Events

Spirit of the Suffragettes with OSHUN and Mourning [A] BLKstar

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Performing in Freedom Square, join us for the Spirit of the Suffragettes Summer Festival, with performances by OSHUN and Mourning BLKstar, and Community Resource Fair. Thank you to the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature for making this project possible!

Spirit of the Suffragettes Festival: Eljuri and Taína Asili

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Performing in Freedom Square on August 20th, 2019, join us for the Spirit of the Suffragettes Summer Festival and Community Resource Fair! Taína Asili will be performing from 5:15PM to 6:15PM, and Eljuri will be performing from 6:30PM to 7:30PM.

StoryHarvest and the Finale of the Spirit of the Suffragettes: Toko Telo and Katani

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us for our 9th Annual StoryHarvest and the final event the Spirit of the Suffragettes Summer Festival and Community Resource Fair. Just as farmers reap the harvest, providing sustenance for all, StoryHarvest is a time to celebrate all our harvests--the results of seeds sown through music, art, education, agriculture, tolerance, and everything we do […]

RAM Haiti

Haiti’s preeminent band, RAM, straight from the famed Hotel Olo son in Port-au-Prince! Founded by band leader, Richard A. Morse, with over 25 years of consistently producing quality music, they released their 7th album, August 1791, their second album in just three years. Ancient Folkloric drums intertwine harmoniously with punk rock guitars and swinging Caribbean […]

NATURE Lab Chimera Workshop with Boryana Rossa and Heidi Hehnly

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

You are invited to participate in a workshop co-led by artist Boryana Rossa and biologist Heidi Hehnly.  Through the lens of an artist scientist collaboration, this experimental hands on workshop will stimulate conversations from the biological to the ethical — including discussion of genetic predisposition of behavior and policing, as well as scientific and media […]

NATURE Lab: Health Autonomy Clinic – Session 1

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Health Autonomy Clinic with Dr. Francis Coughlin and JJ Luceno. As part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s growing NATURE Lab, JJ Luceno and Dr. Frank Coughlin are working to establish a central space in Troy to share health skills, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health. Though caring […]

Be The Media! Workshop with Penny Lane: Strategies of Appropriation

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Learn tips and tricks for editing with appropriated footage from this award-winning nonfiction filmmaker! Penny Lane is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker who was named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner. Her most recent feature-length documentary HAIL SATAN? recently debuted at Sundance and released […]

Riverkeeper Community Scientist Celebration, with Screening of “Source to Sea”

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join us as we celebrate the 2019 Riverkeeper Water Quality sampling season and the volunteer partners who make it possible to gather samples from the Hudson River Watershed from May through October, with a focus on those working in the Upper Hudson River and Mohawk Delta. There will be a Water Quality Sampler Award, a […]

Hail Satan? with Filmmaker Penny Lane

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon) for a screening of her new documentary Hail Satan?, a film about The Satanic Temple, including its origins and grassroots political activism. The film shows Satanists working to preserve the separation of church and state against the perceived privilege of the Christian right. When media-savvy members of the […]

Be The Media! Workshop With Chet Hardin: The Art of Investigative Journalism

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join journalist Chet Hardin for a workshop on the techniques of investigative journalism. Hardin is known for his groundbreaking coverage of NXIVM for the Capital Region weekly Metroland. He co-authored the book, The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM with Toni Natalie and will be giving a […]

Chet Hardin: Inside NXIVM

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Chet Hardin is the only journalist to play a midnight game of volleyball with actress Allison Mack, Seagrams heiress Clare Bronfman, and the now-notorious Keith Raniere. That was in 2009, long before the eventual arrests of Raniere and Mack on the charges of sex trafficking and forced labor. Hardin's writing for the Capital Region weekly […]

NATURE Lab Workshop with Simone Johnson: Urban Sprout Entrepreneurship Incubator

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Have you walked past our Collard City Growers permaculture garden lately? On the west side of 6th Avenue between Glen and 101st street in North Troy, we have a hoop house with a ton of potential! Join us to learn more about Collard City Growers, what a hoop house is and discuss ways it could […]

NATURE Lab: Yoga with Heartspace

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]

Aizuri Quartet

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Combining their deep study of classical music with a naturally warm and exuberant approach to audiences and students, the Aizuri Quartet is passionate about creating diverse points of entry into the string quartet repertoire. Miho Saegusa, violin; Emma Frucht, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello, who came together to make the quartet in 2012 […]

NATURE Lab: Yoga Sanctuary with Heartspace

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]

NATURE Lab Workshop with Kayla Coldsnow: Waste Compost

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Come learn about where our waste comes from, the issues associated with it, and how to reduce it! We will talk about refusing, reducing, reusing, recycling, and composting. Techniques will span from cheap or even money saving to expensive, easy and sometimes easier to hard, and from no to large effects on your health. There […]

NATURE Lab: Yoga Sanctuary with Heartspace

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Let Nikki Rogers guide us in yoga practice dedicated to healing arts and mindfulness. Nikki has devoted the past decade of her professional life to promoting the health, and wellbeing of the community of Albany. She began her personal journey into yoga in 2005 and in 2012 a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training opened the […]

Be The Media! Workshop with Alex Rivera: The Art of “Mockumentary” Production

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Explore strategies that blur the lines between documentary and fiction, from script writing to media activism to studio production to post-production. Alex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores issues that impact the Latino community, particularly on subjects of labor, immigration, and gender. He is best known for his science fiction film, Sleep Dealer […]

“The Infiltrators” with Filmmaker Alex Rivera and Resource Exchange

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

Join director Alex Rivera for a screening of “The Infiltrators,” along with community organizers. The Infiltrators, director by Alex Rivera and Christina Ibarras, is a film about a rag-tag group of undocumented youth—Dreamers—who deliberately get arrested by Border Patrol to infiltrate a shadowy detention center. Nearly a decade ago, filmmaker Alex Rivera first encountered the […]

Christoph Irniger’s Pilgrim

The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

The quintet Pilgrim, founded by Zurich-based tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger, has over the years become one of the most exciting ensembles in young European jazz. They present their fourth recording, Crosswinds, in which there is a certain ambiguity. "Some compositions are freely improvised, while others are completely notated, yet most lie in between, with an […]

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