Enjoying arts, with all due cautions, and how to help makers, displayers
Amy Biancolli
March 18, 2020Updated: March 18, 2020 2:12 p.m.
Local arts in a time of coronavirus: No concerts to hear. No plays to watch. No gallery openings to roam. For all of us, crazy times. For …
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Climate-change-activists-calls-for-economic-15105088.php
Troy — When it comes to climate change, the time for screwing around has long passed, says Roger Hallam. He actually didn’t say “screwing around,” choosing a less-printable verb, but you get the message.
For Hallam, the current political, legal and regulatory process moves too slowly …
by Michael Gwizdala
TROY, N.Y. — The Sanctuary for Independent Media hosted an MLK Holiday Labor Celebration on Monday in Troy.
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the community gathering sought to promoted a participatory discussion on social, national and international …
Last weekend, Rice Cinema …
https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Filmmaker-Penny-Lane-headed-to-Troy-for-Hail-14829086.php
Albany Times Union
By Amy Biancolli
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Penny Lane, a documentary filmmaker who challenges expectations and flips subjects on their heads, will appear at the Sanctuary of Independent Media in Troy with her latest exercise in unconventional wisdom: “Hail Satan?,” a sympathetic look at Satanists. …
https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Sanctuary-plans-events-14704555.php
Troy venue to host live music, documentaries, NXIVM discussion
Staff report Published Thursday, October 31, 2019
Troy
A free event celebrating the work of Riverkeeper volunteers on the Hudson River will launch the fall season at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, located at the 3361 Sixth Ave. …
This page collects the various interviews done by NATURE Lab intern, Sophia Cahillane, with women in STEM fields. The idea for this came about before Sophia even joined the Sanctuary, but once she heard of the radio station here, she decided to put together a series of interviews with professional women in …
Posted on 11 July, 2019
Suffragette Parade in New York City, May 6, 1912.
Suffragettes were out to change the world.
They fought for the vote; they fought for workers, for sexual and reproductive rights, for abolition. …
RADIO GA-GA: SANCTUARY FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA’S RADIO STATION NOMINATED FOR NATIONAL AWARD
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LAST UPDATED JUN 29, 2019
Given the limited range of WOOC 105.3 / Troy and its sister station WOOS 98.9 /Schenectady, you’d think the weeknight show …
By DAVE LUCAS
Mayor Patrick Madden joined officials with Downtown Troy BID and event organizers today to announce summer activities planned in the Collar City.
The calendar of 2019 concerts, cultural celebrations, street festivals, and sporting events kicked off …
by on April 30, 2019 in Community Radio, Journalism, LPFM, Podcast
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“Hudson Mohawk Magazine” demonstrates how hyperlocal news shows can make their limited broadcast range their strength rather than a limitation
ARTICLE BY GABE BULLARD
A view of downtown Troy, New York, where the Sanctuary for Independent Media serves the city of about 50,000 with a low-power FM hyperlocal news show, “Hudson Mohawk …
Published 2:16 pm EST, Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Ras Moshe
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Ras Moshe was born Theodore Burnett III in Brooklyn, heir to a rich family musical legacy. A grandfather who came to America from Jamaica played saxophone in bands led by luminaries like Chick Webb, Benny Carter and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. …
Nov 24, 2018
Ronald Kitchen.
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TROY, N.Y. — The Sanctuary for Independent Media recently announced that author and activist Ronald Kitchen will speak about …
23 OCTOBER 2018
Projects that recruit the public are getting more ambitious and diverse, but the field faces some growing pains.
Japanese priest Sadamaru Okano stands beneath a Geiger counter (top left) that sends radiation readings to the Safecast …
Published 4:12 pm EDT, Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Vusi Mahlasela
His website details all the national celebrations Vusi Mahlasela has been a part of in post-apartheid South Africa, including performing at Nelson Mandela’s 1994 inauguration and during the 2010 World Cup tournament. He also opened for the Dave Matthews Band in …
LADAMA
The U.S. government is not too much associated these days with border-erasing, multinational cultural projects. Which perhaps makes Ladama’s existence even more compelling. According to their website bio, the group’s core members met in 2014 “while touring Los Angeles, Arizona, and New …
Jeri-yah Ford, left, and his brother Jerry Ford III, both of South Troy, crush apples in a cider press during StoryHarvest Festival on Sept. 26. The event, sponsored by the Sanctuary for Independent Media, took place at Freedom Square, at 101st Street and Fifth and Sixth avenues …
posted Sep 23, 2018
The Royale opens at The Rep this week. / photo: Douglas C. Liebig
Here are a few things to keep in mind, look forward to, or keep busy with this week, from the weather (autumn), to hauntings, to the stage, to science, to …
Don’t sneer at these enemy plants: Weeds may help feed, heal, and outfit us in the future.
Arvind Dilawar 09.21.18 5:18 AM ET
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast
On a humid Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn, Anne Percoco and Ellie Irons guide a tour group through plant species …
