BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Sanctuary For Independent Media - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Sanctuary For Independent Media REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T170000 DTSTAMP:20241203T171357Z CREATED:20210910T164025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T171357Z UID:10001022-1635519600-1635526800@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Tony Cokes in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an online presentation with American artist Tony Cokes. \n\n\n\nThrough a rigorous analysis of images and language\, Tony Cokes dissects the often-obscured power dynamics at work in the cultural and political representation of histories of Blackness\, class\, and the war on terror. \n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between EMPAC and the iEAR Presents series with support from RPI’s ARTS department and School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, and from the New York State Council for the Arts/ NYSCA\, with The Sanctuary for Independent Media as Community Co-sponsor. \n\n\n\nThe talk will be followed by a Q&A with the artist. \n\n\n\nHear the Hudson Mohawk Magazine interview with Tony Cokes \n\n\n \nMediaSanctuary · Tony Cokes Contradicts Cultural Associations with Sound\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Cokes’ distinctive artworks and installations center on videos that foreground textual statements\, often overlaid onto colorful monochromatic backgrounds with pop\, punk\, and electronic music soundtracks. Quoting language from across the political spectrum—from philosophical statements to news\, art criticism\, advertising\, and song lyrics—Cokes mixes linguistic\, visual\, and sonic oppositions in a pared back approach that refuses the easy desire for a spectacular image. Shot through with wry humor and the aesthetics and upbeat music of popular culture\, the videos project unstable meanings that deconstruct how we receive and read images. \n\n\n\nTony Cokes makes video\, installation\, print\, sound\, and other works that reframe appropriated texts to reflect upon capitalism\, subjectivity\, knowledge\, and pleasure. Cokes deploys sound as a crucial\, intertextual element\, complicating minimal visuals. He has shown works internationally at venues including Tate Modern\, and CCA Goldsmiths\, London; Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris; Museum of Modern Art\, and Whitney Museum\, New York; ZKM\, Karlsruhe; REDCAT\, and Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Schinkel Pavillion\, Berlin; ICA\, Philadelphia; Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam; MMK Frankfurt; and La Cinémathèque Française. Cokes has screened works in festivals including the Berlin Biennale X; RuhrTriennale 2019\, Essen; Rotterdam International Film Festival; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid; and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival.  He is a Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, Providence\,RI. His work is represented by Greene Naftali\, New York\, Hannah Hoffman\, Los Angeles\, and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)\, New York. \n\n\n\n\n\nFunding has been provided by the Electronic Film and Media area of the New York Council on the Arts. \n\n\n\nEMPAC \n\n\n\nhttps://empac.rpi.edu/ URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/tony-cokes-in-conversation-2/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Speaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MJ_but-also-of-the-seductions_-1536x1099-1-1024x733-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T220000 DTSTAMP:20230213T191325Z CREATED:20211110T214649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T191325Z UID:10001222-1636743600-1636754400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"Not Going Quietly" w/ filmmaker Nicholas Bruckman and panel discussion DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual film screening of “Not Going Quietly” with filmmaker Nicholas Bruckman\, followed by a panel discussion. \n\n\n\nThe event begins with a quick introduction by filmmaker Nicholas Bruckman\, then we will screen Not Going Quietly. Following the film\, a personal message by Ady Barkan and brief Q&A with Nicholas will lead into a discussion led by People’s Health Sanctuary moderators Aileen Javier and Corinne Carey with panelists: Tracey Corder\, ACRE (Action Center on Race and the Economy); Ursula Rozum\, Campaign for NY Health; Julia Solow\, Hand in Hand (The Network of Domestic Employers); Scott Desnoyers\, health care activist. \n\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE FOR VIDEO DOCUMENTATION\n\n\n\n\n\nOn December 18\, 2017\, approximately 70 protesters against the GOP Tax Bill were arrested while staging a ‘die-in’ in the rotunda of the Rayburn House office building. One of the arrestees was health care activist Ady Barkan\, who is living with ALS. Barkan said the GOP tax bill’s cuts to Medicaid will put his and 13 million other American’s life at risk. (Photo by Michael Nigro)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA rising star in progressive politics and a new father\, 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS. But after a confrontation with powerful Senator Jeff Flake on an airplane goes viral\, catapulting him to national fame\, Ady and a motley crew of activists ignite a once-in-a-generation political movement called “Be a Hero.” Together\, they barnstorm across the country and empower people to confront their elected officials with emotional\, personal stories to demand healthcare justice\, and Ady holds groundbreaking interviews with Joe Biden\, Kamala Harris\, Bernie Sanders\, and Elizabeth Warren.  Through his journey\, Ady discovers that collective action and speaking truth to power offers hope for his family and millions of others. \n\n\n\nView Democracy Now! clip of “Not Going Quietly”: Paralyzed with ALS\, Ady Barkan Continues Fighting for Medicare for All \n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between the iEAR Presents series with support from RPI’s ARTS department and School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, and from the New York State Council for the Arts/ NYSCA\, with The Sanctuary for Independent Media and People’s Health Sanctuary. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Gt4iHvdtA\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.notgoingquietlyfilm.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicholas Bruckman produced the feature film VALLEY OF SAINTS\, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit award. The film was released on Netflix and was a New York Times Critics Pick. \n\n\n\nHe previously directed the feature documentary LA AMERICANA\, which won the best documentary prize at the NY and LA Latino Film Festivals. The film broadcast worldwide on networks including PBS\, National Geographic\, and Al Jazeera. \n\n\n\nNicholas Bruckman is the director of NOT GOING QUIETLY\, his latest film about 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life. \n\n\n\nNicholas’ work has received support from foundations including the Fledgling Fund\, Cinereach\, NYSCA\, NYFA\, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is the founder and CEO of People’s Television\, a New York and D.C.-based branded & original content company. \n\n\n\n\n\nPANEL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTracey Corder\, Campaign Director – Policing and Incarceration\, ACRE (Action Center on Race and the Economy) \n\n\n\nTracey is a Deputy Campaign Director for ACRE ‘s Policing work. She comes to this work after serving as a social worker\, electoral campaign organizer and political strategist. \n\n\n\nHer most recent position as Director of Federal Action and Racial Justice at Center for Popular Democracy worked to advance direct action as a tactic to advocate for progressive legislation on housing\, immigration\, voting rights\, climate and policing. \n\n\n\nTracey serves on the Advisory Board of Be A Hero\, the Steering Committee of Black Womxn For and is a trainer for the Birddog Nation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUrsula Rozum\, Co-Director\, Campaign for NY Health \n\n\n\nUrsula Rozum\, a Syracuse native\, is an organizer building people power to win healthcare for all with Campaign for New York Health. In 2012\, she was the Green party candidate for Congress. She likes bicycles and growing vegetables.Busy-bee organizer in Syracuse\, NY. \n\n\n\nThe pandemic is exposing the weaknesses of the current healthcare system and why we must create a system that guarantees care for everybody. The New York Health Act (A5248a/S3577a) will provide comprehensive\, universal health coverage — including long-term care — for every resident of New York.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott Desnoyer\, healthcare activist \n\n\n\nScott Desnoyers says his son died because of $20 and Amy Sterling Casil was charged $50\,000 after her baby died – they are among many Americans sharing their stories about the health system. \n\n\n\nDaniel was 29 when he died. He killed himself after failing to get his medication refilled because he missed a $20 premium he was not aware of. \n\n\n\n“I promised his siblings and him at the funeral in front of everyone that I was going to make our lawmakers look me in the eye and see the consequences of their decisions\,” shares his father\, Scott Desnoyers. a loving father who lost his son and became a Medicare-for-All activist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulia Solow\, Lead NY Caring Majority Organizer at Hand-in-Hand: The Network of Domestic Employers \n\n\n\nJulia’s passion for organizing comes from a long legacy of organizing in her family\, personal experiences of struggle and amazing mentors along her journey. She first got involved in movement work when social work professors in college introduced her to immigrant rights leaders fighting for the DREAM Act in 2010. Since then\, Julia has been organizing in solidarity with working class people of color-led movements and power organizations on efforts to address gentrification\, living wages for farm workers and drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants in New York State\, among others. Prior to her work at Hand-In-Hand\, she has had the privilege of working at AFL-CIO National Headquarters in DC\, Community Voices Heard in New York and as an Americorps VISTA in Cleveland\, Ohio. Julia has a Masters in Social Work from CUNY Hunter College. She is bilingual in English and Spanish \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAileen Javier\, co-moderator \n\n\n\nAileen Javier is a Community Health Worker/ Outreach