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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\nThis is our first session\, the 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/
LOCATION:People’s Health Sanctuary\, 3319 6th Avenue\, 2nd Fl\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:"Israelism" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of cross-cultural learning and understanding\, the Albany Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace alongside our co-sponsors\, are excited to host an in person screening of Israelism followed by a community discussion at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Created by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who followed the experience of two young American Jews\, Israelism provides a thought provoking view into the connection between the American Jewish Community and Israel. \n\n\n\nMasks required and can be provided.  Attendance is limited\, pre-registration required!  \n\n\n\nSponsored by: Albany Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace \n\n\n\n\nSOLD OUT\n\n\n\n\nSorry\, but we have hit our registration limit! Please note: there will be no entrance at door without confirmed registration.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us after the film screening (roughly 1.5 hours long) followed by a discussion\, facilitated by representatives of the Jewish\, non-Jewish and Palestinian/Arab communities\, on your takeaways\, related personal experiences and reflections. Even if you have already seen the film\, please feel free to join later for the subsequent discussion.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIn showing Israelism\, Albany JVP\, The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, along with our co-sponsors Women Against War\, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace\, Palestinian Rights Committee Albany\, and Saratoga BLM\, and PSL 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you want to understand the wrenching generational rift over Israel among many left-leaning American Jews\, the documentary “Israelism\,” is a good place to start.  \n– Michelle Goldberg\, New York Times\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information please reach out to: jvpalbany@gmail.com
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/israelism/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 Campus Open House
DESCRIPTION:Our Campus Open House is an opportunity to drop by the Sanctuary to get to know our many initiatives and programs! This is a great opportunity for potential interns\, volunteers\, or curious community members to ask questions and learn more about what we do. Our various initiatives will have activities\, tables\, and workshops in the Sanctuary Main Space\, with scheduled campus tours throughout the duration of the event.  \n\n\n\n\n\nLearn About: \n\n\n\n\nVolunteering Or Interning: Lend a helping hand whenever and wherever you fit in!\n\n\n\nNATURE Lab: Learn about our Air Justice Lab\, Water Justice Lab\, & Be5 STEAM Club!\n\n\n\nSanctuary Radio: Get involved with Hudson-Mohawk Magazine or Jazz Sanctuary!\n\n\n\nSpring Programming: See what’s coming this season at the Sanctuary and learn how you can get involved!\n\n\n\nPeople’s Health Sanctuary: Help us nurture a healthy North-Central Troy!\n\n\n\nCollard City Growers: Swap some seeds by bringing your own to share and/ or bringing some home with you!\n\n\n\nSanctuary TV: View our extensive archive and help us document our upcoming events!\n\n\n\nKitchen Sanctuary: Feed our volunteers\, community\, and minds! \n\n\n\n\nActivities & Workshops: \n\n\n\n\nThe Art of the Interview Radio Workshop: In this interactive workshop you will be given real experience stories\, demonstration\, and exercises to improve your interview and conversational skills. We will work with equipment and discuss how the interviewer can shape the interview.\n\n\n\nCamera Operation & Live Directing Workshop: In this workshop you will learn about how to set up the camera (white balance\, memory cards)\, how to operate a camera (set up a frame\, adjusting focus\, how to find a new interesting frame)\, and working with a live director who is speaking to you in your headset.\n\n\n\nSeed Swap: Learn seed keeping methods from local gardeners\, acquire seeds to grow\, and bring your own seeds and stories to show and share. There’s no need to bring seeds or have any knowledge of seed-keeping or gardening to attend–you can also join for company and conversation! We’ll also be joined by Danielle Peláez\, who will be tabling on behalf of Soul Fire in the City.\n\n\n\nCooking Workshop: Sanctuary chefs Jonathan Segol and Intaba Liff-Anderson will oversee making a recipe start to finish. You will also get to bring food home with you! \n\n\n\nBe5 STEM Activities: From 11 AM – 1 PM\, Dr. Emilly Obuya will uses a variety of games\, activities\, and experiential learning to guide youth through their discovery of electrical circuits\, coding\, chemistry\, robotics\, and more!\n\n\n\n\nSchedule: 11:00 AM: Doors open and our Seed Swap\, STEM Activities\, Info tables\, & Workshop signups begin.11:15 AM: 1st Campus tour.11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Camera Operation & Live Directing Workshop and The Art of the Interview Radio Workshop.12:45 PM: 2nd Campus tour.1:00-2:00pm: Cooking Workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSign Up for a Workshop or Campus Tour Here or Below:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/campus-open-house-spring-2024/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open House
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SUMMARY:Old Growth Playback: Four new sound works by Lisa Schonberg
DESCRIPTION:with Nina Isabelle & Brian McCorkle\, 5 objects\, piano\, and percussion\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of sound works by Lisa Schonberg\, and Nina Isabelle with Brian McCorkle. \n\n\n\nLisa Schonberg will be presenting a body of 4 new spatialized sound works that are the culmination of Old Growth Playback\, which asks us how we can listen in the present to speculate about future old growth soundscapes and our role in them. This work began in the forests of Oregon at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA) in 2018\, and has evolved in the urban ecosystems of Troy\, New York. Lisa’s compositions focus on cryptic sounds beyond the limits of typical human hearing ability without the use of technology; so that through this focus\, we might consider non-human listening positions and perspectives. