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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th 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.

We offer a sliding scale registration rate so that the conference can be accessible to as many people as possible. Please support the AMC by giving generously with your registration contribution. Register here.

Ari Felix

Saltwater Stars
Astrologer
Central PA

https://saltwaterstars.com

Ari is an astrologer from a lineage of Afro-Indigenous brujas & queer radical thought. They offer a decade of astrological counseling experience; their practice merges traditional & modern psychological astrological frameworks.

8:00pm

Welcome to AMC2018! A FireHouse Music Series Celebration Detroit Institute of Arts (North Lawn)Monica Blaire • Detroit Che • One Freq • DJ Bleak G • DJ Stacye J • Trey P.

10:00pm

Dream Cafe Kick-off Party with djs Whodat + LadyMonix Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Terri “Whodat” McQueen • Lady Monix

9:00am

Stories Become Movements, Become Stories: Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence Community Arts AuditoriumEmi Kane • The Free Siwatu Coalition • Tatyana Fazlalizadeh • Emi Koyama • Amita Swadhin

11:00am

Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody

12:00pm

FoodLab Community Market at The Commons The Commons

12:45pm

Latinx Healing from Colonialism STATE HALL: Room 127Alexandra Corwin • Diana Quinn ND

2:00pm

Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody

4:00pm

Fantasy Island: Decolonial Futures & Puerto Rican Response STATE HALL: Room 113Shey Rivera Ríos • Jo Cosme • Joel Rivera

6:00pm

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

7:30pm

Black and Brown Healing in the Wake of Climate Catastrophe CASS COMMONS: Memorial HallPuerto Rican Healing Justice Delegation

8:00pm

GET TO WERK The Marble BarTT the Artist • Stacye J and the Anthology of Booty • Miz Korona

11:00am

Healing Justice Lineages: A History Discussion STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAutumn Brown • Adela Nieves Martinez • Cara Page • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • Rico • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis

12:45pm

Digging out the Roots of Trauma: Healing our Relationship to Land STATE HALL: Room 135Leo Orleans The Good, Bad & REAL uses of Social Media at Standing Rock STATE HALL: Room 128Amos Cloud • Jose Franco • Miguel Guzman • Samantha Magdaleno • Brennon Nastacio

2:00pm

"How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen

4:00pm

Maroon Oracle Network and Decolonizing Digital Spaces STATE HALL: Room 114Nasah Kiam Crockett • P. Gabrielle Foreman • Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Vanessa Holden • Jessica Marie Johnson

6:00pm

Just Ricanstruction: Construyendo Puentes PosMaria STATE HALL: Room 114Puerto Rican Healing Justice Delegation

8:00pm

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCADBeige • K-HAND • Le1f • Oshun • Vespre • Miz Korona and the Korona Effect • Stacey HOTTWAXX Hale • Los Hermanos • DJ Pia

10:00am

An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown

11:45am

Radical Grandparents! An Intergenerational Conversation STATE HALL: Room 116Aiko Fukuchi • Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones • Myrtle Thompson-Curtis

1:00pm

Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba

3:00pm

Performing New Worlds Plenary and Closing Ceremony Celebration Community Arts AuditoriumUna Aya Osato • Ricardo Gamboa • Xandra Ibarra • Francesca Fiorentini

4:00pm

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium

6:00pm

The Free Brunch Program OFFSITECharlyn Griffith/ Pronoun they or Honey • Asadullah Saed

8:00pm

Allied Ever After Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Beige • Nandi • Mike Medow