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SUMMARY:Be5 STEM Saturdays
DESCRIPTION:Fun with Science & Health: Through hands-on activities\, students in grades 3-8 explore science topics vital to daily life\, including controlling disease with clean hands\, healthy drinking water\, and improved indoor air quality. \n\n\n\n\nregister\n\n\n\n\nStudents will engage in hands-on activities using Micro:bit technology to explore themes like water purification\, biodiversity\, air quality\, and UV radiation. These activities foster scientific inquiry skills and real-time data analysis while deepening understanding of ecological systems. Concurrently\, participants will begin exploring their personal strengths through activities focused on identifying talents\, passions\, and career interests. This session sets the foundation for a transformative STEM journey and personal growth. \n\n\n\nQuestions: reach Dr. Emilly Obuya at 518-258-7356\, obuyae@sage.edu
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be5-stem-saturdays/2024-10-05/
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SUMMARY:Be5 STEM Saturdays
DESCRIPTION:Fun with Science & Health: Through hands-on activities\, students in grades 3-8 explore science topics vital to daily life\, including controlling disease with clean hands\, healthy drinking water\, and improved indoor air quality. \n\n\n\n\nregister\n\n\n\n\nStudents will engage in hands-on activities using Micro:bit technology to explore themes like water purification\, biodiversity\, air quality\, and UV radiation. These activities foster scientific inquiry skills and real-time data analysis while deepening understanding of ecological systems. Concurrently\, participants will begin exploring their personal strengths through activities focused on identifying talents\, passions\, and career interests. This session sets the foundation for a transformative STEM journey and personal growth. \n\n\n\nQuestions: reach Dr. Emilly Obuya at 518-258-7356\, obuyae@sage.edu
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be5-stem-saturdays/2024-10-12/
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SUMMARY:Slow Food Meet Up
DESCRIPTION:Sanctuary Kitchen’s Jonathan Segol will gather with cooking lovers to think intentionally about the source of our food and slowing down for its preparation. The meet up will begin with a walk through our CCG garden\, before heading to the kitchen for food prepping and a little cooking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Segol is long time volunteer and cook at the Sanctuary. He shares his talent and humor with visitors and volunteers\, and his meals bring folks together in our unified mission of justice and peace.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/slow-food-meet-up/
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SUMMARY:PHS Community Acupuncture
DESCRIPTION:PHS is excited to begin hosting regular Community Acupuncture on most Friday afternoons in the fall.  Community acupuncture is a grassroots technique developed to offer the healing benefits of acupuncture at an accessible cost as well as coupled with the benefit of healing in community.  Folks can sign up ahead of time or walk in!   \n\n\n\nSessions are spaced every 15 mins and usually last about an hour. Please only register if you are sure you can make it\, holding spots doesn’t allow others to sign up. Contact fxcoughlin@gmail.com to if you need to cancel. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Community Acupuncture\n\n\n\n\n\nYou will be seated in a cozy lounge chair\, in a large semi-circle with up to 4 other people. \n\n\n\nYou will be seated in a cozy lounge chair\, in a large semi-circle with up to 4 other people.\n\n\n\nThe acupuncturist will ask a few simple questions about your health\, then place appropriate needles in your arms\, legs and ear.  People find it quite relaxing and often take a nap!\n\n\n\nAcupuncture is a subtle healing energy and best works with 3-4 visits over the space of one to two months.\n\n\n\nPlease wear comfy clothes that can easily be pulled above your elbows and knees. If you often get cold\, please bring a blanket. And drink plenty of water.\n\n\n\nWe are asking for sliding scale donations to make these sessions sustainable. Please plan to donate between $20-40 per session\, these go to cover costs\, provide a stipend for the acupuncture team\, and take care of the space. If you are able to donate more\, it will help cover costs for someone else. If you are unable to donate\, please come for healing regardless\, no one will be turned away. You can send money via venmo to @ HAC NE (please put CAP in comments)\, Paypal at fxcoughlin@gmail.com\, or cash at the session.\n\n\n\nAcupuncture 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\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-5/2024-10-25/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! workshop: Regenerative Filmmaking– Is it possible?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Be The Media! workshop with the director of Farming While Black\, Mark Decena of Kontent Films. Using inspiration from film clips relating to resilience Decena will discuss the concept of sustainability and methods of regenerative actions as related to filmmaking\, but also as a self-preservation concept. Decena will address the highs and lows of activist filmmaking\, being overstretched some days/months waiting on projects others\, as well as being overwhelmed when things hit all at once\, and dealing with the grind of fundraising. He will think with participants various ways to keep moving forward even when things look bleak\, embracing regenerative and sustainable practices in farming as translated to filmmaking – or rather\, “how to be a regenerative filmmaker” in harmony with the planet and each other. \n\n\n\nStay after the workshop for the Screening of Farming While Black followed by a panel discussion\, beginning at 7pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Decena: Founder of Kontent Films\, Director – Raised by an immigrant single mother\, Mark spent his formative years softening hard adobe clay soil with compost. Besides keeping him in line\, it infused Decena with a love of growing things – to date: feature films\, television shows\, and short film series. \n\n\n\nA three time Sundance alumni\, Mark’s first feature\, Dopamine won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. Decena’s documentary work spans across themes of social justice\, sustainable design and the environment. He wrote and directed the Redford Center film\, Watershed\, and was a writer and producer on Stand Up Planet\, a Gates funded project that aired on Participant Media’s channel\, Pivot and KCET. His latest feature film\, Not Without Us\, premiered as the closing night film at the S.F. Green Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS. Decena’s latest short films\, Remothering the Land\, co-produced with Patagonia Films\, premiered at the DC Environmental Film Festival\, and Me & My Robot premiered at COPDOX and aired on PBS. Mark is also the founder of Kontent\, a boutique production company based in San Francisco\, housing a Kollective of award winning filmmakers\, producers and creatives working on original and branded works. \n\n\n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · Mark Decena on Directing "Farming While Black"
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-workshop-with-mark-decena/
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SUMMARY:"Farming While Black" Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the feature-length documentary film Farming While Black followed by a panel discussion which will include local Black farmers and gardeners\, moderated by Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm. Complimentary light refreshments will be served featuring Soul Fire Farm’s harvest and provided by Rumah Kitchen. The screening will be preceded by a Be The Media! workshop with the film’s director\, Mark Decena from 5-6pm. \n\n\n\n\nLeah Penniman\, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm\, reflects on the plight of Black farmers in the United States. From the height of Black-owned farms at 14% in 1910 to less than 2% today. Leah and her Soul Fire Farm cohorts help propel a rising generation finding strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism – and its potential to save the planet. \n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-curated by Kathy High and Branda Miller\, and is a collaboration with the RPI’s iEAR Presents series\, supported by the Department of Arts and the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences\, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFarming While Black is a feature-length documentary film which examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots. \n\n\n\nAs the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York\, Leah Penniman finds strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism – agricultural practices that can heal people and the planet. Influenced and inspired by Karen Washington\, a pioneer in urban community gardens in New York City\, and fellow farmer and organizer Blain Snipstal\, Leah galvanizes around farming as the basis of revolutionary justice. \n\n\n\nIn 1910\, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Over the intervening decades\, that number fell below two percent\, the result of racism\, discrimination\, and dispossession. The film chronicles Penniman and two other Black farmers’ efforts to reclaim their agricultural heritage. Collectively\, their work has a major impact\, as each is a leader in sustainable agriculture and food justice movements.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Guests:\n\n\n\nLeah Penniman\, Soul Fire Farm\, Grafton NYJammella Anderson\, Free Food Fridge\, Troy NYMonti Lawson\, Catalyst Collaborative Farm\, Millerton NYTsehaya Smith\, Soul Fire in the City\, Troy NYClara AgborTabi\, Soul Fire Farm Alumni Coordinator\, Grafton NYJalal Sabur\, Sweet Freedom Farm\, Germantown NY \n\n\n\nHudson Mohawk Magazine · Leah Penniman on the Historical Plight of Black Farmers
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/farming-while-black-screening-discussion/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Be5 STEM Saturdays
DESCRIPTION:Fun with Science & Health: Through hands-on activities\, students in grades 3-8 explore science topics vital to daily life\, including controlling disease with clean hands\, healthy drinking water\, and improved indoor air quality. \n\n\n\n\nregister\n\n\n\n\nStudents will engage in hands-on activities using Micro:bit technology to explore themes like water purification\, biodiversity\, air quality\, and UV radiation. These activities foster scientific inquiry skills and real-time data analysis while deepening understanding of ecological systems. Concurrently\, participants will begin exploring their personal strengths through activities focused on identifying talents\, passions\, and career interests. This session sets the foundation for a transformative STEM journey and personal growth. \n\n\n\nQuestions: reach Dr. Emilly Obuya at 518-258-7356\, obuyae@sage.edu
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be5-stem-saturdays/2024-10-26/
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