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Schonberg is a composer\, percussionist and ecological sound artist. Her recent work includes investigations of ant acoustics in tropical forests\, Hawaiian endangered bees\, insects and human technology\, and fungi. She is a PhD candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  \n\n\n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Old Growth Playback with Lisa Schonberg\n\n\n\nNina and Brian’s performance combines improvisational piano with an experimental percussion process that uses five shapes (five-pointed star\, square\, triangle\, line segment\, and a single point) to determine patterns of action inspired by somatic memories encoded through dance training\, skateboarding\, and trampoline. The structure considers speaker placement\, room dimensions\, and materials as a way to demonstrate an intuitive interpretation of the psychoacoustic phenomena of apparent source width and attempts to conjure LEV\, the entity of listener envelopment. \n\n\n\nNina Isabelle is an artist researching the hidden layers of Process Art. She makes art as inquiry into how sensory perception\, memory\, and motive inform the decision-making processes used to construct meaning in art and life. \n\n\n\nBrian McCorkle is a composer\, performer\, and digital artist in Hurley\, NY. He studied jazz piano with the late Geri Allen and performs regularly as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist \n\n\n\nOld Growth Playback is made possible\, in part\, by the New York State Council on the Artswith the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York StateLegislature through the Media Arts Assistance Fund\, a regrant partnership ofNYSCA and Wave Farm. This work has also been supported by HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University\, and is presented in partnership with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, NATURE Lab\, Hudson Mohawk Magazine\, and Publication Studio Hudson.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/old-growth-playback/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Annual North-Central Troy Interfaith Holiday Justice and Peace Celebration
DESCRIPTION:The Sanctuary for Independent Media invites you and your loved ones to join us for our annual North-Central Troy Interfaith Holiday Peace and Justice Celebration!  \n\n\n\nOn December 9th\, from 2PM – 4PM\, we will gather in the Sanctuary Main Space where free food will be provided\, along with:  \n\n\n\n\nCookie decorating\n\n\n\nFace painting\n\n\n\nFamily portraits\n\n\n\nFree store\n\n\n\nGift giving\n\n\n\nWrite for Rights letter writing table\n\n\n\nMake your own winter tea blend table\n\n\n\nMake your own winter decor table\n\n\n\nListening station from field recording in North Troy\n\n\n\n\nFrom 4PM – 5PM\, we will gather in Freedom Square to celebrate and reflect on this year\, culminating in a tree lighting! We welcome all to this celebration and encourage those attending to bring a friend. We at the Sanctuary look forward to seeing faces old and new\, and wish you a merry and warm holiday season! \n\n\n\nIn the spirit of justice\, peace\, and equity\, we will be collecting gifts for the North-Central Troy community. We welcome contributions\, including: \n\n\n\n\nNew or slightly used: Toys\, winter clothing\, blankets\, etc.\n\n\n\nNew: Toiletries\, beauty products\, non-perishable food\, etc.\n\n\n\n\nCo-Sponsors: \n\n\n\nTeam HERO\, Unity House\, SNUG. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMC: H. Bosh Jr. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGroup Photos by:                Jayana LaFountaine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMusic by:                                   DJ Sean Reid \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFace Painting by:                     Jade Warrick \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeacon Jerry Ford                   and Team HERO \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanta \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Schonberg listening station  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPast Celebrations:
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/interfaith-celebration-2023/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: The Genocide in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Best-selling author\, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, and former foreign correspondent for The New York Times\, Chris Hedges addresses the Middle East crisis with a talk titled\, “The Genocide in Gaza.” \n\n\n\n\n\nVideo documentation of this talk\, with Q&A\n\n\n\n*This is an in-person event*If you are unable to attend in-person\, we encourage you to join our mailing list so you can be the first to know when documentation of the event is available! \n\n\n\nAdmission by donation: $10 suggested or $5 student/ low income.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hedges\, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times\, is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and Arabic speaker. He spent 7 years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times bestsellers War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning\, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Days of Destruction\, Days of Revolt\, which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. He has taught at Columbia University\, New York University\, Princeton University\, and the University of Toronto. He has also taught students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system for a decade\, the subject of his book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.   \n\n\n\nChris Hedges’ website: Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace\, Albany Chapter; Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Palestinian Rights Committee-Upper Hudson Peace Action; RPI Muslim Student Association; UAlbany Muslim Student Association; Women Against War. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of justice\, peace\, and equity right here at home\, we will be collecting donations at the Chris Hedges lecture for our local community in North-Central Troy\, who will be gathering on Saturday December 9th for the Sanctuary’s annual Interfaith Holiday Justice and Peace Celebration!  \n\n\n\nPlease consider bringing gifts for the North-Central Troy community when you come to hear Chris\, including: \n\n\n\n\nNew or slightly used: Toys\, winter clothing\, blankets\, etc.\n\n\n\nNew: Toiletries\, beauty products\, non-perishable food\, etc.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/chris-hedges-on-gaza/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hudson Mohawk Magazine Open Hours
DESCRIPTION:Hudson Mohawk Magazine (HMM) is radio for the community\, by community volunteers. If you are curious about the radio and have questions\, if you’re interested in getting involved\, or if you need some support in production\, these open hours are a perfect time to come to the main Sanctuary space to work directly with HMM producers.  \n\n\n\n3:00-5:00pm: drop by to ask questions\, get help\, use the radio studio5:00-6:00pm: work with the hosts to get Hudson Mohawk Magazine ready for the air6:00-7:00pm: sit in the studio and watch the live recording and airing7:07-8:30pm: join the weekly hybrid programming meeting where the schedule for the week ahead is put together by an incredible team of volunteers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur volunteer HMM producers come with a range of skills and experiences. Many volunteers join with little to no experience. These sessions give support to producers of all levels. This is also an opportunity to train new engineers and hosts.  \n\n\n\nJoin our excellent team of grassroots journalists and report on local stories that interest you. Feel free to reach out to us by emailing HMM@mediasanctuary.org or call 518-272-2390.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/hudson-mohawk-magazine-open-hours-3/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Field Recording Workshop
