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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.

shreya shah

SALTWATER Training+Healing+Art

Shreya is a South Asian femme facilitator, healer, artist, & activist. She facilitates social justice workshops & organizational development processes with SALTWATER Training & Consulting and makes art & clothing via Serpentine Sunrise. She loves big laughs & good stories.

9:00am EDT

Black Unicorn Pop Up Library McGregor: Room D 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 SheShock Hip Hop: Encouraging the Power of Women Beatmakers State Hall: Room 114

11:00am EDT

Poster Power: Toolkit for the Design Activist State Hall: Room 137 Narratives of Displacement: The Anti Eviction Mapping Project State Hall: Room 128 Healing Sessions: Building Our Emotional Immune System McGregor: Room I The Antidote McGregor: Room B/C

2:00pm EDT

Digging Deep: Remixing Research State Hall: Room 114 Property Praxis and 'Dumb' Cities State Hall: Room 128 The Long Haul: Living Through Collective Performance Practice Student Center: Hilberry B Producing Beats and Samples McGregor: Room B/C Navigating Crisis Part I: Supporting Loved Ones in Crisis State Hall: Room 131 Traced and Tracked: The Surveillance Industrial Complex State Hall: Room 106 From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

4:00pm EDT

Deep Space Mind: Insanity for Survival State Hall: Room 113 GIFs for Justice Student Center: Hilberry D DET X JXN : New Afrikas in America - The Journey Continues McGregor: Room J Street Styles (90’s Hip Hop) Student Center: Dance Room 025 Remembering, Re[pair]rations and Reimagining Student Center: Hilberry B

5:45pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film Theater

7:00pm EDT

Women in Hip Hop Concert Garden Theater

9:00pm EDT

The Osato Sister's Cabaret Night Cinema Detroit

9:00am EDT

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 Introduction to DJ'ing McGregor: Room B/C

11:00am EDT

Designing Games for Social Justice Student Center: Hilberry B Femmes in Hip Hop State Hall: Room 123 Out of the Attic: Dissociation and Social Justice Part 2 McGregor: Room H 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 Centering Healthy Love in Queer Communities State Hall: Room 137

2:00pm EDT

Community Driven Climate Resilience Planning State Hall: Room 114 Drum n Hip Hop Student Center: Hilberry A Chicanafuturism and Media-based Storytelling State Hall: Room 131 Teaching Freedom in Our Classrooms State Hall: Room 106 Movewerk McGregor: Room J The Blacksophere: Black Bloggers and Cultural Activism State Hall: Room 125

4:00pm EDT

Acapella Activism: Songwriting for Social Justice State Hall: Room 125 Brutally Honest Storytelling Student Center: Room 384 Healing Sessions: Business & Spirituality McGregor: Room I Miseducation of Hip Hop: My Sister's Keeper Student Center: Room 285 Umbra: The Radical Archive Tool State Hall: Room 127

6:00pm EDT

BIL AFIYA: A Community FeastLIMITED Cass Corridor Commons

8:00pm EDT

Gender Blender Circa 1890 Saloon

10:00am EDT

Two-Spirit: Then and Now State Hall: Room 131 Birds, Bees and Wolves: 'The Talk' as a tool to End Child Sexual Abuse State Hall: Room 117 Can the Revolution be Funded? State Hall: Room 123

1:00pm EDT

Reel Bad Arabs: Challenging Arab Stereotypes DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Drawing Out the Issues: Comics Journalism State Hall: Room 128 Interactive Videos as Tools of Empowerment State Hall: Room 127 TRUE Skool: Hip Hop and Social Justice in Milwaukee State Hall: Room 134 Word! State Hall: Room 117 Detroit Black Women Farmers State Hall: Room 106 Intersectional Justice in Media Reporting State Hall: Room 114 AbunDANCE: Flourishing Fullness Through Movement Part 1 Student Center: Dance Room 025 Self-Care and Survival as Practice McGregor: Room H Privacy, Surveillance, Secure Access: Planning the Fight State Hall: Room 113

3:00pm EDT

A World of Q: A Soft Sci-fi Collaborative Filmmaking Quest State Hall: Room 128 Feminist Rappers Building Resistance State Hall: Room 114 Where the Cotton Still Grows: Liberation in the Deep South State Hall: Room 106

4:30pm EDT

Closing Celebration Student Center: Main Lobby

6:00pm EDT

Black Independence Day Celebration The Baltimore Gallery

8:00pm EDT

Allied Ever After Cass Cafe