Upcoming 'book' Events
Past 'book' Events
03/03/2020 - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Extinction Rebellion Co-founder Roger Hallam to Speak in Troy on Climate Crisis
What can we all do to avert catastrophe and avoid extinction?
11/18/2019 - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Be the Media! Chet Hardin “Inside NXIVM"
Join journalist Chet Hardin for a discussion of his pioneering role in the investigation of...
11/18/2019 - 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Be the Media! Workshop: The Art of Investigative Journalism with journalist Chet Hardin
Register for the event here! Join journalist Chet Hardin for a workshop on the techniques...
05/04/2019 - 7:00 pm
The Life and Songs of Folk Music Icon Pete Seeger
Musicians Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton join Jesse Jarnow, author of "Wasn't That a Time:...
04/16/2019 - 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Be the Media! The Art of Investigative Journalism with Dahr Jamail
From his fearless journey reporting on the war front to his scaling of glaciers to...
04/04/2019 - 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
"How To Read A Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance" with L.A. Kauffman
In her new book, the mobilizing coordinator of the 2003-2004 Iraq War protests explains what...
11/30/2018 - 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ronald Kitchen "My Midnight Years" Book Discussion
Join author and activist Ronald Kitchen in a discussion of his memoir "My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row."
11/03/2018 - 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Chris Hedges "America: The Farewell Tour"
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author shows us an America that should shame us: a land of rampant and deadly drug addiction, of escape into gambling, sadism and pornography, of xenophobic scapegoating and of plundering by the rich and powerful. And that’s the good news!
04/07/2015 - 04/08/2015 - 11:00 pm - 1:00 am
"The Crusades of Cesar Chavez" with author Miriam Pawel
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Miriam Pawel will speak about her book "The Crusades of Cesar Chavez"...
11/13/2010 - All Day
"Girls to the Front!" with Sara Marcus plus Mountain Man
Riot Grrrl roared into the spotlight in 1991: an uncompromising movement of pissed-off girls with...
10/15/2010 - 10/16/2010 - 11:00 pm - 1:00 am
Chris Hedges
Christopher Hedges, whose forthcoming book is "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus), is also the...
04/10/2009 - 04/11/2009 - 11:00 pm - 1:00 am
The Autobiography of a Black Panther w/ Robert Hillary King
Robert Hillary King became a member of the Black Panther Party while in prison for...
04/03/2009 - 04/04/2009 - 11:00 pm - 1:00 am
Shoot an Iraqi w/ Wafaa Bilal
Iraqi–American digital artist Wafaa Bilal’s new book “Shoot an Iraqi: Life, Art and Resistance Under...
03/19/2009 - 03/20/2009 - 11:00 pm - 1:00 am
A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years
Area authors Christian Peet, Sam Truitt, Jibade-Khalil Huffman and Laura Didyk will read in celebration...
02/22/2009 - All Day
Somebody Blew Up America w/ Amiri Baraka and Rob Brown
The poet icon and political activist Amiri Baraka performs with Rob Brown, one of the...
11/08/2008 - 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A Night Out with “The Narcotic Farm”
On Saturday November 8 at 7 PM, The Sanctuary for Independent Media hosts a...
09/26/2008 - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Doug Henwood: The Crisis of Neoliberalism
More than twenty years ago, convinced that the 1980s experiment with free-market economics was a...
09/15/2008 - 7:00 pm
NOWTOPIA - Practical Rebellion & A New Politics of Work
How do the Open Source software movement, bicycle sub-culture, guerilla gardening, and the Burning Man...
09/09/2008 - 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
9 September 7 PM Doug Blackmon on "Slavery By Another Name"
Join us at Christ Church United Methodist in Troy where we're co-sponsoring a talk and...