DESCRIPTION:What does North Troy sound like to you?  \n\n\n\nJoin artist and musician Lisa Schonberg in a workshop about field recording\, and contribute to a soundwalk exhibit! Participants will go out into the neighborhood surrounding the Sanctuary with microphones to record the cityscape. Participants’ recordings will later become part of a soundscape composition. Those recordings will be showcased at the Annual North-Central Troy Holiday Interfaith Justice and Peace Celebration on December 9\, as well as become part of a future Eco-Art Trail soundwalk exhibit throughout the Sanctuary campus. North Troy residents prioritized\, but open to all! Ages 8+ (please provide adult supervision for littler kiddos). \n\n\n\nRegister by emailing drummer.schonberg@gmail.com
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/field-recording-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:"Confessions of a Good Samaritan" Film Screening with Director Penny Lane
DESCRIPTION:Director Penny Lane returns to the Sanctuary to screen her latest film Confessions of a Good Samaritan about her own experience deciding to become a “Good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger. This launches her on an unexpectedly funny\, intimate\, and provocative quest to understand why everyone seems to think she’s crazy. \n\n\n\nAt 5pm\, join Penny Lane for the Be The Media! workshop: Positioning Yourself as Subject in Documentary Filmmaking \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConfessions of a Good Samaritan is a provocative inquiry into the science\, history\, and ethics of organ transplantation\, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: who is your neighbor\, and what do you owe them? We’ve all heard versions of this question\, but how often do we really stop to think about its meaning? \n\n\n\n“Good Samaritan” kidney donation is a term used to describe the exceptionally rare circumstance in which a person is moved to donate a kidney\, not to a friend or a loved one\, but to an unknown stranger. The small number of people per year who make this choice often describe it as a “no-brainer”: I could have a relatively low-risk procedure\, and save someone’s life? Obviously! With more than 100\,000 people in need of a kidney\, slowly dying on dialysis\, for the Good Samaritan donors\, the only question is\, “Why isn’t there a line of people out the door waiting to give a kidney?” \n\n\n\nBut\, for the vast majority of people\, making a “Good Samaritan” donation is incomprehensible\, or suspicious in some way. Why do they do it? Do these people just want attention? What are they compensating for? This mystery is what sets Penny off on her quest to understand the science of altruism\, the ethical controversies surrounding organ donation\, and her own motivations. \n\n\n\nAlong the way she collects a library of rare\, often strange\, archival films documenting the history of organ transplantation. Accompanied by a quirky cast of charismatic scientists\, surgeons\, ethicists\, and other donors\, Penny documents her experience through “confessional” diaries and intimate footage of her own surgery and recovery. All of these elements are assembled into a fast-paced\, funny\, personal and philosophical collage. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPenny Lane (Director) has been making award-winning\, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. This includes six features – most recently Confessions of a Good Samaritan\, premiering at SXSW 2023 – and over a dozen short films. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, Lane has also received grants and awards from the Sundance Film Festival\, Cinereach\, Creative Capital\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Tribeca Film Institute\, Wexner Center for the Arts and many others. Penny has been honored with mid-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image\, San Francisco DocFest\, Open City Documentary Festival and Cinema Moderne. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And yes\, Penny Lane is her real name. \n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored with People’s Health Sanctuary. This 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. Curated by Branda Miller.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/confessions-of-a-good-samaritan/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Be The Media! Positioning Yourself as Subject in Documentary Filmmaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn from “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” Director Penny Lane’s decision to position herself as director\, film subject\, and kidney donor!  \n\n\n\nAfter the workshop\, stick around for a screening of “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” and a talk by the filmmaker! \n\n\n\nDirector’s Statement\n\n\n\nEvery film is a personal film. At least\, I think so. \n\n\n\nBut of course there’s something different about a film in which you\, the director\, decide to put your own dumb face at the center of it. On a selfish level\, it would have been much easier and less embarrassing to do the kidney donation privately\, and to forget all the ugly parts. \n\n\n\nUltimately what kept me going is that\, simply put\, there has never been a feature documentary about an organ donor. Certainly there has never been a feature documentary about a “Good Samaritan” kidney donor who will never meet her recipient\, the hopes and challenges she faces along the way\, a film that shows how the loftiest spiritual ideas can fall and break upon meeting the bureaucracy of medicine\, what the donor learned about the part\, present\, and future of organ transplant from both ethical and scientific points of view – a film with a sense of humor and a theremin score! So even if my fears about making this film were pretty huge (for obvious reasons?) I knew there was this unique\, probably important work of art floating out there in the ether\, begging to be given form. More than any other film I’ve made\, Confessions of a Good Samaritan felt like a calling\, as if it chose me. In this way\, the experience of making the film was similar to the experience of donating my kidney. Not exactly fun\, definitely difficult\, but ultimately rewarding\, and the most important spiritual experience I have ever had. I feel honored\, humbled and grateful for it all (even the embarrassing parts!). \n\n\n\nUltimately\, this isn’t much of an advocacy film; the “call to action” is not that people should donate their kidneys (although I think more people probably should). I see it more as an inquiry into the nature of altruism\, a relentless self-examination\, and a compelling moral challenge. \n\n\n\n\nPenny Lane (Director) has been making award-winning\, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. This includes six features – most recently Confessions of a Good Samaritan\, premiering at SXSW 2023 – and over a dozen short films. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, Lane has also received grants and awards from the Sundance Film Festival\, Cinereach\, Creative Capital\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Tribeca Film Institute\, Wexner Center for the Arts and many others. Penny has been honored with mid-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image\, San Francisco DocFest\, Open City Documentary Festival and Cinema Moderne. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And yes\, Penny Lane is her real name.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/be-the-media-positioning-yourself-as-subject-in-documentary-filmmaking/
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SUMMARY:The Halluci Nation In Concert!
