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SUMMARY:Memorial Altar: “Emerging from Darkness”
DESCRIPTION:An installation to honor personal\, community\, national and global loss\n\n\n\nWe welcome you to visit Freedom Square\, at the corner of 101st St. (where 6th Ave. turns into 5th Ave.) in socially distanced and masked groups of 10 or less\, any time(s) between 1/17-1/20\, to add the names of your beloved dead and/or leave offerings on the Altar in their honor. Please come with your hearts open\, make sure to wear your mask and let’s love each other via this community Altar space. This too is a form of resistance and protest!! \n\n\n\nCheck out this latest television story! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we continue working to create the more just and equitable world we know is possible\, we recognize the deep need to grieve collectively.  Join us  as we transform Freedom Square to create a community space to express grief\, loss\, generosity and resilience. This participatory installation began in conjunction with our MLK day event “Rise Up: The Struggle Continues…”  and the Nationwide Covid Memorial (1/19/21 at 5:30 pm) for those who have died of Covid\, and is being continued because of popular demand. Community participants continue to visit the altar\, leave messages\, honor loved ones\, and share gifts of food (wrapped for safety) and clothing. \n\n\n\nThe installation includes an Altar for our Ancestors Known and Unknown and for all those who have died longing for justice and freedom.  Stop by to Say their Names\, Share their/your Stories\, Honor your Ancestors/Beloved Dead. Remember to visit in socially distanced and masked groups of 10 or less\,  to add the names of your beloved dead and/or leave offerings on the Altar in their honor.* \n\n\n\n*Altars are sacred spaces formed with intention. A few ideas of what to place on an Altar include: \n\n\n\n      Prayers & wishes      Natural materials (rocks\, leaves\, flowers\, water\, dirt from your motherland)      Pictures (copies are suggested to minimize loss of original precious mementos)      Art\, poetry\, songs\, letters (consider weather-proofing or bring messages and names to write on our flags)      Some BIPOC cultures offer food/ fruits/bread/liquor/tobacco\n\n\n\n(Please individually wrap offerings for safety. Recognizing the reality/impact of addiction\, please leave only small amounts of alcohol.) \n\n\n\nWe would deeply appreciate support of this community altar! \n\n\n\nContact us if you’d like to volunteer or contribute in any way. \n\n\n\nPlease recognize that as you come in and out the area of Freedom Square\, know that many of our neighbors have and continue to experience over-policing and gun violence and might even feel a sense of shame or dissonance from such a visible community holding space. We ask that each of you respect the right of our neighbors to stop and stare\, to ask questions and engage or simply walk by. Regardless\, this is a vibrant and beautiful community\, so please come with your hearts open\, make sure to wear your mask and let us love on each other via this community altar space. This too is a form of resistance and protest! In the honoring is the healing. \n\n\n\n*For many of us\, these times have been challenging\, reminding us of loved ones who are absent and reinforcing experiences of social and economic marginality amidst a culture of consumption.  This was particularly true in 2020\, a year of unbearable loss amplified by COVID\, the state sanctioned killings of Black bodies globally\, the climate crisis and most recently\, insurrection in our Capitol. Let us make space and honor our right to grieve collectively. \n\n\n\nAltar for the Ancestors\, original creation by Nancy Weber. \n\n\n\nCo-created by the People’s Health Sanctuary program of NATURE Lab\, Media Sanctuary. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Urban Grief\, Troy 4 Black Lives\, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Capital District\, NAACP\, North Central Little League\, Team H.E.R.O.\, Troy Bike Rescue and NATURE Lab’s People’s Health Sanctuary. \n\n\n\nCheck out this tv story\, 2/22/21https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/news/2021/02/21/freedom-square-installation-bringing-community-together
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/memorial-altar-emerging-from-darkness/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Local Voices / Local Media: The Struggle for Clean Air in the Hudson Mohawk Region
DESCRIPTION:You will receive links to the videos prior to the panel\, and then can join in for a conversation with the media makers and local activists. \n\n\n\nIn the Shadows of Norlite\, photo by Catherine Rafferty\n\n\n\nOn Earth Day\, we celebrate our local voices in their eloquent calls for environmental justice and clean air in the Hudson Mohawk region. We focus on local media makers who are creating media as an organizing tool\, whose work shines light on the power of personal voice. \n\n\n\nOur “mini-media festival” features a conversation with local Capital Region media makers Sonja Stark with “Albany Alert\,” Dave Publow with “We Care About Our Kids: Voices of the Victims of Norlite\,” and Catherine Rafferty with “In the Shadow of Norlite\,” along with the powerful voices featured in their films\, Joe Ritchie\, Judith Enck and Barbara Heinzen. \n\n\n\nOur featured local media makers focus their lenses on two grassroots environmental action groups: Lights Out Norlite\, who are raising awareness about the Norlite toxic waste incinerator located in Cohoes\, and Clean Air Coalition Of Greater Ravena-Coeymans\, who are addressing waste incineration and tire burning at the Lafarge/Holcim Ravena cement plant located next to the Ravena Coeymans Selkirk middle and high schools in Coeymans. \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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT SCHEDULE\n\n\n\n7:00-7:10 Opening Welcome/ Thanks & Acknowledgements \n\n\n\n7:10-7:40  Panel 1 Media as an Organizing Tool \n\n\n\n\n7:10 Sonya Stark\n\n\n\n7:20 Dave Publow\n\n\n\n7:30 “In the Shadows of Norlite\,” photojournalism essay by Catherine Rafferty\n\n\n\n\n7:40- 8:10  Panel 2  Power of the Personal Voice \n\n\n\nDiscussion with subjects of the films: Joe Ritchie\, Barbara Heinzen\, Judith Enck \n\n\n\n8:10 Final conversation/ Moving into action! \n\n\n\n8:30pm  End \n\n\n\n\nMEDIA MAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSonja  Stark \n\n\n\nSonja Stark began her freelance DP career in 2005.  Prior to that she was employed as an Emmy award-winning news videographer for the local CBS news affiliate WRGB for over a decade.   She has honed her craft shooting and editing footage in over 72 countries for documentaries about history\, environment\, music and social causes as well as episodic programming about travel for broadcast on cable channels and PBS.  She calls her one-woman business PilotGirl Productions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDave Publow \n\n\n\nDave Publow is an environmental activist\, radio journalist\, printmaker\, and videographer. He is also a resident of Troy\, NY\, one of the many communities directly affected by the Norlite hazardous waste incinerator. His focus is to use the tools at his disposal to spread awareness of environmental injustice\, and to help galvanize the community to find the powers within themselves to meet the challenge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Rafferty \n\n\n\nCatherine Rafferty is a freelance photojournalist and documentary filmmaker from upstate New York whose work explores intimate\, complex themes with concern for social justice. She recently worked in Phoenix\, AZ at The Arizona Republic\, part of the USA Today network\, as a Pulliam Fellow covering the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice. She’s previously interned at the Times Union in Albany\, NY and The Sanctuary\, where she documented Uptown Summer in the Roots for Resilience solo exhibition. She graduated with a BFA in photojournalism from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2020. Rafferty produces the “Birth Justice” podcast on WOOC 105.3 FM and is currently media mentor to the Water Justice Lab Fellows at The Sanctuary. She’s excited to continue working with the fellows to tell the story of their community and its relationship to the river. \n\n\n\nFEATURING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Ritchie is an environmental justice advocate and the Executive Director of Saratoga Sites Against Norlite Emissions. He is a student at Syracuse University studying Environmental Policy. Joe grew up in the shadows of Norlite. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnvironmental Policy Expert Judith Enck founded Beyond Plastics in 2019 to end plastic pollution through education\, advocacy\, and institutional change. Passionate about protecting public health and the environment\, she teaches classes on plastic pollution as a Senior Fellow and visiting faculty member at Bennington College\, and was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. \n\n\n\nJudith has held top influential positions in state and federal government. Appointed by President Obama\, she served as the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency\, overseeing environmental protections in NY\, NJ\, eight Indian Nations\, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands – in addition to managing a staff of 800 and a $700M budget. Previously\, Judith served as Deputy Secretary for the Environment in the New York Governor’s Office\, and Policy Advisor to the New York State Attorney General. She was Senior Environmental Associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group\, served as Executive Director for Environmental Advocates of New York and the Non-Profit Resource Center\, and is a past President of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Judith appears on a weekly public affairs radio show on a local NPR affiliate\, the Roundtable on WAMC in Albany\, NY. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Heinzen is a long-term strategist and scenario planner with a successful 35-year practice working with companies and civil society\, usually in non-Western countries in Africa\, Asia and Latin America.  Recent assignments have been with two multi-stakeholder projects concerning the future of energy: one in East Africa and the other in Pennsylvania\, USA.  In 2011\, Barbara Heinzen returned to the USA from central London\, UK after buying 20 acres of land along the Hudson River in upstate New York.  This property is part of the Barbets Duet partnership. Individuals in East Africa\, England and the USA are working with their own land and communities to learn how to manage land for environmental benefit while improving local livelihoods. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
