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Allied Media Conference 2016

Welcome to the 18th annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 300+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come first serve.

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9:00am EDT

Cities of Peace: Pedagogy for Resistance and Healing DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Don’t Panic, Organize! State Hall: Room 128 Hashtags are the New Protest Signs State Hall: Room 137 How to Start a Major Donor Program State Hall: Room 115 Intro to Programming with p5.js Student Center: Hilberry D Oral History 101 for Organizers State Hall: Room 125 Out of the Attic: Dissociation and Social Justice Part 1 McGregor: Room F/G People Powered Technology Student Center: Hilberry A Project Ava: Share Your Story State Hall: Room 113 Role-Playing Our Way to Better Online Conversations Student Center: Hilberry B This Love is Revolutionary: Black Love as Survival State Hall: Room 131 Vulnerability Before Accountability State Hall: Room 117 Writing For Transformative Justice State Hall: Room 112 Native Youth Changing School Climate State Hall: Room 114 Shaping the Narrative: Connecting the Dots in Michigan State Hall: Room 134 Using Data to Tell Stories State Hall: Room 106 Body of Seed: Self Care Growing From Needs and Desires Part 1 Student Center: Dance Room 025 Healing Sessions: Body Positivity Meditation McGregor: Room I Introduction to DJ'ing McGregor: Room B/C LGBTQ Youth of Color: Keep Loving, Keep Fighting McGregor: Room J Storytelling with Music and Movement Student Center: Hilberry E Transformative Radio with CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal Student Center: Room 384 AMC2016 Homeroom: Saturday State Hall: Room 118 Digital Organizing Training for Black Lives by Color Of Change Student Center: Hilberry C Detroit Sound Conservancy Tour Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop Restoration Room McGregor: Room H Black to the Land Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop Black Unicorn Pop Up Library McGregor: Room D

9:30am EDT

AMC Childcare Student Center: Hilberry F

11:00am EDT

LGBTQ Wushu Kung Fu Student Center: Dance Room 020 '11:55' Film Screening DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Making a Feature Length Documentary State Hall: Room 134 Anti-Oppression Frameworks for Oral History and Movement Building State Hall: Room 112 City Bureau Revealed: Public Journalism Education in Chicago State Hall: Room 114 Design Thinking for Social Justice Lab State Hall: Room 128 Designing Games for Social Justice Student Center: Hilberry B Embodied Writing in Healing McGregor: Room F/G Femmes in Hip Hop State Hall: Room 123 I am a #Youngworker: Stories Animated for Change State Hall: Room 127 Mapping the Stories of Model Minority Mutinies State Hall: Room 113 Music Video Remix Student Center: Hilberry D Out of the Attic: Dissociation and Social Justice Part 2 McGregor: Room H PopEd in Spanish Speaking Communities State Hall: Room 125 Step Up and Speak Out Student Center: Hilberry C Bad Fat Broads: A Live Podcast! Student Center: Hilberry A Fighting for Transformation in North Minneapolis: Police Impact on Mental Health State Hall: Room 118 Hacking Bureaucracy: Tech for Direct Impact State Hall: Room 106 Humanizing Schooling in Detroit State Hall: Room 117 The Poetics and Politics of Hip Hop Feminism Student Center: Room 285 Body of Seed: Self Care Growing From Needs and Desires Part 2 Student Center: Dance Room 025 Media Making Skills for Youth Student Center: Hilberry E Transformative Radio with CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal (cont) Student Center: Room 384 Women in Hip Hop Open Studio McGregor: Room B/C Centering Healthy Love in Queer Communities State Hall: Room 137 Seeds of Direct Action: How’d You Pull That Off? State Hall: Room 131 Black 2 the Land (continued) Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop Detroit Sound Conservancy (continued) Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

12:00pm EDT

Next Test Session State Hall: Room 115

12:30pm EDT

Healing Circle for Orlando McGregor Conference Center Restoration Room McGregor: Room H

12:45pm EDT

Capoeira Angola in Detroit! Student Center: Hilberry B Fat Femme of Color Sexuality State Hall: Room 118 Fundraiser Open Space and Skillshare State Hall: Room 115 Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change Lunch Meetup State Hall: Room 114 Latin@s Helping Each Other State Hall: Room 128 The Decolonizing Diet Project State Hall: Room 113 With Our Own Voices: Yellow Noise Magazine State Hall: Room 112

