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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Resistance takes many forms, and sometimes it looks like gathering together, making a little trouble, and dancing! Join us for a Halloween dance party fundraiser celebrating the people, creativity, and community that make our work for social and environmental justice possible. Come in costume, bring your friends, and spend the night dancing, connecting, and building […]
Resist consumerism and waste by repairing your household items with the assistance of volunteers. Satellite locations offered: PHS Open Apothecary & Elderberry Syrup-Making ...more info coming soon
1 - 4 pm Open Apothecary 2 - 3 pm Elderberry Syrup Making workshop (registration required) The community apothecary at the People’s Health Sanctuary will be open for browsing from 1-4 pm, with an elderberry syrup-making workshop from 2-3 pm. This is event is happening in tandem with a Repair Cafe at the Sanctuary’s main […]
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