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SUMMARY:Arica: A Toxic Waste Scandal with "Our Soil" Panel
DESCRIPTION:View a special Northern Hemisphere sneak preview of the documentary Arica\, then join us for a panel discussion with directors\, Lars Edman and William Johansson Kalén\, plus local “Our Soil” project leader Professor Abby Kinchy and Professor Sebastian Ureta (Chile) and Rodrigo Pino (Chile). \n\n\n\nRegister to screen the Arica documentary by Lars Edman\, William Johansson Kalén plus join us for the  “Our Soil” Panel!  You will be sent a link once you register\, with a 24 hour window to view the film.  The panel will meet at 2 pm. Please view the film before or after the panel! \n\n\n\n[Please note: because this is a sneak preview\, we have agreed to close registration at 100 people\, so be sure to register!] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArica tells the story of a Swedish mining giant who dumped hazardous waste in Arica in northern Chile. Subsequently thousands of inhabitants are damaged. Now the survivors are seeking justice in a groundbreaking transnational corporate accountability trial. \n\n\n\nA Swedish mining company exports 20\,000 tonnes of toxic waste to the Chilean desert town of Arica. Thousands of people become sick\, many die from cancer. ARICA plunges us into the groundbreaking corporate accountability trial which begins after Lars Edman – born in Chile and raised in Boliden – exposes the scandal. \n\n\n\nAlongside his co-director William Johansson\, Lars follows the story for 15 years\, exposing how decisions made decades ago in Europe continue to affect people in South America.  Part personal journey\, part courtroom drama\, ARICA is the story of an afflicted community fighting for justice against a multinational company desperate to clear their name. \n\n\n\nToxic Colonialism – the export of waste material from rich to poor countries – is on trial.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Our Soil / Nuestros Suelos” \n\n\n\nThe city of Arica is a sister city with our local city of Troy\, NY\, in the project “Our Soil / Nuestros Suelos.” \n\n\n\nFunded from a National Science Foundation grant\,  Our Soil involves community-engaged environmental research (“citizen science”). The Our Soil / Nuestros Suelos teams have been developing a Community Soil Study Toolkit to test soils for three heavy metals (lead\, arsenic\, and copper) that may be found in urban soils. One of our partners is in Chile\, Dr. Sebastian Ureta\, has done work with these DIY kits in Arica\, Chile. \n\n\n\nThe research involves The Sanctuary for Independent Media as a community partner\, bringing to the project strong record of involving neighborhood youth in environmental projects\, such as water testing and urban gardening.  Our plan is to hold a series of hands-on workshops with North Troy neighborhood residents\, to teach them how to sample and analyze soil from yards and gardens. It is important to note a distinguishing element of the project: unlike soil testing projects that exist elsewhere\, NSF has funded us to develop and evaluate a method of collaborative\, community-based soil research. It is not merely “soil testing” but a package of interdisciplinary education and collective action\, conducted and analyzed by an interdisciplinary research team. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about the Panelists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLars Edman\n\n\n\nBorn in Chile and raised in Sweden\, Lars returned to South America to attend the Valparaiso Film School. Toxic Playground was Lars’ first film which went on to win 6 international awards\, screening in over 30 international festivals and being broadcast on TV across Europe. \n\n\n\nSince completing Toxic Playground\, Lars has retrained as a speech and language therapist and now lives in the north of Norway. Arica will be his second feature documentary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Johansson Kalén\n\n\n\nWilliam Johansson Kalén has worked as a Director\, Editor in chief\, DoP and Film editor since 2006 and has been working with a number of documentaries\, documentary series and TV-programs. He co-directed the award-winning documentary Toxic Playground in 2009 and started as a film producer in 2015 when he also became a shareholder of Laika Film & Television. He is currently producing an artistic documentary about architecture that will premiere in early 2021 and producing a couple of Laika’s projects in development. He has worked as assistant producer on the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld and the fiction Beauty And The Dogs and The Man Who Sold His Skin. He is also the Swedish producer in the fiction Jordanian film Farha that premiere in spring 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbby Kinchy\n\n\n\nAbby Kinchy is a sociologist\, working in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS). Her research examines the politics of pollution\, in order to illuminate the relationship between science and democracy. \n\n\n\nMost recently\, her research has focused on “citizen science”–public participation in environmental monitoring. Her goal is to bring concepts of power and social justice into sharper focus in popular and professional discussions of citizen science. What kind of citizenship is implied in citizen science? How can participatory environmental research enhance struggles for social change beyond merely generating data? Her book on this topic\, co-authored with Aya H. Kimura\, is Science by the People: Participation\, Power\, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge (Rutgers\, 2019). Kinchy’s newest NSF-funded project\, Nuestros Suelos/Our Soil\, explores how citizen science could help urban communities to identify heavy metal contamination in soil and to advocate for solutions. \n\n\n\nProfessor Kinchy is the author of Seeds\, Science\, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops (MIT\, 2012).  She was the PI on the NSF-funded Watershed Knowledge Mapping Project\, which examined the practices and politics of environmental monitoring in the context of shale gas development\, or “fracking.” She is also a co-organizer of STS Underground\, a research network that advances social science research on the technoscientific dimensions of mining\, burial\, and other forms of subterranean exploration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebastian Ureta\n\n\n\nSebastián Ureta is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago\, Chile). He trained as a sociologist\, with a focus on science and technology studies. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in sociology from the Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago and completed his PhD in 2006 in the media and communications department at the London School of Economics (UK). Subsequently\, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Sociología\, Universidad Católica de Chile. From November 2007 to March 2008 he was also a British Academy visiting fellow in the sociology department at Lancaster University (UK). From May 2009 to March 2012 he was a Marie Curie International incoming fellow at the Center for Technology and Society (ZTG)\, Technische Universität Berlin. Currently he is working on a research project focused on the government of industrial waste in Chile\, in particular the massive waste produced by the country’s booming mining industry. In March 2015 he became the PI of the Millennium Nucleus for Energy and Society Research (NUMIES)\, a new research group studying the interrelations between energy issues and society in Chile. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRodrigo Pino\n\n\n\nRodrigo Pino is from Arica. Since the beginning of the controversy regarding Boliden’s waste more than 10 years ago\, Rodrigo has been quite probably the most important spokesperson of the affected communities. \n\n\n\n— \n\n\n\nToxic justice is a platform where we discuss waste trade\, corporate responsibility and ways to legally challenge human rights abuse by big corporations in the west. The platform is inspired by the case of Arica Victims KB vs. Boliden and the documentary film ARICA\, which describes the case. Our goals are prevention\, accountability and reparation. And justice for those of us who are affected. \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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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SUMMARY:Echoes from Lock One
DESCRIPTION:“Echoes from Lock One” is an evocative call for environmental and water justice from the eyes and voices of youth in Troy\, NY. \n\n\n\nPersonally screen this video and listen to a Q&A podcast with co-creators! \n\n\n\nDuring the Sanctuary’s “Uptown Summer” program\, media makers\, artists and scientists worked with teens in camera\, audio production\, script writing\, music production\, dance\, historical research as well as scientific testing\, to create this experimental\, participatory documentary with a message for change: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“We live along the shores of the Hudson River at the beginning of the Erie Canal\, Lock One\, the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. The history of the Erie Canal and the devastating effects of industrialization are mostly unknown… even to the people of Troy\, who live right next to it.  Our river and our neighborhood have been poisoned by a legacy of pollution. This is our call to action. For justice and for our future. No more waiting!” \n\n\n\n\nFeatured in: \n\n\n\n\nEnvironmental Film Festival of the Capital\n\n\n\nNorth Dakota Environmental Film Festival\n\n\n\nKansas City Environmental Film Festival\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMistah Jayohcee is an Artist\, Activist\, Performer\, songwriter\, producer\, engineer\, and promoter – a jack of all trades. He is a First Nations Mohawk Warrior who is also a hip-hop artist. Jayohcee is featured in Echoes from Lock One\, teaching youth how to write and perform hip hop for their video\, and offering a private performance for them.\n\n\n\nCo-created by Youth Media Sanctuary/Uptown Summer Youth and Mentors in collaboration with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, Executive Producer Branda Miller.  \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary for Independent Media is a place for community-engaged interdisciplinary experimentation\, with the overarching goal of shedding light on the intersectional role of media\, science and art in the process of building a democratic society. Uptown Summer is a media arts and environmental education summer employment program for local youth to share homegrown stories of hope and justice.
