BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Sanctuary For Independent Media - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Sanctuary For Independent Media
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T180000
DTSTAMP:20250317T172847Z
CREATED:20230223T045426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T172847Z
UID:10001650-1680368400-1680372000@www.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:Be The Media! Workshop: Participatory Design in Journalistic Process
DESCRIPTION:With Directors Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville\, and Documentary Participant Kristal Bush\n\n\n\nJoin us in this workshop to learn about the art of co-creation from the film team of A Woman on the Outside\, discussing how the directors centered Kristal’s voice and the active collaboration between the film team and participants in the documentary process. A focus will be on how the team grappled with both the journalistic process and the ethical questions of documentary today\, as well as how they developed the cinematic language to incorporate Kristal’s self-documentation and the filmmakers’ footage. They will share the importance of spending time together\, relationship and trust building\, and how to collaborate on a story. \n\n\n\nCurators: Branda Miller.  \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 The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\nMasks are encouraged and will be available at this event. If you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms of illness please stay home and rest. \n\n\n\nAfter the workshop\, at 7pm\, A Woman on the Outside will be screened at the Sanctuary\, followed by a panel discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirector’s Statement:  \n\n\n\nMore than a quarter of women in this country have had a loved one incarcerated. For Black women like Kristal\, the odds are even higher. To love someone who’s locked up isn’t a marginal experience – it’s an American one. For six years\, we have collaborated with Kristal and her family to make a film about their experience\, through the female lens. Braiding Kristal’s photos\, videos and voice with our verite footage\, we strove to go beyond a story about prison to tell one of family\, love and how women care for themselves while caring for others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZara Katz (Director/Producer)\n\n\n\nZara Katz is a filmmaker and photo producer for editorial\, documentary and branded content\, specializing in crafting character-driven visual stories. Katz is currently Photography Director at NBC News.com\, and has worked with outlets including The New York Times Lens blog\, Time magazine\, Medium\, The Guardian U.S.\, Pop-Up Magazine and Lifetime/A+E Networks. She was the Senior Photography Producer on a Getty Images/Dove campaign photographed by more than 100 women and non-binary photographers\, which won the Silver Glass Lion at Cannes in 2019.  \n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Riordan Seville (Director/Producer)\n\n\n\nLisa Riordan Seville is an award-winning reporter and independent filmmaker whose stories explore how money\, power and policy shapes the lives of everyday people. Her investigative and enterprise work has appeared across NBC News platforms\, on BuzzFeed News\, The Guardian U.S.\, Lifetime/A+E Networks and WNYC Radio. It has been recognized with a Peabody\, a Hillman Award and a Sigma Delta Chi from the Society of Professional Journalists\, among others. Her most recent piece was a cover story for New York Magazineabout the deaths of 15 men in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex. 
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-participatory-design-in-journalistic-process/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/©AWomanOnTheOutside_Still03.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T220000
DTSTAMP:20230429T190601Z
CREATED:20230223T043255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230429T190601Z
UID:10001649-1680375600-1680386400@www.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:"A Woman on the Outside" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join Directors Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville and protagonist Kristal Bush for the screening of the documentary film A Woman on the Outside\, about the struggle to keep families connected despite incarceration. Before the film screening\, all three women will give a Be The Media! workshop and give a brief opening reception to the Women on the Outside exhibition. After the film there will be a panel discussion with local prison justice activists.  \n\n\n\n5pm: Be The Media! Workshop: Participatory Design in Journalistic Process with directors Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville with documentary participant Kristal Bush.6:30pm: opening reception for the Women on the Outside exhibition in the Sanctuary cafe.7:00pm: screening of A Women on the Outside followed by a panel discussion and networking. \n\n\n\nCurator: Branda Miller.  \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 The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Co-sponsored by: The Chris Wilson Foundation\, The Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign\, Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York\, The Center for Law and Justice\, and Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration. \n\n\n\nMasks are encouraged and will be available at this event. If you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms of illness please stay home and rest. \n\n\n\n\n\n“A Woman on the Outside” Q&A\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Film\n\n\n\nGrowing up\, Kristal watched nearly every man in her life disappear to prison. She channeled that struggle into keeping families connected\, both as a social worker and with her van service that drives families to visit loved ones in far-off prisons. But when Kristal’s dad and brother return to Philly\, her happiness meets the realization that release doesn’t always mean freedom. Passionate\, funny and resilient\, Kristal remains determined to carve out a different future — for herself and for her young nephew\, Nyvae. Part observational documentary\, part family album\, A Woman on the Outside is a tender portrait of one family striving to love in the face of a system built to break them. website \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/725900136?