Spring 2020 Season

BUILDING MOVEMENTS: People & Infrastructure

The Radical King: Where Do We Go from Here?

This Martin Luther King Labor Celebration, begun in 1999 by the Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, will be held in Troy for the first time. A short segment will […]

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20 January 2020 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Extinction Rebellion Roger Hallam Speaks About Climate Crisis

PLEASE NOTE: Roger was unable to get permission to enter the U.S. so he's Skyping in! What can we all do to avert catastrophe and avoid extinction? Roger Hallam has […]

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03 March 2020 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

NATURE Lab Workshop with Maria Michails: Air Quality [CANCELED/COVID]

Air pollution is one of the more pervasive and invisible environmental health hazards of cities and has been in the public consciousness for several decades. The World Health Organization estimates […]

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24 March 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Kitchen Sanctuary with Intaba Liff-Anderson: Cooking on a Shoestring – Taking Care of your Family [CANCELED/COVID]

Join Kitchen Sanctuary resident Intaba Liff-Anderson as she shares culinary tips on creating delicious dishes from ingredients found in food pantries. A combo of demo and hands on, we will […]

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25 March 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

FEMeeting 2020 Troy Bioartist Keynotes and Community Conversation

Kira O’Reilly and Marta de Menezes share their research methodologies in this public keynote of FEMeeting, a gathering to disseminate art and science projects carried out by women, followed by […]

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04 April 2020 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Norman Stockwell: Who Will Tell Us the News? [CANCELED/COVID]

Join us for an evening with radioactivist Norm Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive. Previously, for over 20 years, he served as WORT Community Radio’s Operations Coordinator in Madison, Wisconsin. He […]

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04 April 2020 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Be The Media! Workshop With Patty Zimmerman: Documentary Across Platforms – Reverse Engineering Media, Place and Politics [CANCELED/COVID]

In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental mediaPatricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which […]

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04 April 2020 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Jana Herzen’s Nothing But Love, Featuring Charnett Moffett [CANCELED/COVID]

On Nothing But Love, her soulful and timeless song-cycle of folk, pop, world, blues, reggae, and jazz-tinged originals, singer-songwriter Jana Herzen (who happens also to head up the Multi-GRAMMY®- winning […]

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04 April 2020 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Collard City Growers Workshop: Chickens- Building a Hoop House and Chicken Care Basics! [CANCELED/COVID]

Whether you're on a traditional farm or working on a city lot, raising chickens comes with the same basic requirements. Join us for an afternoon building a safe coop for […]

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05 April 2020 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Kitchen Sanctuary Presents: Palestinian Connections – Mezze, Tea and Talk with Jude Abu Zaineh [CANCELED/COVID]

Jude Abu Zaineh (MFA, University of Windsor) is a Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker. Her practice relies on the use of art, food, and technology to investigate meanings of […]

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07 April 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Health Autonomy Clinic Webinar: Community Support in the Time of COVID

We are in the midst of a “tsunami of social life” that is unprecedented in modern life.  The age-old ideas we had barely begun to formulate around community health and […]

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07 April 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Dance Party With Lookie Lookie [CANCELED/COVID]

Discriminating jazz and world music listeners alike will love Boston’s festive eight piece dance band featuring the Latin Bugalu style pioneered by Puerto Rican musicians in 1960's New York City. […]

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11 April 2020 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Collard City Growers Workshop: Tending the Urban Forest with More Trees Arborist Collective

Join the arborists of the More Trees Collective for a workshop in the urban forest. Learn to identify common opportunist species of urban trees, discuss different techniques and objectives of […]

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18 April 2020 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

NATURE Lab: Earth Week Ruderal Rewilding Festival – Lawn Lab/ Ellie Irons

Energize yourself for spring by uprooting some lawn to make way for wildflowers, assembling an acorn planting kit, or learning how young trees make their way in challenging urban settings. […]

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21 April 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Health Autonomy Clinic: Mask-Making Networks and How to Make a Mask

Join the Health Autonomy Network to find out about local mutual aid networks making masks, and learn how to make your own. This zoom workshop is led by Eileen J. Raab, […]

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21 April 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Louis Massiah and Patricia Zimmerman Present “We Tell” 50 Years of Participatory Community Media: Environments of Race and Place [CANCELED/COVID]

Environments of Race and Place zeroes in on issues surrounding immigration, migration, and racial identities unique to specific environments. These works embrace and amplify the micro rather than the macro […]

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22 April 2020 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

KitchenSanctuary Presents: Home is Where the Maqlouba is with Jude Abu Zaineh [CANCELED/COVID]

Jude Abu Zaineh (MFA, University of Windsor) is a Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker. Her practice relies on the use of art, food, and technology to investigate meanings of […]