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SUMMARY:Community Forum to Address Capital Region Health System Merger
DESCRIPTION:This event is over but\, thanks to the magic of Sanctuary TV\, you can watch the video here.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Zoom chat window is here. \n\n\n\nIn October 2020\, the Albany Times Union reported a planned merger between Ellis Medicine in Schenectady and St. Peter’s Health Partners. Mergers between Catholic Health Systems and secular hospitals have raised concern in communities across the country and they have for many years as evidenced by this 1995 article in the New York Times about Leonard and St. Mary’s Hospitals in Troy. \n\n\n\nAccording to the national group MergerWatch\, Catholic hospitals follow a set of ethical guidelines that prohibit the provision of certain kinds of patient care\, most often\, reproductive\, LGBTQ+-inclusive\, and end-of-life care. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConcerns about the financial stability of Ellis Medicine and its importance to the community reportedly drive the need for a partnership between two of the largest health systems in the region\, a solution that is the result of years of planning. \n\n\n\nBut religious restrictions and forces of healthcare economics threaten to have a disparate impact on residents who already face barriers in our healthcare system. A knowledgeable panel will discuss\, answer questions\, and hear comments from the community about: \n\n\n\n• How religious restrictions will affect (and how religious biases may affect) equitable access to healthcare services• Possible solutions to eliminating gaps in services through other local healthcare providers• Potential community benefits resulting from the partnership.• History of SPHS’s aggressive medical bill collection• Process required for partnership approval by the NYS Department of Health• The importance of memorializing the community’s priorities in the application for certificate of need\, including an effective enforcement mechanism• Opportunities for advocacy and continuing dialogue \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nMichelle Ostrelich is a Schenectady County Legislator and Chair of the Legislature’s Health & Human Services Committee. \n\n\n\nLois Uttley\, MPP\, is Women’s Health Program Director for Community Catalyst\, a national consumer health advocacy organization. She has worked for more than 20 years to protect access \n\n\n\nto comprehensive reproductive health services\, LGBTQ-inclusive care and end-of-life options when community hospitals propose to merge with nearby Catholic hospitals.  She has published research about the growth of large Catholic health systems and\, as Founder/Director of the MergerWatch Project\, advised community coalitions in 38 states\, including several in NYS. Now based in Manhattan\, Lois serves on the steering committee of the statewide Health Care for All New York coalition and coordinators the work of Community Voices for Health System Accountability. Formerly a Capital District resident\, she served as Vice President of Family Planning Advocates of NYS\, Director of Public Affairs for the NYS Department of Health and an award-winning reporter and editor covering New York State government for the Albany Times Union. \n\n\n\nArthur Butler is the executive director of the Schenectady County Human Rights Commission. Butler helped found the Capital District African American Coalition on AIDS\, serving as their executive director for 17 years. He also worked for Hunger Solutions New York and as the national project coordinator of the Framework for Dialogue – USA. \n\n\n\nNikita Hardy\, MPA\, is the Affirmative Action Manager for Schenectady County She is a well-respected\, highly recommended political strategist and community engager with over 14 years of progressive experience\, including having held dynamic roles within legislative\, state and local government. She recently has taken on several endeavors to further causes impacting marginalized communities.  Most notably her passion for birth justice and breastfeeding advocacy led her to organize the Capital Region Black Breastfeeding Empowerment Network\, as well as her committed research on Maternal Mortality of Black Women in America. She is an advocate\, an educator\, a public speaker\, full-spectrum Doula and policy enthusiast. \n\n\n\nDr. Debbie Stulberg is a long-time colleague in the work trying to protect reproductive health care from Catholic health restrictions. She was a family medicine resident at West Suburban Hospital in Illinois when it was taken over by the Catholic Resurrection Health System. Since then\, she has become one of the nation’s leading researchers on the impact of religious restrictions on patients and doctors. \n\n\n\nGlenn Northern leads and implements Catholics for Choice US activities\, including advocacy\, outreach\, policymaker education\, legislative analysis and collegial relationships. He directs CFC’s Catholics in Public Life project\, a nonpartisan public education initiative that helps Catholic policy makers in the US clearly articulate prochoice positions grounded in progressive Catholicism and sound public policy. He oversees CFC’s strategic relationships with pro-choice Catholics\, policymakers\, reproductive health providers\, religious and secular activists and collegial organizations to inform and influence debates on sexual and reproductive health and rights\, social justice and religious liberty. Before joining CFC\, Mr. Northern led constituency building and advocacy efforts at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. He holds a degree in political science and women’s studies from Williams College in Williamstown\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\nThis People’s Health Sanctuary event is sponsored by The Schenectady Coalition for Healthcare Access. The Schenectady Coalition for Healthcare Access was formed to educate the administrations and the public about the risks of losses to our community from Ellis’ partnership with SPHP. In addition to education\, members of the Coalition seek to advocate equitable access to evidence-based\, inclusive\, and comprehensive patient-centered care\, including comprehensive reproductive care\, infertility care\, LGBTQ+-inclusive care\, gender affirming care and end-of-life care within our local community. www.schdy.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCommunity partners include:Local Care Midwifery\, PLLCNew York Civil Liberties UnionRosemarie Pérez Jaquith\, Niskayuna Town Board MemberProClergy.comProgressive Schenectady
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-forum-to-address-capital-region-health-system-merger/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Community Investment\, Not Community Police
DESCRIPTION:This event is past – but you can watch the town hall on YouTube or below!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDid you know the City of Troy is voting next Thursday to expand the police force by six additional officers?\n\n\n\nJoin a coalition of groups from Troy in a Town Hall on Sunday\, May 2\, 2021 as we discuss recent actions by the City of Troy around policing. This gathering is being convened at the last minute as the City Council Finance Committee pushes forward to hire an additional SIX police officers to the Troy Police Department. The proposal passed in this Committee with a 5-2 vote and the full City Council vote will take place on Thursday\, May 6\, 2021. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Troy Coalition of Black Leaders\, NAACP Troy Branch\, YWCA of the Greater Capital Region\, The Justice Center of Rensselaer County\, Equality for Troy\, and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nJerry Ford (Troy Coalition of Black Leaders)\n\n\n\nRenee Powell (NAACP Troy Branch)\n\n\n\nWillie Terry  (Coalition of Black Trade Unionists)\n\n\n\nDiamond Owens (Community Youth)\n\n\n\nStarletta Smith (Police Reform & Reinvention Collaborative)\n\n\n\nTasheca Medina (Equality for Troy)\n\n\n\nJessica Ashley (The Justice Center for Rensselaer County)\n\n\n\nDeanna Ultimo Swenson (North Central resident)\n\n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nRecently\, the City of Troy\, like most municipalities across the State of New York\, held a series of discussions on the topic of policing. Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 203\, issued in June of 2020\, required municipalities with police forces to examine the policies and procedures of their police department and make recommendations for future changes to address police violence\, biased policing\, and systemic racism. The measure stated its intention was to provide transparency and build trust\, urging localities to hold listening sessions and meetings with community members. \n\n\n\nMayor Madden did not announce the creation or intentions of the Police Reform & Reinvention Collaborative until the end of January 2021. There were nine highly controlled meetings held in February with very little open community participation—the city made little effort to inform residents about the meeting or how to get involved. \n\n\n\nOnce the report was drafted\, in early March\, Black leaders throughout the city expressed their dismay and loss of trust in the city about this process. This included all four Black PRRC committee members (Starletta Smith\, Executive Director\, YWCA of the Greater Capital Region\, Inc. and Renée Powell\, President of the NAACP\, Troy\, NY Branch\, Pastor Justin Relf of Rhema Revealed Ministries\, and Stacey Howard of Troy’s Police Objective Review Board). They released a statement decrying the report and saying that they felt “tokenized throughout this process.” \n\n\n\nSo why this\, why now? \n\n\n\nAs critiques of policing grow across the country and calls for reallocating funds to expand or create new entities to respond to mental health calls\, domestic disputes\, traffic stops\, and more\, Troy is swiftly pushing forward to increase the police budget and add more police to the force. Again\, with very little time for dialogue and discussion with community members and community leaders. \n\n\n\nWhile the City of Troy\, Mayor Madden\, and the Troy City Council avoid input from community members\, we are making space for dialogue and discussion. We know that with more investment in social services and community support\, communities can better look out for each other and construct the means through which to survive and thrive.In what ways can we call for structural investment to address the history of deliberate marginalization and segregation? How can we invest in our under-funded\, under-served\, structurally marginalized Black and brown communities? \n\n\n\nWhile Mayor Patrick Madden told the Times Union\, “People want police officers out in the neighborhood. They want police officers to know them. They want to know their police officers.” Given the lack of space for open dialogue and discussion\, we don’t know who the Mayor is referring to. \n\n\n\nWe are convening to address the lack of dialogue\, alternatives to policing\, alternatives to more police and a bigger police budget as an answer\, and calls to invest in our neighborhoods and communities! \n\n\n\nJoin us. Listen. Share your thoughts. \n\n\n\n\nWhat should Troy be investing in?\n\n\n\nWhy increase an already large police budget?\n\n\n\nThe problems of policing in Troy.\n\n\n\nWhat are alternatives to hiring “community” police officers?\n\n\n\nLocal leaders will discuss their opinions and visions for Troy\n\n\n\nWhat are strategies for moving forward?\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nYou can listen to Renée Powell and Starletta Smith share more about their experience on the City of Troy’s Police Reform & Reinvention Collaborative committee with Hudson Mohawk Magazine producer\, Elizabeth Press:
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-investment-not-community-police/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Witness to the Future: 25th Anniversary Screening
DESCRIPTION:Witness to the Future still\n\n\n\nTwenty-five years after its release\, Witness to the Future’s focus on so-called “ordinary” citizens turned environmental activists has more relevance than ever before! Here’s an interview with producer Branda Miller on the WOOC Hudson Mohawk Magazine as part of the build-up to this event. \n\n\n\nIt’s time to watch this video again!   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThen\, watch the Q&A with WTTF filmmaker Branda Miller and co-producer Robin Oppenheimer speaking with interviewer Corinne Carey of WOOC 105.3 FM’s Hudson Mohawk Magazine before this 25th anniversary screening. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBranda Miller’s “Witness to the Future” is an experimental documentary video project about individuals who have been transformed from so called “ordinary” citizens into activists who struggle for environmental and social change. \n\n\n\n“Witness to the Future” seeks connections that unite people of all cultures\, communities\, races\, and economic classes as they struggle for environmental and social change. Represented are people from three regions of the U.S.: the “downwinders” of Hanford\, WA\, including Native Americans; “whistleblowers” and white-collar workers from the nuclear reservation; rural African American\, poor\, and working-class communities in “Cancer Alley\,” LA; and Latino and Hmong farmworkers and mothers in the San Joaquin Valley\, CA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReviews of “Witness to the Future“ \n\n\n\nThe Economist \n\n\n\n\n“Environmentalist may be leery of some modern technologies\, such as genetic engineering and nuclear power. Yet one new technology promises to make their movement much more powerful. This CD-ROM demonstrates how recent advances in computing and the internet can be used for dramatic political effect. The enemies of the greens – the firms and governments that greens accuse of neglecting nature – aught to watch out.” \n\n\n\n\nMacWorld \n\n\n\n\n“If you seek thought-provoking material for an environmentally inclined friend\, look no further.“ \n\n\n\n\nI.D. Magazine \n\n\n\n\n“It will change the way you think about [Image] consumerism and the industrial infrastructure that supports it.“ \n\n\n\n\nWorldFest International Film and Video Festival \n\n\n\nGold Award – Interactive Educational / Adult CategorySilver Award – Ecology / Environment / Conservation Category \n\n\n\nDr. Nicholas J. Smith-Sebasto \n\n\n\n\n“When I experienced Witness to the Future\, I was left literally NUMB. My initial impression was one of complete shock. Branda has created something that appears to be truly revolutionary. Those interested in the Environmental must be made aware of her production and more important\, must be trained in how to use it.” (National Association of Environmental Educators) \n\n\n\n\nPacifica Network & Democracy Now!Segment about “Witness to the Future\,” December 29\, 1997 \n\n\n\nAbout the Filmmaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBranda Miller is a media artist and educator\, dedicated to art\, ecology and community interdisciplinary arts. She is the Arts and Education Coordinator at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, where she has developed numerous media literacy/community arts/youth media and creative place-making projects. She is a Professor of Media Arts at Rensselaer\, teaching courses in documentary\, art\, community and technology\, and independent art production.  Miller is an Emmy award-winning editor who worked in the media industry of L.A. and N.Y.C.\, and whose media art works have been screened\, exhibited and broadcast nationally and internationally. Branda Miller has three decades of experience in participatory design and praxis\, and a history of transdisciplinary collaborations created to stimulate cultural animation\, build community\, and create dialogue around freedom of expression and environmental justice. \n\n\n\nAbout the Producer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin Oppenheimer is a Seattle-based internationally recognized media arts historian\, curator\, educator\, and scholar who has worked in the field since 1980. She was Executive Director of media arts centers in Atlanta (IMAGE Film/Video 1984-89) and Seattle (911 Media Arts 1989-95). Earning a PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in 2011\, she was a Lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell (2008-2015) and adjunct faculty at Cornish College of the Arts (2014-16). Recent projects include working as a media arts historian/writer for Google’s Artist and Machine Intelligence group in Seattle https://ami.withgoogle.com/ . Her areas of research include media arts histories\, with an emphasis on 1960s collaborative art & technology projects (light shows\, E.A.T.)\, participatory media\, and media activism.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/witness-to-the-future-25th-anniversary-screening/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening
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SUMMARY:Sunflower Planting around Norlite
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 15th to plant sunflowers across the City of Cohoes\, with the City’s permission. We hope this will be a healing activity for our community that is affected by Norlite’s emissions. Sunflowers not only beautify the landscape\, they are hyperaccumulators\, removing toxins and heavy metals from the soil. \n\n\n\nWhere: Saratoga Sites (courtyard)Bring water to stay hydrated and garden tools/gloves\, if handy. \n\n\n\nRain Day/Updates/Directions: call or text Alexis Goldsmith\, 260-444-1341
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/sunflower-planting-around-norlite/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210522T110000
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SUMMARY:CCG Plant Swap Party!
DESCRIPTION:Join us (socially distanced\, of course!) to actively learn about garden propagation and division!  The fruits of our labor will fill the beds of Collard City Growers and swap plants with attendees! \n\n\n\n\nThis is an event for the community and gardeners to get together and exchange seedlings for the season. Stop by to pick up some seedlings that you might want for your garden\, drop off any extra flats that you don’t have room for\, or just come on over to hangout and say hi 🙂 Azure and Christian are generously providing Shiso\, Bronze Fennel\, Absinth\, Wormwood\, Wild Strawberries\, Anise Hyssop\, Bee Balm\, Garlic Chives\, Elderberry\, Lovage\, Rhubarb\, Willow cuttings\, Borage\, Irises\, Day Lilies\, and lots more. And remember\, all plants that you give and take are FREE! \n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Felicity Jones\n\n\n\n\nWe hope everyone will enjoy the plants we have to offer and are excited to see what others have to share. Please be sure to still wear a face mask and follow safe social distancing. Looking forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\nAnd if you haven’t listened to it already\, check out an interview with Christian Grigoraskos and Azure Keahi talking about the history of Collard City Growers\, the purpose of the space\, and advertising the Plant Swap.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/ccg-plant-swap-party/
LOCATION:Collard City Growers\, 3337 6th Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210528T190000
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SUMMARY:Blitz of the L-Lot: Permaculture in North Central!