DESCRIPTION:The Sanctuary is honored to welcome the sounds of The Halluci Nation to Troy\, NY! The Halluci Nation is a Canadian electronic music group who blend instrumental hip hop\, reggae\, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music including vocal chanting and drumming.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Halluci Nation maintains focus on what they feel they can impact most: how Indigenous people are seen. Through groundbreaking stage shows and ever-changing visuals\, Bear Witness and 2oolman are working to create media that reflects the modern day Indigenous identity. They see themselves simply as contributors to a necessary conversation around a subtle and complex representation of the contemporary Indigenous experience.  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the artist: As they enter a new cycle\, Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill of A Tribe Called Red are reintroducing themselves as The Halluci Nation\, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission. The Halluci Nation\, takes its name from a phrase coined by John Trudell\, to describe the vast global community of people who remember at their core what it means to be human. As a visionary artist and activist\, Trudell recognized the connection between his accomplishments and what ATCR did intuitively through music and art…. \n\n\n\nThe next chapter for The Halluci Nation has them further exploring the boundaries of cross genre collaborations. In the Spring of 2023 they released a high powered collaboration with Punk-Rock Band “F*cked Up” which featured covers of “Electroshock” by Danger Rhythm\, and “John Wayne was a Nazi” by MDC. This was just a small look into the creative mindset and production capabilities that Bear Witness and 2oolman possess…  \n\n\n\nThis is just the START of THE HALLUCI NATION.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis concert is part of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, dedicated to celebrating the sacred Mohican soils we are honored to tend. We are beneficiaries of millennia of human history unfolding in a majestic river valley\, where the land has been nurtured by Indigenous hands and traumatized through industrial development and systemic inequity. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail embeds art\, culture\, history\, and ecology into an urban nature walk on 6th Avenue in North Troy\, weaving a journey from Glen Avenue to 101st Street and Freedom Square. Visitors will engage with stories of environmental justice\, ecological restoration\, and the living legacy of Indigenous presence on these lands through sculptures\, gardens\, multimedia\, murals\, concerts and live events and workshops. Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail is funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town creative placemaking grant.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-halluci-nation-in-concert/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T150000
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SUMMARY:Welcoming “Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left:” Community Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us to honor the passing of Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left and celebrate creative place-making along the Mahicannituck (Hudson River)! This community gathering is for all people who love the Sanctuary\, who love art and creative placemaking\, and who love the Hudson River! This celebration marks the moment that the monumental sculpture Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left by Beatriz Cortez\, onboard the John J. Harvey fireboat\, passes through Troy’s Federal Lock and Dam along the Mahicannituck at the Northern tip of the Hudson River Estuary\, just a block away from the Sanctuary’s campus.  \n\n\n\nAs part of our year long Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, we honor Beatriz Cortez’s Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left\, speak with the curators about Cortez’s project and Shifting Center Exhibition at EMPAC\, and walk together on the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail to celebrate creative placemaking on the Hudson in Troy! \n\n\n\nMore about the Celebration activities\n\n\n\nPlease register if you wish to attend the Troy reception.  We will meet at The Sanctuary by 3PM Sunday for informal introductions the curators\, live broadcast from the boat\, conversation and light refreshments from the Mediterranean Grill.   \n\n\n\nEarly arrival is recommended. We will then go together by land to the bank of the Hudson River near the Federal Lock and Dam (at the West end of Glen St. outside the Federal Lock Gate) to view the sculpture’s arrival. The sculpture is expected at the lock at approximately 3:45PM. We will then return to the Sanctuary\, to watch the live broadcast as  Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left onboard the John J. Harvey fireboat journeys to Lock 2 at the Waterford Pier. And feel free to join us as curators and community make a short drive to the Waterford Harbor Visitor Center to welcome Beatriz Cortez and the filmmakers personally!  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\nVolunteer Application\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Beatriz Cortez\n\n\n\n\n\nBeatriz Cortez (b. 1970\, San Salvador\, El Salvador; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. Cortez’s work explores simultaneity\, life in different temporalities and different versions of modernity\, particularly in relation to memory and loss in the aftermath of war and the experience of migration\, and in relation to imagining possible futures. \n\n\n\nAbout Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left\n\n\n\nJoin in dialogue with curators Vic Brooks\, Nida Ghouse and Eric Booker\, as well as Kathryn TeBordo\, Catherine Abbott and Katherine Adams from EMPAC\, to learn about Ilopango\, the Volacno that Left and the Shifting Center Exhibition.  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to recognize that sculptures\, like continents and mountains\, are on the move? Beatriz Cortez’s sculpture Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left departs Storm King Art Center\, the site of its current exhibition\, to embark on a three-day performative journey along the Hudson River to EMPAC–Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. Aboard the John J. Harvey fireboat\, the steel volcano travels north up the tidal estuary via Kingston to Troy to be installed in a concert hall for its second site of exhibition\, leaving behind a sculptural footprint in its wake: an absence amidst other artworks on Museum Hill. \n\n\n\nThe volcano can be witnessed as it sails upriver from various viewing points on both shores and online through a livestream. The public is also invited to visit when it docks for the night at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston and to gather in welcoming the volcano when it passes through the Federal Lock and Dam near The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy. A month prior to the journey\, for the Parsons Fine Art Visiting Artists Lecture co-organized by the Vera List Center at the New School\, Cortez will chart the conceptual content borne by notions of movement and impermanence.  \n\n\n\nIn making this passage from a sculpture park to a performing arts center\, Ilopango\, the Volcano that Left proposes a line of questioning: What does it mean to consider sculpture as time-based? And can it become a performance? In (re)enacting a refusal to remain an object transfixed in a landscape\, it exposes the fact that sculptures always already carry time\, and are the ultimate records of their own making. When we encounter a sculpture as an artwork in an exhibition space\, how might we apprehend the histories\, geographies\, and processes that are latent within it? \n\n\n\nIts journey to EMPAC will be broadcast live by the presenting partners October 27 & 29. Filmmaker Guillermo Escalón and composer Igor de Gandarias will join the sculpture on its journey\, recording the volcano’s passage for a forthcoming film (2024). \n\n\n\n\nBeatriz Cortez Brings a Volcano to Troy via The Hudson River\n\n\n\n\nMore about the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail is dedicated to celebrating the sacred Mohican soils we are honored to tend. We are beneficiaries of millennia of human history unfolding in a majestic river valley\, where the land has been nurtured by Indigenous hands and traumatized through industrial development and systemic inequity. \n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail embeds art\, culture\, history\, and ecology into an urban nature walk on 6th Avenue in North Troy\, weaving a journey from Glen Avenue to 101st Street and Freedom Square on settler lands\, just a block away from the Mahicannituck.  \n\n\n\nThe Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe are in partnership on this project\, which features Stockbridge-Munsee as well as other Indigenous artists and musicians\, historians and storytellers\, eco-artists\, and muralists\, connecting Indigenous wisdom to visions for a future of healing and reparations. \n\n\n\nVisitors will engage with stories of environmental justice\, ecological restoration\, and the living legacy of Indigenous presence on these lands through sculptures\, gardens\, multimedia\, murals\, and live events and workshops. Take a look at our Upcoming Events page to learn about upcoming events\, workshops\, and talks featuring the Eco-Art Trail.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/ilopango-the-volcano-that-left/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Exploring Motherhood: Navigating the Journey of Disability