Educator/Family Advocate. She is passionate about fomenting community health by supporting and empowering people to successfully navigate the local social and health care system. She worked as a Community Outreach / Family Advocate in Massachusetts. At the Sanctuary Aileen collaborates in the NATURE Lab’s newest initiative: Health Autonomy Clinic and she is working on radio production for WOOC 105.3 FM publishing pieces on local health resources. Aside from the radio production\, she helps plan and organize events and distribute flyers\, she is ready to help in any way that she can. In the near future she will do community outreach for the HAC. \n\n\n\nShe enjoys dancing\, buying from local businesses and farms\, meditation\, yoga\, hiking and living a healthy lifestyle. She loves talking and meeting new people. She is part of the People Power at the Sanctuary because she believes in the Sanctuary’s Mission “We use art and participatory action to promote social and environmental justice and freedom of creative expression.” \n\n\n\n – From Aileen: The Sanctuary For Independent Media is My Tribe and my Second Family. I am honored to be part of such a Great  Organization! I Love You Guys! See what Aileen has done with the Sanctuary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCorinne Carey\, co-moderator \n\n\n\nCorinne Carey is a political & public affairs strategist taking on bold public health initiatives backed by sound evidence & human rights. Carey is the campaign director of Compassion & Choices New York. Compassion & Choices improves care\, expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey. \n\n\n\nCompassion & Choices’ award-winning video features the groundbreaking filmmaker Hammer urging New York lawmakers to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act. “My cancer is incurable … I will reach a very debilitated state\,” she says in the video\, in which she notes that she suffered through more than 100 chemo treatments for ovarian cancer over 12 years before entering hospice in late 2018. “I would so much like to be able to manage my own death by choosing the time and the person I’d like to have with me so that I can die in comfort and with compassion and not in pain and morphine-drugged.” Hammer died on March 16\, 2019\, at age 79 in her Manhattan home without access to this gently dying option. In February\, Oscars in Memoriam honored her for her legacy as an experimental filmmaker. Watch the entire award-winning video of Barbara Hammer urging New York lawmakers to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act. \n\n\n\nCorinne Carey is a radio producer with Hudson Mohawk Magazine on WOOC 105.3 FM.  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCO-SPONSORS \n\n\n\nBe A Hero Fund \n\n\n\nBe A Hero takes on the impossible fights. Big money. Special interests. Powerful politicians. We’ve taken them all on– and won. \n\n\n\nThe Be A Hero team is led by Ady and co-Executive Director Jamila Headley. Together with a group of committed organizers\, Ady and Jamila are fighting for a more just health care system in the United States. \n\n\n\nFour months after the birth of his son Carl\, Ady Barkan was diagnosed with ALS. Confronting his own mortality\, Ady decided to spend his remaining time fighting to transform America’s health care system so that it guarantees all of us the care and dignity we deserve and lifting up stories of incredible heroism in the face of injustice. \n\n\n\nJamila is an impact-focused leader and an accomplished advocate for healthcare\, racial\, and disability justice. She thrives at the intersections of strategy and implementation\, building organizations and movements at the global and local levels\, and caring for the individuals in them. \n\n\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the brokenness of our healthcare system\, and the time is ripe for transformational change. But in order to win\, we must build a powerful movement and we can’t do it without you. Join our fight today! \n\n\n\nNY Health: Healthcare for Every New Yorker \n\n\n\nThe New York Health Act [A.6058/S.5474] will provide comprehensive health care for every New Yorker. You and your healthcare provider of choice will work to keep you healthy—New York Health pays the bill. You will never have to fear going without coverage again—especially in the middle of a deadly pandemic.  \n\n\n\nOver the last year\, tens of thousands of New Yorkers died\, lost income\, fell behind on rent\, and struggled to pay medical bills. Meanwhile\, private health insurance corporations made record profits. The COVID-19 pandemic puts everyone at risk\, but Black\, brown\, and low-income New Yorkers carry the greatest burden of exposure\, with disproportionately more serving as essential workers and disproportionately fewer having access to healthcare. \n\n\n\nWe need a legislative agenda of compassionate care to heal from this pandemic. That’s why we partnered with allies in the housing justice and decarceration movements to release the Compassionate New York Agenda. This is a road map to saving lives and billions of dollars by providing guaranteed healthcare\, stopping unjust evictions\, and reducing the number of people behind bars and harmed by the criminal and immigration systems. We reject the austerity agenda\, and call for a movement based on compassion and care to drive the legislative agenda in New York. \n\n\n\nJoin us in building the movement to win universal\, guaranteed healthcare — and more. Check out ways to get involved in passing the New York Health Act! URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/not-going-quietly/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion,Screening,Speaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NotGoingQuietly.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211218T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211218T170000 DTSTAMP:20211223T155011Z CREATED:20211213T174705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211223T155011Z UID:10001296-1639843200-1639846800@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Light Coming Out of Darkness: Holiday Interfaith Justice and Peace Circle at Freedom Square DESCRIPTION:View the gallery of photos from this event\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Saturday in a circle of light. Together we will light candles and look to the future. Bring your wishes for light\, justice and peace\, as we reflect on current times and come together with sacred intention\, embracing all religions and beliefs. \n\n\n\nThis community event is organized with co-sponsors Team H.E.R.O.\, Troy Central Little League\, NATURE Lab and People’s Health Sanctuary… \n\n\n\nFeel free to bring decorations for our community tree and altar\, messages and memories. \n\n\n\nAll are welcome! Please wear a mask \n\n\n\nCheck out a past Holiday Interfaith Justice and Peace Community Celebration at Freedom Square with the following video: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-bjr7-RqA\n\n\n\n\n\nH Bosh Jr.\, Uncle Mac & Jerry Ford Share Holiday Memories with the Sanctuary URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/tree-lighting-light-coming-out-of-darkness/ LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screenshot_2019-12-13-North-Central-Troy-Justice-and-Peace-Holiday-Celebration-The-Sanctuary-for-Independent-Media.png GEO:42.754030225802;-73.681172076926 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Freedom Square 35 5th Ave Troy NY 12180 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=35 5th Ave:geo:-73.681172076926,42.754030225802 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220117T163000 DTSTAMP:20230213T190712Z CREATED:20210824T160053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T190712Z UID:10001019-1642428000-1642437000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:MLK Celebration 2022: "Labor and Community United for Social Justice" DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join the virtual Martin L. King Celebration “Labor and Community United for Social Justice.” Over the past years\, dynamic MLK programs have been led\, in person at the Sanctuary and virtually\, by community organizers and organizations! This trend with the focus of organizing labor and community united in Troy will continue in 2022! \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZgMItm2lM&feature=youtu.be\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizations leading and participating in this event include: NAACP Troy Branch\, Team HERO\, Troy Coalition of Black Leaders\, Coalition of Black Trade Unions\, United Ordained Church-North Central\, Coalition of Labor Union Women\, Equality for Troy\, Troy Sanctuary Campaign\, NYCLU\, Troy DSA\, Solidarity Committee of the Capital District\, Collectiveffort\, Troy Area Labor Council\, 5th Avenue AME Zion\, Civil Service Employees Association\, New York State Public Employees Federation\, Capital Region Labor Council for Latin American Advancement\, Shades of Cocoa\, One Troy\, Justice Center of Rensselaer County\, Capital Region Poor People’s Campaign\, and People’s Health Sanctuary. \n\n\n\nFeaturing:  \n\n\n\n\nTroy Community/ Labor Organization speakers\n\n\n\nRoundtable discussion: Candidates of Color\, Rensselaer County\, 2021\n\n\n\nArchival videos and live poetry\n\n\n\nCalls to Action! \n\n\n\n\n\n“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is\, ‘What are you doing for others?’” \n– MLK Jr.\, 1957\n\n\n\nEvent MC: Deacon Jerry Ford (Team HERO; Vice President\, NAACP Troy Branch) \n\n\n\nMultiple speakers representing diverse community organizations in Troy will respond to MLK’s Call for Alliances for Inter-sectional Justice\, around the key issues: Racial Justice and Civil Rights\, Labor Justice and Community Organizing\, Health Justice/Environmental Justice/Economic Justice and The Next Generation. \n\n\n\nSpeakers include:  \n\n\n\n\nTerry Melvin (Coalition of Black Trade Unionists)\n\n\n\nWillie Terry (Coalition of Black Trade Unionists)\n\n\n\nRenée Powell (NAACP Troy Branch #2182-B)\n\n\n\nReverend Hunter (5th Avenue AME Zion Church)\n\n\n\nRev. Charles Burkes (United Ordained Church)\n\n\n\nAdam Pelletier (Troy Area Labor Council)\n\n\n\nDebra Garrett (Shades of Cocoa)\n\n\n\nAileen Javier (People’s Health Sanctuary at The Sanctuary for Independent Media)\n\n\n\nJess Bennett (Friends of the Mohicantuck)\n\n\n\nDan Lyles (Collectiveffort)\n\n\n\nDavid Banks (Troy DSA)\n\n\n\nNoreen Mckee (Justice Center of Rensselaer County)\n\n\n\nSiobhan Burke (Troy Sanctuary Campaign)\n\n\n\n\nRoundtable featuring Candidates of Color who ran for public office in Troy in 2021: \n\n\n\n\nGwen Wright (Candidate for Rensselaer County Executive)\n\n\n\nD. Colin (Candidate for City Council – District 1)\n\n\n\nSteven Figueroa (Candidate for City Council – District 2)\n\n\n\nKiani Conley Wilson (Candidate for City Council – District 5)\n\n\n\nMarketa Edwards (Candidate for City Council – District 6)\n\n\n\nShawntell Mills-Sanchez (Candidate for Rensselaer County Legislature\, District 4)\n\ndiscussion moderated by Daquetta Jones\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry by:  \n\n\n\n\nD. Colin\n\n\n\nIan Macks\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to event organizers Renée Powell\, Adam Pelletier and Willie Terry!