Spring 2018 Season

Join the NATURE Lab and Collard City Growers at The Sanctuary for Independent Media for an early spring seed swap and social to get you ready for the growing season. […]

Come celebrate the first day of Spring with NATURE Lab and internationally recognized bio-artist Shu Lea Cheang! Cheang' will present a Mycelium Network Society workshop and we'll have a mushroom-themed […]

CHECK OUT video documentation of RUDERAL ECOLOGIES! This event was free and open to the public, with donations encouraged  to build the NATURE Lab Environmental Education Center.  This symposium marks the […]

A modern multimedia opera by Joe Diebes, oyster is about iconic folklorist Alan Lomax and his Cantometrics System of categorizing world music, set in the lull between the McCarthy era […]

Prepare test patches for a new generation of wild plants whose seeds are dormant beneath lawns and sidewalks, in artist Ellie Irons’ art-science project “(Re)disturbance Regime: Unearthing to Rewild, Remember, […]

Meet Ousmane Sembène, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon and blaze the trail for generations of writers, filmmakers and scholars. Join Sembene filmmakers Samba Gadjigo and […]

A film screening of Healing Voices, and panel to challenge the cultural understanding of "mental illness" with a critical look at America's broken mental healthcare system and a message of […]

Prepare and tidy garden beds that have been resting all winter, to get them ready to receive this year's plantings. If soil permits, learn to turn one plant into many […]

The event will consist of a public presentation and a volunteer recognition reception. Fran Martino, of Rensselaer Land Trust, will present their stream sampling results. After the public presentation, a […]

Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and drummer Tomas Fujiwara incorporate all manner of inspiration into their purely musical dialogues to celebrate the roots and branches of jazz. Tomas Fujiwara is a […]

The key to quality audio production is getting a good recording in the first place. Learn useful recording techniques and discover how you can produce radio segments for The Sanctuary's […]

Another year, another BikeFest! Come celebrate with Troy's bike-friendly community and help keep Troy Bike Rescue doors open as a volunteer-run bicycle resource center for all ages. Food, music, and […]

We are a research group based out of Cornell University’s Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI). Working in partnership with the Hudson River Estuary Program and the NYS Water Research […]

Audacity is a free digital audio editor and recording application that runs on almost any Mac or PC. Learn how to use it to make radio! Audio editing is an invaluable […]

An introduction to modern digital cartography. Map your neighborhood! Own your data, untether from Google Maps. Share your map with friends using mesh networks.

Help support our garden by growing your own. We have been maniacally planting seeds and dividing perennials in hopes to spread the bounty of Collard City Growers into your yards […]

Join us outdoors in closing out our Spring 2018 season with the sixth annual Freedom Festival! The festival will take place at Freedom Square, on 101st Street where 5th and 6th […]

Join us outdoors in Freedom Square for our sixth annual Freedom Festival! There’ll be a bike giveaway, free music, free food, free art activities and all kinds of fun! Rain […]