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=9616283\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy the end of the trip\, Lois and Rachel\, who are newer riders\, laugh and talk with the other women. Kristal’s regular riders say they look forward not just to the visit\, but to catching up with friends they have made on the van. \n\n“It’s something to look forward to\,” Tanesha says of visiting day. “We talk about this stuff all week long\, all of us. Sometimes we all get together and cook food and sit down and talk. Because that’s what we be needing. From one sister to another. From one wife to another.” \n\nPhotos and Videos by Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville\n\n\n\nFilmmaker Bios\n\n\n\n\n\nZara Katz (Director/Producer) is a filmmaker and photo producer for editorial\, documentary and branded content\, specializing in crafting character-driven visual stories. Katz is currently Photography Director at NBC News.com\, and has worked with outlets including The New York Times Lens blog\, Time magazine\, Medium\, The Guardian U.S.\, Pop-Up Magazine and Lifetime/A+E Networks. She was the Senior Photography Producer on a Getty Images/Dove campaign photographed by more than 100 women and non-binary photographers\, which won the Silver Glass Lion at Cannes in 2019.  \n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Riordan Seville (Director/Producer) is an award-winning reporter and independent filmmaker whose stories explore how money\, power and policy shapes the lives of everyday people. Her investigative and enterprise work has appeared across NBC News platforms\, on BuzzFeed News\, The Guardian U.S.\, Lifetime/A+E Networks and WNYC Radio. It has been recognized with a Peabody\, a Hillman Award and a Sigma Delta Chi from the Society of Professional Journalists\, among others. Her most recent piece was a cover story for New York Magazine about the deaths of 15 men in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex.  \n\n\n\n\n\nPanelist Bios\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristal Bush is the protagonist of the documentary film A Woman on the Outside.  \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\nJose Di Lenola\, Clemency Campaign Director of RAPP \n\n\n\nAt the age of 16\, Jose was sentenced to 26 1/3 years to life for second-degree murder and served eighteen of those years in Attica prison and various correctional facilities. While incarcerated he worked as a rehabilitation peer educator in relapse prevention\, anger management\, and mental health; and mentored at-risk youth diversionary programs. Jose co-founded and served as President of the Attica Lifer’s Organization and consulted several organizations. Jose was released in December 2021\, has his own consultation business\, Carceral Consultation\, and is the Clemency Campaign Director for the Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeAna Taylor\, Co-Director of Policy & Communications and Capital Region Organizer at RAPP \n\n\n\nTeAna advocates for children of incarcerated parents\, informed by their father’s nearly two decades of incarceration and working with We Got Us Now and the HALT Solitary Campaign. They have been engaging their community in restorative justice work for the past five years. They created and maintained a peer mediation program at a local middle school\, leading mediations between youth\, parents\, and teachers; facilitating circles that ranged from community building within classrooms to repairing harm between community members; providing conflict coaching sessions for students; and training students in peer mediation and conflict resolution. TeAna has also facilitated circles to address issues faced by students and faculty of color at their alma mater\, SUNY Schenectady\, that led to policy change for a more inclusive and diverse campus.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\nThe mission of the Chris Wilson Foundation is to transform the incarceration system by providing better and more sustainable programming for incarcerated individuals that centers personal relationships\, resilience\, development and agency. Our Master Plan Program focuses on trauma and resilience\, systemic oppression and mass incarceration and goal-setting and reentry. The program is being implemented in three states\, and is currently running at the Capital District Youth Detention Center in Albany.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign is a grassroots advocacy organization created and led by formerly incarcerated people and family members of people in prison. We work to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release of aging people in prison and those serving long sentences. We work to dismantle the racist policies of mass incarceration by expanding the use of parole\, compassionate release\, clemency\, and other forms of release in New York State. We work with other organizations across the country to end life imprisonment in the United States. By organizing community power to free incarcerated elders\, we work to uproot a system of endless punishment that fuels mass incarceration and damages Black and other communities of color. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe mission of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York is to provide high quality\, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners\, help them to secure their civil and human rights and advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Center for Law and Justice recognizes that the criminal justice system in the United States has a history of racism and classism\, stemming from both laws and practices\, that continues to this day. It is the center’s mission to reform the criminal justice system and dismantle its oppressive elements.  \n\n\n\nThe Center for Law and Justice aims to eliminate the gap between law and justice by creating an equitable criminal justice system which values all human life and acknowledges community members as partners in public safety. The center seeks to achieve this goal through amplifying the voices of marginalized people and communities\, while educating and empowering those same communities to demand an end to mass criminalization\, mass incarceration\, and systemic oppression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCapital Area Against Mass Incarceration (CAAMI) seeks to challenge and dismantle mass incarceration and the systems of oppression that sustain it. We do this through coordinated actions and by opening the dialogue about mass incarceration and the criminal injustice system in a way that is empowering to all individuals and communities affected by them. CAAMI defines “mass incarceration” as both the excessive quantity of people caught in the criminal justice system\, and the racially discriminatory and cruel quality of the current punitive model of social control. Police brutality\, racially disparate sentencing\, and post-prison discrimination function as a self-reinforcing system that damages communities.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/a-woman-on-the-outside/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Screening
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/©AWomanOnTheOutside_Still04.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T210000
DTSTAMP:20230713T144546Z
CREATED:20230421T154000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230713T144546Z
UID:10001654-1682103600-1682110800@www.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:"Rooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future" with Eljuri & Taína Asili
DESCRIPTION:Two amazing Latinx artists\, Taína Asili and Eljuri reunite on the Sanctuary stage for the first night of our weekend celebration Rooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future! Join us on Friday\, April 21\, for an eclectic mix of salsa\, reggae\, and political hip-hop that will speak to your soul and make you move!  \n\n\n\nRooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future! is a weekend celebrating the contributions of Steve Pierce to the Sanctuary’s legacy.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Rooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future” Sanctuary Weekend Celebration!\n\n\n\nJoin us for a weekend celebrating this historic time at the Sanctuary\, starting with a night of amazing music by Taína Asili and Eljuri and ending the following night with a presentation by Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman! During this weekend celebration\, each evening will include refreshments and reflections from friends old and new about how the Sanctuary (and Steve) has made an impact on them!  \n\n\n\nIt seems incredible but\, thanks to Steve’s leadership\, we owe just $25\,000 left to pay off the complete mortgage for our entire Sanctuary campus! This includes four buildings — the Sanctuary with presentation venue\, live production\, radio and video studios; NATURE Lab with a level-1 Biology Laboratory and Peoples Health Sanctuary\, the NATURE Lab Residency House\, the Carriage House\, plus Collard City Growers Gardens’ four lots and our outdoor community presentation space Freedom Square! \n\n\n\nYour contribution\, of any size\, would greatly contribute to the impact of our organization by helping us move into the future with a new Executive Director with our goal of being fully debt free! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSee all ticket options here.No one will be turned away for a lack of funds \n\n\n\nPhotos by Sara Beck\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\nTaína Asili is a New York-based Puerto Rican singer\, filmmaker and activist carrying on the tradition of her ancestors\, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice. Taína Asili combines powerful vocals with a multi-genre fusion – confidently weaving between salsa\, rock\, reggae\, cumbia\, reggaeton\, and hip hop – with multilingual songs that beat with the heart of social change. Asili’s music offers a sound that spans continents\, exuding strength of Spirit\, inspiring audiences at venues across the globe – From Carnegie Hall to the Women’s March on Washington to the main stage of San Francisco Pride. With energetic and infectious rhythms\, Asili’s music urges people to get on their feet and dance to the rhythm of rebellion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCecilia Villar Eljuri is a revered storyteller and genre fuser. She is a Latina artivist living in NYC who tours internationally sharing her music and message of empowerment. Touted as one of the top Latinx guitar players in the world\, Eljuri navigates through the musical landscapes of her Ecuadorian\, Spanish and Lebanese heritage all presented with an elegant and socially conscious voice. As a musical activist for Immigrant and Women’s Rights\, Eljuri has her guitar strings and voice on the pulse of some of the most timely issues echoing through our communities. 
