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SUMMARY:“1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture” Film Screening
DESCRIPTION: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 will be followed by group discussion.This film is co-sponsorship with Collar City Pride & New Breath Spirituality Center \n\n\n\nJoin us during Pride month for a special documentary viewing of 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture\, This film shows how one group’s translation of the Bible supported decades of homophobia in many Christian traditions. Stay after the viewing for a short group discussion about the documentary \n\n\n\nAbout this Film\n\n\n\n1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is a feature documentary that 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. It chronicles the discovery of never-before-seen archives at Yale University which unveil astonishing new revelations\, and casts significant doubt on any biblical basis for LGBTQIA+ prejudice. Featuring commentary from prominent scholars as well as opposing pastors\, including the personal stories of the film’s creators\, 1946 is at once challenging\, enlightening\, and inspiring. While other documentaries have been successful in their attempt to treat the symptom of homophobia in the church\, 1946 is working to diagnose and treat the disease – Biblical Literalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Co-sponsors\n\n\n\nCollar City Pride is Rensselaer County’s only LGBTQIA2S+ based and operating community center hub\, providing services and events to uplift our queer community. \n\n\n\nNew Breath Spirituality Center is a place where we can learn and talk about connecting with God\, spirituality\, and prayer/spiritual practices– as well as try some out for ourselves.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/1946-film-screening/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:"North Stars of Emancipation" Book Talk & Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION: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 for sale by Greenlight Books. \n\n\n\nNorth Stars of Emancipation traces the recent evolution of California’s food movements towards a more liberatory model grounded in diverse radical traditions. Drawing on his work in urban farming\, radical politics\, and academic research\, author Antonio Roman-Alcalá will discuss the themes of his book with local food justice advocates. \n\n\n\nAbout this Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow we grow\, harvest\, distribute\, and consume food is bound up with how we use (and abuse) environmental resources\, and how we achieve (or undermine) collective well-being. In North Stars of Emancipation\, Antonio Roman-Alcalá finds in the radical experiments of new food movements the seeds of a world liberated from old\, extractive systems\, where a more equitable way of eating and living is possible. \n\n\n\nThe book traces the transformation of California’s diverse food movements as Black\, Indigenous\, Latinx\, and other people of color have come to play a larger organizational role\, especially at a time of toxic national politics. A new vision now guides these movements\, rooted in the radical traditions of anarchism\, Black radicalism\, and Indigenous resurgence\, yet focused on pragmatic solutions to the problems of market and state. In pursuing a North Star political ideal that rejects capitalism\, colonialism\, and state violence while prioritizing survival\, California’s food movements have achieved greater collaboration among sectors\, workers\, and consumers\, pointing toward a promising future. \n\n\n\n\n\nNorth Stars of Emancipation takes the rare step of analyzing movements as interconnected wholes. From their collective success\, we learn how to move past an untenable present. Published by MIT Press. \n\n\n\nFeatured Guests\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAntonio Roman-Alcalá is an educator\, researcher\, writer\, musician\, and organizer based in California who has worked on sustainable food systems and radical politics for over 20 years. Antonio is currently an Assistant Professor at California State University East Bay teaching Geography and Environmental Studies\, while researching movements for social and environmental justice through agroecology and food sovereignty. His previous efforts include urban farms\, civil society alliances\, activist-researcher networks\, and documentary film-making. \n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · Book Talk "North Stars of Emancipation" Coming to the Sanctuary\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmet Vitale-Penniman is a multiracial farmer\, carpenter\, and program leader at Soul Fire Farm. He got an early start with growing and building\, assisting his parents with CSA packing\, youth programs\, and house building. Now\, he leads educational programming\, works with farm team\, and leads AV for the campus. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEricka Williams Rodriguez is an Afro-Indigenous labor and housing organizer\, farmer\, and advocate for incarcerated people and their families. She co-founded Serenity Solidarity\, a Black and Indigenous-led land project in the capital region\, and is developing Mumia House there\, dedicated to political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. She is a member of New York State Jails Justice Network\, and is motivated by ending colonization and the suffering of her people. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott Kellogg is the Educational Director at the Radix Center\, an urban ecological literacy and just sustainabilities advocacy non-profit in Albany\, New York. Radix runs a one-acre farm in the middle of the city that teaches local youth about gardening\, composting\, tree planting\, and river activism. He currently also teaches at Bard College’s Center for Environment and Policy and is Chair of Urban Agriculture for the Albany Sustainability Commission.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/north-stars-of-emancipation/
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SUMMARY:Ear Seed Training
