from the Electronic Media and Film program at the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA EMF). Their funding has been critical, particularly since operating support is very difficult to find in a grant world focused on funding one-shot …
Volunteer Organizer/Coordinator
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About Us
Most people know us as The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy, NY; the official non-profit 501(c)3 is incorporated as Media Alliance. Our mission is to use art and participatory action to promote social and environmental justice and freedom of creative expression.
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Julia Cavicchi – Text, editing, research
Durasia Anderson – Data visualization, text, research
Chris Johnstone – Videography
Catie Rafferty – Photography
The 2018 Uptown Summer program has now drawn to a close. The theme for our fifth week was agency. This week was the final push to perfect our radio projects before they are broadcast on WOOC FM.
Between all the audio editing, we still found time to go outside …
Nicolena and Donovan: Justice for Dahmeek
Nicolena Russell and Donovan Wooten spoke with attorney Mark Mishler at the Justice for Dahmeek rally at the Troy Courthouse and shared their own thoughts on racist police violence. Recordings from the rally were also edited into radio clips by Uptown Summer mentor Patrick Quinn.
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Angelo Domingo, Uptown Summer youth employee, looked into the pervasive issue of negligent landlords in Troy. He went above and beyond the expectations of the program, producing not just one story, but a four-part radio series highlighting the issue!
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In the summer of 2018, The Sanctuary for Independent Media began the design process for the new NATURE Lab Environmental Education Center. With the help of the Troy Architecture Project and input from the community, we are transforming a long-abandoned building in North Troy into a grassroots science resource for the neighborhood.
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Week four of Uptown Summer was about narrowing our focus and making things happen!
On Tuesday we hosted a community design think tank for the new NATURE Lab Environmental Education Center. Previously, the youth had discussed the challenges facing Troy and how a new community science center could …
The theme of Uptown Summer’s third week was awareness and it was all about collecting information, looking at things differently, and expanding our horizons.
We kicked things off with a visit to Soul Fire Farm. Soul Fire is an initiative developed to foster food sovereignty in …
In partnership with NATURE Lab at the Sanctuary for Independent Media, NESL ran a seed time capsule workshop for the Sanctuary’s Uptown Summer 2018 Youth Program. The workshop was a new iteration of two earlier burial projects, Time Capsule for Pacific Street Futures and Here …
The theme of our second week of Uptown Summer programming was “skills.” Each year, the Uptown Summer youth employees gain skills in media production, storytelling, and environmental science in order to create their own narratives about environmental challenges in their communities. Last week, we were excited to have a number …
Last week the Uptown Summer youth employees began the process of designing the new NATURE Lab Environmental Education Center. The new NATURE Lab Center will occupy a long-abandoned house in the North Central Troy neighborhood, just down the block from The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Friday was …
Today the Sanctuary was joined by eight youth employees who will be the center of our 2018 Uptown Summer program! For the next five weeks, the Uptown Summer employees will work with a crew of mentors, interns, expert guests, and Sanctuary staff to investigate issues of environmental justice within the North Central Troy …
The Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab is hosting a project by PhD student and NATURE Lab volunteer Ellie Irons called Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory. One study site for the project is at Freedom Square, where Irons and workshop participants removed a square of lawn to see what plants would sprout in its place. The …
We’re all very excited as our Uptown Summer ’18 team begins planning for a great new session, July 10-August 10. Our theme this year is Environmental Steward Leadership, with special support from the DEC Environmental Justice program.
Stay in touch for new updates! And let us know if you’d like to volunteer, or …
Call out to Friends of Freedom Square, Sanctuary volunteers and community members! Here we go for the 6th Annual Freedom Festival at Freedom Square on Saturday June 2, 3-6! Please pass this event on to your friends and community networks!
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Start off Earth Week right, with the opening of The Sanctuary for Independent Media’s Spring 2018 season! The season begins on April 14 and runs through June 2, with the overarching theme of Ruderal Ecologies & Sustainable Growth.
SANCTUARY SPRING 2018 EVENT SCHEDULE:
RUDERAL ECOLOGIES: GROUNDS FOR CHANGE A weekend symposium …
TROY, NY. (March 27, 2018) — MassiveMesh Networks’ representatives Jenni Tompkins and Ryan Sady discuss plans to establish a public wifi network around the Sanctuary for Independent Media with Sanctuary organizers Branda Miller, Steve Pierce, and Dan Phiffer on Tuesday March, 27.
As part of their mission to provide electronic media programs and …
