Events

Pruning and Grafting for Tree Lovers!

Freedom Square 35 5th Ave, Troy, NY, United States

Join the tree lovers of the More Trees Arborist Collective for a workshop in the urban forest at Freedom Square! Learn to identify common opportunist species of urban trees, discuss the different techniques and objectives of pruning, when to remove trees, when to plant trees, and help the crew manage the Sanctuary’s fledgling reforestation projects! […]

Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media Project

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

“Spaces of Exception” is a film profiling American Indian reservations alongside Palestinian refugee camps. Join us for a Be The Media! workshop with co-director Matt Peterson prior to the screening of “Spaces of Exception,” to learn about the process of creating a long-term media project. "Spaces of Exception" was filmed from 2014 to 2017 in […]

Plant Swap 2024

Collard City Growers 3337 6th Avenue, Troy, New York, United States

Join us for our 2024 Plant Swap at the Collard City Growers garden! This is a free event for the community to get together and exchange plants for the spring season. Stop by to pick up some plants, drop off any extras that you don’t have room for, or just come on by to say […]

Mental Health & Activism, Native Education & Art Workshop

NATURE Lab 3319 6th Ave, Troy, NY, United States

Join us for a day of creation starting with a workshop led by “Mental Health and Activism” Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail resident Rainer Posselt with artist Jillian Hirsch. This participatory workshop will focus on mental health, healing, Native education and creative voice through art. Rainer Posselt will lead community in a participatory art project at NATURE […]

DE-FENCE Part 2: The Line Becomes a Territory 

NATURE Lab 3319 6th Ave, Troy, NY, United States

Join us at NATURE Lab for DE-FENCE Part 2: The Line Becomes a Territory with Margaretha Haughwout, who will lead participants in the creation of DE-FENCE, a living participatory art installation at NATURE Lab under the umbrella of the Sanctuary’s growing Eco-Art Trail. For part 2 of DE-FENCE, participants will help install deconstructed fence posts (specially carved with designs […]

Indigiqueer Media Artist Theo Jean Cuthand: Participatory Radio Workshop

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join media artist Theo Jean Cuthand for a Be The Media! participatory radio workshop, to focus on Indigiqueer and ecological issues. Using improvisational documentary techniques, the Be The Media! workshop participants will create a short radio play with Theo Jean Cuthand, loosely inspired by Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast but based on the […]

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