DESCRIPTION:with Albany Community Acupuncture\n\n\n\nLearn 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. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSimple. Powerful. Balancing. Help anyone feel better right away. Accessible for everyone to learn and practice. Join us for 3 hours of historical and practical education on ear seeds and how you can heal yourself and others with this tiny seed\, the vacarria plant. It is so powerful at removing stagnation and relieving pain in any body system that in Pinyin  it is called Wang Bu Liu Xing – “even the emperor cannot stop us.”  \n\n\n\nAuricular acupuncture and ear seeds stimulate the vagus nerve – our primary pathway to a parasympathetic “rest and digest” state. It is ideal for use in group settings and has been proven effective internationally for addiction\, withdrawal\, emotional regulation\, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). \n\n\n\nThis simple 5 needle protocol was developed first in the 1970s in Hong Kong\, then adopted in the Bronx by the Black Panthers and the Young Lords to treat addiction. The first hour of hour workshop will be focused on watching and discussing segments of a documentary about their work. In recent decades\, Acupuncturists Without Borders and many other on-the-ground justice medicine initiatives primarily employ this protocol for quick\, powerful and accessible community medicine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGina Mauro L.Ac (pictured far left) founded Albany Community Acupuncture after her time doing relief work through Acupuncturists Without Borders in Western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in September 2024. Born and raised in the Albany area\, Gina has always felt a strong call to serve the Capital Region community in a meaningful way.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/ear-seed-training/
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SUMMARY:Community Brunch in Freedom Square
DESCRIPTION: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 the last half hour.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/community-brunch-in-freedom-square/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! workshop with Edward George
DESCRIPTION:as part of EMPAC’s TOPOS Festival\n\n\n\nJoin 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 founding member of UK’s Black Audio Film Collective\, to his multi-part radio broadcast The Strangeness of Dub\, to his own performance practice in electronic music groups such as Hallucinator. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n*This event is included in the TOPOS Festival Pass \n\n\n\nEdward George will discuss the trajectory of his work\, the reasons he has used different modes of media for certain projects\, and how the subjects that he explores breathe life into social histories and make complex theory accessible to wider audiences. The workshop precedes George’s screening of Black Atlas\, an experimental reimagining of archival materials which ultimately reveals how art is a tactical tool that can be used to dismantle systems of power.This event is a collaboration with EMPAC & iEar Presents! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdward George- writer\, broadcaster\, and founder of Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998)\, the multimedia duo Flow Motion (1996-present)\, and the electronic music group Hallucinator (1998-present). Geo rge wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History (1996)\, and he hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio)\, Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae\, dub\, versions and versioning\, drawing on critical theory\, social history\, and a deep\, wide cross-genre musical selection. \n\n\n\n\n\n7pm: “Black Atlas” Screening with Edward George & Fred Moten
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-edward-george/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:“Black Atlas” Screening with Edward George & Fred Moten
DESCRIPTION:as part of EMPAC’s TOPOS Festival\n\n\n\nJoin 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 in conversation with Fred Moten\, a Black Culture Studies professor at NYU Tisch. This event is a collaboration with EMPAC & iEar Presents! \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n*This event is included in the TOPOS Festival Pass \n\n\n\n\n\nCommissioned by The Warburg Institute in London\, filmmaker\, writer\, broadcaster\, and musician Edward George’s Black Atlas 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. The American premiere of Black Atlas is presented in partnership with The Sanctuary for Independent Media (Troy\, NY) and RPI Arts Department’s iEAR Presents! Drawing from the archive\, George creates a new film that reanimates historical imagery through narration\, sound\, and montage. Accompanied by an evocative score by Seymour Wright and Crystabel Efemena Riley\, Black Atlas unfolds as a meditation on time\, place\, and presence— considering art as a medium of transcendence\, a technology of power\, and an affirmation of a humanist\, anti-racist project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5pm: Be The Media! workshop with Edward George\n\n\n\nGuest Bios:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdward George- writer\, broadcaster\, and founder of Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998)\, the multimedia duo Flow Motion (1996-present)\, and the electronic music group Hallucinator (1998-present). George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History (1996)\, and he hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio)\, Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae\, dub\, versions and versioning\, drawing on critical theory\, social history\, and a deep\, wide cross-genre musical selection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFred Moten is a professor in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University\, where he teaches courses in black studies\, poetics\, and critical theory. He works with lots of social and aesthetic study groups including Stefano Harney & Fred Moten\, the Black Arts Movement School Modality\, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective\, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy\, Moved by the Motion\, the Institute of Physical Sociality and the Harris/Moten Quartet.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/black-atlas/
