Fall 2010 Season

Across America, a disproportionate share of the tragedy of youth homelessness falls on those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). Mostly poor and minority, many of these […]

Join us for our season opener! Experience desert defiance and womanly power as Malian diva Khaira Arby and her band invoke the mystery, history, and heart of Timbuktu, live in […]

Graphics for the Commons: Learn the tools and techniques of collaborative image making with The Beehive Design Collective, masters of the form, exploring the potential for cartoons to communicate global […]

Highlights of new work by the Beehive Collective, swarming in from Machias, Maine. The wildly creative group of artists, activists, educators, and organizers who explain global political issues in an […]

2012: Time for Change (2010) presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom, directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim. The film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling […]

The best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) introduces the themes of his forthcoming book, Death of the Liberal Class.  Chris Hedges spent nearly two […]

A fire-spitting evening with drummer Denardo Coleman, featuring a voice celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, […]

Photographer Ellie Markovitch and writer Amy Halloran team up to lead a digital storytelling workshop that focuses on food as a tool to capture powerful personal histories. Please join them […]

The Sanctuary is proud to present a new musical production of an original historical play by Michael Monasterial illuminating the life and musical genius of singer and Civil Rights movement […]

In The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber (2010), award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new […]

Join artist Stephanie Rothenberg as we create an alternative North Troy in Second Life. Imagine with us what community resources and other improvements can be created to fill the vacant […]

Best Practices in Banana Time is a mixed reality talk show that takes place in a real life physical venue and simultaneously in the 3-D virtual environment of Second Life. […]

In an evening celebrating female creativity past and present, author Sara Marcus discusses her new book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (2010) with […]

Dr. Helen Caldicott will talk about the past, present and future of anti-nuclear activism. She will be introduced by Lawrence Wittner, longtime historian at SUNY Albany who has written extensively about […]

Meet award winning photographer Samantha Box for an artist reception of “Invisible: The Crisis of LGBT Youth Homelessness” as we examine the crisis LBGTQ youth face in our society and celebrate reclaiming […]

Two saxophone giants, Fred Ho and Dr. Salim Washington, combine instrumental virtuosity and intellectual-political revolutionary luminance in a "saxophonistic dialogue" and discourse.  Imagine the impossible: music, multimedia and revolution.  Also […]

Learn everything you need to know about planning, shooting, editing and marketing your documentary in four information-packed hours. Veteran documentary filmmaker Jim de Seve leads an energizing session to get […]

Trojan Herstories is a women's oral history project that will train local women from diverse communities in audio/video and oral history production.  This two-day workshop is for Troy women to […]

The award-winning documentary Freeing Silvia Baraldini (2009), by filmmakers Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas, is a profound inquiry into the life of an Italian woman who became an American radical. […]