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Be The Dance Party!
June 7, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Spaces for joy are an important part of resistance movements when built around creating community, encouraging creative expression, and inviting inclusive participation. Be The Dance Party! is part panel discussion, part dance party. We will hear from folks on the panel on how they have each used joy, music, and creative expression to build movements in our community. The audience will then transition into party-prep to decorate, dress, and hydrate before the daylight dance party begins! This is a family-friendly event.
Panel discussion, 2-3pm
Dance party, 3-5pm
Panelists:
Moderated by Angela Beallor, a co-creator of The Flagsss Day Collective and Documentarian in Community Co-Creation of MDOCS at Skidmore College
Hana van der Kolk is a queer dancer, artist, and embodied learning, ritual, and celebration facilitator. She spends time looking for and co-creating bridges through pedagogy, performance, language, healing, celebration, transformation, and the dismantling of empire inside and out. Hana was part of starting and maintaining Polly, Troy’s underground queer dance party and community fundraiser from 2014 to 2019 and is part of the FlagsSs Day Collective with Angela Beallor and Elizabeth (EP) Press. https://www.hanavanderkolk.com/
DJ Nate Da Great is an Albany based DJ that has lit up dance floors across the Capital District and beyond. He’s best known for his mixing skills, creative music selection and ability to play for diverse audiences. Nate believes that creating community, inclusive vibes and moments of joy on the dance floor are all just a basic part of a DJs job.
Patrick Harris Jr. is a multidisciplinary founder who turns big ideas into systems that work. As CEO of Collectiveffort, he’s led brand, media, and infrastructure projects ranging from global companies to grassroots orgs and public institutions.
Dance Party DJed by Intell Hayesfield
This event includes music, panelists, and DJ from The No More Genre Show
Listen Friday and Saturday nights to Sanctuary Radio, from 10pm-1am, to hear The No More Genre Show. Tune into 105.3fm Troy or steam online at MediaSanctuary.org
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