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28 April 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Health Autonomy Clinic: Harm Reduction in the Age of Pandemic

Join NATURE Lab and the Health Autonomy Network for a workshop focused on harm reduction solidarity in the age of COVID-19. We will view the opiate epidemic as a crisis […]

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05 May 2020 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Troy Bike Rescue’s BikeFest 10 [CANCELED/COVID]

Join Troy Bike Rescue for their 10th annual fundraiser. It's a celebration of bikes, burritos, and cakes along with the many things TBR represents: youth empowerment, health and wellness, recycling, […]

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09 May 2020 2:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Escalating Resistance: Mass Rebellion Training with Lisa Fithian

As part of her Shut It Down book tour, organizer Lisa Fithian will be offering a three hour training to hone our strategies and tactics to impact power holders and […]

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09 May 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Be The Media! Workshop with Renée Feltz: Muckraking with a Conscience – Reporting during COVID

Join us for a Be The Media! Radio Workshop with Senior Producer Renée Feltz, sharing her expertise in the trenches at Democracy Now! during the COVID crisis! Renee will cover: […]

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12 May 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Be The Media! Workshop with Master Documentary Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán

In addition to our virtual screening of The Cordillera of Dreams we presented a Be The Media!  workshop featuring a talk and Q&A with filmmaker Patricio Guzmán live from Paris […]

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15 May 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Media Activist Reflections From #ShutItDown Pipeline Protest with Filmmaker Deia Schlosberg [CANCELED/COVID]

Join us for a workshop with Deia Schlosberg before the screening of her film, The Story of Plastic, at 6pm! Deia Schlosberg (DIRECTOR/PRODUCER) made national news in October, 2016, when […]

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15 May 2020 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

“The Cordillera of Dreams” Screening with Patricio Guzmán

Join us for an on-demand screening of The Cordillera of Dreams and a workshop featuring master documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán with translator Daniel Mosquera. Winner of the Best Documentary award […]

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15 May 2020 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sanctuary Campus Permaculture Virtual Workshop with Sujin Chung

Emma Willard student Sujin Chung will lead a virtual permaculture workshop and tour of the Sanctuary for Independent Media, from her home in South Korea. In this interview, she talks […]

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28 May 2020 10:00 am - 11:30 am

“All We’ve Got” with Filmmaker Alexis Clements, and Special Guests Tandra LaGrone and EP [CANCELED/COVID]

A personal exploration of LGBTQI women’s communities, cultures, and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create, from bars to bookstores to arts and political hubs. […]

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28 May 2020 4:30 pm - 9:00 pm

PREMIERE! Virtual Exhibition “Acquired Immunity” [FEMeeting WEB 2020] and Virtual Dialogue

On March 11th we announced the cancelling of the first FEMeeting Troy and FEMeeting Paris for reasons connected with the COVID-19 pandemic. The two events scheduled for March 20th-21st 2020 […]

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29 May 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Freedom Festival

Featuring Taina Asili and free music, food and arts activities outdoors at Freedom Square. Rain site is adjacent at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.

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31 May 2020 12:00 pm

Health Autonomy Clinic [CANCELED/COVID]

Health Autonomy Clinic workshop on sexual health.

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02 June 2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Health Autonomy Clinic: Addressing Social Disparities and the Crisis

Join us for a Health Autonomy Clinic focused on social disparities and the crisis, ways that POC communities/oppressed/marginalized communities are being affected, and programs and resources caring for essential workers, […]

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02 June 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Virtual Book Talk with Organizer and Author Lisa Fithian “Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance”

For decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest […]

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16 June 2020 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Norlite Town Hall Meeting

The Norlite incinerator in Cohoes has been burning toxic waste for decades. What is the health impact of their operations on the surrounding communities throughout the NY Capital Region, southwestern […]

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22 June 2020 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

“The Condor and the Eagle,” Virtual Screening with Filmmaker Clément Guerra and Bryan Parras

Join filmmaker Clément Guerra and Indigenous media makers in an online HD screening of “The Condor and the Eagle,” followed by a Be The Media! workshop: “Indigenous Voices: Media for […]

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25 June 2020 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Be The Media! Workshop: Sage Against the Machine – Listening to Indigenous Voices and Spiritual Pedagogy

Explore with the filmmakers how media can have impact keeping Indigenous voices front and center. This "Be The Media!" virtual workshop features indigenous filmmakers Jade Begay from NDN Collective; Ecuadorian […]

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25 June 2020 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Norlite Town Hall Meeting II: The Sequel

For our second Norlite Town Hall, our panelists will include Jane Williams from the National Sierra Club Clean Air Team; Sean Mahar, chief of staff for NYS Department of Environmental […]

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23 July 2020 6:30 am - 8:00 pm

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