2:00pm EDT

'Forced Trajectory Project' Screening DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 'lil BLK' Live Performance Student Center: Room 285 America in Transition State Hall: Room 134 Cumbia Poder Kids Party! McGregor: Room B/C Community Driven Climate Resilience Planning State Hall: Room 114 DAY Project: Media Strategies to Counteract Gentrification State Hall: Room 118 Drum n Hip Hop Student Center: Hilberry A Incite Change! LGBTQ Youth in the System State Hall: Room 115 MIT Open Documentary Lab: Incubating Documentary Forms and Processes State Hall: Room 128 Peer-to-Peer, Sharing Economy, and Commons Roundtable State Hall: Room 112 Project Prospera's Taxi Driver Justice Project Student Center: Hilberry D Chicanafuturism and Media-based Storytelling State Hall: Room 131 CultureStrike: Power of Arts Student Center: Hilberry B Information Architecture: Building a Solid Foundation for Your New Website Student Center: Hilberry A Teaching Freedom in Our Classrooms State Hall: Room 106 Unpacking the Box: Criminal Background Disclosure in Higher Education State Hall: Room 137 Breaking Essentials (CANCELLED) Student Center: Dance Room 020 Demystifying Grieving Arts and Grief Work McGregor: Room F/G Healing Sessions: Building Our Emotional Immune System McGregor: Room I Movewerk McGregor: Room J Open Studio Student Center: Dance Room 025 Really Rad Radio Open Studio Student Center: Room 384 The Paper Quilt: A Revolutionary Mothering Zine Workshop Student Center: Hilberry E Fat, Black and Ugly as Ever Student Center: Hilberry C Interrupting Internalized Anti-blackness State Hall: Room 113 The Blacksophere: Black Bloggers and Cultural Activism State Hall: Room 125 FoodLab Tour Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop Tour of Detroit's Techno Museum Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

4:00pm EDT

'Bars4justice' Screening Student Center: Hilberry C Cumbia Poder Kids Party! (continued) McGregor: Room B/C “Lessons of Hayti” Film Screening and Panel DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Acapella Activism: Songwriting for Social Justice State Hall: Room 125 Black Death Mixtape Student Center: Hilberry D Designing Neighborhood Futures State Hall: Room 114 Ghost Writing: Black Cosmic Mythologies State Hall: Room 137 Running Campaigns Rooted in Generosity and Reciprocity State Hall: Room 117 Virtual Reality for Movement Building Student Center: Hilberry A Community Approaches to Environmental Justice and Human Rights State Hall: Room 113 LYRK: QPOC Music Streaming App State Hall: Room 123 Opt-out and the National Student Bill of Rights State Hall: Room 106 Sky’s The Limit: Worker-Owned Co-ops for Survival and Experimentation State Hall: Room 112 Abundant Activism: Practical Tools for Empowering Youth State Hall: Room 118 Brutally Honest Storytelling Student Center: Room 384 Healing Sessions: Business & Spirituality McGregor: Room I Open Studio Student Center: Dance Room 020 The Paper Quilt: A Revolutionary Mothering Zine Workshop (cont) Student Center: Hilberry E Truth Booth McGregor: Room H Civic Tech Lessons from Mexico City State Hall: Room 131 Miseducation of Hip Hop: My Sister's Keeper Student Center: Room 285 Umbra: The Radical Archive Tool State Hall: Room 127 FoodLab Tour (continued) Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop Tour of Detroit's Techno Museum (continued) Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

5:00pm EDT

Children's March to Stop The Water Shutoffs Wayne State Student Center

5:30pm EDT

Restoration Room McGregor: Room H Women in Hip Hop Ice Cream SocialFILLING The Baltimore Gallery

6:00pm EDT

Black Death Mixtape Dinnertime Meetup Student Center: Room 285 Media Justice Mixer w/ Free Press and the Media Action Grassroots Network Student Center: Hilberry A Radical Librarianship Dinner Meetup State Hall: Room 127 BIL AFIYA: A Community FeastLIMITED Cass Corridor Commons

7:00pm EDT

Films at Cinema Detroit Cinema Detroit

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCAD Gender Blender Circa 1890 Saloon