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKEYNOTE SPEAKER:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReverend Terrance Melvin \n\n\n\nRev. Terrence L. Melvin holds the second highest office in the New York State labor movement – Secretary-Treasurer of the 2.5 million members\, New York State AFL-CIO. In May 2012\, at the 41st International Convention of the CBTU\, Mr. Melvin was elected unanimously as the organization’s new president\, succeeding William (Bill) Lucy\, who had held the position since he co-founded CBTU in 1972. Mr. Melvin has focused on developing lasting ties between labor\, religious organizations and community partners.  In December 2008\, he spearheaded the development of the NYS AFL-CIO Community Outreach Department which he oversees the day to day operations.Amongst his various Labor and community roles\, Mr. Melvin is a man of devout faith and spiritual belief. He is an ordained Baptist Minister.  He serves as Associate Minister and Assistant to the Pastor at Second Baptist Church\, Lackawanna\, New York. \n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT MC:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeacon Jerry Ford \n\n\n\nDeacon Jerry Ford\, a husband\, father and leader; has seen his share of trauma and adversity. He lost his mother and father at a young age. He was raised by a loving aunt\, but found himself in the streets looking for the love he never received from his parents and eventually ended up in prison. After his 3rd prison stint\, he saw himself on a path toward life in prison or death. Finding strength in faith\,  Deacon Ford was able to make a 180 degree turn and now his story of resilience and hope is impacting communities across the nation. He currently serves as the Vice President of the NAACP Troy Branch. He also started a nonprofit organization named Team H.E.R.O about 10 years ago. H.E.R.O. standing for Helping Everyone Recognize Opportunities which focuses on youth mentoring\, character and leadership development and linking families to resources. He has been recognized both locally and nationally for his service to the community\, most notably winning  the Maytag Dependable Leader Award. This award is only given to 11 individuals across the nation.  \n\n\n\nListen to Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with Deacon Jerry Ford: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Jerry Ford talking about Troy NY MLK2022 Commemeration\n\n\n\n\n\nMORE INFO ABOUT PRESENTERS: (in progress)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaquetta Jones  \n\n\n\nDaquetta Jones is the former Deputy Commissioner for Administration with the New York State Department of Civil Service and Executive Director of the YWCA of the Greater Capital District. Throughout her life’s work she has proven herself to be a change agent and activist for Black Liberation\, Human Rights\, Womxn’s Rights\, and Racial Justice and Equality. Daquetta has earned and received numerous accolades and honors including: Albany Business Review’s Women Who Mean Business Award\, was named as one of the 40 Under 40\, the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society Change Maker Award\, and many others. Daqetta will be moderating the roundtable discussion featuring Candidates of Color who ran for public office in Troy and Rensselaer County in 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGwen Wright \n\n\n\nGwen Wright has spent most of her career in public service. She recently retired as the executive director of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence (OPDV)\, a position she held for years. She was with the agency for over 27 years. Prior to joining OPDV\, Ms. Wright was the executive director of the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence a statewide non-profit domestic violence advocacy organization. \n\n\n\nMs. Wright has served on many non-profit boards of directors throughout her career. Currently\, she is on the board of directors of Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood and the Center for Women and Government in Civil Society. She is past president of both In Our Own Voices and the Pride Center of the Capital Region. She is the mother of three adult children and has four wonderful grandchildren. She has been a resident of Schodack since 2001. \n\n\n\nListen to Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with Gwen Wright: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · MLK Celebration 2022: Candidate Gwen Wright\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarketa Edwards \n\n\n\nMarketa Edwards is a community activist that wants to give a voice to the voiceless. She is the Executive Director of the Community Rising Project. The Community Rising Project is dedicated to the advancement of Boys and Men of Color who have been directly impacted by trauma and their involvement in the criminal justice system. Marketa is a Mother\, Grandmother\, and community organizer who ran for City Council in Troy in 2021.arketa Edwards \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShawntell Mills-Sanchez \n\n\n\nShawntell came to the Capital Region in 1994 to attend the University of Albany. Upon graduation\, Shawntell remained in the Capital Region where she has worked in the human services sector for over 20 years. She started her career at Albany County Department for Children\, Youth and Families. She moved on to continue her focus on child welfare policy & practice in a non-profit organization. Like many working women with expertise in her field\, Shawntell pursued career advancement and experienced challenges along the way. She obtained a master’s degree in education and started her own small business by combining her knowledge of information technology and child welfare programs. She now provides her expertise & services to the NYS Office of Children and Family Services as a consultant. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nD. Colin \n\n\n\nOriginally from Bridgeport\, CT\, D. Colin is a poet\, actor\, and visual artist living in Troy\, NY. As a multidisciplinary artist\, she aims to inspire\, empower and educate through poetry\, paint and performance and is passionate about cultivating space for stories\, healing and community. She is the author of Dreaming in Kreyol and Said the Swing to the Hoop. She is also a Cave Canem\, VONA and New York State Writers Institute fellow with degrees in English and Africana Studies. D. Colin is a board member of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. \n\n\n\nListen to Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with D. Colin: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · MLK Celebration 2022: Artist D. Colin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIan Macks\, poet \n\n\n\nIan Macks is a 28-year old poet from Troy\, New York. His long-awaited debut full-length collection\, Identity Crisis\, is due to be announced this spring on recto y verso editions\, inc. His poetry has recently been chosen for publication in Hypersaturation Magazine and BigCityLit literary journal. You can get at him and read his work on Instagram @imacks22 \n\n\n\nListen to Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with Ian Macks: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · MLK Celebration 2022: Poet Ian Macks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRenee Powell\, President of the NAACP Troy Branch \n\n\n\nRenee is president of the NAACP Troy Branch since 2019.  The 21st century goal of the NAACP is to build Black political power to end structural racism to put end to race-based discrimination. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Pelletier\, MLK 22 Celebration Organizer \n\n\n\nAdam Pelletier is the President of the Troy Area Labor Council (AFL-CIO)\, which represents approximately 10\,000 working people in Troy and Rensselaer County. He has been involved in labor union and social issue advocacy and organizing in the Capital District for the last 10 years. He has been known to upset people in positions of power. Adam is a graduate of Clarkson University and veteran with prior active service in the United States Marine. He is also a member of the Troy Democratic Socialists of America and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3343.  \n\n\n\nListen to Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with Adam Pelletier: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Interview With Adam Pellitier MLK2022 B\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWillie Terry\, Coalition of Black Trade Unions\, Troy Area Labor Council\, MLK 22 Celebration Organizer \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nListen to Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with Willie Terry: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Willie Terry Wants More Education Around MLK’s Legacy and Labor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRev. Charles Burkes\, United Ordained Church-North Central \n\n\n\nRev. Burkes is currently the Pastor of United Ordained Church-North Central Troy. He is the former Director for the Albany County Veterans Services Bureau where he was responsible for serving veterans in the 17 cities and towns in Albany County. His duties included assisting veterans\, their spouses\, and their dependents navigate the process while seeking eligibility for VA benefits and returning to civilian life. In 2014\, Rev. Burkes was also nominated and confirmed to the Citizen’s Policy and Complaint Review Council. Rev. Burkers is a graduate of the Sage Colleges and is a Vietnam era Veteran who served in the United States Marine Corps from 1974-1978. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReverend Hunter\, 5th Avenue AME Zion \n\n\n\nRev. Xavier Hunter is the pastor of the Fifth Avenue A.M.E. Zion Church in Troy\, NY. Finishing his first year here in the Troy Community he has hit the ground running in leading the church and becoming a part of the Troy and Capital area community. Pastor Hunter is a native of Buffalo\, NY  and has become a unique orator who is able to convey the truth of God’s word clearly\, compellingly and in a way that makes the word come alive to his congregation. An out of the box thinker\, teacher\, and preacher\, who believes in out of the box worship and praise! Combining his business experience and leadership with God’s direction\, his ministry has grown and most importantly helped grow the kingdom of God. Rev. Hunter is currently finishing his Master’s of Divinity at Northeastern Seminary in Rochester\, NY. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAileen Javier\, People’s Health Sanctuary \n\n\n\nAileen Javier is a Community Health Worker/ Outreach Educator/Family Advocate. She is passionate about fomenting community health by supporting and empowering people to successfully navigate the local social and health care system.Previously\, Aileen has worked as a Community Outreach / Family Advocate in Massachusetts. She is part of the People Power at the Sanctuary because she believes in the Sanctuary’s Mission: “We use art and participatory action to promote social and environmental justice and freedom of creative expression.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Banks\, Troy DSA \n\n\n\nDavid A. Banks is the chair of Troy DSA’s defund police working group and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Geography and Planning department at University at Albany\, SUNY where he is the director of the Globalization Studies program. He is also a proud delegate to the Troy Area Labor Council\, and the Officer for Contingents of the Albany chapter of United University Professions (UUP). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDebra Garrett\, Community Organizer \n\n\n\nDebra Garrett holds an A.A.S. in Medical Administration and B.S. in Health Science  She currently works at the NYS Comptroller’s office and at TRIP as a community capacity builder.  Ms. Garrett has also held positions with CEO and St. Peter’s Partners in the past.  She currently serves on boards for the Troy Drug Free Coalition\, the Ark After School and the Oakwood Community Center.  Ms. Garrett volunteers in many local organizations throughout Troy including School 2 and Troy Prep.  She previously served on the Troy City Council for District 2 and loved helping the community.  Ms. Garrett founded\, Shades of Cocoa\, a group empowering black and brown young girls.  She also created the Parent Speak Advocate organization to support parents with school policy.  Ms. Garrett resides in Troy with her husband\, LT\, and their four children who all attend Troy Prep. \n\n\n\nHear Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with Shades of Cocoa \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Shades of Cocoa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDan Lyles\, Collectiveffort \n\n\n\nDr. Dan Lyles is the VP of Operations and Research at Collectiveffort is has been a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute for 5 years. He is a Sociologist of Scientific Knowledge and Institutions and received his degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic in 2016. At RPI\, he focuses on raising engineering students awareness of the unique opportunities they have to use engineering knowledge and skills to change the world for the better. At Collectiveffort\, he focuses on cooperative governance\, project management and using the immense power of shared resources to develop community resources and assets. He is pursuing his introductory Professional Project Management certificate in 2022. In his spare time\, he likes to organize community organizations and foundations.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoreen McKee\, Board Member\, League of Women Voters and the Justice Center of Rensselaer County \n\n\n\nAs a board member of the League of Women Voters and the Justice Center of Rensselaer County\, Noreen McKee has fought successfully to bring early voting into the heart of downtown Troy to provide equitable access to early voting for minorities and low income voters. She is also on the board of directors of Unity House and a member of its advocacy committee\, which is “dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless by shining the spotlight on the injustices suffered by the poor and the racial inequality that fuels poverty. \n\n\n\nListen to Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s interview with Noreen McKee: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Is Democracy Dying in Rensselaer County? with Noreen McKee\n\n\n\n\n\nMore interviews by Hudson Mohawk Magazine: \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · “The Strategy Comes Out of Struggle” Says Leon Van Dyke of The Brothers\n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · PEF Union and MLK Civil Rights talk with Wayne Spence\n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Labor Organizing Around MLK Day\n\n\n\nMORE INFO ABOUT CO-SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS (in progress)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNAACP Troy Branch #2182-B \n\n\n\nThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States\, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois\, Mary White Ovington\, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. \n\n\n\nThe NAACP’s mission in the 21st century is “to ensure the political\, educational\, social\, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination”. National NAACP initiatives include political lobbying\, publicity efforts and litigation strategies developed by its legal team.  The group enlarged its mission in the late 20th century by considering issues such as police misconduct\, the status of black foreign refugees and questions of economic development. Its name\, retained in accordance with tradition\, uses the once common term colored people\, referring to those with some African ancestry. Contact: TroyNYNAACP@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can view our MLK Holiday Labor and Community Celebration from 2021 below: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCmiBi__ehw URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/mlk-2022/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MLK22-v2-sq-plain-01.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220310T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220310T203000 DTSTAMP:20230213T185426Z CREATED:20220216T210412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T185426Z UID:10001529-1646938800-1646944200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Direct Air Capture: False Climate Solution? DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual town hall and learn about Direct Air Capture. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\nThis virtual event will begin with an overview of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (A8597/S8171)\, now pending in the NYS Assembly and Senate. Presentations by our speakers\, June Sekera (policy scholar)\, Visiting Scholar at the New School University\, New York\, and a Senior Research Fellow at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center; and  Jim Walsh Policy Director for Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action\, will be followed by a Q&A. We’ll then end with a Call to Action! \n\n\n\nActivists charge that the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (A8597/S8171)\, now pending in the NYS Assembly and Senate\, would generously subsidize the Direct Air Capture technology that they characterize as a false “greenwashing” solution. Comments from environmental experts opposing this bill: \n\n\n\n\n“Let’s be clear that any government support for carbon capture or direct air capture is a FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDY.“ \n-Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson\, PhD\n\n\n\nCarbon Engineering pilot plant in Squamish\, B.C. featuring Direct Air Capture technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere. \nCC image by Stephen Hui\, Pembina Institute\n\n\n\nDIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) is a costly mechanical-chemical method of carbon capture and storage that critics charge is unproven\, dangerous and energy-intensive. They say DAC would likely require a massive build-out of pipelines to transport CO2 and that it is an unwise public investment that diverts resources and attention from real solutions. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJune Sekera is a Visiting Scholar at the New School University\, New York\, and a Senior Research Fellow at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. Her review article\, “Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy\, Science and Societal Need” was published in Biophysical Economics and Sustainability (October 2020).   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFood and Water Watch Policy Director\, Jim Walsh oversees campaigns to ban fracking\, end water privatization\, and push back on fossil fuel industry-backed false solutions to the climate crisis. Jim works with Food & Water Watch’s policy experts and national allies to develop and implement campaigns to mobilize the public and educate decision makers on strategies that support the development of a better food system\, a safe and livable climate and support safe and clean public water for all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe moderator for the event is Barbara Heinzen\, PhD\, Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena Coeymans \n\n\n\n\n\nCo-Sponsors\n\n\n\nThank you to our co-sponsors: Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena Coeymans\, Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls\, Beyond Plastics\, People of Albany United for Safe Energy\, Food & Water Watch\, Green Education and Legal Fund\, and NATURE Lab and People’s Health Sanctuary with The Sanctuary for Independent Media. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/direct-air-capture/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/StephenHui_PembinaInstitute.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220402T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220402T140000 DTSTAMP:20230213T183938Z CREATED:20220223T170208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T183938Z UID:10001290-1648900800-1648908000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:CCG Tree Day: Pruning Workshop with More Trees Arborists DESCRIPTION:Join the arborists of the More Trees Arborist Collective for a workshop in the urban forest. Learn to identify common opportunist species of urban trees\, discuss 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.