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of honoring motherhood & disability with filmmakers Nöelle Gentile\, Michael Mejia\, & Victoria Kereszi\, and storyteller Bethany Van Delft. The short film Between Us and feature documentary film Into Loving Hands will be screened\, followed by a panel discussion about motherhood\, choice\, giving birth and advocating for a child with disabilities and medical complexities in a society that was not built with them in mind.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences at RPI\, and 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 Arc NY\, The Doula Network of the Capital Region\, and The People’s Health Sanctuary. Curated by Branda Miller.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInto Loving Hands: In the fall of 2012\, Chris and Rebecca Williams were thrilled to be expecting a second child\, but halfway through their pregnancy at a routine ultrasound\, they discovered that prenatal testing indicated that something was terribly – fatally – wrong. The couple\, staunchly pro-choice\, was subsequently faced with momentous decisions as they grappled with the hand they’d been dealt while also trying to navigate both the medical community and society. \n\n\n\nThis film chronicles four years of the Williams’ journey\, from their initial grief to the unexpected miracle of life\, the midwife’s exam room to the pediatric OR at Boston Children’s Hospital\, capturing the emotional challenges and triumphs of what it’s like to raise a child with Down Syndrome and multiple heart defects. \n\n\n\nEVENT PHOTOS: \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\nFILM MAKER & PANELIST BIOS: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Kereszi – Director of Into Loving Hands \n\n\n\nOriginally from Media\, Pennsylvania lives in Upstate New York with her husband and 2 daughters.  Before moving upstate studied film with Sam Pollard\, Lora Hayes and George Stoney. In NYC she worked for community television and curated a women’s experimental and documentary series titled Eye AM: Women Behind The Lens.  Shortly after moving to Troy and as an MFA student at RPI she completed a documentary triad about three elderly women\, one of which was her grandmother who ran a junkyard in Chester\, Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\nVictoria began filming Into Loving Hands one year after having her daughter and receiving prenatal and postpartum care by Michelle Doyle\, Rebecca’s midwife. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoëlle Gentile – Co-Director & Writer of Between Us \n\n\n\nGentile is a director\, acting coach\, and artist educator. She has worked as an acting coach with filmmakers and producers such as Adam Sandler\, Jeremiah Zagar\, and Jingyi Shao.  Most recently\, she was the acting coach on the films Shooting Stars (adapted from the 2009 book by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger)\, You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah! (directed by Sammi Cohen and starring Adam Sandler)\, Ava DuVernay’s film\, Origin\, and on Netflix’s Rez Ball\, written and directed by Sydney Freeland.  Noëlle has also worked as an artist-educator for Youth FX; Arts\, Letters & Numbers\, the NYC Department of Education’s Theatre Program; City College of New York; and Brooklyn College Film School. She is currently an adjunct professor for the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU Tisch. Noëlle is in post production for her directorial debut\, I Was Here\, based on her family’s story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Mejia – Co-Director\, Director of Photography\, & Editor of Between Us \n\n\n\nMichael is an educator and filmmaker with a concentration in documentary\, music videos\,  and narrative films. He has been an educator in several organizations throughout Albany NY including; The New York State museum in 2009\, The Liberty Partnerships Program in 2011\, and has been a part of Youth FX since 2010\, currently serving as the creative director of Rogue FX films\, teaching and directing.  Michael has also been the director of photography on several short films.  He received a Bachelors in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and plans to continue to learn\, educate\, and create for years to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Van Delft – Comedian & Storyteller \n\n\n\nBronx-born Bethany Van Delft moved to Boston with her Marxist Dutch dad\, black Puerto Rican mother and siblings\, where she learned being called “zebra” did NOT mean she was weird but cool. At “19” she went to Paris to model\, got kicked out\, and ended up in Milan where she spent Sundays sitting on the ground in front of Duomo\, eating gelato and speaking Spanglish with an Italian accent. \n\n\n\n\n\niEAR Salon is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences at RPI\, and is 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. 
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/navigating-motherhood/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:"Black Matrilineage\, Photography\, and Representation" Book Talk & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation around the book Black Matrilineage\, Photography\, and Representation\, edited by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago\, the duo that makes up Women Picturing Revolution. They will present their book before a discussion with local photographer and doula Jayana LaFountaine and ending with a Q&A with the audience.  \n\n\n\n5:00pm-6:00pm: Join Jayana LaFountaine for a photography-based workshop around our identities and lineage in Who’s On Your Face? \n\n\n\n6:00pm-7:00pm: Community Meal \n\n\n\n7:00pm-9:00pm: A discussion around Black motherhood and representations of it in photography\, centered around the book Black Matrilineage\, Photography\, and Representation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book:\n\n\n\nBlack Matrilineage\, Photography\, and Representation questions how the Black female body\, specifically the Black maternal body\, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly inquiry and contemporary art\, this book addresses these misconceptions and fills in the gaps that exist in the photographic representation of Black motherhood\, mothering\, and mutual care within Black communities. \n\n\n\nThe essays and interviews\, paired with a curated selection of images\, address the complicated relationship between Blackness and photography and in particular its gendered dimension\, its relationship to health\, sexuality\, and digital culture – primarily in the context of racialized heteronormativity. This collection\, then\, challenges racist images and discourses\, both historically and in its persistence in contemporary society\, while reclaiming the innate brilliance of Black women through personal stories\, history\, political acts\, connections to place\, moments of pleasure\, and communal celebration. \n\n\n\nThis visual exploration of Black motherhood through pictures made by Black woman–identifying photographers thus serves as a reflection of the past and a portal to the future and contributes to recent scholarship on the complexity of Black life and Black joy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotography\, revolution\, representation. Through leading seminars\, curating panels\, and consulting services\, Women Picturing Revolution (WPR) co-creators Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago are reclaiming and retelling history in a manner that is both radical and necessary. By highlighting the work of woman photographers who have documented conflicts\, crises\, and revolutions in private realms and public spaces\, WPR sheds light on personal and political experiences that are often overlooked or underrepresented. From images made as a response to forced silence\, oppression\, and the inability to act\, to well-known visual journalists documenting upheaval\, Lesly and Zoraida\, along with WPR participants\, examine not only the photographs but also the conditions under which women make images. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJayana LaFountaine is an Afro-Latina portrait photographer and birth Doula based in Troy\, New York. Her work focuses on vulnerability and the preservation of legacy through photo documentation and birth work. As a former foster youth with an adverse childhood she understands the importance of creating strong familial connections through this work. She does this work with Black and Brown folks at the forefront. Photography is a means for her to heal while creating a better reality outside of abuse and trauma. Birth work is her birth right as she is a 4th generation birthworker.  \n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT PHOTOS:
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/black-matrilineage/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Speaker
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SUMMARY:Who's On Your Face?
