Bring your corn stories, your corn recipes and your thoughts about corn! Join Amy Halloran, Azuré Keahi, and Ellie Markovitch as they cook as a community and make a variety of cornbreads for our annual StoryHarvest later that afternoon. This workshop will take place in person in the kitchen at People's Health Sanctuary, which is […]
Join us for StoryHarvest–– a festival to celebrate the harvest with music, food, and community! Corn will be a source of food, games, crafts, and jokes in this family-friendly celebration with three-time Grammy award winning musician Bill Miller of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans sharing music and stories on his ancestral homeland at Freedom Square. […]
UPDATE: Due to rainy weather, this event will take place in the 2nd floor of NATURE Lab, 3319 6th Avenue. Join us in the garden! For this week's Collard City Growers open hours, our garden ambassador Sienna Thiem leads us in making our own herbal tea blends! Choose from a selection of dried herbs harvested […]
The local, newly established Artsy Fartsy Photo Collective is hosting a workshop where photography and transparent images give space for therapeutic play. Using an overhead projector and transparencies, participants will focus on collaborative image creation. Participants will explore co-creation, boundaries of ownership, and experimental collaging.
Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore, co-owner of The Aunties Dandelion media organization, transformed her work in mainstream media to her present focus on revitalizing communities through stories of land, language, and relationships. Join us for a conversation where Moore explores how and why The Aunties Dandelion uses an Indigenous lens to create media. This event is organized […]
Join Petra Kuppers on a literal journey, as we will walk the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail and engage in a number of easy 7-minute improvised dances together. Our dances might develop from touching a leaf or from letting fingertips rest on the soil. We welcome people of all abilities! A co-production of iEAR Presents, sponsored by […]
Connect to the land, its’ histories, & its’ futures with Petra Kuppers for a dream performance & workshop that utilizes movement meditation. Following an improvised Wheelchair Procession along Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail and a community meal, this performance and workshop will take place inside the Sanctuary main space. Petra will use the inspiration from the trail procession to […]
Using activities centered on photography, photographer and birth doula Jayana LaFountaine will facilitate conversations around where we come from, and how skills and trauma are passed down in addition to facial features. Jayana LaFountaine is an Afro-Latina portrait photographer and birth Doula based in Troy, New York. Her work focuses on vulnerability and the preservation of […]
Join us for a conversation around the book Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation, edited by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, the duo that makes up Women Picturing Revolution. They will present their book before a discussion with local photographer and doula Jayana LaFountaine and ending with a Q&A with the audience. 5:00pm-6:00pm: Join Jayana […]
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 […]
Join us to honor the passing of Ilopango, the Volcano that Left and celebrate creative place-making along the Mahicannituck (Hudson River)! This community gathering is for all people who love the Sanctuary, who love art and creative placemaking, and who love the Hudson River! This celebration marks the moment that the monumental sculpture Ilopango, the Volcano that Left by Beatriz Cortez, onboard the […]
The Sanctuary is honored to welcome the sounds of The Halluci Nation to Troy, NY! The Halluci Nation is a Canadian electronic music group who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music including vocal chanting and drumming. The Halluci Nation maintains focus on what they feel […]
Learn from "Confessions of a Good Samaritan" Director Penny Lane's decision to position herself as director, film subject, and kidney donor! After the workshop, stick around for a screening of "Confessions of a Good Samaritan" and a talk by the filmmaker! Director’s Statement Every film is a personal film. At least, I think so. But […]
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 […]
What does North Troy sound like to you? Join artist and musician Lisa Schonberg in a workshop about field recording, and contribute to a soundwalk exhibit! Participants will go out into the neighborhood surrounding the Sanctuary with microphones to record the cityscape. Participants' recordings will later become part of a soundscape composition. Those recordings will […]
Hudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) is radio for the community, by community volunteers. If you are curious about the radio and have questions, if you're interested in getting involved, or if you need some support in production, these open hours are a perfect time to come to the main Sanctuary space to work directly with HMM […]
Best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, Chris Hedges addresses the Middle East crisis with a talk titled, "The Genocide in Gaza." *This is an in-person event*If you are unable to attend in-person, we encourage you to join our mailing list so you can be the first to […]
The Sanctuary for Independent Media invites you and your loved ones to join us for our annual North-Central Troy Interfaith Holiday Peace and Justice Celebration! On December 9th, from 2PM - 4PM, we will gather in the Sanctuary Main Space where free food will be provided, along with: From 4PM - 5PM, we will gather […]
with Nina Isabelle & Brian McCorkle, 5 objects, piano, and percussion Join us for an evening of sound works by Lisa Schonberg, and Nina Isabelle with Brian McCorkle. Lisa Schonberg will be presenting a body of 4 new spatialized sound works that are the culmination of Old Growth Playback, which asks us how we can listen in the […]
Our Campus Open House is an opportunity to drop by the Sanctuary to get to know our many initiatives and programs! This is a great opportunity for potential interns, volunteers, or curious community members to ask questions and learn more about what we do. Our various initiatives will have activities, tables, and workshops in the […]
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