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!
Want to help? …
Learn about the art of harvesting and saving the food from your garden, ready to use all winter long!
Published: 10/27/17
Publication: The Alt
Joan Baez—ever heard of her?—once said that Chilean musician Nano Stern “stands out for his ability to play various instruments, but his most faithful companions will always be his guitar and his voice in the simplicity that characterizes him as a person.” Stern is headed …
Published: 10/27/2017
Publication: Times Union
Music
Nano Stern is from Chile, but the political punk poet and singer-songwriter also spent time in Germany and studied music in the Netherlands. But Stern has always embraced his Chilean musical roots, blending classical, jazz and rock with Chilean revolutionary music. Folk legend …
Published: 10/18/2017
Publication: Troy Record
TROY, N.Y.>> The Sanctuary for Independent Media has announced its fall 2017 season, featuring musical performances, speakers, films, workshops, gallery shows and more.
Located at 3361 Sixth Ave. in North Troy, The Sanctuary for Independent Media is a telecommunications production facility dedicated to community …
Published: 10/18/2017
Publication: Times Union
Growing up in Chile, Melissa Aldana could hardly avoid the sound of jazzy horns: Both her father and grandfather were serious saxophone players, and she took up the instrument as a child. (Her bio says she still plays granddad’s Selmer Mark VI horn.) Aldana left Chile to pursue …
Published: 08/02/2017
Publication: The Alt
Young Troy filmmakers document Hudson River pollution
On an overcast mid-July morning, 11-year-old Trayvon Vautrin combs the beach for treasures in the form of broken pottery pieces as he waits for his fellow co-workers of the Uptown Summer program to …
Published: 10/12/2017
Publication: Saratoga Living
StoryHarvest is North Troy’s festival of food, music, poetry and art
Rebecca Whitehead gives a free chair massage.
The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy held its seventh annual StoryHarvest: A Celebration of …
Date Published: 10/12/2017
Publication: All Over Albany
Sanctuary for Independent Media 2017 fall
Among the people making appearances this season (left to right): journalist Chris Hedges, journalist Azmat Khan, and filmmaker Parvez Sharma.
The upcoming fall season of events at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy is out. …
Date published: 10/07/2017
Publication: Times Union
Low-power, high-energy: Grassroots Radio Conference meets in Albany
For three weeks, from July 4 through July 25, we asked our supporters to sign up to donate whatever they can afford each month. Our goal was 50 new Sustainers, and we reached that goal! But we’re not done… the struggle continues. Ten dollars a month would be great, but whatever it is–from …
APRIL 17 6pm Gallery opening!
Meredith Davenport earned her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has a distinguished …
Published: 12/01/2016
Publication: Time
“Poverty” is a loaded word, especially in the U.S., and few know the ugly reality of its use better than artist Brenda Ann Kenneally. At its core, her work is a study of life and opportunity under straightened circumstances in the upstate New York city of …
We have lost a great friend, artist and extended beloved member of our Sanctuary family, Pauline Oliveros.
She taught us to listen deeply, and love with each breath and footstep. Feel her reverberations! May her spirit continue to guide us as we seek harmony and creative resistance, in this world and beyond!
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PLEASE NOTE: Call 518-272-2390 if you’d like to set up a special appointment, or email: info@mediasanctuary.org.
Sponsored by NATURE Lab (North Troy Art, Technology,and Urban Research in Ecology) at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.
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We began the day as we always do, sitting on the covered patio in the back of the Sanctuary, eating bagels, drinking coffee, and making sense of the day’s work to come. However, as today began the final week of Uptown Summer 2016, we spent some of this time …
“Cuando tú me dices a media voz que me amas
Me siento tan sublime como el tibio sol de la mañana
Y esto es lo que tú me haces sentir
Desde el día en que te conocí.”
Sounds of …