DESCRIPTION:Join us!  \n\n\n\nWe have a semi annual Blitz of the L lot\, which is at the South End of the alley on Glen Street and is one of CCG Garden Mentor Christian Grigoraskos’ favorite places on the Sanctuary campus.  With a bit of care each year\, we have been ushering this once abandoned space into a beautiful and productive Food Forest\, a very unique sort that is largely been dictated by what is already there and has come in naturally. Includes Plant Identification!  Please bring gloves if you have them! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA message from Christian: \n\n\n\nMay you live in Wild times\, with Wild Spaces.  \n\n\n\nEcology capitalizes on disturbance (dissed-urbance) and when humans intervene with guided observance a paradise is born…so join us for our biannual Blitz of a patch of land We call the L lot because of its L shape and because of the deep Love we have for all our Botanical allies that inhabit it.  Each growing season we give just a little bit more support to the plants we want to see grow while utilizing the surrounding biomass of support species that grow rampant in our climate offering their bodies to the cycle of soil life.  \n\n\n\n\nIn this workshop we will cover many permaculture principles and practices such as:\n\n\n\n\nPaying attention\n\n\n\nPlant identification\n\n\n\nSuccession planning\n\n\n\nChop and drop mulching \n\n\n\nPollarding and other radical pruning methods\n\n\n\nPicking up trash\n\n\n\nStaring at bees coming and going from their entrance\n\n\n\nImagining the possibilities based on our observations
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/blitz-of-the-l-lot-permaculture-in-north-central/
LOCATION:Collard City Growers\, 3337 6th Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Workshop
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Opening Celebration with Dr. Jennifer Willet and special guests
DESCRIPTION:From the streets of Troy\, NY to community science labs around the globe\, join our NATURE Lab Opening Celebration!  \n\n\n\nJoin us for the grand virtual opening of NATURE Lab! From around the world\, bio artists\, scientists and ecologists will inaugurate our new community science laboratory. Featuring a virtual talk/performance by Dr. Jennifer Willet\, bio artist from INCUBATOR Lab in Windsor\, Canada\, along with special guests including Dr. Catherine Febria  from Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in Windsor\, Marta de Menezes from Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal\, and more!  \n\n\n\nDirectly after this event\, witness our Water Justice Lab youth fellows\, in collaboration with Riverkeeper\, test community collected water samples of our nearby Hudson River! \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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\nDr. Jennifer Willet\n\n\n\nDr. Jennifer Willet is a Canada Research Chair in Art\, Science\, and Ecology and an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor (Canada.) Willet is an internationally successful artist and curator in the emerging field of bioart. Her work explores notions of representation and body in relation to evolving biotechnologies with an emphasis on ecological metaphors.  She taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University in Montreal Canada from 2000-2007\, and completed her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at the same institution.  Willet also taught “Bioart: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences” for The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden in The Netherlands in 2008.  In 2009 she opened the first bioart lab in Canada called INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art\, Science\, and Ecology.  www.incubatorartlab.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL GUESTS\n\n\n\nDr. Catherine Febria\n\n\n\nDr. Catherine Febria is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) & Dept. of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor. She is co-Director of the GLIER Organic Analysis & Nutrients Laboratory\, a central research facility.  She is Associate Director of FishCAST\, an NSERC CREATE graduate student training program. Her research focuses on the ecology and restoration of small streams and wetlands\, and their role in contributing to ecosystem health in the Laurentian Great Lakes. She remains actively involved as an alumni Fellow with the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)\, as Co-Chair of the International Science Advisory Panel for New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge\, and has served as Coordinating Editor with the journal Restoration Ecology since 2017. She held a postdoctoral role at the University of Maryland’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (2010-2013) and most recently relocated her research back to the Great Lakes Region of Canada from the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is co-founder of the Kindness in Science global initiative\, and contributes actively to actions\, scholarship & mentorship to support justice\, equity\, diversity & inclusion in academia. Twitter: @ecofebria \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes\n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon\, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford\, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology\, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium. In 1999 de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then\, she has used diverse biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised (Functional Portraits\, 2002); fluorescent DNA probes to create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei (nucleArt\, 2002); sculptures made of proteins (Proteic Portrait\, 2002-2007)\, DNA (Innercloud\, 2003; The Family\, 2004) or incorporating live neurons (Tree of Knowledge\, 2005) or bacteria (Decon\, 2007). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions\, articles and lectures. She is currently the artistic director of Ectopia\, an experimental art laboratory in Lisbon\, and Director of Cultivamos Cultura in the South of Portugal. http://martademenezes.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Vanouse\n\n\n\nPaul Vanouse is an artist working in Emerging Media forms. Radical interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism guide his practice. Since the early 1990s his artwork has addressed complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences using these very techno-sciences as a medium.  His artworks have included data collection devices that examine the ramifications of polling and categorization\, genetic experiments that undermine scientific constructions of race and identity\, and temporary organizations that playfully critique institutionalization and corporatization. These “Operational Fictions” are hybrid entities–simultaneously real things and fanciful representations–intended to resonate in the equally hyper-real context of the contemporary electronic landscape. Paul Vanouse is the founder and director of Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts. Coalesce Lab is a hybrid studio laboratory facility dedicated to enabling hands-on creative engagement with the tools and technologies of the life sciences. https://www.buffalo.edu/genomeenvironmentmicrobiome/coalesce.html Website: http://paulvanouse.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Joel Ong\n\n\n\nProfessor Joel Ong is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment\, particularly with respect to sound and physical space.  Professor Ong’s work explores the way objects and spaces can function as repositories of ‘frozen sound’\, and in elucidating these\, he is interested in creating what systems theorist Jack Burnham (1968) refers to as “art (that) does not reside in material entities\, but in relations between people and between people and the components of their environment”. A serial collaborator\, Professor Ong is invested in the broader scope of Art-Science collaborations and is engaged constantly in the discourses and processes that facilitate viewing these two polemical disciplines on similar ground. Joel Ong is the Director\, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology. Based in the School of the Arts\, Media\, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University\, Sensorium is a research centre for creative inquiry and experimentation at the intersection of the media arts\, performance\, and digital culture. As a site for co-creation and shared critical reflection\, Sensorium serves as a catalyst for examining how diverse media platforms enable multi-sensory perception and embodied experience\, along with new modes of social engagement. Bridging disciplines and diverse communities\, Sensorium researchers\, artists\, and scientists explore networked connections between people\, sentient environments\, and ecologies of place. https://sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/joel-ong/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Tuck\, M.S.\n\n\n\nBeth Tuck (she/her) is the Executive Director at Genspace. Previously\, she was a genomics education specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) where she worked on enhancing K-16 genomic literacy\, education\, and community engagement. Her work included designing curricular resources\, engaging students and teachers in hands-on genomics activities\, supporting teacher professional development\, and training scientists in public engagement skills. Her graduate research at Washington University in St. Louis focused on the genetics and molecular mechanisms of neurological and neuromuscular disorders. Genspace is the world’s first community biology lab — a place where people of all backgrounds can learn\, create\, and grow with the life sciences. Since 2009\, we have served the greater New York area by providing hands-on STEAM education programs for youth and adults\, cultural and outreach events for the public\, and a membership program to support New York’s community of creatives\, researchers\, and entrepreneurs. Our programs demystify scientific processes\, provide a platform for innovation\, and cultivate the next generation of life sciences leaders in emerging global technologies\, such as biotechnology\, neuroscience\, epidemiology\, genomics\, and many more. https://www.genspace.org/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Vesna\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nVictoria Vesna\, Ph.D.\, is an Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center at the School of the Arts (North campus) and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) (South campus). Although she was trained early on as a painter (Faculty of Fine arts\, University of Belgrade\, 1984)\, her curious mind took her on an exploratory path that resulted in work can be defined as experimental creative research residing between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation (PhD\, CAiiA_STAR\, University of Wales\, 2000). Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers\, nano-scientists\, neuroscientists\, evolutionary biologists and she brings this experience to students. Victoria Vesna is the founder and director of Art|Sci of UCLA. The Art|Sci Center focuses on collaborative projects that address social\, ethical and environmental issues related to scientific innovations. “To pursue\, facilitate and promote research and programs that demonstrate the potential of media arts and science collaborations.” We are part of a world-wide network of artists and scientists who are interested in philosophical dialogue as well as working together on artistic or applied projects. http://artsci.ucla.edu/ Website : https://www.victoriavesna.com/
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/nature-lab-opening-celebration-with-dr-jennifer-willet-and-special-guests/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: "American Sadism"
DESCRIPTION:Chris Hedges returns to the Sanctuary for a virtual talk about the times in which we live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSadism now defines nearly every cultural\, social and political experience in the United States. It is expressed in the greed of an oligarchic elite that has seen its wealth increase during the pandemic by $1.1 trillion while the country has suffered the sharpest rise in its poverty rate in more than 50 years.  It is expressed in extra-judicial killings by police in cities such as Minneapolis. It is expressed in our complicity in Israel’s wholesale killing of unarmed Palestinians\, the humanitarian crisis engendered by the war in Yemen and our reigns of terror in Afghanistan\, Iraq and Syria. It is expressed in the torture in our prisons and black sites. It is expressed in the separation of children from their undocumented parents\, where they are held as if they were dogs in a kennel. \n\n\n\nThe historian Johan Huizinga\, writing about the twilight of the middle ages\, argued that as things fall apart sadism is embraced as a way to cope with the hostility of an indifferent universe. No longer bound to a common purpose\, a ruptured society retreats into the cult of the self. It celebrates\, as do corporations on Wall Street or mass culture through reality television shows\, the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm\, grandiosity and self-importance; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying\, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt. Get what you can\, as fast as you can\, before someone else gets it. This is the state of nature\, the “war of all against all\,” Thomas Hobbes saw as the consequence of social collapse\, a world in which life becomes “solitary\, poor\, nasty\, brutish\, and short.” And this sadism\, as Friedrich Nietzsche understood\, fuels a perverted\, sadistic pleasure. \n\n\n\nCheck out Chris Hedges’ “The Politics of Cultural Despair\,” recorded on October 18\, 2020 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media!
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/chris-hedges-american-sadism/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:Our Soil Community Meeting
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\nLead poisoning is a serious health threat in many cities\, including Troy\, but there is a lot we can do to prevent it. At this community meeting\, you will learn about how soil can be a source of lead exposure – and you will have a chance to shape a study of soil contamination in North Central Troy! This meeting is open to anyone interested in environmental justice and a healthy city for the residents of Troy. \n\n\n\nWe will be hosting the Our Soil Community Event through NATURE Lab at the Sanctuary for Independent Media.  At this time\, the meeting will be online\, via Zoom\, however we will also be sharing it on YouTube afterward to make it easier to access for the greater community. \n\n\n\nWe strongly encourage you to invite family\, friends and neighbors to attend – as this community focused meeting will be introducing neighborhood residents and the broader Troy community to the issue of heavy metals in urban soils\, and ways to reduce exposure to lead and arsenic found in urban soils. \n\n\n\nParticipating fellows will have an opportunity to speak during the meeting to share with their community why they are participating in the Our Soil project\, we will have interactive activities to not only spark conversations around the concerns of the community\, but also to help inspire appreciation for healthy soils and hope about our future relationships with soil. You can learn more about Our Soil by visiting our project page HERE \n\n\n\nAgenda :  \n\n\n\nIntroduction to the Sanctuary and NATURE Lab Introduction to Our Soil – purpose\, goals\, plans Introduction of Soil Justice Fellows and how their efforts will help the community Overview of North Central environmental history and why we find lead and arsenic hereGroup interactive activities and brainstorming sessionsCulminating discussion about how improving the health of soils has direct health benefits for us\, giving some practical ideas about what everyone can do to reduce exposures to contaminated soils and improve the quality of the soils around them. Sampling instructions for Soil Justice Fellows\n\n\n\nTO JOIN/REGISTER FOR THE MEETING : \n\n\n\nTopic: Our Soil MeetingTime: Jul 25\, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82095722569 \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 820 9572 2569One tap mobile+19292056099\,\,82095722569# US (New York)+13126266799\,\,82095722569# US (Chicago) \n\n\n\nDial by your location        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)Meeting ID: 820 9572 2569Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdaPdauixa
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/oursoil/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black August
DESCRIPTION:Open to all\, this Black August event is a time to remember Black revolutionaries\, organize around principles of unity and self-sacrifice\, and educate ourselves around critical resistance for Black people. Black August was initially conceptualized around the murder of George Jackson in 1971. \n\n\n\nOrganized and led by Hope Health Healing Collective of Youth Sanctuary\, with Uptown Summer 2021! \n\n\n\nPlease check the Black August NY web site for other Black August events! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBLACK AUGUST 2020 (Luz Marquez Benbow)
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/black-august/
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SUMMARY:"Art and Ecology: In the Spirit of the Suffragettes" Mycelial tiles workshop with Mae-ling Lokko
DESCRIPTION:Watch the event recording here.\n\n\n\nMae-ling will be offering a virtual overview of her work with mycelia from 10:00-10:30am. Her brief presentation will be followed by a small number of participants at NATURE Lab who will engage in a hands-on workshop creating the mycelial tiles. This workshop is part of Art and Ecology: In the Spirit of the Suffragettes\, funded by National Endowment for the Arts “Art Works.” \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\nMae-ling Lokko is an architectural scientist and biomaterials technology researcher from Ghana and the Philippines whose work centers on the upcycling of agrowaste and biopolymer materials. Her research integrates a broad range of criteria that questions contemporary material-value systems to evolve life cycle design to meet generative justice criteria.  \n\n\n\nLokko teaches seminars and design studios on energy and ecology in relation to the built environment\, upcycling and ecoeffective material life cycle design. Lokko holds a Ph.D. and Masters of Science in Architectural Science from the Center from Architecture\, Science and Ecology\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and B.A from Tufts University. \n\n\n\nFor more information: maelokko.com  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Deeper View of the Mycelial Tiles Workshop\n\n\n\nThe exquisite tiles created from this workshop will adorn the wall of the People’s Health Sanctuary in NATURE Lab. While adding aesthetic beauty to the space\, they offer deeper metaphor of connection at the People’s Health Santuary\, NATURE Lab and the Sanctuary. \n\n\n\n\n“As we move forward in an unknown future\, we can learn so much from the invisible organisms that create the foundation of our living world! The mycelial tiles we create will be a constant reminder for us of the power of the community when it works together.”  \n\n\n\nBoard member Aileen Javier \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat can we learn from mycelium?– A mycelium is the bulk of the fungi organism\, growing a mass of threads and fibrous networks underground.  While we see the mushroom (which is the fruiting body of the fungi)\, mycelium create massive networks underground\, which are used to allow communication and resource sharing throughout the forest.  Like mycelium\, we are also social creatures\, forming networks and connections that can allow us to communicate and help each other.  How do networks strengthen communities?– The pandemic has brought up more and more to the surface that in order to have a sustainable society we must go back to a community-based participatory approach; we are seeing more networks forming and collaborating to help each other (like the mycelium).   Individuals as part of those networks? – Metaphorically\, Individuals are like the branches of the mycelium\, stepping up and helping each other bringing up their strengths. While our culture highlights some individuals and creates hierarchies of importance\, we can learn from mycelium that the underground\, invisible work that so many individuals do is what creates the strength of our networks.  \n\n\n\nArt & Ecology: In the Spirit of the Suffragettes\, supported by National Endowment of the Arts “Art Works.”\n\n\n\nThis workshop is part of Art and Ecology: In the Spirit of the Suffragettes\, funded by National Endowment for the Arts “Art Works.” We highlight the work of three exceptional women artists who represent a diversity of races and cultures: \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMae-Ling Lokko\, an artist and architect who lives between Ghana and U.S.\, focuses on upcycling. She transforms materials considered waste into building materials. Lokko will work with community to create a public art sculpture. \n\n\n\nTiare Ribeaux will focus on creation of bio-plastics and biodegradable materials for art projects\, potentially culminating in a site-specific installation that can be reabsorbed into the environment\, and creating bioplastic tiles which share participants’ hopes and dreams for a sustainable future  \n\n\n\nMinerva Hernández is a Mexican artist who combines art\, science and technology to realize interdisciplinary formations which include dance\, cinematography and photography. Her innovative observations of biodiversity\, as well as experience with arts collectives\, offer opportunity to collaborate with local community to realize a site specific installation for our local ecology.  \n\n\n\nThese residencies inaugurate our new NATURE Lab Urban Environmental Arts & Education Center at the northern tip of the Hudson River Estuary. Through intersections of art\, science and social practice\, each artist will develop a project to advance research\, produce creative content\, and help our surrounding community.  \n\n\n\nPositioning the suffragettes as important role models to explore the devastating effects of gender\, racial and economic bias on our biodiversity and ecosystems\, the artists offer creative calls to action for ecological justice and survival of Mother Earth.  Our goal is to bring history alive through the trans-disciplinary field of bio-art. Integrating art and biology\, installation and multimedia\, visual arts and performance\, these new forms of artistic expression pose ethical\, social and philosophical questions about our rapidly changing ecosystem.  \n\n\n\nWomen artists and artists of color continue to face pervasive under-representation in museums and galleries. This project is in protest of this discrimination–even the new field of bio-arts is male-dominated. We will showcase world-class artists who demonstrate the present-day creative power of women working together to overcome great odds. The century-old suffragette message needs to be heard: women bear the brunt of economic inequality and ecological devastation. These residencies give voice to inequities\, and our struggle for the environmental health of our community and wide world.  \n\n\n\n\nPeople’s Science Interview With Mae – Ling Lokko
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/art-and-ecology-in-the-spirit-of-the-suffragettes-mycelial-tiles-workshop-with-mae-ling-lokko/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Garlic Planting Party
DESCRIPTION:Collard City Growers will be hosting a Garlic Planting Party to honor Indigenous People’s Day and prepare for next year’s growing season. The garlic planted is generously donated by Dara Silbermann of 2nd Street Farm and from our own Branda Miller’s Garden.  \n\n\n\nWe will also be fundraising for Collard City Growers by selling some jellies and jams made from various fruits of the garden. We sincerely appreciate any small monitory donation to help us purchase necessary items to keep the garden healthy and productive in coming years. \n\n\n\nPick up for your own: \n\n\n\n\nHomemade grape jellies  \n\n\n\nDried herbs \n\n\n\nPotted plants \n\n\n\nFresh veggies from the garden\n\n\n\n\nStop in for planting\, stay to enjoy the fruits of our fall labor. This in person event will take place at the Collar City Grower Garden at 3337 6th Ave in North Troy 12181
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/garlic-planting-party/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Fundraiser
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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: "Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison"