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/eljuri-taina-asili/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-17-at-11.38.16-small.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T213000
DTSTAMP:20230713T144706Z
CREATED:20230422T161800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230713T144706Z
UID:10001647-1682190000-1682199000@www.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:"Rooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future" with Amy Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! comes to the Sanctuary stage for the second night of our weekend celebration Rooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future! Join us on Saturday\, April 22\, for a conversation about the role and future of independent media\, followed by a conversation about stories over the past two decades building the Sanctuary’s campus with outgoing Executive Director Steve Pierce. They will be joined by Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s Willie Terry and moderator KP Holler\, the Executive Director of Media Alliance.  \n\n\n\nRooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future! is a weekend celebrating the contributions of Steve Pierce to the Sanctuary’s legacy. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by: Women Against War. \n\n\n\n*Masking is mandatory for this event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Rooted in Independent Media\, Growing Toward a Just Future” Sanctuary Weekend Celebration!\n\n\n\nJoin us for a weekend celebrating this historic time at the Sanctuary\, starting with a night of amazing music by Taína Asili and Eljuri and ending the following night with a presentation by Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman! During this weekend celebration\, each evening will include refreshments and reflections from friends old and new about how the Sanctuary (and Steve) has made an impact on them!  \n\n\n\nIt seems incredible but\, thanks to Steve’s leadership\, we owe just $25\,000 left to pay off the complete mortgage for our entire Sanctuary campus! This includes four buildings — the Sanctuary with presentation venue\, live production\, radio and video studios; NATURE Lab with a level-1 Biology Laboratory and Peoples Health Sanctuary\, the NATURE Lab Residency House\, the Carriage House\, plus Collard City Growers Gardens’ four lots and our outdoor community presentation space Freedom Square! \n\n\n\nYour contribution\, of any size\, would greatly contribute to the impact of our organization by helping us move into the future with a new Executive Director with our goal of being fully debt free! \n\n\n\nSee all ticket options here.No one will be turned away for a lack of funds \n\n\n\nPhotos by Robert Cooper\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!\, a national\, daily\, independent\, award-winning news program airing on over 1\,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. \n\n\n\nThe Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award\, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award\, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone\, and was later selected for induction into the Park Center’s I.F. Stone Hall of Fame. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration.” \n\n\n\nGoodman has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers. Her latest\, Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America\, looks back over the past two decades of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Before than\, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings\, Occupations\, Resistance\, and Hope\, and Breaking the Sound Barrier\, both written with Denis Moynihan\, give voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power. She co-authored her first three bestsellers with her brother\, journalist David Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008)\, Static: Government Liars\, Media Cheerleaders\, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians\, War Profiteers\, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She co-writes a weekly column with Denis Moynihan (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features\, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting. \n\n\n\nGoodman has received the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence; American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award; and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards\, including the George Polk Award\, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting\, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts\,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. PULSE named Goodman one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009. \n\n\n\nShe has also received awards from the Associated Press\, United Press International\, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting\, and Project Censored. Goodman received the first ever Communication for Peace Award from the World Association for Christian Communication. She was also honored by the National Council of Teachers of English with the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/amy-goodman-2023/
CATEGORIES:Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-17-at-11.48.01-small.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T210000
DTSTAMP:20230410T180916Z
CREATED:20230330T171952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T180916Z
UID:10001655-1682622000-1682629200@www.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:Death Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Where: 2nd floor of the NATURE Lab building\, 3319 6th Avenue. \n\n\n\nJoin us for for a Death Cafe\, an evening of discussions about death and how to make the most of life under the context that there is an end. The discussions will take place as a group and in breakout discussions at People’s Health Sanctuary in NATURE Lab. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt a Death Cafe people\, often strangers\, gather to eat cake\, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda\, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. \n\n\n\nDeath Cafes are always offered:– On a not-for-profit basis– In an accessible\, respectful and confidential space– With no intention of leading people to any conclusion\, product or course of action– Alongside refreshing drinks and nourishing food – and cake!  \n\n\n\nFor more info on Death Café\, check out: https://deathcafe.com.Credit to Jon Underwood with founding Death Café based on the work of Bernard Crettaz. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by People’s Health Sanctuary at NATURE Lab and organized by Veronica Maroulis.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Maroulis is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s in Business Analytics. After being introduced to the work of The Order of the Good Death and content by Caitlin Doughty via YouTube\, she has been fascinated by death and the macabre. Veronica is an advocate for alternative death care and death justice and wants to encourage thoughtful conversations about death to destigmatize the taboo topic. Death is an inevitability of life and Veronica wants to give people the resources so that they receive the death care they want and deserve.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/death-cafe/
CATEGORIES:Community Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/death_tea-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR