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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T210000 DTSTAMP:20230213T181220Z CREATED:20220326T203920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T181220Z UID:10001340-1651950000-1651957200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"Outta The Muck" Film Screening with Ira McKinley & Bhawin Suchak DESCRIPTION:A fiercely self-determined family in the deep south resists despair with love in this unique narrative of Black achievement. \n\n\n\n\nFilmmakers Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak screened their film “Outta The Muck” for a hometown crowd at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on May 7\, 2022 in Troy\, NY. This is the Q&A that followed the screening. \n\n\n\nwww.mediasanctuary.orgouttathemuck.com \n\n\n\nFamily\, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family\, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee\, Florida. As we take a journey back home\, with filmmaker Ira McKinley\, to the land of sugarcane\, he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time\, “Outta The Muck” presents an intimate portrait of a community that resists despair with love\, remaining fiercely self-determined\, while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBHAWIN SUCHAKDIRECTOR/PRODUCER/DOP/EDITOR \n\n\n\nBhawin is an educator\, filmmaker\, and founding member/co-executive director of Youth FX\, a media arts organization focused on empowering young people of color in Albany\, NY and around the world by teaching them creative and technical skills in film and digital media while supporting self-determined communities of emerging artists. Bhawin also co-directs NeXt Doc\, a year-round fellowship program that exists to amplify the voices of documentary filmmakers of color between the ages of 20-24 years old. Bhawin is the co-director\, producer\, cinematographer and editor of Outta The Muck (2022)\, a feature length documentary supported by ITVS\, JustFilms\, Sundance\, and Southern Documentary Fund. He previously co-directed\, The Throwaways (2014) with Ira Mckinley\, and Free To Learn (2004). \n\n\n\nIRA MCKINLEYDIRECTOR/PRODUCER/WRITER \n\n\n\nIra McKinley is a filmmaker and activist and the director/producer of the award-winning documentary The Throwaways. Born in Upstate New York he is now based in South Florida where Outta The Muck is set. Ira started his activism in the 1980’s when he participated in Act Up in Ithaca\, NY. During the winters of 2007/2008 he started a Homeless Arts Showcase in Northampton\, MA’s Pulaski Park which was inspired by his fifteen years being homeless himself. Ira is the recipient of the 2014 ACLU Carol S. Knox award\, 2013 MLK Storytelling + Activist Award from Siena College\, 2009 Northampton Arts Council’s Emerging Filmmaker Award\, and was the 2009 Producer of the Year for Northampton Community Television. His current film Outta The Muck tells the story of his family roots in Pahokee\, FL and is being produced with support from ITVS\, JustFilms\, Sundance\, and Southern Documentary Fund. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Team:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBHAWIN SUCHAKDIRECTOR/PRODUCER/DOP/EDITOR\n\n\n\nBhawin is an educator\, filmmaker\, and founding member/co-executive director of Youth FX\, a media arts organization focused on empowering young people of color in Albany\, NY and around the world by teaching them creative and technical skills in film and digital media while supporting self-determined communities of emerging artists. Bhawin also co-directs NeXt Doc\, a year-round fellowship program that exists to amplify the voices of documentary filmmakers of color between the ages of 20-24 years old. Bhawin is the co-director\, producer\, cinematographer and editor of Outta The Muck (2022)\, a feature length documentary supported by ITVS\, JustFilms\, Sundance\, and Southern Documentary Fund. He previously co-directed\, The Throwaways (2014) with Ira Mckinley\, and Free To Learn (2004). \n\n\n\n\n\nIRA MCKINLEYDIRECTOR/PRODUCER/WRITER\n\n\n\nIra McKinley is a filmmaker and activist and the director/producer of the award-winning documentary The Throwaways. Born in Upstate New York he is now based in South Florida where Outta The Muck is set. Ira started his activism in the 1980’s when he participated in Act Up in Ithaca\, NY. During the winters of 2007/2008 he started a Homeless Arts Showcase in Northampton\, MA’s Pulaski Park which was inspired by his fifteen years being homeless himself. Ira is the recipient of the 2014 ACLU Carol S. Knox award\, 2013 MLK Storytelling + Activist Award from Siena College\, 2009 Northampton Arts Council’s Emerging Filmmaker Award\, and was the 2009 Producer of the Year for Northampton Community Television. His current film Outta The Muck tells the story of his family roots in Pahokee\, FL and is being produced with support from ITVS\, JustFilms\, Sundance\, and Southern Documentary Fund. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDARIAN HENRYPRODUCER\n\n\n\n\n\nTRACY RECTORPRODUCER\n\n\n\n\n\nSAM POLLARDEXECUTIVE PRODUCER\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the VARIETY article\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nWORKSHOP\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Be The Media! workshop before the film screening from 5pm-6pm on May 7. \n\n\n\nJoin documentary filmmakers Bhawin Suchak and Ira McKinley as they breakdown the process of their project Outta the Muck. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/outta-the-muck-filmscreening/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Outta-The-Muck-Press_poster2-sq.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220617T220000 DTSTAMP:20251021T191410Z CREATED:20220504T185943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T191410Z UID:10001608-1655492400-1655503200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"Witness\," a documentary with filmmaker Masood Haque DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a screening of Witness\, a documentary film about the Aref-Hossain case\, with filmmaker Masood Haque. The screening is followed by a panel with Lynne Jackson\, Kathy Manley and Larry Rulison. This event is part of iEAR Presents! and co-sponsored by Project SALAM (Support and Legal Advocacy for Muslims)\, Coalition for Civil Freedoms\, Capital District Coalition Against Islamophobia\, and Muslim Solidarity Committee. \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\n\n\n\n\nIn the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks a local pizza shop owner and the Imam of an Albany mosque found themselves at the center of an elaborate FBI sting operation. A convicted felon was sent undercover to lure the young men into a criminal plot as part of a plea bargain. They spent most of the next twenty years in prison while their accuser went on to a prominent role in the 2018 Schoharie limousine crash. Witness explores the difficult balance between civil liberties and security with a searing look at the impact of the War on Terror on everyday life. \n\n\n\nWitnessDoc.com \n\n\n\nJoin us before the film screening for the Be The Media! workshop: “The Struggle to Tell Your Story\,” with Masood Haque \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWitness touches on a host of contemporary issues\, ranging from the War on Terror to the balance between civil liberties and security. Most importantly\, it examines the idea of due process. In pursuit of security\, the American legal system is turned upside down. In cases involving terrorism\, there is an almost automatic presumption of guilt based on fear\, which is then exploited by prosecutors\, who portray ordinary people as dangerous threats to safety and security. Thus\, the jury system becomes an extension of law enforcement. Juries feel obligated to convict heavily bearded Muslim men with exotic\, unpronounceable names because of their implicit faith in law enforcement and the FBI\, and because of their fear that by acquitting\, they might let a real terrorist go free. \n\n\n\nWitness also grapples with the idea of preemptive prosecutions\, used against hundreds of Muslims. Orwellian in its conceit\, preemptive prosecutions target those deemed dangerous by engaging them in a variety of fictional plots and stress-testing their ideology in the quest to “prevent the next one.” Thus American law enforcement uses fear once again\, this time to undermine long-standing\, cherished legal principles. Ultimately Witness asks the question: How far are we willing to go to create the illusion of safety for ourselves? \n\n\n\nWitness also examines the role of media in becoming an arm of the government’s disinformation campaign. Even though the print media acquitted itself well in the coverage of this case\, asking critical questions that often earned the wrath of the prosecution\, local television news reporters bought the government’s contrived story hook\, line\, and sinker. These reporters parroted the government’s often-dubious claims as fact\, thus becoming a tool for manipulating public sentiment. The day the story broke\, several reporters were told by FBI agents that the initial sheet of charges would outline the men’s involvement with terrorist organizations\, yet in the actual court documents there was no mention of such connections––leaving some reporters to wonder on air what had happened to these nefarious ties.  Check out more about the story here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMasood Haque: Producer/ Director\n\n\n\nMasood Haque graduated from NYU and subsequently received his MFA in documentary film production from CUNY. He has produced and directed several award-winning short form documentaries\, including Stranger in Paradise which won the top prize at City Vision Film Festival and the jury prize at Jackson Heights Film Festival. Witness is his first feature documentary.  \n\n\n\n\n Listen to the interview:\n \n \n \n \n Read More\n \n Masood Haque on Creating the Film “Witness”\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the film screening Masood Haque will be joined in a Q & A with:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynne Jackson is a community activist\, and will be the moderator for the panel. Lynne Jackson is a breast cancer survivor who has lived in Albany\, New York for more than 40 years. She makes her living as a computer consultant\, worked with Save the Pine Bush for more than 35 years\, volunteers to work on the issue of preemptive prosecution of Muslims and gives presentations on these issues. She lives in the South End of Albany with her husband\, Daniel W. Van Riper and two cats. \n\n\n\nHear the story: Jackson of the Muslim Solidarity Committee on “Witness” Documentary Film \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKathy Manley is a criminal defense attorney\, speaking as Yassin Aref’s attorney. She is the Legal Director of the Coalition for Civil Freedoms and the President of the Capital Region Council of the New York Civil Liberties Union. She is also a founding member of Project SALAM. Her main emphasis is criminal defense and constitutional rights. She concentrates on appeals\, and has written many winning briefs before a variety of courts.\, and has received several awards for her work.  \n\n\n\nHear the story: Manley Discusses “Witness” Film on Aref-Hossain Muslim FBI Sting \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLarry Rulison has been a reporter for the Albany Times Union since 2005. Larry’s reporting for the Times Union has won several awards for business and investigative journalism from the New York State Associated Press Association and the New York News Publishers Association. As a journalist\, he has written about the informant\, Shahed Hussain\, the 2018 Schoharie limousine crash and the connections between the 2 cases. \n\n\n\nHear the story: Larry Rulison On Aref-Hossain Case \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Additional interviews: \n \n \n \n \n Read More\n \n Reshifting the Narrative with Leena Al-Arian of CCF\n \n \n \n \n \n Read More\n \n Yassin Aref’s Daughter on Experiencing His Arrest\n \n \n \n \n \n Read More\n \n Aref-Hossain Case Showed Need for Muslim Support Network and Database\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/witness-a-documentary/ CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/rsw-800cg-true.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T210000 DTSTAMP:20230213T171959Z CREATED:20220811T212529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T171959Z UID:10001632-1667502000-1667509200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:with filmmaker Yoruba Richen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYoruba Richen will screen The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy\, NY. This film captures the unexpected story of Rosa Parks and her life beyond the historic bus boycott\, revealing the intent behind her activism\, her radical politics\, and her courage. The screening will be followed by a discussion about the film\, voter rights\, and activism.  \n\n\n\nCurators: Elizabeth Press\, Kathy High\, Branda Miller.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by: iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n5pm – 6pm: Be The Media! Workshop: Social Issue Filmmaking with Yoruba Richen \n\n\n\n7pm: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks film screening and discussion\, moderated by Dr. Veneilya Harden \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***In line with our commitment to equity\, love and justice\, we ask that you please keep your mask on at our indoor events. \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\nYoruba Richen is an award-winning filmmaker whose latest film\,  The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and will stream on Peacock this fall.  Other recent films include the Emmy-nominated\, How It Feels to Be Free and the Emmy and Peabody nominated The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show. Her film\, The Killing of Breonna Taylor aired on FX/Hulu and won an NAACP Image Award.  Yoruba is also a past Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow and recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough filmmaker’s award. Yoruba is the founding director of the Documentary Program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerated by: \n\n\n\nDr. Veneilya Harden received her Doctorate of Education and Executive Leadership in August of 2020 from St. John Fisher College and her Masters in Counseling in Community Psychology with a Forensic Mental Health Certificate from The Sage Colleges in 2015 at which time Dr. Harden was also appointed to The New York State Office Of Mental through Governor Cuomo’s Excelsior Fellowship Initiative where she has maintained her employment for the past seven years. Dr. Harden is also a Project Associate with The McLean Group focusing on Diversity\, Leadership\, Equity\, Education\, and Inclusion. Dr. Harden serves actively in the Capital Region community on the Albany Community Police Review Board as Vice Chair and Chair of Mission Accomplished and Peer Reviewer of the ACA Journal. Dr. Harden’s work has centered around advocacy\, education\, equity\, and policing disparities.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop\n\n\n\n\nBe the Media! Workshop: Social Issue Filmmaking with Yoruba Richen \n\n\n\nYoruba Richen will show clips from a few of her recent documentaries and talk about her approach to social issue filmmaking.  Yoruba will also examine different filmmaking genres – archival\, investigative\, verite- and discuss how stylistic choices\, journalistic ethics\, and advocacy shape her work.  URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-rebellious-life-of-mrs-rosa-parks/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/rebellious-life-of-mrs-rosa-parks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T213000 DTSTAMP:20230308T144902Z CREATED:20230206T194313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230308T144902Z UID:10001641-1678302000-1678311000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"Storming Caesars Palace" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening of the Indie Lens Pop-Up Storming Caesars Palace followed by a community-driven conversation and local resource sharing by local partners. Presented by WMHT in partnership with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, NYS Poor People’s Campaign\, Rensselaer County Dept. of Social Services\, Troy Area United Ministries (TAUM)\, Unity House\, and YWCA of the Greater Capital Region. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\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\n\n\nAbout This Film\n\n\n\nAfter losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas\, Ruby Duncan joined a welfare rights group of mothers who defied notions of the “welfare queen.” In a fight for guaranteed income\, Ruby and other equality activists took on the Nevada mob in organizing a massive protest that shut down Caesars Palace. (See preview.) \n\n\n\nMore information available at https://pbs.org/stormingcaesars URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/storming-caesars-palace-film-screening/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-437911909-131735166010-1-original.20230202-181216.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T220000 DTSTAMP:20230429T190601Z CREATED:20230223T043255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230429T190601Z UID:10001649-1680375600-1680386400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"A Woman on the Outside" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Join Directors Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville and protagonist Kristal Bush for the screening of the documentary film A Woman on the Outside\, about the struggle to keep families connected despite incarceration. Before the film screening\, all three women will give a Be The Media! workshop and give a brief opening reception to the Women on the Outside exhibition. After the film there will be a panel discussion with local prison justice activists. \n\n\n\n5pm: Be The Media! Workshop: Participatory Design in Journalistic Process with directors Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville with documentary participant Kristal Bush.6:30pm: opening reception for the Women on the Outside exhibition in the Sanctuary cafe.7:00pm: screening of A Women on the Outside followed by a panel discussion and networking. \n\n\n\nCurator: Branda Miller.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by: iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Co-sponsored by: The Chris Wilson Foundation\, The Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign\, Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York\, The Center for Law and Justice\, and Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration. \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“A Woman on the Outside” Q&A\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Film\n\n\n\nGrowing up\, Kristal watched nearly every man in her life disappear to prison. She channeled that struggle into keeping families connected\, both as a social worker and with her van service that drives families to visit loved ones in far-off prisons. But when Kristal’s dad and brother return to Philly\, her happiness meets the realization that release doesn’t always mean freedom. Passionate\, funny and resilient\, Kristal remains determined to carve out a different future — for herself and for her young nephew\, Nyvae. Part observational documentary\, part family album\, A Woman on the Outside is a tender portrait of one family striving to love in the face of a system built to break them. website \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/725900136?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=9616283\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy the end of the trip\, Lois and Rachel\, who are newer riders\, laugh and talk with the other women. Kristal’s regular riders say they look forward not just to the visit\, but to catching up with friends they have made on the van. \n\n“It’s something to look forward to\,” Tanesha says of visiting day. “We talk about this stuff all week long\, all of us. Sometimes we all get together and cook food and sit down and talk. Because that’s what we be needing. From one sister to another. From one wife to another.” \n\nPhotos and Videos by Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville\n\n\n\nFilmmaker Bios\n\n\n\n\n\nZara Katz (Director/Producer) is a filmmaker and photo producer for editorial\, documentary and branded content\, specializing in crafting character-driven visual stories. Katz is currently Photography Director at NBC News.com\, and has worked with outlets including The New York Times Lens blog\, Time magazine\, Medium\, The Guardian U.S.\, Pop-Up Magazine and Lifetime/A+E Networks. She was the Senior Photography Producer on a Getty Images/Dove campaign photographed by more than 100 women and non-binary photographers\, which won the Silver Glass Lion at Cannes in 2019.  \n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Riordan Seville (Director/Producer) is an award-winning reporter and independent filmmaker whose stories explore how money\, power and policy shapes the lives of everyday people. Her investigative and enterprise work has appeared across NBC News platforms\, on BuzzFeed News\, The Guardian U.S.\, Lifetime/A+E Networks and WNYC Radio. It has been recognized with a Peabody\, a Hillman Award and a Sigma Delta Chi from the Society of Professional Journalists\, among others. Her most recent piece was a cover story for New York Magazine about the deaths of 15 men in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex.  \n\n\n\n\n\nPanelist Bios\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristal Bush is the protagonist of the documentary film A Woman on the Outside. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJose Di Lenola\, Clemency Campaign Director of RAPP \n\n\n\nAt the age of 16\, Jose was sentenced to 26 1/3 years to life for second-degree murder and served eighteen of those years in Attica prison and various correctional facilities. While incarcerated he worked as a rehabilitation peer educator in relapse prevention\, anger management\, and mental health; and mentored at-risk youth diversionary programs. Jose co-founded and served as President of the Attica Lifer’s Organization and consulted several organizations. Jose was released in December 2021\, has his own consultation business\, Carceral Consultation\, and is the Clemency Campaign Director for the Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeAna Taylor\, Co-Director of Policy & Communications and Capital Region Organizer at RAPP \n\n\n\nTeAna advocates for children of incarcerated parents\, informed by their father’s nearly two decades of incarceration and working with We Got Us Now and the HALT Solitary Campaign. They have been engaging their community in restorative justice work for the past five years. They created and maintained a peer mediation program at a local middle school\, leading mediations between youth\, parents\, and teachers; facilitating circles that ranged from community building within classrooms to repairing harm between community members; providing conflict coaching sessions for students; and training students in peer mediation and conflict resolution. TeAna has also facilitated circles to address issues faced by students and faculty of color at their alma mater\, SUNY Schenectady\, that led to policy change for a more inclusive and diverse campus.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\nThe mission of the Chris Wilson Foundation is to transform the incarceration system by providing better and more sustainable programming for incarcerated individuals that centers personal relationships\, resilience\, development and agency. Our Master Plan Program focuses on trauma and resilience\, systemic oppression and mass incarceration and goal-setting and reentry. The program is being implemented in three states\, and is currently running at the Capital District Youth Detention Center in Albany.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign is a grassroots advocacy organization created and led by formerly incarcerated people and family members of people in prison. We work to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release of aging people in prison and those serving long sentences. We work to dismantle the racist policies of mass incarceration by expanding the use of parole\, compassionate release\, clemency\, and other forms of release in New York State. We work with other organizations across the country to end life imprisonment in the United States. By organizing community power to free incarcerated elders\, we work to uproot a system of endless punishment that fuels mass incarceration and damages Black and other communities of color. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe mission of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York is to provide high quality\, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners\, help them to secure their civil and human rights and advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Center for Law and Justice recognizes that the criminal justice system in the United States has a history of racism and classism\, stemming from both laws and practices\, that continues to this day. It is the center’s mission to reform the criminal justice system and dismantle its oppressive elements.  \n\n\n\nThe Center for Law and Justice aims to eliminate the gap between law and justice by creating an equitable criminal justice system which values all human life and acknowledges community members as partners in public safety. The center seeks to achieve this goal through amplifying the voices of marginalized people and communities\, while educating and empowering those same communities to demand an end to mass criminalization\, mass incarceration\, and systemic oppression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCapital Area Against Mass Incarceration (CAAMI) seeks to challenge and dismantle mass incarceration and the systems of oppression that sustain it. We do this through coordinated actions and by opening the dialogue about mass incarceration and the criminal injustice system in a way that is empowering to all individuals and communities affected by them. CAAMI defines “mass incarceration” as both the excessive quantity of people caught in the criminal justice system\, and the racially discriminatory and cruel quality of the current punitive model of social control. Police brutality\, racially disparate sentencing\, and post-prison discrimination function as a self-reinforcing system that damages communities. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/a-woman-on-the-outside/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/©AWomanOnTheOutside_Still04.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T210000 DTSTAMP:20231227T171411Z CREATED:20230820T203117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231227T171411Z UID:10001804-1697828400-1697835600@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Exploring Motherhood: Navigating the Journey of Disability DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of honoring motherhood & disability with filmmakers Nöelle Gentile\, Michael Mejia\, & Victoria Kereszi\, and storyteller Bethany Van Delft. The short film Between Us and feature documentary film Into Loving Hands will be screened\, followed by a panel discussion about motherhood\, choice\, giving birth and advocating for a child with disabilities and medical complexities in a society that was not built with them in mind.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences at RPI\, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.  Co-sponsored by The Arc NY\, The Doula Network of the Capital Region\, and The People’s Health Sanctuary. Curated by Branda Miller. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInto Loving Hands: In the fall of 2012\, Chris and Rebecca Williams were thrilled to be expecting a second child\, but halfway through their pregnancy at a routine ultrasound\, they discovered that prenatal testing indicated that something was terribly – fatally – wrong. The couple\, staunchly pro-choice\, was subsequently faced with momentous decisions as they grappled with the hand they’d been dealt while also trying to navigate both the medical community and society. \n\n\n\nThis film chronicles four years of the Williams’ journey\, from their initial grief to the unexpected miracle of life\, the midwife’s exam room to the pediatric OR at Boston Children’s Hospital\, capturing the emotional challenges and triumphs of what it’s like to raise a child with Down Syndrome and multiple heart defects. \n\n\n\nEVENT PHOTOS: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFILM MAKER & PANELIST BIOS: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Kereszi – Director of Into Loving Hands \n\n\n\nOriginally from Media\, Pennsylvania lives in Upstate New York with her husband and 2 daughters.  Before moving upstate studied film with Sam Pollard\, Lora Hayes and George Stoney. In NYC she worked for community television and curated a women’s experimental and documentary series titled Eye AM: Women Behind The Lens.  Shortly after moving to Troy and as an MFA student at RPI she completed a documentary triad about three elderly women\, one of which was her grandmother who ran a junkyard in Chester\, Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\nVictoria began filming Into Loving Hands one year after having her daughter and receiving prenatal and postpartum care by Michelle Doyle\, Rebecca’s midwife. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoëlle Gentile – Co-Director & Writer of Between Us \n\n\n\nGentile is a director\, acting coach\, and artist educator. She has worked as an acting coach with filmmakers and producers such as Adam Sandler\, Jeremiah Zagar\, and Jingyi Shao.  Most recently\, she was the acting coach on the films Shooting Stars (adapted from the 2009 book by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger)\, You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah! (directed by Sammi Cohen and starring Adam Sandler)\, Ava DuVernay’s film\, Origin\, and on Netflix’s Rez Ball\, written and directed by Sydney Freeland.  Noëlle has also worked as an artist-educator for Youth FX; Arts\, Letters & Numbers\, the NYC Department of Education’s Theatre Program; City College of New York; and Brooklyn College Film School. She is currently an adjunct professor for the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU Tisch. Noëlle is in post production for her directorial debut\, I Was Here\, based on her family’s story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Mejia – Co-Director\, Director of Photography\, & Editor of Between Us \n\n\n\nMichael is an educator and filmmaker with a concentration in documentary\, music videos\,  and narrative films. He has been an educator in several organizations throughout Albany NY including; The New York State museum in 2009\, The Liberty Partnerships Program in 2011\, and has been a part of Youth FX since 2010\, currently serving as the creative director of Rogue FX films\, teaching and directing.  Michael has also been the director of photography on several short films.  He received a Bachelors in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and plans to continue to learn\, educate\, and create for years to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Van Delft – Comedian & Storyteller \n\n\n\nBronx-born Bethany Van Delft moved to Boston with her Marxist Dutch dad\, black Puerto Rican mother and siblings\, where she learned being called “zebra” did NOT mean she was weird but cool. At “19” she went to Paris to model\, got kicked out\, and ended up in Milan where she spent Sundays sitting on the ground in front of Duomo\, eating gelato and speaking Spanglish with an Italian accent. \n\n\n\n\n\niEAR Salon is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences at RPI\, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.  URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/navigating-motherhood/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Into-Loving-Hands.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T210000 DTSTAMP:20231227T171322Z CREATED:20230807T035420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231227T171322Z UID:10001787-1701284400-1701291600@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"Confessions of a Good Samaritan" Film Screening with Director Penny Lane DESCRIPTION:Director Penny Lane returns to the Sanctuary to screen her latest film Confessions of a Good Samaritan about her own experience deciding to become a “Good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger. This launches her on an unexpectedly funny\, intimate\, and provocative quest to understand why everyone seems to think she’s crazy. \n\n\n\nAt 5pm\, join Penny Lane for the Be The Media! workshop: Positioning Yourself as Subject in Documentary Filmmaking \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConfessions of a Good Samaritan is a provocative inquiry into the science\, history\, and ethics of organ transplantation\, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: who is your neighbor\, and what do you owe them? We’ve all heard versions of this question\, but how often do we really stop to think about its meaning? \n\n\n\n“Good Samaritan” kidney donation is a term used to describe the exceptionally rare circumstance in which a person is moved to donate a kidney\, not to a friend or a loved one\, but to an unknown stranger. The small number of people per year who make this choice often describe it as a “no-brainer”: I could have a relatively low-risk procedure\, and save someone’s life? Obviously! With more than 100\,000 people in need of a kidney\, slowly dying on dialysis\, for the Good Samaritan donors\, the only question is\, “Why isn’t there a line of people out the door waiting to give a kidney?” \n\n\n\nBut\, for the vast majority of people\, making a “Good Samaritan” donation is incomprehensible\, or suspicious in some way. Why do they do it? Do these people just want attention? What are they compensating for? This mystery is what sets Penny off on her quest to understand the science of altruism\, the ethical controversies surrounding organ donation\, and her own motivations. \n\n\n\nAlong the way she collects a library of rare\, often strange\, archival films documenting the history of organ transplantation. Accompanied by a quirky cast of charismatic scientists\, surgeons\, ethicists\, and other donors\, Penny documents her experience through “confessional” diaries and intimate footage of her own surgery and recovery. All of these elements are assembled into a fast-paced\, funny\, personal and philosophical collage. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPenny Lane (Director) has been making award-winning\, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. This includes six features – most recently Confessions of a Good Samaritan\, premiering at SXSW 2023 – and over a dozen short films. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, Lane has also received grants and awards from the Sundance Film Festival\, Cinereach\, Creative Capital\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Tribeca Film Institute\, Wexner Center for the Arts and many others. Penny has been honored with mid-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image\, San Francisco DocFest\, Open City Documentary Festival and Cinema Moderne. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And yes\, Penny Lane is her real name. \n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored with People’s Health Sanctuary. This 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. Curated by Branda Miller. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/confessions-of-a-good-samaritan/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Untitled-design22.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T180000 DTSTAMP:20250728T002654Z CREATED:20240118T172550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T002654Z UID:10001888-1707663600-1707674400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"Israelism" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of cross-cultural learning and understanding\, the Albany Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace alongside our co-sponsors\, are excited to host an in person screening of Israelism followed by a community discussion at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Created by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who followed the experience of two young American Jews\, Israelism provides a thought provoking view into the connection between the American Jewish Community and Israel. \n\n\n\nMasks required and can be provided. Attendance is limited\, pre-registration required! \n\n\n\nSponsored by: Albany Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace \n\n\n\n\nSOLD OUT\n\n\n\n\nSorry\, but we have hit our registration limit! Please note: there will be no entrance at door without confirmed registration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us after the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long) followed by a discussion\, facilitated by representatives of the Jewish\, non-Jewish and Palestinian/Arab communities\, on your takeaways\, related personal experiences and reflections. Even if you have already seen the film\, please feel free to join later for the subsequent discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn showing Israelism\, Albany JVP\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, along with our co-sponsors Women Against War\, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace\, Palestinian Rights Committee Albany\, and Saratoga BLM\, and PSL hope to further understanding between all members of our community on this difficult and controversial issue and provide a safe space for dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you want to understand the wrenching generational rift over Israel among many left-leaning American Jews\, the documentary “Israelism\,” is a good place to start.  \n– Michelle Goldberg\, New York Times\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information please reach out to: jvpalbany@gmail.com URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/israelism/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HMM-images4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T180000 DTSTAMP:20240820T004258Z CREATED:20240131T181620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T004258Z UID:10001902-1713286800-1713290400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media Project DESCRIPTION:“Spaces of Exception” is a film profiling American Indian reservations alongside Palestinian refugee camps. Join us for a Be The Media! workshop with co-director Matt Peterson prior to the screening of “Spaces of Exception\,” to learn about the process of creating a long-term media project. \n\n\n\n“Spaces of Exception” was filmed from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona\, New Mexico\, New York and South Dakota as well as Lebanon and the West Bank. It is an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life\, community and sovereignty. “Spaces of Exception” comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee. \n\n\n\n5pm – 6pm: Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media ProjectJoin Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” to learn about the process of creating a long-term media project. \n\n\n\n7pm – 9:30pm: film screening of “Spaces of Exception” and community conversationAfter the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long)\, Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” will be joined with Indigenous and Palestinian/Arab guests about takeaways\, related personal experiences\, and reflections. Even if you have already seen the film\, please feel free to join later for complimentary tea and snacks and the subsequent discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn showing “Spaces of Exception\,” Albany Jewish Voices for Peace\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, along with our co-sponsors hope to further understanding between all members of our community on this difficult and controversial issue and provide a safe space for dialogue. \n\n\n\nFilmmaker Bio: \n\n\n\nMatt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine\, an experimental space in New York City. He co-directed the documentary features “Scenes from a Revolt Sustained” (2014) and “Spaces of Exception” (2018)\, and co-edited the books “In the Name of the People” (2018) and “The Mohawk Warrior Society” (2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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 is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/btm-spaces-of-exception/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/11-05-Spaces-of-Exception-1-sq.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240530T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240530T210000 DTSTAMP:20250728T005508Z CREATED:20231229T024038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T005508Z UID:10001886-1717088400-1717102800@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Indigiqueer Media Artist Theo Jean Cuthand: Participatory Radio Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join media artist Theo Jean Cuthand for a Be The Media! participatory radio workshop\, to focus on Indigiqueer and ecological issues. \n\n\n\nUsing improvisational documentary techniques\, the Be The Media! workshop participants will create a short radio play with Theo Jean Cuthand\, loosely inspired by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast but based on the colonization of what is now Troy by European Settlers. This workshop will begin with a brief presentation of Cuthand’s work. \n\n\n\nCuthand’s Sanctuary presentation is sponsored by iEAR Presents\, with NYSCA\, the School of Humanities and EMPAC at RPI\, and the NEA Our Town creative placemaking project Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\, which connects Indigenous legacy with environmental justice (in partnership with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians). The participatory radio play created in this workshop will be featured as a multimedia element on the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail. \n\n\n\nHear Theo Jean Cuthand interview with Hudson Mohawk Magazine\n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · Participatory Radio Workshop Based on Welles' "War of the Worlds"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheo Jean Cuthand was born in Regina\, Saskatchewan\, Canada in 1978\, and grew up in Saskatoon. Since 1995 he has been making short experimental videos and films about sexuality\, madness\, Queer identity and love\, and gender and Indigeneity\, which have screened in festivals internationally. \n\n\n\nHis work has also exhibited at galleries including the MOMA in NYC\, The National Gallery in Ottawa\, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He completed his BFA majoring in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005\, and his Masters of Arts in Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2015. He has also written three feature screenplays and has performed at Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver\, Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium in Regina\, and 7a*11d in Toronto. In 2017 he won the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award. He is a Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. He is of Plains Cree and Scots descent\, a member of Little Pine First Nation\, and currently resides in Toronto\, Canada. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis is the second night of a series of two events in a collaboration between the Arts Department and EMPAC at RPI\, by Plains Cree and Scots artist Theo Jean Cuthand. At EMPAC on May 29\, Cuthand presents an artist talk and screening that explores his work and process through an Indigiqueer lens. At the Sanctuary on May 30\, Cuthand will engage directly in the community as part of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, with a particular focus on Indigiqueer and ecological issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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 is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/theo-jean-cuthand/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TJ_Cuthand-Social_Sharing_Default_Image-1200x675-2.jpg-e1704227408122.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T213000 DTSTAMP:20250318T144737Z CREATED:20250220T183048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T144737Z UID:10002177-1742497200-1742506200@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"No Other Land" Film Screening & Panel DESCRIPTION:An act of creative resistance to Apartheid\, No Other Land documents a Palestinian activist and his unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist\, as he searches for a path towards equality and justice. Join us for this film screening and panel discussion. \n\n\n\nNo Other Land is the 2025 Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature\, a major win for a film that couldn’t get a U.S. distributor. \n\n\n\nFilm Screening will begin at 7:30pm to allow people to break fast for Ramadan. In the meantime\, Taína Asili will share her most recent video “Strong Tree” about the local movement in support of Palestine. \n\n\n\nSOLD OUT\n\n\n\nFilm synopsis\n\n\n\nOver five years\, a Palestinian-Israeli collective of directors captured footage of Masafer Yatta residents in the West Bank and their struggle\, survival\, and death in the face of the Israeli military and settlers\, as they witnessed the destruction of their homes and schools and were forced to leave their villages with nowhere to go. Yet No Other Land is more than a powerful work of cinéma vérité; it is the story of the growing friendship between Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham\, both united by harrowing circumstances and one fragile idea: that through cinema and resistance\, one can (perhaps) imagine a space of peace and freedom that never existed in their lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo Other Land is an award winning documentary\, including the winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature award and the 2024 Berlinale Best Documentary award. \n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\nHana’ is a farmer and beekeeper\, who just returned home to the Capital District after spending two months in Palestine. Hana’ is an activist with the Palestinian Rights Committee. \n\n\n\nFaris is a Palestinian and Muslim American\, originally from a small Palestinian village outside the city of Ramallah. Faris is a member of the Palestine Narrative Project\, working to educate the Capital Region on the Palestinian cause and inspire people to work towards Palestinian liberation. \n\n\n\nKeren Carmeli is a member of the Albany chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestinian Rights Committee. She is an anti-Zionist Israeli-American who was raised in occupied Palestine\, and draws on her family’s Holocaust survival story to inform her dedication to the liberation of Palestine”. \n\n\n\nModerator: Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator working across art\, food\, science\, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture\, displacement\, storytelling\, diaspora\, and belonging\, through de-colonial and feminist perspectives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\nJewish Voices for Peace\n\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian Rights Committee URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/no-other-land/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/NoOtherLand_Still_052.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T210000 DTSTAMP:20260602T155931Z CREATED:20250311T004620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T155931Z UID:10002184-1745434800-1745442000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Sam Feder presents "Heightened Scrutiny" Screening & Q&A DESCRIPTION:Heightened Scrutiny is a documentary film about the first out trans attorney arguing in front of the US Supreme Court (United States v. Skrmetti) and the role of mainstream media in fueling anti-trans legislation. The film’s director\, Sam Feder\, will be presenting this film at the Sanctuary followed by a Q&A. Ahead of the film\, Feder will be offering a Be The Media! workshop from 5-6pm. \n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration with the RPI’s iEAR Presents series\, supported by the Department of Arts and the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences\, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeightened Scrutiny follows Chase Strangio\, ACLU attorney and the first out trans person to argue before the Supreme Court\, as he fights a high-stakes legal battle to overturn Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth (United States v. Skrmetti). \n\n\n\nThe film exposes the dangerous role of mainstream media in fueling anti-trans legislation\, uncovering how biased coverage drives hate\, endangers lives\, and threatens democracy itself. With insights from journalists like Jelani Cobb\, Lydia Polgreen\, and Gina Chua\, and activists like Laverne Cox\, the story dismantles anti-trans disinformation and highlights its devastating real-world impact. \n\n\n\nAs SCOTUS prepares to rule on the case\, HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY reveals the fight for bodily autonomy as a fight for the soul of democracy\, offering a powerful call to action against bigotry and injustice. website URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/heightened-scrutiny/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/heightened-scrutiny-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T160000 DTSTAMP:20250623T174143Z CREATED:20250612T125440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250623T174143Z UID:10002200-1751194800-1751212800@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Flaherty Film Seminar DESCRIPTION:An immersive program of screenings and conversations\, the Flaherty Film Seminar is an internationally recognized forum for collective inquiry into non-fiction cinema\, encouraging the exchange of cinematic ideas across generations and cultures\, and promoting the expansion of the limits of cinema itself. \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Picture Lock One and the Tang Museum\, this gathering of the internationally recognized seminar provides access to two curated non-fiction film programs followed by group discussion\, encouraging the exchange of cinematic ideas across generations and cultures\, and promoting the expansion of the limits of cinema itself. Lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nSchedule:11am-1pm: Flaherty screening program #4 + discussion12pm: food is provided1pm-2pm: break between sessions and get a Sanctuary campus tour if interested2pm-4pm: Flaherty screening program #5 + discussion \n\n\n\nJoin other Flaherty Film Seminar pods:June 27: The Tang Museum in Saratoga SpringsJune 28: Picture Lock One at 50 4th Street\, Troy \n\n\n\nLearn more about the Flaherty Film Seminar gatherings URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/flaherty-film-seminar/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Flaherty-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T210000 DTSTAMP:20250925T175338Z CREATED:20250826T185235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T175338Z UID:10002211-1758394800-1758402000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:“Turn the Light Around” 16mm Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Join us for screenings of 16mm plant processed performance films\, presented by Katherine Bauer and Joyce Lainé\, members of the film collective Le Ratoire and Atelier MTK. The images in each film emerge before our eyes through the process of a developer composed of plants\, ashes\, and water. The sun gives to the plants\, the plants give to the silver\, the silver turns the light around\, to give to our eyes. The screening will be followed by a Q&A. This event is co-sponsored by iEar Presents! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this screening\, plants are collaborators in both the subject and the material revelation of the visual story. Plant is the Place. The action of creating these films are themselves performative relationships with the surroundings\, the projection expanding this vision for yet more eyes to see. \n\n\n\nPlant Processing is a collective action— particularly with the methods of Le Ratoire’s performative folk film-making style\, but also with the methodologies of collective making and restraints employed by La Ratoire’s “Asphalt Splendor.” For this film\, the group will set out to make a portrait of “the river that flows both ways\,” or Mahicannittuk in Machican (aka The Hudson River)\, canoeing and camping from Troy to worlds end\, plant processing all along the way with the different plants growing on the shores. \n\n\n\n“Bat Nut\,” is a poetic video document of friends gathering together to clear the locally loved Beaver Pond in Chatham\, NY of the thorny Bat Nut. Other videos will show an exploration of a closed tungsten mine from WWII in Portugal\, processed with the industrially farmed Eucalyptus\, and a turn around a temple outside of Guadalajara\, Mexico which was processed with beer and sage from their surroundings\, and a film stained red from being processed with a certain seaweed\, and more! \n\n\n\nAlternative Film Processing Workshop with Le Ratoire\, 2-6pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLe Ratoire is a filmmaking collective; since 2019\, composed of Léa Lanoë\, Pierre Borel (Labo L’argent\, Marseille\, France)\, Katherine Bauer\, Joyce Lainé\, and Loïc Verdillon (Atelier MTK\, Grenoble\, France). They have elaborated a methodology for collective filmmaking wherein all aspects and stages of the film are made in a single go. Beginning with a constraint (a place\, a theme\, a technical method)\, embrace the unplanned that emerges within the process; the unexpected “failures” that inevitably occur are as important as the constraints that first inspired the process.  The name “Le Ratoire” refers to the verb in French\, rater\, that means “to miss\, fail\, or flunk” and laboratoire\, indicating the analog hand-made laboratory practices employed. Also the idea of a ratery or site for the “lab rat”; in this case we are the rats running tests on ourselves. \n\n\n\nATELIER MTK\, founded in 1992 is the first collective film lab of France. It is an artist-run cinematographic laboratory equipped to work in all aspects of analogue films.  The lab should be considered like a playground. Tools and techniques of the film medium are re-appropriated from the industrial film laboratories in order to encourage filmmakers to consider every element as a phase with creative potential. https://www.filmlabs.org/labs/mtk/. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/le-ratoire-screening/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/le-ratoire-16mm.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T210000 DTSTAMP:20260602T155141Z CREATED:20250815T164850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T155141Z UID:10002214-1761332400-1761339600@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:The Forever War; The War on Terror DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them\,” a documentary film about locally-based jazz musician Tarik Shah who was incarcerated for almost 15 years on terrorist accusations\, and panel discussion around the lasting impact of the war on terror. The event will conclude with a musical performance with Tarik Shah on bass accompanied by guitarist by Luke Franco. This is a collaboration with the Coalition for Civil Freedoms. \n\n\n\n5pm: Be The Media! workshop with Barry Rubinow\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocally-based jazz musician Tarik Shah is one of the many victims of “the war on terror.” “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them\,” a documentary film by Barry Rubinow\, takes the viewer through Tarik’s release and subsequent jobs\, gigs\, past career highlights\, his imprisonment\, life events\, and difficulties in getting back into the ever-changing jazz scene in New York City. This short film (37 minutes) will be followed by a panel discussion which will include Tarik Shah\, Barry Rubinow\, and Kathy Manley and Jeanne Finley on behalf of Coalition for Freedoms. This event looks at the lasting impact on the lives of political prisoners. \n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTarik Shah\, Locally-based jazz musician who was incarcerated for almost 15 years on terrorist accusations\, and the subject of “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them.” Shah’s musical journey began in earnest at the age of 16\, when he became the sole bass student of internationally acclaimed bassist Slam Stewart. By age 21\, Shah was touring the world with legendary vocalist Betty Carter. From there\, he has performed and recorded with a stunning array of Jazz legends\, including Ahmad Jamal\, Randy Weston\, Abbey Lincoln\, Pharoah Sanders\, the Duke Ellington Orchestra\, Dr. Lonnie Smith and so many more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKathy Manley is the Legal Director of the Coalition for Civil Freedoms and the Vice-President of the Capital Region Council of the New York Civil Liberties Union. She is also a founding member of Project SALAM. Her main emphasis is criminal defense and constitutional rights. She concentrates on appeals\, has written many winning briefs before a variety of courts\, and has received several awards for her work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarry Rubinow is the director of “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them.” Rubinow’s career as a producer\, director\, editor\, and indie filmmaker includes an Emmy Award for editing the CBS science show\, Beakman’s World\, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject for the first documentary he edited\, Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse. He was also a founding member of The Documentary Channel. His latest film\, “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them\,” won Best Documentary at the 2025 Albany Film Festival. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Jeanne Finley is a photographer\, writer\, and editor. She was an original member of the Muslim Solidarity Committee\, the grassroots group formed in 2006 to advocate for two Albany Muslims\, Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain\, who were unjustly convicted in an FBI phony “terrorism” plot. She also edited Yassin Aref’s memoir\, Son of Mountains\, and a Palestinian prisoner’s book of poetry and art\, Light from Deep Under\, by Shukri Abu Baker. With colleagues\, she now advocates for prisoners through Coalition for Civil Freedom. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Coalition for Civil Freedoms (CCF) is a survivor-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the abuses of the U.S. domestic “War on Terror.” Founded in 2010\, CCF is a coalition of civil liberties and human rights organizations that challenges preemptive prosecution and the post-9/11 targeting\, surveillance\, and criminalization of Muslim communities. CCF’s core areas of work include education and outreach\, prisoner and family support. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/forever-war-on-terror/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/518361650_122119780526904181_510297654846303279_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T210000 DTSTAMP:20260122T013232Z CREATED:20250826T192504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T013232Z UID:10002218-1761764400-1761771600@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:Memory\, Diaspora\, & Decoloniality: Films by Suneil Sanzgiri DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening of Golden Jubilee\, a film in a series of works about memory\, diaspora\, and decoloniality\, with filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri. \n\n\n\nThis event is a iEAR Presents! and EMPAC Collaboration \n\n\n\n4:30pm: Decolonial Practices in Film Workshop: A Cross-Generational Dialogue with Suneil Sanzgiri and Youth FX\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? “Golden Jubilee”\, the third film in a series of works about memory\, diaspora and decoloniality\, takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa\, India\, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region. A tool for extraction and exploitation becomes a method for preservation. \n\n\n\nEMPAC series: An Impossible Address\, Suneil Sanzgiri\n\n\n\nSuneil Sanzgiri is an artist\, researcher\, and filmmaker. Spanning experimental video and film\,animations\, essays\, and installations\, his work contends with questions of identity\, heritage\,culture\, and diaspora in relation to structural violence and anticolonial struggles across theGlobal South. Sanzgiri’s films offer sonic and visual journeys through family history\, localmythology\, and colonial legacies of extraction in Goa\, India—where his family originates—deftlyutilizing and vividly blending together 3D renderings\, drone videography\, photogrammetry andlidar scanning\, 16 mm film and animation\, archival footage\, and desktop documentary practices. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/film-golden-jubilee/ CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/suneil-sanzgiri.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T170000 DTSTAMP:20260402T143230Z CREATED:20260208T045444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T143230Z UID:10002379-1774101600-1774112400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"Run\, Hide\, Fight" a Youth Storytelling Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free storytelling workshop at the Sanctuary\, using a short PBS documentary Run\, Hide\, Fight: Growing up Under the Gun to prompt conversations around storytelling and humanity in a workshop led by storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist\, D. Colin. Young people of all ages are welcome with their families\, the story telling workshop is designed for middle to high school aged youth but there will be age appropriate activities for younger children.This event is made possible through the partnership with WMHT Public Media. \n\n\n\nFollowing the documentary\, Run\, Hide\, Fight: Growing up under the gun\, join D. Colin for a storytelling workshop exploring the power of personal stories in building connection\, sharing our humanity\, and leaving an impact. Using creativity\, our lived experiences and the film\, we’ll share intentional time discussing what safety means and how we can use our voices to inspire change. HEAR D. COLIN’S INTERVIEW ABOUT THE WORKSHOP. \n\n\n\n\nGun violence is the leading cause of death for American children and teens. Run\, Hide\, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun is a new 30-minute documentary about how gun violence affects young Americans\, from PBS News Student Reporting Labs in collaboration with 14 student journalists from five U.S. cities: Philadelphia\, Oakland\, Washington D.C.\, Nashville\, and East Lansing\, Michigan. The documentary profiles how the same young people that have survived these traumatic events are leading the fight for a safer future. \n\n\n\nHEAR MARA DROGAN OF WMHT PUBLIC MEDIA SPEAK ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nD. Colin is a multidisciplinary artist of Haitian descent whose creative practice spans poetry\, visual art\, and theater. Originally from Connecticut\, she has called New York’s Capital Region home since 2007. With a background in English and Africana Studies\, she is a teaching artist and curator who creates and facilitates spaces for creativity\, storytelling\, and healing. \n\n\n\nD. Colin has received numerous accolades\, including the 2022 Excellence in Arts & Letters Award from UAlbany and the title of Resourceful Woman in the Arts in 2019. Deeply inspired by Nina Simone’s belief that “an artist’s duty is to reflect the times\,” she often says\, “if the art didn’t move you\, then I didn’t do my job.” \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible through a partnership with WMHT and PBS. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/run-hide-fight/ CATEGORIES:Screening,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Run-Hide-Fight.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T192740Z CREATED:20260519T155707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260701T192740Z UID:10002401-1782414000-1782423000@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:“1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture” Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening of “1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture” in collaboration with Collar City Pride and New Breath Spirituality Center. This feature documentary film follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible in 1946. This screening will be followed by group discussion.This film is co-sponsorship with Collar City Pride & New Breath Spirituality Center \n\n\n\nJoin us during Pride month for a special documentary viewing of 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture\, This film shows how one group’s translation of the Bible supported decades of homophobia in many Christian traditions. Stay after the viewing for a short group discussion about the documentary \n\n\n\nAbout this Film\n\n\n\n1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is a feature documentary that follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible in 1946. It chronicles the discovery of never-before-seen archives at Yale University which unveil astonishing new revelations\, and casts significant doubt on any biblical basis for LGBTQIA+ prejudice. Featuring commentary from prominent scholars as well as opposing pastors\, including the personal stories of the film’s creators\, 1946 is at once challenging\, enlightening\, and inspiring. While other documentaries have been successful in their attempt to treat the symptom of homophobia in the church\, 1946 is working to diagnose and treat the disease – Biblical Literalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Co-sponsors\n\n\n\nCollar City Pride is Rensselaer County’s only LGBTQIA2S+ based and operating community center hub\, providing services and events to uplift our queer community. \n\n\n\nNew Breath Spirituality Center is a place where we can learn and talk about connecting with God\, spirituality\, and prayer/spiritual practices– as well as try some out for ourselves. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/1946-film-screening/ CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1946-film.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T210000 DTSTAMP:20260811T232706Z CREATED:20260615T144545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T232706Z UID:10002403-1788375600-1788382800@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:“Black Atlas” Screening with Edward George & Fred Moten DESCRIPTION:as part of EMPAC’s TOPOS Festival\n\n\n\nJoin Black Audio Film Collective founding member Edward George for a screening of Black Atlas which explores the “Image of the Black” archive—a collection of over 30\,000 images documenting representations of people of African descent from antiquity through the civil rights era. After the screening\, George will be joined in conversation with Fred Moten\, a Black Culture Studies professor at NYU Tisch. This event is a collaboration with EMPAC & iEar Presents! \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n*This event is included in the TOPOS Festival Pass \n\n\n\n\n\nCommissioned by The Warburg Institute in London\, filmmaker\, writer\, broadcaster\, and musician Edward George’s Black Atlas explores the “Image of the Black” archive—a collection of over 30\,000 images documenting representations of people of African descent from antiquity through the civil rights era. The American premiere of Black Atlas is presented in partnership with The Sanctuary for Independent Media (Troy\, NY) and RPI Arts Department’s iEAR Presents! Drawing from the archive\, George creates a new film that reanimates historical imagery through narration\, sound\, and montage. Accompanied by an evocative score by Seymour Wright and Crystabel Efemena Riley\, Black Atlas unfolds as a meditation on time\, place\, and presence— considering art as a medium of transcendence\, a technology of power\, and an affirmation of a humanist\, anti-racist project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5pm: Be The Media! workshop with Edward George\n\n\n\nGuest Bios:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdward George- writer\, broadcaster\, and founder of Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998)\, the multimedia duo Flow Motion (1996-present)\, and the electronic music group Hallucinator (1998-present). George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History (1996)\, and he hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio)\, Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae\, dub\, versions and versioning\, drawing on critical theory\, social history\, and a deep\, wide cross-genre musical selection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFred Moten is a professor in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University\, where he teaches courses in black studies\, poetics\, and critical theory. He works with lots of social and aesthetic study groups including Stefano Harney & Fred Moten\, the Black Arts Movement School Modality\, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective\, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy\, Moved by the Motion\, the Institute of Physical Sociality and the Harris/Moten Quartet. URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/black-atlas/ CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/topos_george_moten_2026.jpg.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T210000 DTSTAMP:20260813T165839Z CREATED:20260813T165731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T165839Z UID:10002406-1792177200-1792184400@www.mediasanctuary.org SUMMARY:"WTO/99" Film Screening on the Battle of Seattle DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the documentary film about the Battle of Seattle\, where 50\,000 activists hit the streets of Seattle\, WA to block a major World Trade Organization conference\, an event seen by many as setting the tone for mass mobilization movements at the start of the century. WTO/99 will be screened and followed by a Q&A with the film’s editor and producer Alex Megaro. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here– Coming Soon\n\n\n\n\nWTO/99 is an immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40\,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights\, labor\, and the future effects of continued globalization. https://www.wto99doc.com/ URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/wto-99-film/ LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States CATEGORIES:Screening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/10-16-WTO99-MS-F26-wide-image.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR