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SUMMARY:FEMeeting Sister Labs: Artist Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join FEMeeting Sister Labs\, a conference bringing together women in art\, science and technology\, for two days of speakers\, workshops\, and community activities. NATURE Lab hosts FEMeeting Sister Labs right here in North Central Troy\, NY\, welcoming local and international artists\, scholars\, students and community members. All are welcome for this exciting weekend of events! \n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule:April 5\, 7 pm – 9:30 pm: An Evening of Radical Women’s Voices in Art\, Science and Technology \n\n\n\n\nSuzanne Thorpe and Stephanie Rothenberg: Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling celebrates the listening body of the heroic oyster. Whereas other marine animals use chemical exudates or patterns of light\, oysters determine suitable settlement habitats through a distinction of sound signatures in underwater soundscapes. They are also sensitive to loud sounds at certain pitches\, which potentially disturbs their reproductive process.\n\n\n\nCecilia Vilca: Exorcisms of the Territory. This Lecture-Exorcism\, delivered by Cecilia Vilca\, invokes texts that draw a conversation of times\, and a history that heals itself.\n\n\n\nPraba Pilar: Nixtamalízaté-té-té. Praba Pilar will share her convivial project Nixtamalízaté-té-té\, which subverts emergent AI systems into fellow travelers\, into beautiful pluriversal monsters. \n\n\n\n\n\nThorpe and Rothenberg: Tending Ostreidae\n\n\n\nPraba Pilar\n\n\n\nCecilia Vilca\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApril 6\, 9am – 2pm: Workshops \n\n\n\n\nNATURE Lab Workshop: Community Science in N. Central Troy with Kathy High\, Sarah Cadieux\, Ellie Irons\, Azuré Keahi\, Abby Kinchy\, A’Livija Mullins-Richard\, and Emilly Obuya.\n\n\n\nSanctuary Eco-Art Trail\, walk with Ellie Irons\, Kathy High\, Azuré Keahi\, Branda Miller \n\n\n\nL Lot Workshop: AilanthusXYucca\, with Azuré Keahi and Ellie Irons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote a more direct collaboration between women working at the intersection art\, science\, and technology. The conference aims to disseminate projects being undertaken by women worldwide and\, as a result\, to contribute to the development of art-science research methodologies and to the growth of cooperation strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities closer.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about the Presenters on April 5:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCecilia Vilca Ocharan is a Peruvian transartist\, feminist chola techno-witch\, and language activist. She is a founding member of the creative and digital heritage division\, MyAP Electron Microscopy Laboratory. From a decolonizing vision\, she exercises her epistemological rebellion using technology as a tool and object of analysis. Her main goal and poetics are to encourage reflection through revelation. Her projects are born from her personal crusades\, and therefore\, they are micropolitical flesh. ISEA2020 Montreal and ISEA2023 Paris IPC Member. FEMeeting 2023 Taos and TTT2023 Malta Scientific & Artistic Committee member. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR) Reviewer. Eight Art Residency Programs: Mexico\, Bolivia\, USA\, and Canada. She has exhibited her work\, organized exhibitions\, and given lectures in Peru\, Mexico\, Bolivia\, Argentina\, Spain\, Cuba\, Chile\, Norway\, Colombia\, Brazil\, South Africa\, Australia\, Greece\, Ireland\, Portugal\, Austria\, and the USA. Born\, lives and dreams in/from Lima\, Peru\, she has a M.A. Digital Arts\, UPF\, BCN\, Spain.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraba Pilar is a diasporic Colombian artist disrupting the overwhelmingly passive participation in the contemporary ‘cult of the techno-logic.’ Over the last two decades Pilar has presented cultural productions integrating performance art\, live work\, digital works\, video\, electronic installations\, radio programming\, street theatre\, invisible theatre\, websites and writing. These projects have traveled widely to museums\, galleries\, universities\, performance festivals\, conferences\, public streets\, political meetings\, bookstores\, bars\, and radio airwaves around the world. Check out Praba Pilar’s website here.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuzanne Thorpe is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose creative research intersects electronic music\, feminist and ecological theory. She interweaves critical listening practices with acoustic ecology\, improvisation and technology to craft immersive sound engagements and creative research sites that question circulations of power within human and nonhuman systems. As an electroacoustic flutist and sound artist she’s performed and exhibited internationally\, has a large discography\, with releases on Columbia Records\, Beggars Banquet\, Geffin\, V2\, and her research has been published in journals and edited volumes. Thorpe has been granted several residencies and awards for her artistry and research\, such as the Frog Peak Collective Award for innovative research in technology\, a Gold Record from the Recording Industry Association of Americas\, as well as grants from the MAP Fund\, NYSCA\, New Music USA and Harvestworks Digital Media Foundation. Thorpe holds an MFA in Electronic Music & Media from Mills College\, a Ph.D. in Integrative Studies from the University of California\, San Diego\, and is a certified Deep Listening Instructor\, having studied in depth with pioneering composer and Deep Listening Founder Pauline Oliveros. Most recently she was a Mellon Fellow and member of the Society of Fellows at Columbia University\, and is currently Assistant Professor of Sound Studies at Manhattan College. She also remains a co-founder and director of TECHNE\, a nonprofit arts-education organization dedicated to dismantling social and cultural barriers in technical learning environments.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture\, science and economics to explore symbiotic relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems. Moving between real and virtual spaces\, she engages a variety of media platforms that include interactive installation\, drawing\, sculpture\, video and performance. She has exhibited internationally in venues and festivals including MassMOCA (US)\, Sundance Film Festival (US)\, House of Electronic Arts / HeK (CH)\, LABoral (ES)\, Transmediale (DE)\, and ZKM Center for Art & Media (DE). She has received awards from Harpo Foundation\, NYSCA and Creative Capital among others and has participated in numerous residencies including Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace/LMCC and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in NYC\, Santa Fe Art Institute\, and ZK/U in Berlin. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been widely reviewed including Artforum\, Artnet\, The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. She is Professor in the Department of Art at University at Buffalo SUNY where she co-directs an interdisciplinary design studio collaborating with local social justice organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about FEMeeting and Sister Labs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaunched in 2017\, the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art\, Science and Technology” was driven by the desire to develop and promote more direct collaboration between individuals who identify themselves as Women\, independently of their sex. The idea behind FEMeeting was orchestrated by the Portuguese artist Marta de Menezes and scholar Dalila Honorato\, after realizing that women in the field of Art and Science have an unquestionable presence worldwide.  \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, FEMeeting Sister Labs launched as an hybrid model of interaction between local and global\, between digital and physical: where FEMeeting members address to the community of women in art\, science and technology an invitation to their lab spaces. \n\n\n\nDiscover the lab spaces already presented by FEMeeting members through Sister Labs and learn more about the community of women in art\, science and technology! Check out Sister Lab around the World! \n\n\n\nWe are particularly interested in hearing about the experiences of BIPOC\, trans women\, non-binary women\, and gender queer women\, and people living with disabilities. \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\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\, and is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/femeeting-sister-lab-speakers/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Speaker
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SUMMARY:FEMeeting Sister Labs: Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Join FEMeeting Sister Labs\, a conference bringing together women in art\, science and technology\, for two days of speakers\, workshops\, and community activities. NATURE Lab hosts FEMeeting Sister Labs right here in North Central Troy\, NY\, welcoming local and international artists\, scholars\, students and community members.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule:April 5\, 7:00pm – 9:30pm: Speakers \n\n\n\nApril 6\, 9:00am – 2:00pm: Workshops \n\n\n\n\n9:00am Coffee and light fare at The Sanctuary.\n\n\n\n9:30am FEM Tour of Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\, 3361 6th Ave: Join us for a tour of the Sanctuary’s campus\, where abandoned buildings and lots have been transformed into a learning living laboratory. Walk with us as we celebrate our launch of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\, which embeds art\, environmental justice\, Indigenous history and legacy into an urban nature and multimedia walk along 6th Ave in North-Central Troy. Walk begins at the Sanctuary and moves across campus with tour guides Branda Miller\, Kathy High\, Ellie Irons and Azuré Keahi \n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:30  NATURE Lab Workshop: Community Science in N. Central Troy\, 3319 6th Ave: Meet the visionary women as they share community science projects in the North Troy Art\, Technology and Urban Research in Ecology Lab\, otherwise know as NATURE Lab (NL)! The Sanctuary’s community health and urban ecology research initiative\, NL began in 2010 and continues into the future as a series of workshops and symposiums\, alongside artist and scientist research residencies.\n\nKathy High\, Introduction\n\n\n\nSarah Cadieux: Microplastics in our water\n\n\n\nAbby Kinchy: Our Soil project\n\n\n\nEllie Irons: Water Justice Lab\n\n\n\nA’Livija Mullins-Richard: Air Justice Lab\n\n\n\nEmilly Obuya: STEM / STEAM Learning\n\n\n\n\n\n12:15-1:45 Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail workshop\, “L Lot\,” 3305 6th Ave\, “AILANTHUSxYUCCA: Clearing\, Weaving\, Opening”: Join in a hands-on workshop for confronting invasion\, embracing diaspora\, and clearing space for life among life. We will cut and process the vigorous shoots of the introduced tree of heaven\, opening space to experiment with rooting yucca\, a cordage plant we’d like to collaborate with as we build towards a fiber garden. \n\nAzuré Keahi\n\n\n\nEllie Irons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for FEMeeting 4/6/24\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote a more direct collaboration between women working at the intersection art\, science\, and technology. The conference aims to disseminate projects being undertaken by women worldwide and\, as a result\, to contribute to the development of art-science research methodologies and to the growth of cooperation strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities closer.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about FEMeeting and Sister Labs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaunched in 2017\, the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art\, Science and Technology” was driven by the desire to develop and promote more direct collaboration between individuals who identify themselves as Women\, independently of their sex. The idea behind FEMeeting was orchestrated by the Portuguese artist Marta de Menezes and scholar Dalila Honorato\, after realizing that women in the field of Art and Science have an unquestionable presence worldwide.  \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, FEMeeting Sister Labs launched as an hybrid model of interaction between local and global\, between digital and physical: where FEMeeting members address to the community of women in art\, science and technology an invitation to their lab spaces. \n\n\n\nDiscover the lab spaces already presented by FEMeeting members through Sister Labs and learn more about the community of women in art\, science and technology! Check out Sister Lab around the World! \n\n\n\nWe are particularly interested in hearing about the experiences of BIPOC\, trans women\, non-binary women\, and gender queer women\, and people living with disabilities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\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\, and is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.
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LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:PHS Community Acupuncture
DESCRIPTION:PHS is offering the first People’s Health Community Acupuncture as part of our Healing Days.  Community acupuncture is a grassroots model to increase access to acupuncture. It is done in a group setting (about 5 people at a time) in comfortable recliners and uses points mainly in your hands and feet.   \n\n\n\nThe last appointment of the day is at 3:10p. Walk-ins are welcome\, if there is space. Please wear comfy clothes and drink plenty of water!  Acupuncture will be performed by Xavier\, a NYS certified physician-acupuncturist. He was trained in a Japanese style formulated by Kiko Matsumoto through the Acumed program. \n\n\n\n\nSign up here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is acupuncture?\n\n\n\nJohn Hopkins Medicine writes\, acupuncture is the practice of penetrating the skin with thin\, solid\, metallic needles which are then activated through gentle and specific movements of the practitioner’s hands or with electrical stimulation.  \n\n\n\nAcupuncture is part of the ancient practice of Traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe the human body has more than 2\,000 acupuncture points connected by pathways or meridians. These pathways create an energy flow (Qi\, pronounced “chee”) through the body that is responsible for overall health. Disruption of the energy flow can cause disease. By applying acupuncture to certain points\, it is thought to improve the flow of Qi\, thereby improving health. Read more \n\n\n\nMore about community acupuncture\n\n\n\nCommunity acupuncture is a grassroots model designed to increase access to acupuncture. It is done in a group setting\, mainly using points mainly in your hands\, feet\, and ears.  In the US\, specifically at the Lincoln Hospital Detox Program in the Bronx\, the practice was brought over in the 70’s from China by Black Panther and Young Lord activists.  It has been refined and spread through the work of the Peoples Organization of Community Acupuncture (POCA).
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/phs-community-acupuncture-2/2024-04-12/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Caña Dulce y Caña Brava In Concert!
DESCRIPTION:Caña Dulce y Caña Brava offers a performance which exhibits the dance\, poetry\, and the traditional attire of Veracruz\, Mexico. These noteworthy performers\, who are beneficiaries of the Jarocho culture\, bring years of experience on both the national and international stages with them. Join us for this exciting performance! \n\n\n\n*Tickets are priced at $20 for General Admission and $10 for Student or Low-Income Admission. The Sanctuary recognizes that even with a sliding scale\, cost can affect the accessibility of any event. We want to emphasize that no one will be turned away at the door for a lack of funds. Please contact us with any questions or concerns. \n\n\n\n\n\nCaña Dulce y Caña Brava\n\n\n\nMade up mostly by women\, Caña Dulce y Caña Brava are exceptional performers of son jarocho\, a traditional Mexican expression who combines music\, dance and poetry. With a deep connection to tradition\, the group sang poetic messages with a feminine perspective\, offering a unique show within the traditionally male-dominated scene of music performers. Thanks to their dedication\, innovation and perseverance\, the group has established itself as a benchmark for son jarocho\, bringing innovation to traditional Mexican music. Caña Dulce y Caña Brava delivers a unique sound composed on top by the poetry and harmony of their voices\, floating around the vibrations of the horse jaw\, the mystical harmony of the harp and the strums of the jaranas\, while the beat is foot-tapped on stage and flashy colors emanate from their dresses. The music virtuosity of its members are deeply rooted in the jarocho tradition\, where all of them have learned directly from ancient masters and have developed and proven their skills both at national and international stages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdriana Cao – Harp\n\n\n\nBorn in the port city of Veracruz\, her musicalformation began when she was merely a child. Herpassion and tenacity for playing the jarocha harphave positioned herself as the most well-known harp player in the son jarocho universe\, learning thetradition directly from “maestros” such as PánfiloValerio\, Nicolás Sosa and Andrés Alfonso Vergara\,amongst others. Adriana has been invited to perform with the most representative groups of son jarocho\, such as Zacamandú\, Mono Blanco\, Chuchumbé and Tembembe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaquel Palacios – Jarana\n\n\n\nA distinguished singer and “jaranera”\, born into one of the most respected dynasties of son jarocho music: the Vega family. Native of Boca de San Miguel\, Tlacotalpan\, Veracruz\, she has lent her unique voice and talent to diverse musical projects such as Los Utrera and Son de Madera\, and she has collaborated with Jorge Drexler\, Ernesto Anaya and Geo Meneses\, amongst other artists. In 2012\, Raquel\, alongside her family\, received the National Prize of Sciences and Arts for the cultural contributions of the Vega and Utrera families. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVioleta Romero – Jarana & Dance\n\n\n\nBorn in Mexico City\, she began her formation in music and dance from an early age\, studying in Mexico\, Guinea\, Canada and the United States. Violeta is known for her dance style that is both powerful and elegant. Over the years\, she has formed part of bands such as Tamakán\, Maíz Negro and Los Utrera. Currently\, she is a cultural producer\, band member of Caña Dulce y Caña Brava since 2013\, and cast member in Pachuquísmo (dance project based in San Francisco\, CA\, USA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Arismendez – Leona\n\n\n\nMexican descent who was born and raised in Austin\, TX\, USA. Ana encountered son jarocho for the first time in 2010. Since then\, she has been an avid student of the tradition\, participating in fandangos\, and learning directly from different maestros and collectives. With persistence\, she embraced the guitarra grande (also called “leona”)\, a bass instrument not commonly played by women\, that she plays with charm and strength. Anna currently lives in Mexico City and has been a member of Caña Dulce y Caña Brava since 2016. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlonso Borja – Requinto\n\n\n\nAlonso joined the band in 2023\, but has been an active member of the Mexican music tradition since 1996\, when he founded “Chéjere”\, a widely recognized band mixing tradition with innovation\, who has performed at national and international festivals. With a major in classical guitar studies\, he has been a member of the Mexican National System of Creators since 2019\, and has received awards for his compositions\, such as the Ibermúsicas popular song composition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe zapateado (percussive dance) on the tarima (wooden platform) accentuates the beat\, while the band’s colorful wardrobe embellishes their musicality. Appealing instrumental landscapes include the captivating vibrations of the horse jaw\, the profound and mystical harmonies of the harp\, the percussive atmosphere created by the jarana\, the robust rhythm of the guitarra grande\, and the renaissance-sounding bowed instruments created ex profeso for the group\, resurrecting extinct baroque instrumentation.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/cana-dulce-y-cana-brava/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media Project
DESCRIPTION:“Spaces of Exception” is a film profiling American Indian reservations alongside Palestinian refugee camps. Join us for a Be The Media! workshop with co-director Matt Peterson prior to the screening of “Spaces of Exception\,” to learn about the process of creating a long-term media project. \n\n\n\n“Spaces of Exception” was filmed from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona\, New Mexico\, New York and South Dakota as well as Lebanon and the West Bank. It is an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life\, community and sovereignty. “Spaces of Exception” comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee.  \n\n\n\n5pm – 6pm: Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media ProjectJoin Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” to learn about the process of creating a long-term media project.  \n\n\n\n7pm – 9:30pm: film screening of “Spaces of Exception” and community conversationAfter the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long)\, Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” will be joined with Indigenous and Palestinian/Arab guests about takeaways\, related personal experiences\, and reflections. Even if you have already seen the film\, please feel free to join later for complimentary tea and snacks and the subsequent discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn showing “Spaces of Exception\,” Albany Jewish Voices for Peace\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, along with our co-sponsors hope to further understanding between all members of our community on this difficult and controversial issue and provide a safe space for dialogue. \n\n\n\nFilmmaker Bio: \n\n\n\nMatt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine\, an experimental space in New York City. He co-directed the documentary features “Scenes from a Revolt Sustained” (2014) and “Spaces of Exception” (2018)\, and co-edited the books “In the Name of the People” (2018) and “The Mohawk Warrior Society” (2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\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\, and is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/btm-spaces-of-exception/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening,Workshop
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SUMMARY:"Spaces of Exception" Film Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:“Spaces of Exception” is a film profiling American Indian reservations alongside Palestinian refugee camps\, an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life\, community and sovereignty.  The screening is followed by a community conversation with film co-director Matt Peterson and Indigenous and Palestinian guests.  \n\n\n\n5pm – 6pm: Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media ProjectJoin Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” to learn about the process of creating a long-term media project.  \n\n\n\n7pm – 9:30pm: film screening of “Spaces of Exception” and community conversationAfter the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long)\, Matt Peterson\, co-director of “Spaces of Exception\,” will be joined with Indigenous and Palestinian/Arab guests about takeaways\, related personal experiences\, and reflections. Even if you have already seen the film\, please feel free to join later for complimentary tea and snacks and the subsequent discussion. \n\n\n\n“Spaces of Exception\,” directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny\, was filmed from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona\, New Mexico\, New York\, and South Dakota as well as Lebanon and the West Bank\, and comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee.  \n\n\n\nAfter the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long)\, film co-director Matt Peterson will be joined by Indigenous and Palestinian/Arab guests in a discussion about takeaways\, related personal experiences\, and reflections. See panel bios below.  \n\n\n\nIn showing “Spaces of Exception\,” Albany Jewish Voice for Peace\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, along with our co-sponsors hope to further understanding between all members of our community on this difficult and controversial issue and provide a safe space for dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\nFilmmaker Matt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine\, an experimental space in New York City. He co-directed the documentary features “Scenes from a Revolt Sustained” (2014) and “Spaces of Exception” (with Malek Rasamny\, 2018)\, and co-edited the books “In the Name of the People” (2018) and “The Mohawk Warrior Society” (2022). \n\n\n\nLayla Aburas Khafaga  is a first-generation Palestinian American. Her father was displaced in the 1967 conflict\, and her mother’s family in the 1948 Nakba. Layla embraces her Palestinian identity proudly\, striving to preserve its rich culture. Leaving the corporate world\, she founded a Middle Eastern Bakery to share her culture with the community. Layla also played a pivotal role in founding the Albany Muslim Advocacy Coalition (AMAC)\, advocating for unity and social justice. She amplifies unheard voices\, aiming for positive change and representation in her community. \n\n\n\nKanerahtiio Roger Jock is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Bear Clan Leader from the Akwesasne Reserve who carries a vision of return for his people to their ancestral lands in the Mohawk Valley of New York. Kanerahtiio has taught cultural awareness all over the U.S. for over 40 years as part of the White Roots of Peace Movement. He worked as an ironworker and foreman for several decades and is a leader in land and sovereign rights in the Akwesasne region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about how this film was made? If so\, join us prior to the screening: \n\n\n\n5pm – 6pm: Be The Media! workshop: Creating a Long-Term Media ProjectJoin Co-Director Matt Peterson to learn about the documentary-making process of creating “Spaces of Exception”” and a long-term media project.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\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\, and is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/spaces-of-exception/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening
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SUMMARY:"The Black Woods" Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join author Amy Godine for a book talk on her most recent work\, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier. The presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (2023\, Cornell University Press) chronicles the dramatic history of Black pioneers in New York’s northern wilderness. From the 1840s into the 1860s\, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new land they could hope to meet the $250 property requirement New York imposed on Black prospective voters in 1821\, and gain a cherished right of citizenship\, the ballot. \n\n\n\nIn 1846 and ’47\, three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120\,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith\, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith’s suffrage-minded plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and New York’s leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo\, a new Black neighborhood in the woods. \n\n\n\nSmith’s plan was prescient\, anticipating Black suffrage reform\, affirmative action\, environmental distributive justice\, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith’s offer fell radically short of his high hopes\, Smith’s zeal cooled. Timbuctoo\, Freemen’s Home\, Blacksville\, and other Black enclaves were forgotten. Local and regional historians would marginalize the Black experience for 150 years. In The Black Woods\, Godine retrieves the robust story of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. With stirring stories from archival sources\, Amy Godine returns these trailblazers and their descendants to their rightful place in the Adirondack narrative. This recovery is long overdue.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho is Amy Godine?\n\n\n\nAmy is a writer\, curator\, and lecturer with a longstanding interest in the social history of the Adirondack region. She has been writing articles and speaking about social trends\, marginalized communities\, and ethnic and Black neighborhoods in this high corner of New York since 1988. What do these pieces have in common beyond their focus on this region? One way or another\, they aim to challenge or confound entrenched ideas about Adirondack exceptionalism\, and reach for the guy lines that lash the region to the wider\, fractious world beyond. Miners’ strikes\, eastern European peddlers\, Klan rallies\, Spanish road workers\, the pseudo-science of eugenics and its impact on the early conservation movement\, suffrage activism\, and Black pioneers – her’s is not the Adirondack Country dear to Park historians\, nature writers or antiquarians. Amy goes for something else.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-black-woods/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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