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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.

Sackona Fitts

Boston, Massachusetts

Sexy doesnt have to be a tan blonde girl showing off her goodies-Hayley Williams Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are - Love, Stargirl, Jerry Spinel Judging me by my flaws won't hide yours. Kona- (Koh-na) n. 1.Indescribable

9:00am EDT

AMC Info Desk Student Center, McGregor, and State Hall

10:00am EDT

Strategies for Staying Power Network Gathering Student Center: Room 285 BIL AFIYA: A Collective Culinary Experience Network Gathering Student Center: Conference Room 384

9:00am EDT

Black Unicorn Pop Up Library McGregor: Room D #TransTRUTH: Trans Advocacy through Storytelling State Hall: Room 113 Map the power! Collaborative Research with LittleSis Student Center: Hilberry D Queer Talisman: Quick Messy Collaborative 16mm Filmmaking State Hall: Room 137 Creating a Platform for Youth-Led Advocacy State Hall: Room 131 When We Fight We Win: The Role of Art and Culture in Movement Building State Hall: Room 125 Healing Sessions: Demystifying & Decentering Healing Roundtable McGregor: Room I Opening Session of Creative Coping and Grieving Arts Practice Space McGregor: Room F/G SheShock Hip Hop: Encouraging the Power of Women Beatmakers State Hall: Room 114 AMC2016 Homeroom: Friday State Hall: Room 118 Say Her Name / Black Trans Lives Matter Student Center: Hilberry B

11:00am EDT

'Her Story' Screening State Hall: Room 134 Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital Memory Collective Student Center: Hilberry B Babel’s Workshop: Best Practices for Multilingual Events State Hall: Room 125 Poster Power: Toolkit for the Design Activist State Hall: Room 137 The Power of Perspectives in Youth Research State Hall: Room 113 Narratives of Displacement: The Anti Eviction Mapping Project State Hall: Room 128 Decolonizing our Stories and Futures Part 2 McGregor: Room J Healing Sessions: Building Our Emotional Immune System McGregor: Room I Herbal Plant Allies and Appalachian Resistance Student Center: Hilberry E

12:45pm EDT

Changing the Education System for Disabled Children State Hall: Room 112 Powerful Voices: Lessons from Youth Public Access Producers State Hall: Room 123 Radical Youth Leadership State Hall: Room 131 Self-care for Black Caregivers State Hall: Room 113

2:00pm EDT

'Sex (Ed) is...' : A Social Media Campaign by The Heal Project State Hall: Room 115 Build a Media History Timeline Student Center: Hilberry D Digging Deep: Remixing Research State Hall: Room 114 Formation: Black Femme Safety Strategies Student Center: Hilberry A Nuts and Bolts of Grassroots Fundraising State Hall: Room 113 Property Praxis and 'Dumb' Cities State Hall: Room 128 Shoot, Scratch and Stomp: Let’s Play with Film State Hall: Room 137 The Revolution Will Be Podcasted Student Center: Hilberry C Hear. Care. Act. Strategies for Teaching Black Lives Matter State Hall: Room 134 A Healing Circle for Orlando and Beyond McGregor: Room I I Am a Universe Part 1 McGregor: Room F/G Navigating Crisis Part I: Supporting Loved Ones in Crisis State Hall: Room 131 Traced and Tracked: The Surveillance Industrial Complex State Hall: Room 106

4:00pm EDT

Deep Space Mind: Insanity for Survival State Hall: Room 113 Digital Privacy in Public Libraries: NYC Checks it Out State Hall: Room 131 Run Nigga Run State Hall: Room 112 Archiving our Stories: Narratives of LGBTQ API Organizing State Hall: Room 118 Cultivating Black Joy State Hall: Room 134 Demanding a Seat at the Table: Youth Media's Role in the 2016 Election State Hall: Room 114 Independent Media and Immigrant Stories State Hall: Room 106 Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Student Center: Room 285 When GoFundMe Doesn't Cut It State Hall: Room 137 DET X JXN : New Afrikas in America - The Journey Continues McGregor: Room J Street Styles (90’s Hip Hop) Student Center: Dance Room 025 Deconstructing Intoxication Culture: Supporting Non-Normative Substance Users State Hall: Room 123 Fat 201: Deconstructing Fat Stigma Within Our Movements Student Center: Hilberry C Intermedia Arts Up & Out State Hall: Room 127 Remembering, Re[pair]rations and Reimagining Student Center: Hilberry B From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls (continued) Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

5:45pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film Theater

7:00pm EDT

Women in Hip Hop Concert Garden Theater

8:00pm EDT

Karaoke + Bowling The Majestic Garden Bowl Youth Social Space & Open Mic Cass Corridor Commons

9:00pm EDT

The Osato Sister's Cabaret Night Cinema Detroit

9:00am EDT

Cities of Peace: Pedagogy for Resistance and Healing DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Don’t Panic, Organize! State Hall: Room 128 How to Start a Major Donor Program State Hall: Room 115 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 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 Black to the Land Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

11:00am EDT

Making a Feature Length Documentary State Hall: Room 134 Anti-Oppression Frameworks for Oral History and Movement Building State Hall: Room 112 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 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 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 Women in Hip Hop Open Studio McGregor: Room B/C

12:45pm EDT

Capoeira Angola in Detroit! Student Center: Hilberry B Fundraiser Open Space and Skillshare State Hall: Room 115 Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change Lunch Meetup State Hall: Room 114 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

5:30pm EDT

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

7:00pm EDT

Films at Cinema Detroit Cinema Detroit

10:00am EDT

'Detroit 48202' Rough Cut For Activists and Educators DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 RHI Studios and RHDS Productions Presents State Hall: Room 134 Building Bridges by Painting Walls State Hall: Room 137 Moly B Denim: Worker Dialogues as Music Student Center: Hilberry C Tarot of the Heart: Radical Reading for Self Care State Hall: Room 125 Black Body Gone Student Center: Dance Room 025 Harnessing the Power of Community Media Centers Student Center: Room 384 Power as Freedom: Guided Meditation and Seated Flow McGregor: Room I The Root with Lehna Huie McGregor: Room F/G AMC2016 Homeroom: Sunday State Hall: Room 118 Birds, Bees and Wolves: 'The Talk' as a tool to End Child Sexual Abuse State Hall: Room 117 Decoding My Neighborhood: Tapping into Invisible Networks Student Center: Hilberry D Grow the Commons: Asset Sharing with Tool Lending Libraries State Hall: Room 127

11:45am EDT

Education for Freedom Beyond the AMC State Hall: Room 123 Project 1234: Young, Global and Digital State Hall: Room 114 Restorative Practices in Libraries State Hall: Room 115 When Half is Whole State Hall: Room 125

1:00pm EDT

Community Poems for Community Power State Hall: Room 115 Cyber Security for Political Activists Part 1 Student Center: Hilberry A Drawing Out the Issues: Comics Journalism State Hall: Room 128 Holding Space: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation Part I McGregor: Room L/M Interactive Videos as Tools of Empowerment State Hall: Room 127 AbunDANCE: Flourishing Fullness Through Movement Part 1 Student Center: Dance Room 025 Creative Coping Strategy Session McGregor: Room F/G Self-Care and Survival as Practice McGregor: Room H Preparing for Free Minds Free People 2017 State Hall: Room 123 Privacy, Surveillance, Secure Access: Planning the Fight State Hall: Room 113 The Queer Red Phone: Designing Interfaces and Community Accountability Networks State Hall: Room 131 From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

3:00pm EDT

Cyber Security for Political Activists Part 2 Student Center: Hilberry A Holding Space Part II: Anti-Oppressive Conflict Intervention for Facilitators McGregor: Room L/M Rituals for Reconciliation Student Center: Room 285 The Heroes and Villains of Detroit's Housing History State Hall: Room 137 AbunDANCE: Flourishing Fullness Through Movement Part 2 Student Center: Dance Room 025 Creative Coping Closing Session McGregor: Room F/G From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls (continued) Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

4:30pm EDT

Closing Celebration Student Center: Main Lobby

8:00pm EDT

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