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    Be the Media! Workshop: Community Collaboration and Reciprocity

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    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Join Sasha Wortzel, director and producer of River of Grass, for a hybrid Be The Media! workshop. Wortzel will reference the work For those of us who live at the shoreline which traces the filmmaking process behind feature documentary River of Grass (2025) and will focus on community collaboration and reciprocity. How might cinema help us to grieve, dream, […]

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    Community Brunch

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    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    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 […]

  • Everybody Has a Story To Tell Radio Workshop

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    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Join us at the Sanctuary for a session of recording community stories in audio form. Our radio program Hudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) is a volunteer created news program which platforms stories related to our local community. Everybody Has a Story to Tell is a opportunity for HMM producers to support others in the recording of […]

  • Plant Swap 2026

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    Collard City Growers 3337 6th Avenue, Troy, New York, United States

    Join us for our annual Plant Swap at the Collard City Growers garden! This is a free event for the community to get together and exchange plants for the spring season. Stop by to pick up some plants, drop off any extras that you don’t have room for, or just come on by to say […]

  • “1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture” Film Screening

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    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 […]

  • “North Stars of Emancipation” Book Talk & Panel Discussion

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    Join us for a book talk about North Stars of Emancipation: California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements in Times of Racial Reckoning, with author Antonio Roman-Alcalá. A panel with local food justice advocates from Soul Fire Farm, the Radix Center, and Serenity Solidarity will discuss food movements in the Capital Region. Books will be available […]

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    Ear Seed Training

    with Albany Community Acupuncture Learn how to treat yourself and your community with simple, effective 5NP for: pain management, digestive balance, stress relief, addiction recovery, sleep support, and more. $0-$40 suggested donation. Simple. Powerful. Balancing. Help anyone feel better right away. Accessible for everyone to learn and practice. Join us for 3 hours of historical […]

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    Community Brunch in Freedom Square

    Freedom Square 35 5th Ave, Troy, NY, United States

    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 […]

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    Be The Media! workshop with Edward George

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    as part of EMPAC’s TOPOS Festival Join us to learn directly from Edward George, who has harnessed the power of media to examine and deconstruct the Black experience in its myriad forms from his early work as an independent media activist and a founding member of UK’s Black Audio Film Collective, to his multi-part radio […]

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    “Black Atlas” Screening with Edward George & Fred Moten

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    as part of EMPAC’s TOPOS Festival Join 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 […]

  • StoryHarvest with Arm-of-the-Sea Theater

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    Freedom Square 35 5th Ave, Troy, NY, United States

    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. Rain location is indoors at the Sanctuary main hall at 3361 6th […]

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    Be The Media! Workshop: the Process Behind Choreographing Grief

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    Get a look behind the performance WAKE, a celebratory ritual for grief that centers queer, Filipino life and processes both personal and community loss through a combination of sound, dance, and video projection. This workshop is a collaboration with EMPAC with support from iEar Presents! Join composer Micaela Tobin, choreographer Jay Carlon, and their team to learn how […]

  • Know Your Rights: CPS in NY State

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Know Your Rights in the case that Child Protective Services (CPS) is at our door. Community Rising Project presents a peer-led parent defense training, a guide for parents and caregivers to be prepared in the case of a visit from CPS. Please email [email protected] if you plan to join

  • NATURE Lab Workshop

    Broken Plastics Open Studio & Mosaic Making

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    NATURE Lab 3319 6th Ave, Troy, New York, United States

    Learn about microplastics pollution and create a mosaic tile from community-gathered plastic waste with artist Nicole Chochrek and Water Justice Lab.  Visit the pop-up outdoor studio of Broken Plastics artist Nicole Chrochrek for some hands-on art-making and education about plastic pollution. For more than a year, NATURE Lab has hosted one of Nicole’s microplastics recycling […]

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    Mulchamania!

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    Collard City Growers 3337 6th Avenue, Troy, New York, United States

    Learn about the benefits of mulching and composting as we ready the garden for winter. Facilitated by arborist Christian Grigoraskos, this event will take place during our weekly CCG open garden hours. Maintaining a blanket of organic matter to keep the micro-life in your soil happy is paramount to a successful garden with plants that […]

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    Egyptian Spiritual Jazz with Abu Zeyn

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    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Bass, clarinet, and vocal loops weave rhythmic tapestries of original Sufi and Ancient Egyptian spiritual compositions. A portion of proceeds will benefit Palestine and Sudan. Abu Zeyn أبو زين creates rhythmic tapestries by weaving live guitar, clarinet and vocal loops with soulful improvisation.  He is a child of the Nile River and the Arabian Desert. […]

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    Resisting Monocultures: Unlawning and Seed Saving

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    Collard City Growers 3337 6th Avenue, Troy, New York, United States

    Prepare the way for spring biodiversity by unearthing lawn and collecting seeds with Lawn Lab. This workshop will take place during the weekly CCG open garden hours. Since early 2020, the lawn south of Collard City Growers garden has gradually evolved into a hybrid lawn-meadow ecosystem as part of the Next Epoch Seed Library’s project […]

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    Be The Media! workshop: documentary film making with pre-existing media

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    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    WTO/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. Join filmmaker Alex Megaro […]

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    “WTO/99” Film Screening on the Battle of Seattle

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    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Join us for a screening of the documentary film about the Battle of Seattle, where 40,000 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 […]

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    Fall Herbal Workshop Series: Garlic Planting & Fire Cider-Making

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    Collard City Growers 3337 6th Avenue, Troy, New York, United States

    5 pm: Garlic-planting at CCG with Ellie Irons 6 pm: Fire Cider at PHS with Heidi Woolever (registration required) Get your hands earthy planting next season’s garlic crop at Collard City Growers, then move to People’s Health Sanctuary to put this year’s garlic crop to work as we make a big batch of the health […]