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual talk\, activist author Chris Hedges speaks about his new book\, “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison\,” on the occasion of its release by publisher Simon & Schuster. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHedges has taught courses in drama\, literature\, philosophy\, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison\, where students read and discussed plays by Amiri Baraka and August Wilson\, among others\, his class set out to write a play of their own. In writing the play\, Caged\, which would run for a month in 2018 to sold-out audiences at The Passage Theatre in Trenton\, New Jersey\, and later be published\, students gave words to the grief and suffering they and their families have endured\, as well as to their hopes and dreams. The class’s artistic and personal discovery\, as well as transformation\, is chronicled in heart-breaking detail in Our Class. This book gives a human face and a voice to those our society too often demonizes and abandons. It exposes the terrible crucible and injustice of America’s penal system and the struggle by those trapped within its embrace to live lives of dignity\, meaning\, and purpose. \n\n\n\nFind videos of Chris Hedges’s previous visits to the Sanctuary on Sanctuary TV.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award­–nominated RT America show On Contact. Hedges\, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University\, is the author of numerous books and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University\, New York University\, Princeton University\, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University since 2013 in the New Jersey prison system.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/our-class-trauma-and-transformation-in-an-american-prison-w-chris-hedges/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ruderal Ecologies 2
DESCRIPTION:The Ruderal Ecologies 2 virtual conference builds upon the 2018 Ruderal Ecologies: Grounds for Change conference\, which brought together thought leaders in art\, science\, and environmental justice to explore the history and future of urban environments shaped by stress. “Ruderal\,” from the Latin rudus (rubble)\, refers to plant species that are first to repopulate disturbed lands\, an apt analogy for the state of our post-industrial neighborhoods. It is through this lens that we will envision our futures. Ruderal Ecologies 2 conference is a collaboration between the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, ARTS and STS departments\, NATURE Lab and The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and the iEAR Presents series\, supported by in part by a Humanities New York SHARP Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal American Rescue Plan Act\, and the Vollmer Fries Lecture Series at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Media Alliance programs are 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\nClick For SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCE\n\n\n\nRuderal Ecologies 2 will once again bring together cutting-edge artists\, social scientists\, scholars\, and activists learning and working beyond the barriers of any one discipline\, and this time our work will be all-virtual\, making it possible to present thinkers and host virtual audiences from all over the globe. Reflecting our commitment to curating a feminist framework into this conference\, the majority of our presenters are women or gender non-conforming. We have also invited Indigenous authors\, artists\, and speakers\, with the intention of embedding a variety of Indigenous ways of thinking\, storytelling\, and expression into conversations about our urban futures. \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab\, a project of The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, is one block from the Hudson River at the beginning of the Erie Canal. Our Environmental education campus\, including Collard City Growers’ garden\, the L-Lot sustainable forest\, the NATURE Lab Residency Space\, and Freedom Square commons offer programming including community workshops\, public art installations\, artist residencies\, research activities\, and after school programs. NATURE Lab’s biosafety level 1 community bio laboratory focuses on issues around urban environmental justice and social justice. Upstairs from the laboratory the People’s Health Sanctuary space is being constructed to share health skills\, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuderal Ecologies 2 virtual conference confirmed presenters include: \n\n\n\nFriday night\, October 22\, 6pm – 8pm EDT: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Max Liboiron \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Max Liboiron is leader in both developing and promoting anticolonial research methods into a wide array of disciplines and spaces. As founder of CLEAR\, an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations\, Liboiron has influenced national policy on both plastics and Indigenous research\, invented technologies and protocols for community monitoring of plastics\, and led the development of the interdisciplinary field of discard studies. \n\n\n\nHere is the recording of Dr. Liboiron’s talk. \n\n\n\nLiboiron’s book\, Pollution is Colonialism\, bridges Science and Technology Studies (STS)\, Indigenous studies\, and discard studies while providing a framework for understanding all research methods as practices that align with or against colonialism. Focusing on plastic pollution\, the text models an anticolonial scientific practice associated with Métis concepts of land\, ethics\, and relations\, and demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible\, but it is currently being practiced. One reviewer for the book wrote that the text “is at the leading edge of a significant turn in STS towards thinking with settler-colonialism as a structure and terrain and contributes significantly as well to thinking about how ethical principles related to lab science and studies of pollution and shorelines. There are exceedingly few texts of this kind that ask\, how might we consider relations with land/waters and science – and still practice ‘good’ science?” \n\n\n\nDr. Liboiron is an Associate Professor in Geography and is formerly the Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Research) at Memorial University. Liboiron is Métis/Michif (Woodman via Red River) who grew up in Lac la Biche\, Treaty 6 territory. Gender pronouns: they/them. Liboiron is pronounced: Lee-Bwah-rohn. https://maxliboiron.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 23 11am – 4pm EDT: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Bettina Stoetzer \n\n\n\n\n\nBettina Stoetzer teaches cultural anthropology at M.I.T. Her research focuses on the intersections of ecology\, globalization\, and urban social justice. Bettina received her M.A. in Sociology\, Anthropology and Media Studies from the University of Goettingen and completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011. Before coming to MIT\, she was a Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. Bettina’s most recent book\, Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration and Urban Life in Berlin (Duke University Press\, 2018)\, draws on fieldwork with immigrant and refugee communities\, as well as ecologists\, nature enthusiasts and other Berlin residents to illustrate how human-environment relations have become a key register through which urban citizenship is articulated in contemporary Europe.  https://culanth.org/fieldsights/rethinking-nature-an-interview-with-bettina-stoetzer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Anna Scime \n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Scime is an internationally exhibited media artist whose latest project\, Lake Sturgeons’ Guide for Surviving the Anthropocene\, is an experimental work created from nine years of research and fieldwork collaborations with scientists working in biology\, geology and ecology. It consists of a feature length nonfiction film\, a series of short video essays and a multimedia installation comprised of interrelated pieces. The project examines history\, art\, culture\, and language through an ecological lens pointed at a single species and zooms outward from there. Though varied in material\, style and genre\, Scime most often experiments with moving-image-based work at the intersection of art\, technology and science – addressing topics including the Anthropocene\, eco-histories\, and the archive. http://www.a–a.org/ \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Interview with Anna Scime\, Presenter at Ruderal Ecologies 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTiare Ribeaux is a kānaka maoli interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker originally from Honolulu and based in the Bay Area. Her work employs storytelling to reveal social and ecological imbalances while imagining more regenerative futures. She explores how both our bodies and the technologies we use are entangled with the environment\, and aims to recenter indigenous narratives. She is the co-founder and creative director of B4BEL4B gallery. \n\n\n\nShe has shown work both nationally and internationally\, and has won numerous grants and awards for her artistic leadership including 2 New and Experimental Works Grants from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation\, and grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Doris Duke Foundation\, and the Center for Cultural Innovation\, among others. She has given artist guest lectures at conferences and universities\, and has worked with Leonardo/ISAST\, the de Young Museum\, YBCA\, and the California Academy of Sciences\, among others. She was awarded a web residency with Akademie Schloss Solitude + ZKM in 2019 and selected for the American Arts Incubator in 2017-18 with ZERO1 Arts and Technology Network with the US Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs. http://www.tiareribeaux.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNatasha Myers is ill and unable to attend \n\n\n\nNatasha Myers is an anthropologist\, artist\, and activist living on Dish With One Spoon Lands\, in Toronto. She is an associate professor at York University\, director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory\, founder of the Politics of Evidence Working Group\, and co-founder of Toronto’s Technoscience Salon. Her current ethnographic projects speculate on ways of seeding plant/people conspiracies\, with investigations spanning the arts and sciences of vegetal sensing and sentience\, the politics of gardens\, and the enduring colonial violence of restoration ecology. Since 2015 she has been working with dancer and filmmaker Ayelen Liberona on Becoming Sensor\, an anticolonial research-creation project that detunes settler common sense to invent protocols for an ungrid-able ecology of the happenings ongoing in the ancient oak savannah lands around Toronto. She is the author of Rendering Life Molecular: Models\, Modelers and Excitable Matter (Duke 2015)\, co-author of Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le langage des plants (Éditions La Découverte 2020) co-editor of the forthcoming Reactivating Elements: Chemistry\, Ecology\, Practice (Duke\, 2022)\, and co-editor of the forthcoming What is Life? (Das Neue Alphabet\, Spector Books\, 2021).  For more information see http://natashamyers.org  \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, October 24 11am – 4pm EDT: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Scott Kellogg \n\n\n\n\n\nScott Kellogg\, is the Educational Director of the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center\, an urban environmental education non-profit in Albany\, New York.  Radix’s pedagogy applies questions of equity\, access\, race\, and class to the post-industrial urban ecosystem\, seeking to create reciprocal and mutualistic relationships between urban youth and the soils\, water\, air\, non-human life\, and waste cycles of the city.  Scott’s work with Radix is documented in his new book Urban Ecosystem Justice: Strategies for Equitable Sustainability and Ecological Literacy in the City (Routledge\, 2021)\, which explores topics including community-based bioremediation\, artificial floating islands\, composting justice\, and biocultural diversity.  Scott holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and teaches in Bard College’s Masters in Environmental Education program. http://radixcenter.org/   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with WhiteFeather Hunter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhiteFeather Hunter is a multiple award-winning Canadian artist and scholar working in a research\, craft and performance-based transdisciplinary practice. She specializes in biomaterials research\, used predominantly to develop new critical discourse. She has been professionally engaged in a craft-based (bio)art practice for over 18 years\, via an ongoing material investigation of the functional\, aesthetic and technological potential of bodily materials. Her works coalesce various media approaches\, such as textile methods\, biology\, storytelling (video\, audio and text)\, performance\, public intervention\, digital + web-based installations and DIY electronics. WhiteFeather is a multiple-award winner and grant recipient\, holding a Master of Fine Arts in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University. She is currently a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow\, Australian Government International RTP Scholar and UWA Postgraduate Scholar\, situated between the School of Human Sciences and School of Design at The University of Western Australia. https://www.whitefeatherhunter.ca/about \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Margaretha Haughwout  \n\n\n\n\n\nMargaretha Haughwout collaborates with humans\, and the more-than-human\, across technologies and ecologies\, to enact possible worlds. Speculative fabulation\, intervention\, participatory event\, walking tour\, experimental pedagogy\, installation\, and biological processes articulate stages of her worlding processes. As an intertwined series of related interventions\, she explores Ruderal Witchcraft: a project in collaboration with the artist Oliver Kellhammer that consider of set of practices specific to planetary\, weedy natures that work their way at edges and interstices of public and private property\, and which are entangled with a range of other human and non-human outcasts of capitalist modernity. Active relationships with weedy\, rapidly reproducing species that primarily operate in everyday spaces of disturbance give guerrilla gardeners\, activists\, artists\, witches\, and other practitioners concerned with the ongoing threats of the global Capitalocene new spatiotemporal opportunities for anti-capitalist magic\, sabotage\, and retreat. Haughwout received her MFA from the Digital Art and New Media program at the University of California Santa Cruz\, her Permaculture Design Certificate from the Urban Permaculture Institute\, and has studied with numerous herbalists including Matthew Wood. https://beforebefore.net/ \n\n\n\n\n\nRadio Bonus! Hear the interview with NATURE Lab director Kathy High who talks about Ruderal Ecologies 1 and what to expect at this year’s conference.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSchedule of Event\n\n\n\nFriday\, October 22 6:00pm – 8:00pm EDT \n\n\n\n6:00 Welcome to the Conference \n\n\n\n6:10 Max Liboiron \n\n\n\n7:15 General Panel Discussion with Discussants Abby Kinchy & Guy Schaffer  \n\n\n\n7:30 Q&A \n\n\n\n8:00 END SESSION \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 23 11:00am – 4:00pm EDT \n\n\n\n11:00 Welcome to Day 2  \n\n\n\n11:10 Bettina Stoetzer \n\n\n\n12:30 Anna Scime \n\n\n\n1:45 Tiare Ribeaux \n\n\n\n3:00 General Panel Discussion with Discussants Nancy Campbell & Ellie Irons & Jenifer Wightman \n\n\n\n3:30 Q&A \n\n\n\n4:00 END SESSION \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSunday\, October 24 11:00am – 4:00pm EDT \n\n\n\n11:00 Welcome to Day 3 \n\n\n\n11:10 Scott Kellogg \n\n\n\n12:30 WhiteFeather Hunter \n\n\n\n1:45 Margaretha Haughwout \n\n\n\n3:00 General Panel Discussion with Discussants Oliver Kellhammer & Kate Galloway \n\n\n\n3:30 Q&A \n\n\n\n4:00 END SESSION \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Virtual Conference\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAny views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/ruderal-ecologies-2-bios/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tony Cokes in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an online presentation with American artist Tony Cokes. \n\n\n\nThrough a rigorous analysis of images and language\, Tony Cokes dissects the often-obscured power dynamics at work in the cultural and political representation of histories of Blackness\, class\, and the war on terror. \n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between EMPAC and 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 as Community Co-sponsor. \n\n\n\nThe talk will be followed by a Q&A with the artist. \n\n\n\nHear the Hudson Mohawk Magazine interview with Tony Cokes  \n\n\n \nMediaSanctuary · Tony Cokes Contradicts Cultural Associations with Sound\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Cokes’ distinctive artworks and installations center on videos that foreground textual statements\, often overlaid onto colorful monochromatic backgrounds with pop\, punk\, and electronic music soundtracks. Quoting language from across the political spectrum—from philosophical statements to news\, art criticism\, advertising\, and song lyrics—Cokes mixes linguistic\, visual\, and sonic oppositions in a pared back approach that refuses the easy desire for a spectacular image. Shot through with wry humor and the aesthetics and upbeat music of popular culture\, the videos project unstable meanings that deconstruct how we receive and read images. \n\n\n\nTony Cokes makes video\, installation\, print\, sound\, and other works that reframe appropriated texts to reflect upon capitalism\, subjectivity\, knowledge\, and pleasure. Cokes deploys sound as a crucial\, intertextual element\, complicating minimal visuals. He has shown works internationally at venues including Tate Modern\, and CCA Goldsmiths\, London; Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris; Museum of Modern Art\, and Whitney Museum\, New York; ZKM\, Karlsruhe; REDCAT\, and Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Schinkel Pavillion\, Berlin; ICA\, Philadelphia; Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam; MMK Frankfurt; and La Cinémathèque Française. Cokes has screened works in festivals including the Berlin Biennale X; RuhrTriennale 2019\, Essen; Rotterdam International Film Festival; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid; and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival.  He is a Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, Providence\,RI. His work is represented by Greene Naftali\, New York\, Hannah Hoffman\, Los Angeles\, and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)\, New York. \n\n\n\n\n\nFunding has been provided by the Electronic Film and Media area of the New York Council on the Arts. \n\n\n\nEMPAC \n\n\n\nhttps://empac.rpi.edu/
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/tony-cokes-in-conversation-2/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Speaker
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop: "Building a Media Business While Staying True to Your Activist Roots" w/ filmmaker Nicholas Bruckman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a workshop on creative entrepreneurship and activism\, and how to build a career in the arts while staying true to your principles. Learn how you can intentionally avoid a traditional film path\, and take your storytelling skills and translate to what matters! \n\n\n\nActivist Ady Barkan and filmmaker Nicholas Bruckman\n\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n\n\n\n\nFilmmaker and CEO Nicholas Bruckman will show samples of his work\, including feature films and short form storytelling or companies and social justice organizations. Nicholas talk about how he began his career in independent feature length film\, and his discovery connecting artistry\, activism and storytelling to have an impact in the world.  \n\n\n\nAt the intersection of being a CEO and social justice filmmaker\, he’ll provide guidance for people starting their career in documentary film and video production and the intersection with small business. He will share his personal experiences building People’s Television\, a 17-person production studio that emphasizes stories for social change\, and strategies for branding\, sustainability and entrepreneurship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicholas Bruckman produced the feature film VALLEY OF SAINTS\, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit award. The film was released on Netflix and was a New York Times Critics Pick.He previously directed the feature documentary LA AMERICANA\, which won the best documentary prize at the NY and LA Latino Film Festivals. The film broadcast worldwide on networks including PBS\, Nationa Geographic\, and Al Jazeera.   \n\n\n\nNicholas Bruckman is the director of NOT GOING QUIETLY\, his latest film about 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life. \n\n\n\nNicholas is the founder and CEO of People’s Television\, a creative studio that produces award-winning independent films as well as digital and broadcast content for the world’s leading brands and organizations. \n\n\n\nThrough People’s TV\, Nick regularly directs films for brands including Greenpeace\, Facebook\, and Dropbox. His work has been supported by Sundance\, Film Independent\, the Sloan Foundation\, the IFP Cannes Producers Fellowship\, and the International Documentary Association. \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.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-building-a-media-business-while-staying-true-to-your-activist-roots-w-filmmaker-nicholas-bruckman/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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