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMeet at Freedom Square \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine interviewed Christian Grigoraskos\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore Tree Arborists \n\n\n\nMore Trees Arborist Collective is a worker-owned cooperative of ISA-Certified Arborists and support crew who work to provide environmentally conscious tree care for residential\, municipal\, and commercial clients throughout the Hudson Mohawk Region. We identify\, assess\, and mitigate tree risk while encouraging the preservation and planting. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/ccg-tree-day-pruning-workshop-with-more-trees-arborists/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/grower-workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T140000 DTSTAMP:20240126T135703Z CREATED:20220223T170421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T135703Z UID:10001291-1651924800-1651932000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Plant & Tree Swap DESCRIPTION:Join us for a plant & tree swap at Collard City Growers garden\, 3337 6th Ave. in North Central Troy! \n\n\n\nwhat: an opportunity to share plant abundance!  \n\n\n\nhow: bring your extra seedlings / saplings and trade with someone else for something new – perennials\, annuals\, house plants\, anything goes! \n\n\n\nwhy: a nice excuse to hang out in the garden with other families\, meet some new plants and people\, and celebrate Andrew Lynn’s birthday! \n\n\n\nThis is an event for the community and gardeners to get together and exchange seedlings for the season. Stop by to pick up some seedlings that you might want for your garden\, drop off any extra flats that you don’t have room for\, or just come on over to hangout and say hi 🙂 \n\n\n\nAnd remember\, all plants that you give and take are FREE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a nutshell – we’d love to see you whether you have plants or not\, so come say hi! Wear a mask and practice social distancing whenever possible. If it rains\, we can gather in the hoop house.As always\, there’s lots of work to do\, so if you’re in the mood for garden chores – we got you covered! me ke hau ʻoli\,azure’ – christian – ember – thasos\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you want to brush up on the vibe of this project – you can listen to us kūkākūkā on WOOC last year.  \n\n\n\n\nhttps://soundcloud.com/mediasanctuary/collard-city-growers-plant-swap URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/plant-tree-swap/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PlantSwap-01.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220911T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220911T180000 DTSTAMP:20240910T203916Z CREATED:20220627T223907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T203916Z UID:10001613-1662912000-1662919200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:5th Anniversary of Hudson Mohawk Magazine on Sanctuary Radio DESCRIPTION:Join us in a community gathering to commemorate 5 years of Hudson Mohawk Magazine\, our locally-produced radio news hour\, which launched on September 11\, 2017 with the conscious goal of creating a community radio platform to nurture diverse voices in the Capital Region in response to increasing assaults on our civil liberties. This program is the product of many volunteer hours\, so let’s unite to honor all who have invested ideas\, skills\, time\, creativity\, and heart into Hudson Mohawk Magazine with light snacks and refreshments\, radio activities\, and community. \n\n\n\nBaccus Pizza\, O’Malley’s Oven\, Rareform Brewery will be providing some snacks and beverages. \n\n\n\n***Please note that for everyone’s safety\, we are following Covid protocols that include requirements that all attendees show proof of vaccination or a recent test for entry\, and wear a mask. We will notify ticket holders if the protocols change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this time of escalating threats to our freedoms and the collapse of corporate journalism\, meet our producers and recognize the essential role they play as independent grassroots journalists in a democratic society! We commemorate this anniversary not with flag waving and homogenized messages\, but by celebrating the people-power and tools dedicated to creating independent media as the essence of freedom. \n\n\n\nSeptember 11\, 2017 was the day HMM launched. Volunteer journalists joined together\, dedicated to tell the stories that corporate media leaves untold. This date was chosen for its legacy of assaults on civil liberties and commemorates the September 11\, 1973 military coup in Chile\, which ended civilian rule in the government of Salvador Allende and transformed a beacon of democracy into a dictatorship\, and the trauma of September 11\, 2001 and the aftermath of restricted freedoms in the name of security. \n\n\n\nListen: 5 Years of HMM with Steve Pierce\n\n\n\nListen: The First Full Episode of HMM\n\n\n\nWe will also be memorializing our producer Meghan Marohn with an altar in collaboration with Nancy Weber. Listen here for a collection of memories and stories about Meghan by people impacted by her\, produced by EP. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/5th-anniversary-of-hmm/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_1885-1024x683-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221210T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221210T170000 DTSTAMP:20241108T152846Z CREATED:20221108T154850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T152846Z UID:10001637-1670686200-1670691600@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Holiday Interfaith Justice and Peace Circle at Freedom Square DESCRIPTION:Join us in a celebration of light and community. Around an evergreen tree\, we will light candles\, tie the names of loved ones on branches\, and share our light to set intentions for love\, justice and peace. Before the tree lighting there will be warm beverages\, snacks\, arts and crafts\, and a radio-making station. Bring your wishes for light\, justice and peace\, as we reflect on current times and come together with sacred intention\, embracing all religions and beliefs. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsors: Troy MLK Labor & Community Network\, Troy Central Little League\, People’s Health Sanctuary\, Hudson Mohawk Magazine\, SNUG\, The Fish Market Project\, Mothers Out Front\, Troy Bike Rescue\,…. and more to come! \n\n\n\nDocumentation of the Event\n\n\n\nPhotos by Robert Cooper: \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about our Holiday Interfaith Justice and Peace history\n\n\n\n\n\nLocal and diverse communities of friends and networks have been gathering at the Sanctuary for over a decade. Because of the pandemic\, we are not able to have our full community celebration inside… but please join us to continue our tradition of joining together to celebrate the light within each of us and our collective powers! \n\n\n\nCheck out this video of our fifth annual North Central Holiday Justice & Peace Celebration\, which culminated in this interfaith gathering at Freedom Square on Dec. 30\, 2016. Share the light in joy and resistance! \n\n\n\n\n\nAileen Javier\, Board President\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, sharing her amazing light during the 2021 Holiday Interfaith Justice and Peace Circle at Freedom Square. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/4B-bjr7-RqA\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHow you can participate\n\n\n\nPlease bring your wish for light in the new year. Also\, there’s lots of ways you can support this community event\, including: \n\n\n\n\nVolunteer to run a small art or activity table\n\n\n\nBring toys and gifts for children\n\n\n\nBake Holiday Cookies\n\n\n\nBring decorations for the interfaith tree and Freedom Square\n\n\n\nReach out to your friends and networks to spread the word\n\n\n\nSign up for our set up or clean up crews\n\n\n\nOther ideas? Let us know my emailing info@mediasanctuary.org. Thank you! URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/freedom-square-holiday-peace-and-justice-celebration/ LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Untitled-design-6.png GEO:42.754030225802;-73.681172076926 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Freedom Square 35 5th Ave Troy NY 12180 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=35 5th Ave:geo:-73.681172076926,42.754030225802 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230225T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230225T190000 DTSTAMP:20230417T160746Z CREATED:20230214T223753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T160746Z UID:10001642-1677340800-1677351600@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Troy Black History Celebration 2023 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person celebration of Black History Month with an exhibition\, music\, spoken word\, and community. Troy NAACP\, Team HERO\, Coalition for Black Trade Union\, and The Sanctuary for Independent Media have partnered together in Troy to honor our Black history and its living legacy. The exhibition is curated by Malik Muhammad\, music by King Malachi\, spoken word by Diamond Owens\, and Shania Jackson\, and beats by DJ Hollyw8d. \n\n\n\nMasks are encouraged and will be available at this event. If you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms of illness please stay home and rest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrother Malik Muhammad is the curator of The Sankofa Project\, a traveling visual museum which showcases photos and text of the history of Black people. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMusic performance by King Malachi. Website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeats by DJ Hollyw8d. Website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpoken word by Shania Jackson. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpoken word by Diamond Owens. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpoken word by Justin Irby. \n\n\n\n\n\nCo-Organizers:\n\n\n\nNAACP Troy Branch #2182-B: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) mission in the 21st century is “to ensure the political\, educational\, social\, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.” Contact: TroyNYNAACP@gmail.com or on facebook. \n\n\n\nTeam HERO: H.E.R.O. standing for Helping Everyone Recognize Opportunities which focuses on youth mentoring\, character and leadership development and linking families to resources. https://www.facebook.com/TeamHero101 \n\n\n\nCoalition for Black Trade Union: CBTU is not a black separatist or civil rights organization. It is the fiercely independent voice of black workers within the trade union movement\, challenging organized labor to be more relevant to the needs and aspirations of Black and poor workers. https://cbtu.org/about.html \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwwG-h1EF1A URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/troy-black-history-celebration-2023/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Gallery Show,Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Troy-Black-History-Month-Celebration1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T170000 DTSTAMP:20230327T134502Z CREATED:20230222T170831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T134502Z UID:10001648-1679234400-1679245200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:David Carpenter: "Science for the People" DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of SUNY Albany Professor David Carpenter’s long career as an environmental advocate! We’ll be gathering with Dr. Carpenter along with some of his graduate students and colleagues\, as well as representatives of some of the many grassroots organizations who have worked with David over his decades-long career. Dr. Carpenter will speak\, along with former EPA Region 2 administrator Judith Enck and other local luminaries. We’ll hear an update on the ongoing legal case surrounding Monsanto’s pollution of the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation\, and other local environmental struggles. But mostly we’re gathering to acknowledge a true hero of the environmental justice movement! \n\n\n\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/811411818\n\n\n\n\nThe celebration will close with a free community meal of soup and cake. This is a zero waste event–bring your own reusable plate\, utensils\, cup and napkin! \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by NATURE Lab\, United University Professions- Albany Chapter\, Beyond Plastics\, Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena-Coeymans\, Rensselaer Environmental Coalition\, PAUSE\, Green Education & Legal Fund\, UNCAGED\, Environmental Advocates NY\, Riverkeeper\, NYPIRG\, Lights Out Norlite\, Healthy Schools Network\, Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment\, Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline\, Zero Waste Capital District\, Housatonic River Initiative\, Inc\, and Housatonic Environmental Action League\, Inc. \n\n\n\nDownload the flyer here. \n\n\n\nMasks are encouraged and will be available at this event. If you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms of illness please stay home and rest. \n\n\n\n\n\nJudith Enck and Dr. David Carpenter at Dunn Landfill\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Carpenter is a public health physician whose current position is Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany\, as well as Professor of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University at Albany.  After receiving his MD degree from Harvard Medical School he chose a career of research and public health.  After research positions at the National Institute of Mental Health and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute\, he came to Albany in 1980 as the Director of the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health\, the third largest public health laboratory in the US after NIH and CDC.  In an effort to build ties to an academic program\, he initiated efforts to create a partnership between the New York State Department of Health and the University at Albany\, resulting in the creation of the School of Public Health in 1985.  He was then appointed as the founding Dean of the School of Public Health\, a position he held until 1998 when he became the Director of the Institute of Health and the Environment.  In 2011 the Institute for Health and the Environment was declared a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization in Environmental Health.  While his early research was study of animal and cellular models of brain function\, his more recent studies have focused on environmental causes of human disease.  He has more than 485 peer-reviewed publications. \n\n\n\n\n\nPhotos from the event\n\n\n\nBy Robert Cooper \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphotograph by Caroline Tennant URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/david-carpenter-science-for-the-people/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Speaker ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/David-Carpenter-16-9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T210000 DTSTAMP:20230410T180916Z CREATED:20230330T171952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T180916Z UID:10001655-1682622000-1682629200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Death Cafe DESCRIPTION:Where: 2nd floor of the NATURE Lab building\, 3319 6th Avenue. \n\n\n\nJoin us for for a Death Cafe\, an evening of discussions about death and how to make the most of life under the context that there is an end. The discussions will take place as a group and in breakout discussions at People’s Health Sanctuary in NATURE Lab. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt a Death Cafe people\, often strangers\, gather to eat cake\, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda\, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. \n\n\n\nDeath Cafes are always offered:– On a not-for-profit basis– In an accessible\, respectful and confidential space– With no intention of leading people to any conclusion\, product or course of action– Alongside refreshing drinks and nourishing food – and cake!  \n\n\n\nFor more info on Death Café\, check out: https://deathcafe.com.Credit to Jon Underwood with founding Death Café based on the work of Bernard Crettaz. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by People’s Health Sanctuary at NATURE Lab and organized by Veronica Maroulis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Maroulis is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s in Business Analytics. After being introduced to the work of The Order of the Good Death and content by Caitlin Doughty via YouTube\, she has been fascinated by death and the macabre. Veronica is an advocate for alternative death care and death justice and wants to encourage thoughtful conversations about death to destigmatize the taboo topic. Death is an inevitability of life and Veronica wants to give people the resources so that they receive the death care they want and deserve. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/death-cafe/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/death_tea-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T150000 DTSTAMP:20230512T181226Z CREATED:20230228T201814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T181226Z UID:10001652-1683982800-1683990000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Hudson Mohawk Magazine Radio Open House DESCRIPTION:For all the radio lovers and radio curious\, join us for an open house where you will have a chance to engage with Hudson Mohawk Magazine producers\, engage with our content in an interactive way\, and come into the radio studio to get your own story out there. \n\n\n\nAt 2pm\, join us for a workshop about how to make a Hudson Mohawk Magazine radio story. This is also a time for visitors to contribute ideas that they would like to hear on the radio. \n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine is volunteer-produced\, local news\, and public affairs show is broadcast live on WOOC 105.3 FM Monday through Friday from 6-7 p.m.\, and repeated at 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. the following weekday. \n\n\n\nCelebrate grassroots media\, suggest stories we should cover from the local community\, and get your own voice on the radio. Learn more about our radio program here. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/hmm-open-house/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/dec-ade-Radio.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T210000 DTSTAMP:20230410T194420Z CREATED:20230410T180258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T194420Z UID:10001656-1684350000-1684357200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Doing Death Justice: How to Get the End of Life Care You Want and Deserve DESCRIPTION:Where: 2nd floor of the NATURE Lab building\, 3319 6th Avenue. \n\n\n\nDiscover end-of-life options available to you in a talk with Corinne Carey from Compassion and Choices. You will learn how to prepare for the care you want leading up to and after your death. There will be information about choosing your healthcare proxy\, drafting a living will\, and different funerary care options. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by People’s Health Sanctuary at NATURE Lab and organized by Veronica Maroulis.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCorinne Carey\, co-moderator\, is a lawyer and a political and public affairs strategist who takes on bold public health initiatives backed by sound evidence and human rights principles. Her policy work is grounded in her long history in the harm reduction movement. She founded and directed the Harm Reduction Law Project\, and has also worked for Human Rights Watch and the New York Civil Liberties Union. She serves as the state director for Compassion & Choices in New York\, and also works as a political & public affairs correspondent for the Hudson Mohawk Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Maroulis is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s in Business Analytics. After being introduced to the work of The Order of the Good Death and content by Caitlin Doughty via YouTube\, she has been fascinated by death and the macabre. Veronica is an advocate for alternative death care and death justice and wants to encourage thoughtful conversations about death to de-stigmatize the taboo topic. Death is an inevitability of life and Veronica wants to give people the resources so that they receive the death care they want and deserve. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/doing-death-justice-how-to-get-the-end-of-life-care-you-want-and-deserve/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/tea-small.