DESCRIPTION:Using activities centered on photography\, photographer and birth doula Jayana LaFountaine will facilitate conversations around where we come from\, and how skills and trauma are passed down in addition to facial features.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\nVolunteer Application\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJayana LaFountaine is an Afro-Latina portrait photographer and birth Doula based in Troy\, New York. Her work focuses on vulnerability and the preservation of legacy through photo documentation and birth work. As a former foster youth with an adverse childhood she understands the importance of creating strong familial connections through this work. She does this work with Black and Brown folks at the forefront. Photography is a means for her to heal while creating a better reality outside of abuse and trauma. Birth work is her birth right as she is a 4th generation birthworker. 
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/whos-on-your-face/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T190000
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SUMMARY:Petra Kuppers: Dream Performance & Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Connect to the land\, its’ histories\, & its’ futures with Petra Kuppers for a dream performance & workshop that utilizes movement meditation. Following an improvised Wheelchair Procession along Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail and a community meal\, this performance and workshop will take place inside the Sanctuary main space.   \n\n\n\nPetra will use the inspiration from the trail procession to improvise a movement meditation that connects us to the land and its histories and futures. You can engage this meditation in stillness\, lying on the floor or sitting in a chair\, or you can dance freely in space – your choice. Bring comfy clothes\, and maybe a blanket. If accessible to you\, also bring writing or drawing material\, so we can have a harvesting session after the dream journey\, for you to chronicle your experience. \n\n\n\nWe welcome people of all abilities! \n\n\n\n\n\nADDITIONAL INFO: This workshop is a development from Petra’s Starship Somatics classes – a modality she developed during the lockdown of COVID. Starship Somatics engage our bodymindspirits as portals\, as trance-mobiles that honor pasts and jet us toward speculative futures\, among the stars or deep into the earth\, in flux and transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is preceded by a presentation by Kuppers on October 11 at EMPAC. Kuppers’s Troy engagement is a collaboration with EMPAC and 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. Co-sponsored with Deep Listening/ ISATMA (Assistive Technologies for Music and Art Symposium) Conference; the Independent Living Center of the Hudson Valley; NATURE Lab/ People’s Health Sanctuary.  \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\nPetra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. Petra grounds herself in disability culture methods\, and uses somatics\, performance\, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022\, open access).  Her third performance poetry collection\, Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press\, 2020)\, was named one of the top ten US poetry books of 2020 by the New York Public Library\, and won the 2022 Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. In 2022\, she was named a Dance/USA Fellow\, and in 2023\, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Petra is Artistic Director of The Olimpias\, an international disability culture collective\, and she co-creates Turtle Disco\, a somatic writing studio\, with Stephanie Heit. She is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. www.petrakuppers.com
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/petra-kuppers-dream-performance-workshop/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Wheelchair Procession Along Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail
DESCRIPTION:Join Petra Kuppers on a literal journey\, as we will walk the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail and engage in a number of easy 7-minute improvised dances together. Our dances might develop from touching a leaf or from letting fingertips rest on the soil. \n\n\n\n\n 5PM – 6PM: Wheelchair Procession along Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail with Petra Kuppers & diverse disability networks (we will start from the Sanctuary @ 3361 6th Ave. and journey to Freedom Square at the intersection of 6th Ave & 101st St.)\n\n\n\n6PM -7 PM: Community meal\n\n\n\n7PM – 9PM: Petra Kuppers’ Dream Performance & Workshop (3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY 12181)\n\n\n\n\nWe welcome people of all abilities! \n\n\n\nA co-production of iEAR Presents\, sponsored by The Department of the Arts and the School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences\, and the New York State Council on the Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nVolunteer Application\n\n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Petra Kuppers: Disability Culture Activist and a Community Performance Artist\n\n\n\nSCROLL DOWN FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THIS INTERVIEW \n\n\n\n\n\nADDITIONAL INFO: In these two sessions\, Petra will take participants on journeys: in the first at 5pm\, on a literal journey\, as we will walk the trail and engage in a number of easy 7-minute improvised dances together. We will then gather together and share a community meal in the Sanctuary.  \n\n\n\nIn the second session\, Dream Performance and Workshop at 7pm in the Sanctuary\, Petra will use the inspiration from the trail procession to improvise a movement meditation that connects us to the land and its histories and futures. You can engage this meditation in stillness\, lying on the floor or sitting in a chair\, or you can dance freely in space – your choice. Bring comfy clothes\, and maybe a blanket. If accessible to you\, also bring writing or drawing material\, so we can have a harvesting session after the dream journey\, for you to chronicle your experience. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is a development from Petra’s Starship Somatics classes – a modality she developed during the lockdown of COVID. Starship Somatics engage our bodymindspirits as portals\, as trance-mobiles that honor pasts and jet us toward speculative futures\, among the stars or deep into the earth\, in flux and transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is preceded by a presentation by Kuppers on October 11 at EMPAC. Kuppers’s Troy engagement is a collaboration with EMPAC and 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.  Co-sponsored with Deep Listening/ ISATMA (Assistive Technologies for Music and Art Symposium) Conference; the Independent Living Center of the Hudson Valley; NATURE Lab/ People’s Health Sanctuary.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. Petra grounds herself in disability culture methods\, and uses somatics\, performance\, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022\, open access).  Her third performance poetry collection\, Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press\, 2020)\, was named one of the top ten US poetry books of 2020 by the New York Public Library\, and won the 2022 Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. In 2022\, she was named a Dance/USA Fellow\, and in 2023\, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Petra is Artistic Director of The Olimpias\, an international disability culture collective\, and she co-creates Turtle Disco\, a somatic writing studio\, with Stephanie Heit. She is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. www.petrakuppers.com \n\n\n\n\n\nTranscription of Radio interview:\n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist who is coming to Troy for two events. First\, she will give an artist lecture at EMPAC on October 11\, and then on October 12\, she will come to the Sanctuary to connect with the community. Petra Kuppers joins me now. Welcome to Hudson Mohawk Magazine. \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: Thank you so much for having me\, Sina. It’s lovely to be here and lovely to have you pronounce my name in a real German way. I adore that. I take all kinds of pronunciations of my names\, but this is lovely to hear. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: Wonderful. It’s so great to talk to you. That one sentence barely does you justice. So\, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: Yes. Hello there. So\, I am a German person who lives right now in Michigan on Three Fires Confederacy land in a little rust belt town called Ypsilanti. And I am indeed a disability culture activist and I am a community performance artist. These are my two core identities. So I work with other people in the disability community. I myself am disabled. I’m also a CIS\, queer\, White woman\, and I love bringing people together to create art\, and I’m very much looking forward to doing that in Troy next week. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: You have a pretty full schedule starting at EMPAC and then two events at the Sanctuary. What can we expect? And\, what are you thinking will take place in Troy? Let’s begin with what’s taking place on Wednesday at EMPAC. \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: Lovely. So\, on Wednesday at EMPAC\, I will be sharing with people the first cut— the early cut\, it’s not quite finished— the first cut of the Crip/Mad Archive Dances. This is a project I’ve been engaged in since 2021. It started with a residency at the New York Public Library in the dance archives there\, and I was looking for disabled presences\, disabled and mad presences in the archive. I’m not really a historian\, though\, so I’m in the stacks for a little bit and finding material. But then I go outside and I invite my fellow disabled friends\, dancers and choreographers to join me outside the archive\, to engage in these embodied transmissions. I’m bringing out gestures and we dance these together. And I hope to do something very similar to that on Wednesday in Troy as well. I will be sharing with you community media clips from people who identify as disabled and or as mad and in which they share through movement something about their experiences\, and we will take these in and think together about what it means to engage in embody transmission. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: The idea of sharing experiences through movements\, do you see dance as a form of communication? \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: I do see dance as a form of communication\, and I also see dance as a form of sharing energy and agency. So that’s for me\, a very important aspect here is that we’re moving away from the kind of memoir narrative of this is what happened to me. This is my story. This is how I came from beginning\, middle\, end\, and\, of course\, most of these conditions that we have do not have an end. We’re living our lives as we move through. We’re improvising and shifting our way through our lives. So\, dance for me is a very beautiful metaphor and a beautiful concrete\, material way of thinking about the agency of disabled people. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: And then on Thursday\, you’ll be coming to the Sanctuary as part of the NEA\, Our Town Sanctuary Eco Art Trail project. How does the wheelchair procession along the Sanctuary Eco Art Trail\, followed by the Dream Performance and Workshop\, connect us to land and its histories and futures and support the Eco Art Trail’s goal of connecting living Indigenous legacy with striving for more environmentally just futures? \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: Thank you. So\, yeah\, I’m very excited about this part of my visit because it is a complete improvisation. I have not been to this space yet. I’m a visitor. I am the visitor who will ask for permission to enter this land and to be in engagement with this land. I am someone who flies in and flies out\, and I come. And I like to offer\, if I am invited\, the invitation to explore with me what it means to be on this land as Indigenous people\, as settler people\, our different histories\, our different connections to industry\, to brownfield sites\, to urban development\, to\, all the aspects that likely are part of this trail. So if you come to join\, us\, you will find yourself part of a procession that stops and engages in seven minute dances\, short seven minute dances where people can move just with their hands or just with their eyebrows or even just incite themselves. So it’s not like you have to now go out and fully dance and pirouette through the street. Very few people will be listening right now are\, probably likely to do that. But if you want to\, you’re welcome to. But most of us\, I imagine\, will be just sensing away on the street\, sensing through the asphalt\, sensing through the gravel\, sensing down into the Earth and gaining a sense of what might have been there. And we’ll call on the knowledge that is in the street with us at that point. I do not hold that knowledge. I have to ask local people as knowledge carriers to share that knowledge with me in improvisation. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: So on Thursday\, there will be the Eco Art Trail Wheelchair Procession\, then a community meal\, and then the Dream Workshop Performance. And this is developed from your Starship Somatics classes\, a modality you developed during the lockdown of COVID. You write that “Starship Somatics engage our bodymindspirits as portals\, as trance-mobiles that honor pasts and jet us towards speculative futures among the stars or deep in the Earth\, in flux and transformation.” What else can you tell us about Starship Somatics? \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: Lovely. Thank you. Yeah\, this is one of these\, my description of Starship Somatic is a little bit nebulous\, but I hope it works. So we started this in March 2020\, so just as the pandemic began\, everything shut down\, right? None of us could go anywhere\, and\, I really thought about\, well\, how can I create a Somatic modality that is accessible to all people\, that is accessible to people who are disabled\, who have painful bodies\, who\, are painful body\, mind\, spirits\, who cannot just go out and have a run in the neighborhood? What else can we do to keep our tissues engaged creatively? And how can we use this screen as a way of doing that? So I started to run these sessions\, which are usually about just under an hour long\, and it’s a dream journey\, take people on a journey. And when I do this\, particularly in 2020\, when we were in the lockdown phase of it all\, usually half of the screens in front of me\, half of the zoom screens\, had people who were in their tiny little apartments in Brooklyn or what have you\, like really small\, and they were dancing full out from the bed to their know. I could see them just\, like\, reaching across the Zoom square. And the other half\, of the zoom squares showed people resting very peacefully and just going on this deep internal journey. No outward dancing visible at all. I could just see these deeply relaxed faces\, these deeply relaxed\, human\, beautiful bodies lying there. And then at the end of the session\, when we come out\, we usually create a little communal poem\, in which people share a little glimpse of what they’ve done and where they’ve been. And I get to see and I get to hear that they’ve been on amazing planets. When I take people on a journey\, I don’t tell them what the planets look like. It’s your imagination that furnishes where we’re going. So these little glimpses of poetry are the only way that tells me about the intense experiences people have\, and they’re delicious and beautiful and remind us again and again of the deep creativity that we all hold and that we can activate them through internal and external movement practices. And that’s what Starship Somatics is about. We’re journeying into the Earth\, we’re journeying into the stars. But really what we’re doing is we’re journeying with our bodymindspirits imaginations. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: That’s wonderful. You wrote on your website that your love of movement is pushing against the established definitions of what dancers can be. So can you talk about what these established definitions of dance are and how you are pushing against that? \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: So established definitions of dance are not\, really that established anyway\, right? Because dance is always shifting. Dance is always something different. But I imagine many of the people who are listening to us right now have an idea in their mind of when you say dance. It could be that they’re imagining\, a beautiful\, rich African dance practice that’s really grounding us into the Earth. It could be that you’re imagining right now\, a European ballet practice of people\, like\, flying off into space in beautiful linear ways. So these are some of the imaginations that people hold when they think about dance. I think very few of us think about dance as just this creative\, tender shifting of bodies\, minds\, together\, just being engaged creatively in the fact that we have a body. That is\, for me\, one of the core aspects of dancing. That we are\, in various ways\, spiritually\, physically\, energetically engaged in enjoying\, moving and being creative with the fact that we are material beings on this material world. So that somewhat minimal definition of dance is what I mentioned. Activating that very base\, material sense of enjoyment\, agency and creativity. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: Petra Kuppers we’re very excited to welcome you to Troy to EMPAC on Wednesday\, October 11\, and to the Sanctuary on Thursday\, October 12. Would you like to leave our listeners with anything? \n\n\n\nPetra Kuppers: Yes. So\, dear listener\, for\, a second\, just feel your feet or your sits bones on the ground just as you’re listening right now. And feel your shoulders dropping down into your hands if you’re sitting. And just take\, a breath and feel the roots extending down from your sit bone from\, whatever it is that’s touching the surfaces closest to Earth right now. And I invite you to listen to the rhythm of the environment that you are in. What are the rhythm and the pulses that come to you? I’m sitting here in a McDonald’s in Madison\, Wisconsin\, because\, this is where I find internet. And so I am listening right now to the pulses and the rhythms of the kitchen\, the radio station cars driving by our doors. And I just invite you to enjoy whatever symphony you are in right now. Invite you to think of it as a symphony\, as a\, musical event\, as an event that can move your bodymindspirit\, Thank you\, and I hope to see some of you on Wednesday and Thursday. \n\n\n\nSina Basila Hickey: Thank you so much.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/wheelchair-procession-petra-kuppers/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Lens on Media Making
DESCRIPTION:Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore\, co-owner of The Aunties Dandelion media organization\, transformed her work in mainstream media to her present focus on revitalizing communities through stories of land\, language\, and relationships. Join us for a conversation where Moore explores how and why The Aunties Dandelion uses an Indigenous lens to create media. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by Hudson Mohawk Magazine and is co-sponsored by the MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative\, Skidmore College and is part of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail project\, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town creative placemaking grant\, connecting Indigenous legacy to an urban nature walk on 6th Avenue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Aunties Dandelion is a media arts organization and a transformative space informed by traditional Onkwehon:we (original peoples’) teachings. They are a collective of storytellers who are co-creating and revitalizing an expansive global community through stories of land\, language and relationships.​ The Aunties Dandelion recently completed their 30th podcast episode and wrapped shooting on their short film VESS – about a Kanyenkehà:ka (Mohawk) philosopher and carpenter who is working through the loss of family as he builds a home for a young family returning to the Rez. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore (Kanyen’kehà:ka) is a long-time documentary and independent filmmaker\, podcaster\, and educator. Moore is a fluent Kanyen’kè:ha speaker (ACTFL intermediate/high)\, and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand River territory. She spent two decades in Washington\, DC as producer/director/writer with Discovery Channel\, National Geographic\, and others. Moore is a founding member/co-owner of The Aunties Dandelion. \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Indigenous Lens On Media Making
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/indigenous-lens-on-media-making-2/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Therapeutic Play with Photography Workshop & Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:The local\, newly established Artsy Fartsy Photo Collective is hosting a workshop where photography and transparent images give space for therapeutic play. Using an overhead projector and transparencies\, participants will focus on collaborative image creation. Participants will explore co-creation\, boundaries of ownership\, and experimental collaging.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/therapeutic-play-with-photography-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Herb & Tea Blending
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Due to rainy weather\, this event will take place in the 2nd floor of NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Avenue. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us in the garden! For this week’s Collard City Growers open hours\, our garden ambassador Sienna Thiem leads us in making our own herbal tea blends! Choose from a selection of dried herbs harvested from CCG and foraged locally by Sienna earlier this season\, or gather a bundle from herbs that are currently ready to harvest to DIY (Dry It Yourself). \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\nVolunteer Application
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/herb-tea-blending/
LOCATION:Collard City Growers\, 3337 6th Avenue\, Troy\, New York\, 12180\, United States
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