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:StoryHarvest with Arm-of-the-Sea Theater
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nESTUARY TALES: The Life & Times of the Hudson River will begin at 3pm. This performance spectacle fuses live music\, movement and large-scale puppetry in a deep dive into the checkered history of “America’s River”. Giant sturgeon\, eels and river otters ply the stage\, alongside steamboats\, fishermen\, immigrants\, and citizen scientists. With whimsy and ingenuity\, the show reveals the Hudson River’s complex inner life and chronicles the long struggle to clean up the river.Designed to engage ages 5 to 95\, this production is 1 hour in length and presented by a six-member cast. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArm-of-the-Sea is an arts ensemble that fuses visual storytelling with live music in large-scale works of mask and puppet theater. Founded in 1982 by Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden\, the company’s hybrid performance style channels the evocative power of the arts as a force for joy\, insight\, and community uplift. Their low-tech devices of theatrical enchantment illuminate relations between humans and the life-support networks of this blue-ocean planet. Learn more.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/storyharvest-2026/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Stories of Palestine\, in Reverence and in Grief
DESCRIPTION:Through storytelling\, cooking\, reading\, and community\, this gathering will honor the beauty of Palestinian past\, present\, and future\, as we learn and mourn together. \n\n\n\n…more info coming soon
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/stories-of-palestine/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ethereal Egyptian Rhythms with Abu Zeyn
DESCRIPTION:Bass\, clarinet\, and vocal loops weave rhythmic tapestries of original Sufi and Ancient Egyptian spiritual compositions.  …more info coming soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbu Zeyn أبو زين creates rhythmic tapestries by weaving live bass\, clarinet and vocal loops with soulful improvisation. He is a child of the Nile River and the Arabian Desert. The date palm shaded and nourished his youth. His tongue was tuned to cardamom and tangerines. The salt of the Red Sea cured his infant skin and the sands of Alexandria baked his tender feet. His ears were raised on the sounds of braying donkeys\, the call to prayer and tuktuk soundsystems.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/abu-zeyn/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:African Music,Performance
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SUMMARY:"WTO/99" Film Screening on the Battle of Seattle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the documentary film about the Battle of Seattle\, where 50\,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 followed by a Q&A with the film’s editor and producer Alex Megaro.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here– Coming Soon\n\n\n\n\nWTO/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. https://www.wto99doc.com/
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/wto-99-film/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Water Justice and Media Lab End of Season Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Celebration featuring youth-produced short film and presentations about the 2026 Water Justice and Media Lab Season. …more info coming soon
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/wjl-ml-finale-2026/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
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SUMMARY:Judith Enck on Plastics and Creating Legislation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk and conversation around plastics and how to push legislation with environmental policy expert Judith Enck. After presenting on her book The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late\, which investigates plastic innovation which has created devastating environmental and public health impacts\, Enck will be joined by Shaunty M of Golden Leaf Books to talk about how to make a bill into law. Enck’s organization Beyond Plastics works on a slew of legislation to reduce the plastic in our environment\, while Shaunty has experience pushing electric vehicle legislation. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here… Coming Soon\n\n\n\n\nGolden Leaf Books will supply books for sale.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat if we said that the line between societal advancement and environmental degradation is as thin as a layer of plastic wrap? Once a marvel of modern science\, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without can seem impossible. Over the last 75 years\, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace. \n\n\n\n“The Problem with Plastic” critically examines the paradox of this material\, first celebrated for its innovations and now recognized for its devastating environmental and public health impacts. This compelling narrative reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans\, polluted air\, a warming planet\, and overwhelming waste\, particularly affecting marginalized communities\, which bear the brunt of petrochemical pollution. The book highlights the pervasive presence of microplastics in the environment and the human body\, challenging the belief that recycling can solve the crisis. \n\n\n\nIn addition to uncovering environmental racism and debunking industry claims\, “The Problem with Plastic” emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastic’s toxic legacy\, and offers readers practical\, actionable solutions\, including a “household waste audit\,” which empowers readers to track and reduce their own plastic consumption.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/judith-enck-on-plastics/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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