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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What happens when we preserve plants based on utility or agricultural use alone? What if the plants we value are not the ones that will survive the shifting ecology caused by anthropogenic climate change? The Next Epoch Seed Library is crowd-sourced seed library for spontaneous urban plants, otherwise known as weeds. Join environmental artist Ellie […]
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 […]
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Join us at The Sanctuary for the eighth annual North Central Troy Justice and Peace Holiday Celebration. We’ll have free food, portraits, art activities, a TBR bike give-away, and the lighting of the tree at Freedom Square (at the corner of 101st and 5th/6th Avenue), and more!! […]
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 for our elders, our children, or cooking soul-nourishing food for […]
This Martin Luther King Labor Celebration, begun in 1999 by the Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, will be held in Troy for the first time. A short segment will be shown of M.L.K.'s 1967 speech "The Three Evils of Society," where he talks about the need for a redistribution of wealth in America. Following […]
PLEASE NOTE: Roger was unable to get permission to enter the U.S. so he's Skyping in! What can we all do to avert catastrophe and avoid extinction? Roger Hallam has answers. In his new book, "Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse," Roger Hallam outlines […]
Air pollution is one of the more pervasive and invisible environmental health hazards of cities and has been in the public consciousness for several decades. The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 3.4 million people globally die prematurely as a result of outdoor air pollution each year. In the US a 2019 study, contradicting previous […]
Join Kitchen Sanctuary resident Intaba Liff-Anderson as she shares culinary tips on creating delicious dishes from ingredients found in food pantries. A combo of demo and hands on, we will utilize basic ingredients and build skills which empower greater confidence in the kitchen. Intaba Liff-Anderson is a graduate of Anne Marie Colbin’s Natural Gourmet Cooking […]
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