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Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Arianne Graham

Peer Health Exchange
Vice President
Strategy and Innovation for non-profits, movements, equity organizations
Design & communications strategy, capacity for non-profits, new ventures, campaigns and progressive causes
Health equity, health education, healthcare, restorative justice, reproductive justice
Friday, June 15
 

11:00am

Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Communities of Practice: Creating Community Accountable Research STATE HALL: Room 116Qui Dorian Alexander • Diana Chandara • A.K. O’Loughlin • Noah NuhuBabuKubwa Isaiah Sims

12:45pm

Swords into Plowshares: Reclaim the Bible for Healing & Justice STATE HALL: Room 135SueAnn Shiah

2:00pm

BYP100 Presents The Black Joy Experience STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CJonathan Lykes • JeNae Taylor Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma with Food STATE HALL: Room 131Amanny Ahmad • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Neftali Duran • Kate McCabe • Anya Peters

4:00pm

Surviving Impossible Times: Herbal Strategies for People of Color STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Carmen Malis King • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis • Lottie V. Spady Politics of Erasure: Intentional Marketing of QTPOC STATE HALL: Room 125Jayson Douglas

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 The Original AMC Karaoke + Bowling Party The Garden BowlJennyoke

10:00pm

Comedy Night Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Joe Aasim • Francesca Fiorentini • Luna Malbroux • Kai Quix • T. Wise
 
Saturday, June 16
 

9:00am

Shaping Data, Shaping Power Community Arts AuditoriumSasha Costanza-Chock • Ruha Benjamin • Mona Chalabi • Tawana Petty • Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler

11:00am

Black Futures: Monetizing the Scam STATE HALL: Room 127McKensie Mack • Elijah McKinnon Building a Freedom School Movement in Detroit STATE HALL: Room 116Piper Carter • Mike Doan • Amaniyea Ellis • Joy Ellis • Salima Ellis Cooperative Ecosystem: Lessons in Building Community Wealth STATE HALL: Room 113Margo Dalal • B. Anthony Holley • Meghan Sobocienski • Lucas Turner-Owens • Ed Whitfeld Decentralized Health Equity Model for LGBTQ+ Patients STATE HALL: Room 135Theodore Tinnell Designing Possibilities for the Wellbeing of Black Women STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BDenise Shanté Brown • N'Deye Diakhate FEEST With Us! SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyCamille Charles • Kyasia Gunter • Kit an' Kin • Tajjae Maycock • Yasmine Mercado • Quianna Minott • Jelani Norman • Jamisha Williams • Kashani Williams From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman

12:45pm

Digging out the Roots of Trauma: Healing our Relationship to Land STATE HALL: Room 135Leo Orleans Finding Yourself in the Break: Lessons in Black Jazz Meditation STUDENT CENTER: 020NIcole Campbell Public Space for All: Community Engagement in Downtown Detroit STATE HALL: Room 127Denise McGeen • Alana Tucker

2:00pm

Subversive Design: Exploring Power in Design Practice STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Julia Kong • Brooke Staton "How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen

4:00pm

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown

6:00pm

Blackness and Afro Latinidad: Brujas Healing the Diaspora STATE HALL: Room 117Consuela Lopez • Antonio Rafael • Briana Urena-Ravelo Dear Black Women: The Power of Black Women Affirming Themselves STATE HALL: Room 127Florence Noel

7:00pm

Black Music The Baltimore GalleryDeon Jamar • Nicole Misha

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

10:00pm

Portage Garage Sounds at the Dream Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Vinnie Massimino • Benjamin Kenjiro Saginaw • Zachary Shigeto Saginaw • Charles Trees
 
Sunday, June 17
 

10:00am

We Are All Connected: Youth Bridging the Urban / Rural Divide STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Kendri Feliz • Emmanuel Garcia • Gabriel Martinez • Mary • Griselys Peña • Serenah Vaughan Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony + KirbyJamon Jordan

11:45am

Advance Your Work with Allied Media Projects STATE HALL: Room 118Serena Maria Daniels • Levon Kafafian • Cayden Mak • Toni Moceri • Tawana Petty • Benito "Mav-One" Vasquez

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

Black Independence Celebration The Baltimore Gallery

6:30pm

Matriarchy in the Kitchen: Supper Club From Nowhere x Kit an Kin at Folk FOLK Detroit

8:00pm

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