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230624T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230624T170000 DTSTAMP:20230703T143519Z CREATED:20230302T162146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230703T143519Z UID:10001653-1687615200-1687626000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Freedom Fest 2023 DESCRIPTION:Freedom Fest is back! Join us for an outdoor concert and summer celebration featuring artists of the Capital Region who have been inspired by the 50 year history of hip hop music and culture! Performances kick off at 2:00 pm and featuring Victory Soul Orchestra with special guests UND3RSTANDING. The event MC is H Bosh Jr. \n\n\n\nTHE EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED INDOORS DUE TO RAIN! The event location is at the Sanctuary main space: 3361 6th Ave\, North Troy \n\n\n\nThis free\, all-ages event will feature: \n\n\n\n\nLive music by Victory Soul Orchestra & UND3RSTANDING\n\n\n\nBPM Lessons beat making station by Jae Joseph\n\n\n\nFace painting\n\n\n\nFood & refreshments \n\n\n\nArt activities\n\n\n\nGarden activities\n\n\n\nCommunity resource fair\n\n\n\nand more! \n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsoring this event are many fabulous organizations doing great work across our community including Troy Area Labor Council\, Poor People’s Campaign\, Troy Central Little League\, SNUG\, CEO\, Oakwood Community Center\, TRIP\, Shades of Cocoa\, and UAlbany TRIO EOC Program. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictory Soul Orchestra is a hometown horn funk favorite. The dirty sounds of New Orleans brass drive their sound with some influences including Galactic as well as the Dap Kings. You can also find them fronted by Albany’s own JB!! aka Dirty Moses and singer Dali Soto. Their efforts combined help create a funk/rap show that brings the house down. In January 2019 they released their first album\, ‘Astrobeat’ – now available on vinyl and all streaming platforms! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnd3rstanding is a three-man Hip-Hop group from Upstate New York featuring Sev Statik\, SES Vth\, and Knowle’ge. Individually\, these artists stand as giants in the realm of underground hip-hop\, but collectively\, they form a powerful group with a mission to entertain\, enlighten and embody what it means to be an emcee. The name Und3rstanding alludes to supreme mathematics and the principles of knowledge\, wisdom\, and understanding – a set of teachings that each of the members have learned from and hold dearly.Founded in 2015\, the members of Und3rstanding had quickly become fans of each other and after performing at several events in the Albany area.  It was Sev Statik who tossed out the idea that they should combine talents and “form like Voltron” into a super lyrical squadron.  Knowle’ge and SES Vth agreed\, and from there they began recruiting the soulful boom-bappington master producer himself\, Deborah’s Son\, to produce their project. That collaboration led to the trio’s debut self-titled album\, Und3rstanding\, released in March 2018.  \n\n\n\n\n\nDocumentation of Event by Robert Cooper URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/freedom-fest-2023/ LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Freedom-Fest-23-Facebook-Cover-1-e1686256331488.png GEO:42.754030225802;-73.681172076926 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Freedom Square 35 5th Ave Troy NY 12180 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=35 5th Ave:geo:-73.681172076926,42.754030225802 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T190000 DTSTAMP:20231002T141114Z CREATED:20230718T230817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T141114Z UID:10001790-1690902000-1690916400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Hudson Mohawk Magazine Open Hours DESCRIPTION:Hudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) is radio for the community\, by community volunteers. If you are curious about the radio and have questions\, if you’re interested in getting involved\, or if you need some support in production\, these open hours are a perfect time to come to the main Sanctuary space to work directly with HMM producers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur volunteer HMM producers come with a range of skills and experiences. Many volunteers join with little to no experience. These sessions give support to producers of all levels. This is also an opportunity to train new engineers and hosts. \n\n\n\nJoin our excellent team of grassroots journalists and report on local stories that interest you. Feel free to reach out to us by emailing HMM@mediasanctuary.org or call 518-272-2390. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/hudson-mohawk-magazine-open-hours-2/2023-08-01/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_0626.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T080000 DTSTAMP:20240722T203627Z CREATED:20240722T203625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240722T203627Z UID:10001809-1693544400-1693555200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:The Insects are Present DESCRIPTION:The Insects are Present is a participatory installation by artist Lisa Schonberg that engages with insects and their sound to compose music compositions. Alluding towards Marina Abramović’s 2010 work\, Schonberg’s installation asks audience members to spend an extended time listening to insects in real time\, both through hearing and touch. Schonberg developed this modular system during field research in Oregon\, the Brazilian Amazon\, the Mobile-Tensaw Delta (AL)\, and New York\, adapting recording and playback elements to insects and their sounds at each study site. Participants will be invited to contribute their own sounds to the work in an assertion of our ongoing connection with the insects in our shared living environments. \n\n\n\nThe installation will take place at Ellie Irons’ Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory\, part of NATURE Lab and the Sanctuary’s Eco-Art Trail in North Troy. Participants are encouraged to sign up for a listening session in advance at this form (or click the registration button below). A limited number of walk-in sessions will also be available.  \n\n\n\nDates/Times: \n\n\n\nFriday Aug 11\, 3-6 pm (during Collard City Growers Open Hours)Saturday Aug 12\, 1-4 pm (during People’s Health Sanctuary Healing Day)Sunday Aug 13\, Sunset: 8-11 pmSaturday Aug 26\, 10am-1 pmSunday Aug 27\, 1-4 pm Friday Sep 1\, Sunrise: 5-8 am \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · "The Insects are Present" at Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Schonberg is a composer and percussionist creating sound works based on ecological research. Informed by her background in entomology\, Schonberg is interested in how listening to cryptic sound can reveal and challenge assumptions about insects and other overlooked soundmakers. Since 2017 she has been collaborating with Brazilian entomologists on ATTA (Amplifying the Tropical Ants)\, a project investigating ant bioacoustics in the Amazon. Her other recent work includes investigations of old-growth forests in Oregon\, endangered Hawaiian Hylaeus bees\, mushrooms\, and plastics. Schonberg’s compositions are performed by percussion ensembles Secret Drum Band\, Antenna\, & UAU\, and presented as solo performance and installation. Schonberg presents workshops on methods for environmental listening\, including workshops with Allie ES Wist for their collaboration Sensory Kinship of the Third Kind. She is the author of Text Scores for Getting to Know the Invertebrates\, The Hylaeus Project\, and the The DIY Guide to Drums\, and has presented work or performed at FILE Festival (BR)\, the Pompidou\, the Brooklyn Museum\, Bosque da Ciencia (BR)\, the American Museum of Natural History\, and Museo Reina Sofia (SP). She has developed her work through residencies at Labverde\, the Banff Centre\, Pioneerworks\, HJ Andrews Experimental Station\, and Signal Fire. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-insects-are-present-2/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Community Event,Performance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T160000 DTSTAMP:20230907T183959Z CREATED:20230810T203409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T183959Z UID:10001788-1694257200-1694275200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Campus-Wide Open House\, Fall 2023 DESCRIPTION:Curious about our organization?Want to get involved?Drop-in and check out our programs! \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nThroughout our campus\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media will have various ways to engage with our organization and our various initiatives. We invite neighbors\, students\, visitors\, and anyone curious about what we do to drop by and engage with our staff\, volunteers\, and programming. \n\n\n\n3319 6th Ave11am-4pm: Healing Day at People’s Health Sanctuary\, yard and 2nd floor1pm-4pm: NATURE Lab open house\, 1st floor \n\n\n\n3337 6th Ave12pm-4pm: Collard City Growers garden open house \n\n\n\n3361 6th Ave12pm-3pm: Sanctuary Radio open house with Hudson Mohawk Magazine & Jazz Sanctuary \n\n\n\n\n\nHealing Day at People’s Health Sanctuary is a way to connect with community members\, healers\, providers and anyone invested in building a robust network for communal health across the Capital District. See full schedule here. \n\n\n\nSanctuary Radio invites you to ask questions\, record a station ID\, and meet the people behind the voices. Hudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) and Jazz Sanctuary‘s Susan Brink will be available for questions. From 1-2 pm there will be playful activity stations to engage with producers through tasks that mimic the experience of being a HMM producer. \n\n\n\nCollard City Growers will offer tours\, flowers\, medicinal plants and herbs\, self-guided veggie and fruit harvesting. What’s In season are apples\, pears\, collard greens\, kale\, peppers\, and more! \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab invites you to tour the lab\, see art & science displays\, and observe Be5 STEM kids’ activities with Dr. Emilly Obuya\, microplastics viewing with Dr. Sarah Cadieux\, and more! URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/open-house-fall-2023/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Campus-Open-House.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T170000 DTSTAMP:20240313T145432Z CREATED:20230801T160956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T145432Z UID:10001779-1695477600-1695488400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:StoryHarvest with Stockbridge-Munsee Musician Bill Miller DESCRIPTION:Join us for StoryHarvest–– a festival to celebrate the harvest with music\, food\, and community! Corn will be a source of food\, games\, crafts\, and jokes in this family-friendly celebration with three-time Grammy award winning musician Bill Miller of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans sharing music and stories on his ancestral homeland at Freedom Square. \n\n\n\nActivities will include corn arts & crafts\, face painting\, and a bicycle-powered mill. Come and play corn hole\, eat corn\, and participate in the CORNy joke open mic. There will also be community resource tables\, tours to the Medicine Garden\, and listening sessions with Lisa Schonberg at her The Insects are Present listening performance. \n\n\n\nThis is a rain or shine event! Rain location: The Sanctuary main space\, 3361 6th Avenue\, Troy\, 12180 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our key annual food justice celebrations is “StoryHarvest: From Seed to Table\,” encouraging diverse members of the community to celebrate and connect through music and stories of food. Initiated back in 2012 by food artist Ellie Markovitch\, we invite you to celebrate with us after a three-year hiatus! A KitchenSanctuary workshop ahead of the workshop with Ellie Markovitch\, Amy Halloran\, and Azuré Keahi will provide food for the festival and context around the importance of corn\, one of the few grains native to the Americas\, in Indigenous food and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMefxK1s2D0\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill Miller is an award-winning Native American recording artist\, performer\, songwriter\, activist\, painter\, and world-class native flute player. Over the entirety\, Miller has produced over a dozen albums\, received three GRAMMY® Awards\, numerous Native American Music Awards & Association (NAMA) awards (including a “Lifetime Achievement” Award) and led Wisconsin’s La Crosse Symphony Orchestra. Overcoming the hardships felt by the global community in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic\, 2021 finds the living legend living life— stronger with a renewed focus on healing through song\, art\, and speaking — as he prepares to release a fresh EP. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town creative placemaking grant\, connecting Indigenous legacy to an urban nature walk on 6th Avenue. The Eco-Art Trail weaves a journey from Freedom Square on 101st St south to our newest community platform\, NATURE Lab (with Citizen Science Laboratory and People’s Health Sanctuary) and on our growing permaculture forest reaching south to Glen St. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail is dedicated to celebrating the sacred Mohican soils we are honored to tend. We are beneficiaries of millennia of human history unfolding in a majestic river valley\, where the land has been nurtured by Indigenous hands and traumatized through industrial development and systemic inequity. Embedding art\, ancestral history\, culture and local and Indigenous artist presentations\, the trail engages our rich local ecology and the struggle for environmental justice\, while offering settler communities insight into the history and living legacy of Indigenous peoples on these lands. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail is located on a block-wide environmental campus in North Central Troy\, near the Northern tip of the Mahicannituck (Hudson) River Estuary—just a few hundred feet from Federal Lock One of the Erie Canal. Part of the river’s historic flood plain and home to significant Mohican cultural sites\, this neighborhood is also one of the poorest in New York State\, with a long history of disinvestment and environmental contamination. The Eco-Art Trail acknowledges these layered histories as we dream and build towards restored biocultural diversity and robust Indigenous futures. \n\n\n\nSubject to change\, last updated in June 2023: Check out our developing schedule of events ranging from summer ’23 through spring ’24. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/story-harvest-2023/ LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/StoryHarvest1.png GEO:42.754030225802;-73.681172076926 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Freedom Square 35 5th Ave Troy NY 12180 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=35 5th Ave:geo:-73.681172076926,42.754030225802 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T150000 DTSTAMP:20231028T010442Z CREATED:20230821T033210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T010442Z UID:10001805-1698591600-1698591600@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Welcoming “Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left:” Community Celebration DESCRIPTION:Join us to honor the passing of Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left and celebrate creative place-making along the Mahicannituck (Hudson River)! This community gathering is for all people who love the Sanctuary\, who love art and creative placemaking\, and who love the Hudson River! This celebration marks the moment that the monumental sculpture Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left by Beatriz Cortez\, onboard the John J. Harvey fireboat\, passes through Troy’s Federal Lock and Dam along the Mahicannituck at the Northern tip of the Hudson River Estuary\, just a block away from the Sanctuary’s campus. \n\n\n\nAs part of our year long Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, we honor Beatriz Cortez’s Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left\, speak with the curators about Cortez’s project and Shifting Center Exhibition at EMPAC\, and walk together on the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail to celebrate creative placemaking on the Hudson in Troy! \n\n\n\nMore about the Celebration activities\n\n\n\nPlease register if you wish to attend the Troy reception. We will meet at The Sanctuary by 3PM Sunday for informal introductions the curators\, live broadcast from the boat\, conversation and light refreshments from the Mediterranean Grill. \n\n\n\nEarly arrival is recommended. We will then go together by land to the bank of the Hudson River near the Federal Lock and Dam (at the West end of Glen St. outside the Federal Lock Gate) to view the sculpture’s arrival. The sculpture is expected at the lock at approximately 3:45PM. We will then return to the Sanctuary\, to watch the live broadcast as  Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left onboard the John J. Harvey fireboat journeys to Lock 2 at the Waterford Pier. And feel free to join us as curators and community make a short drive to the Waterford Harbor Visitor Center to welcome Beatriz Cortez and the filmmakers personally! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\nVolunteer Application\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Beatriz Cortez\n\n\n\n\n\nBeatriz Cortez (b. 1970\, San Salvador\, El Salvador; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. Cortez’s work explores simultaneity\, life in different temporalities and different versions of modernity\, particularly in relation to memory and loss in the aftermath of war and the experience of migration\, and in relation to imagining possible futures. \n\n\n\nAbout Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left\n\n\n\nJoin in dialogue with curators Vic Brooks\, Nida Ghouse and Eric Booker\, as well as Kathryn TeBordo\, Catherine Abbott and Katherine Adams from EMPAC\, to learn about Ilopango\, the Volacno that Left and the Shifting Center Exhibition. \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to recognize that sculptures\, like continents and mountains\, are on the move? Beatriz Cortez’s sculpture Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left departs Storm King Art Center\, the site of its current exhibition\, to embark on a three-day performative journey along the Hudson River to EMPAC–Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. Aboard the John J. Harvey fireboat\, the steel volcano travels north up the tidal estuary via Kingston to Troy to be installed in a concert hall for its second site of exhibition\, leaving behind a sculptural footprint in its wake: an absence amidst other artworks on Museum Hill. \n\n\n\nThe volcano can be witnessed as it sails upriver from various viewing points on both shores and online through a livestream. The public is also invited to visit when it docks for the night at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston and to gather in welcoming the volcano when it passes through the Federal Lock and Dam near The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy. A month prior to the journey\, for the Parsons Fine Art Visiting Artists Lecture co-organized by the Vera List Center at the New School\, Cortez will chart the conceptual content borne by notions of movement and impermanence.  \n\n\n\nIn making this passage from a sculpture park to a performing arts center\, Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left proposes a line of questioning: What does it mean to consider sculpture as time-based? And can it become a performance? In (re)enacting a refusal to remain an object transfixed in a landscape\, it exposes the fact that sculptures always already carry time\, and are the ultimate records of their own making. When we encounter a sculpture as an artwork in an exhibition space\, how might we apprehend the histories\, geographies\, and processes that are latent within it? \n\n\n\nIts journey to EMPAC will be broadcast live by the presenting partners October 27 & 29. Filmmaker Guillermo Escalón and composer Igor de Gandarias will join the sculpture on its journey\, recording the volcano’s passage for a forthcoming film (2024). \n\n\n\n\nBeatriz Cortez Brings a Volcano to Troy via The Hudson River\n\n\n\n\nMore about the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail is dedicated to celebrating the sacred Mohican soils we are honored to tend. We are beneficiaries of millennia of human history unfolding in a majestic river valley\, where the land has been nurtured by Indigenous hands and traumatized through industrial development and systemic inequity. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail embeds art\, culture\, history\, and ecology into an urban nature walk on 6th Avenue in North Troy\, weaving a journey from Glen Avenue to 101st Street and Freedom Square on settler lands\, just a block away from the Mahicannituck. \n\n\n\nThe Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe are in partnership on this project\, which features Stockbridge-Munsee as well as other Indigenous artists and musicians\, historians and storytellers\, eco-artists\, and muralists\, connecting Indigenous wisdom to visions for a future of healing and reparations. \n\n\n\nVisitors will engage with stories of environmental justice\, ecological restoration\, and the living legacy of Indigenous presence on these lands through sculptures\, gardens\, multimedia\, murals\, and live events and workshops. Take a look at our Upcoming Events page to learn about upcoming events\, workshops\, and talks featuring the Eco-Art Trail. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/ilopango-the-volcano-that-left/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BeatrizCortez_shifting_center_river_1800.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR