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SUMMARY:The Rhythm of Rebellion: Be The Media! workshop
DESCRIPTION:Taína Asili will share the story of her two-decade journey as a singer and activist creating music for social change. Through songs and personal narrative\, she will reflect on the challenges she has faced and the lessons she’s learned making art in service of love and liberation. Workshop participants will explore how art can be a powerful tool for resistance\, healing\, and liberation\, and reflect on their own creative paths through guided discussion and engagement. This workshop will inform the audience experience of Taína’s performance the next day. \n\n\n\nTaína Asili’s Fever Pitch performance\, 10/4\, 7pm
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/taina-asili-workshop/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Know Your Rights
DESCRIPTION:What to Do When Interacting with ICE Agents\n\n\n\nJoin members of the Capital Region Sanctuary Coalition to learn about how to assert your legal rights\, be informed of your options\, and feel prepared during an interaction with Immigration Customs and Enforcement. \n\n\n\nAll are welcome.This event is not a replacement for legal advice.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/know-your-rights/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! workshop: Everybody has a Story to Tell
DESCRIPTION:Join Barry Rubinow\, the director of “Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them\,” for a Be The Media! workshop on recording someone’s story for documentary filmmaking. Rubinow emphasizes that everybody has a story\, and this workshop will explore discovering what that story is.  \n\n\n\n“Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them” is a documentary film about locally-based jazz musician\, Tarik Shah\, who was incarcerated for almost 15 years on terrorist accusations. This is a collaboration with the Coalition for Civil Freedoms. \n\n\n\n7pm: The Forever War; The War on Terror\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\nPatrick Cone founded his production company\, C1 Entertainment\, to give voice to those who might not otherwise be heard. That guiding principle has led him to explore stories across America and the world. His 2021 short\, South\, garnered an official selection at Slamdance and the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the Hot Springs Film Festival. He is currently producing a feature documentary on the life of a civil rights activist.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-barry-rubinow/
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SUMMARY:Decolonial Practices in Film Workshop
DESCRIPTION:A Cross-Generational Dialogue with Suneil Sanzgiri and Youth FX’s Bhawin Suchak\n\n\n\nJoin us for a workshop reflecting on the practical work of filmmaking and considering its impact on the histories and communities it engages. Participants are invited into the world of artist Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film “An Impossible Address\,” in parallel to the work of Albany media arts organization Youth FX’s co-founder and co-director Bhawin Suchak. \n\n\n\nThis event is a iEAR Presents! and EMPAC Collaboration \n\n\n\n7pm: Memory\, Diaspora\, & Decoloniality: Films by Suneil Sanzgiri\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary for Independent Media presents this Be the Media! workshop as part of our 20th Anniversary Season\, celebrating two decades of commitment to youth media! The workshop opens with a session on film practice\, after which Suneil Sanzgiri and Bhawin Suchak of Youth FX reflect on the practical work of filmmaking and consider its impact on the histories and communities it engages. Sanzgiri’s recent work serves as a departure point with focus on challenges facing emerging filmmakers. The workshop is followed by a dinner for participants\, and a concluding screening of works from Sanzgiri’s series Golden Jubilee. \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. \n\n\n\nBhawin Suchak is an educator\, filmmaker\, and the co-founder and co-executive director of Youth FX\, a nationally renowned media arts organization focused on empowering young people by teaching creative and technical skills in film and digital media.  He is also co-director of NeXt Doc\, a year-round fellowship program of Youth FX that exists to amplify the voices of emerging documentary filmmakers of color.  Bhawin is the director\, cinematographer and editor of Outta The Muck (2022)\, a feature length documentary supported by Sundance Institute\, ITVS\, Just Films\, Black Public Media and Southern Documentary Fund which aired on PBS’ Independent Lens series in 2023.  He also previously directed The Throwaways (2014) and Free To Learn (2004).  Bhawin is a 2019 Just Films Rockwood Fellow\, 2019 Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellow\, and a member of A-Doc: Asian American Documentary Network and the Documentary Accountability Working Group. 
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/decolonial-practices-in-film-workshop/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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