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SUMMARY:StoryHarvest 2025: Altar to the Past\, Altar to the Future
DESCRIPTION:Join us for StoryHarvest\, our annual food justice celebration\, connecting the community over stories of food. This year’s event kicks off our 20th Anniversary with the theme Altar to the Past\, Altar to the Future! Join us for a campus-wide celebration\, bringing together community groups and offering activities\, games\, music\, and food– all FREE! \n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\nArtist Meg Jala will create a participatory altar for attendees of the event to contribute to \n\n\n\nPhotographer Robert Cooper will offer mini portrait sessions\n\n\n\nVisitors will be invited to have a seat at the table\, joining others at a long table at Freedom Square where guests will be served food and invited into conversations about the past and future\n\n\n\nAn apple pressing station will be at Collard City Growers\n\n\n\nTour NATURE Lab’s new mural\, a collaboration between Jade Warrick and Water Justice Lab Youth fellows\n\n\n\nCommunity Acupuncture with Dr. Xavier Coughlin of People’s Health Sanctuary\n\n\n\nA mugwort “Reclining Chair” with artist Z. Cecilia Lu\n\n\n\nBe5 Stem Club will have activities combining science\, technology\, engineering\, art\, and math\n\n\n\nTai Chi will take place in the main space\n\n\n\nBroken Plastics collection and zines\, by Nicole Chrochrek\n\n\n\nLiquid Antennae experiments with Water Justice Lab fellows and artist Natan Diacon-Furtado\n\n\n\nCordage Demonstration with Azuré Keahi\n\n\n\nwatercolor with Kayla Jolin\n\n\n\nart stations and chalk drawing\n\n\n\nmore info coming soon…\n\n\n\n\nCommunity Groups \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollar City Pride\n\n\n\nAlliance for Positive Health\n\n\n\nSoul Fire in the City\n\n\n\nCommunity Rising Project\n\n\n\nCapital Region Sanctuary Coalition\n\n\n\nCapital District Border Watch\n\n\n\nThe Children’s Museum at Saratoga\n\n\n\nThe Street Peace Project\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · StoryHarvest is this Saturday!\n\n\n\nPhotos from past years\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXDalLC-lQA
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SUMMARY:Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Riverkeeper and NATURE Lab along with our community science volunteers\, fellows\, family and friends to celebrate the sixth season of Water Justice Lab. Activities include researcher and youth fellow presentations and a community meal followed by a 7pm film screening of The Story of Plastic and panel. \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n\n4:30 pm: Water Justice Lab open house and mural tours\n\n\n\n5:00 pm: Welcome and youth fellow presentations\n\n\n\n5:30 pm: Research talks by professor Sarah Cadieux and artist Nicole Chrochrek\n\n\n\n6:00 pm: Community meal and volunteer appreciation\n\n\n\n7:00 pm: screening of The Story of Plastic in the main Sanctuary space followed by a panel including artists\, community organizers\, activists and researchers. Register for the screening here.\n\n\n\n\n7pm: “The Story of Plastic” Screening and Panel Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Water Justice Lab programming is made possible by funding from Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust\, The McCarthy Charities\, Water Resources Institute\, and The NY Department of Environmental Conservation. \n\n\n\nKey partners for this event include Riverkeeper and Beyond Plastics.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/2025-wjl-celebration/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Annual North-Central Troy Interfaith Holiday Justice and Peace Celebration 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual North-Central Troy Interfaith Holiday Justice and Peace Celebration\, an event for the whole family! This FREE event celebrates our neighborhood\, bringing us together over food\, music\, activities\, and messages of justice and peace. \n\n\n\nThe event will end at Freedom Square where we will light candles around the evergreen tree\, sharing messages of justice\, peace\, and love. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJOIN US FOR:  \n\n\n\n\nGroup portraits (Jayana Espinoza)\n\n\n\nMusic (Men of Faith & karaoke)\n\n\n\nDrag story corner (Noelle Diamond)\n\n\n\nBook giveaway (RED Bookshelf)\n\n\n\nFace painting (Sobia Chaidhry)\n\n\n\nCookie decorating (O’Malley’s Oven)\n\n\n\nStrands of regeneration (Azuré Keahi)\n\n\n\nCommunity apothecary (People’s Health Sanctuary)\n\n\n\nHot cocoa station\n\n\n\nArts & crafts\n\n\n\nFood & warm drinks\n\n\n\nCandle lighting\, singing\, and wishes for justice & peace at Freedom Square around the holiday tree
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/holiday-2025/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Frederick Douglass and the Power of the Black Archives
DESCRIPTION:A community reading of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” and collecting for the Black Experience in the Adirondacks\n\n\n\nJoin us in creating Black history archives in a community reading\, discussion\, and collection. Together we will collectively read Frederick Douglass’ What to the Slave is the Fourth of July before a conversation on storytelling and the importance of recorded Black history\, featuring speakers from the Underground Railroad Education Center and the Adirondack Experience museum. You will also have the opportunity to contribute memorabilia to the soon-to-be permanent exhibition The Black Experience in the Adirondacks at the Adirondack Experience museum. There will be a hybrid event on February 18 to give insight into the collection in Gathering Stories: Black Experiences in the Adirondacks. \n\n\n\n\n\nFrederick Douglass’ legacy demonstrates the importance of archives. Using speeches\, photography\, and print media\, this man who was born into slavery became one of the most important figures in Black history. Douglass gave speaking tours\, was the most photographed man in America during the 19th century\, and wrote books and published The North Star press. We know so much about him and his experience because of his archive\, and participants will leave a legacy of their own with archive opportunities during this event.  \n\n\n\nAttendees will collectively read Frederick Douglass’ abolitionist speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” (which will be recorded and archived in audio and video form followed by a panel discussion which will include the Underground Railroad Education Center as well as Charles Clark III\, the Project Curator for the exhibition The Black Experience in the Adirondacks. The community will then have the opportunity to contribute memorability connected to the Black experience in the Adirondacks to an upcoming exhibition. \n\n\n\n\n\nA portrait of Frederick Douglass created in 1879\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLacey Wilson\, Teen Museum Studies Program Manager of Underground Railroad Education CenterLacey was born in Washington DC and has spent 10 years in public history\, leading tours\, managing sites\, and engaging with oral histories and local communities. Today\, she plans and implements a museum studies program for teenagers at the Underground Railroad Education Center in addition to sitting on the advocacy and nominations committees with the National Council of Public History. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul & Mary Liz Stewart\, Co-Founders of Underground Railroad Education Center (UREC)UREC is a non-profit organization which grew out of a research project on the Underground Railroad in the Capital Region by Paul and Mary Liz Stewart. Their work uncovered the voices and stories of people written out of this history. Together\, these voices provide a different accounting of Underground Railroad activism and change the American narrative. \n\n\n\n\n\nSince its incorporation in 2003\, Underground Railroad Education Center has created a strong program of education and research that celebrates and preserves the story of the Underground Railroad in Albany and the Capital Region and its relationship with us today. URHPCR has identified the key primary and secondary figures and their activities\, and has developed a general outline of the local history of the movement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharles Clark III\, curator of The Black Experience in the Adirondacks  Charles employs a Pan-Africanist methodology\, enriched by material cultural approach\, to transform exhibition making in museums. His work addresses ethno cultural erasure and brings to light marginalized narratives within art history. His approach not only enhances the representation of diverse voices but also redefines the role of museums as spaces for critical dialogue and cultural exploration. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2027\, the Adirondack Experience\, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake\, will open The Black Experience in the Adirondacks\, a new permanent\, interactive exhibition. This exhibition will comprehensively explore the history of Black people in the region\, from their important and well-documented role in the settlement and development of the Adirondacks to current efforts ensuring an inclusive community and enriching the region’s recreational opportunities.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/frederick-douglass-and-archives/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Brunch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Community Brunch\, an opportunity to sit together over food to celebrate each other. This event is for regular contributors and attenders of Sanctuary events as well as for folks who have never been to the Sanctuary. Together we will eat in community with the opportunity for a campus tour during the last half our of the event.  \n\n\n\nStick around for the Hudson Mohawk Magazine radio workshop Everybody Has a Story to Tell following the brunch.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-brunch/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Brunch in Freedom Square
DESCRIPTION:Join us at a long table at Freedom Square for free food in good company. Sharing food and getting to know your neighbors is such an important way to build a community\, and Kitchen Sanctuary is inviting you to show up with a hunger for brunch and conversation. A campus tour will be offered in the last half hour.
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LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:StoryHarvest with Arm-of-the-Sea Theater
DESCRIPTION:Join us for StoryHarvest\, our annual food justice celebration featuring activities\, games\, music\, and food– all FREE! This year we are excited to bring Arm-of-the-Sea Theater back to Freedom Square with their performance ESTUARY TALES: The Life & Times of the Hudson River. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESTUARY TALES: The Life & Times of the Hudson River will begin at 3pm. This performance spectacle fuses live music\, movement and large-scale puppetry in a deep dive into the checkered history of “America’s River”. Giant sturgeon\, eels and river otters ply the stage\, alongside steamboats\, fishermen\, immigrants\, and citizen scientists. With whimsy and ingenuity\, the show reveals the Hudson River’s complex inner life and chronicles the long struggle to clean up the river.Designed to engage ages 5 to 95\, this production is 1 hour in length and presented by a six-member cast. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/883141764?fl=pl&fe=vl\n\n\n\n\nArm-of-the-Sea is an arts ensemble that fuses visual storytelling with live music in large-scale works of mask and puppet theater. Founded in 1982 by Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden\, the company’s hybrid performance style channels the evocative power of the arts as a force for joy\, insight\, and community uplift. Their low-tech devices of theatrical enchantment illuminate relations between humans and the life-support networks of this blue-ocean planet. Learn more.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/storyharvest-2026/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
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