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BlackStar Film Festival
Philadelphia
Friday, June 15
 

9:00am EDT

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 EDT

Digitizing Palestine: Storytelling and the Moving Image STATE HALL: Room 117Leila Abdelrazaq • Ryah Aqel • Nehad Khader • Razan al Salah Communities of Practice: Creating Community Accountable Research STATE HALL: Room 116Qui Dorian Alexander • Diana Chandara • A.K. O’Loughlin • Noah NuhuBabuKubwa Isaiah Sims From Growing Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman

12:45pm EDT

Black Snake Killaz: A #NoDAPL Story Film Screening (Lunch + Panel) STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BAlex Binder • Christopher Schiano • Jenn Schreiter • Lorenzo Serna Digital Stories of Community, Art, and Resistance STATE HALL: Room 117Nijeul Porter • Ozi Uduma Latinx Healing from Colonialism STATE HALL: Room 127Alexandra Corwin • Diana Quinn ND Mealtime MeetUp with DNA and MIT Co-Creation Studio STATE HALL: Room 106Katerina Cizek • Sarah Wolozin Sharing Tools for Change: creating a more just and open city STATE HALL: Room 134Tara Eisenberg

2:00pm EDT

CareForce One Travelogues STATE HALL: Room 106Anjum Asharia • Marisa Jahn Screening of New Detroit Documentary: Last Days of Chinatown STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry ANicole Macdonald Data-Driven Research for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 115Chelsea Barabas • Sharlyn Grace • Rodrigo Ochigame • Hannah Sassaman Disguising Data Against Ubiquitous Surveillance MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HPaola Mosso 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 Trauma Informed Impact Strategy STATE HALL: Room 127Sonya Childress • Twiggy Pucci-Garcon Detroit Sound Conservancy Music Tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyCarleton Gholz • Jonah Raduns-Silverstein • Adriel Thorton

4:00pm EDT

BUFU: Our Selves, Our Stories, and Our Futures STATE HALL: Room 101Sonia Choi • Jazmin Jones • Tsige Tafesse • Katherine Tom #MeToo Reporting from a Feminist Transformative Justice Lens STATE HALL: Room 128Claudia Garcia-Rojas • Deana Lewis De-mechanize Design: This is not a Poster STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Katie Diamond • Liz Morgan Fantasy Island: Decolonial Futures & Puerto Rican Response STATE HALL: Room 113Shey Rivera Ríos • Jo Cosme • Joel Rivera How to Remix City Bureau’s “Public Newsroom” Model STATE HALL: Room 123Bettina Chang • Andrea Faye Hart • Aaliyah Wright Imagination as a Research Tool STATE HALL: Room 116Nina Bhattacharya • Payal Kumar Surviving Impossible Times: Herbal Strategies for People of Color STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Carmen Malis King • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis • Lottie Spady Transforming the Family Album into a Tool for Social Change STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BThomas Allen Harris Dismantle Mass Incarceration Through Participatory Action Research STATE HALL: Room 118Eli Moore • Tamisha Walker Our Data Bodies Matter! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CTawana Petty (she/her) • Virginia Eubanks • Seeta Peña Gangadharan • Tamika Lewis • Mariella Saba Revisiting Asset-based Mapping STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Diana Benitez • Betty Marín Artivism: Radical Art for Rapid Response Change STATE HALL: Room 135Sabiha Basrai • Free Egunfemi • Biana Nozaki-Nasser • Nijeul Porter Feeding Radical Movements STATE HALL: Room 131Tagan Engel • Tina Orlandini • Gabriela Álvarez

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

6:30pm EDT

Cumbia Kids Sci-Fi Party New Center ParkKristy La rAt • Mother Cyborg

7:30pm EDT

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

8:00pm EDT

The Original AMC Karaoke + Bowling Party The Garden BowlJennyoke
 
Saturday, June 16
 

9:00am EDT

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

11:00am EDT

StoryShift: Amplify, Resource & Support Accountable Storytelling STATE HALL: Room 134Noel Didla • Jayeesha Dutta • Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi • Yudith Nieto • Michael Premo Express though Tech, Ozobots: Coding Meets Art STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EFatima Abdihoosh • Anika Duckwall • Keke Simpson • Corionna Washington • Kayse Yang • Halima Yassin Healing Uses of Plant Technology STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Karen L. Culpepper • Richael Faithful • Miriam Zoila Pérez Scrapbook Detroit’s People and History MCGREGOR: Room CVassilis Jacobs • Debra Walker • Ingrid White Visual Resistance & Design for Our Movements STATE HALL: Room 137Molly Jane • Andrea Salazar #OwningOurStories: Race, Power and Media STATE HALL: Room 131Manolia Charlotin • Teresa Basilio Gaztambide • Janine Jackson • Roberta Rael • Joseph Torres 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 Indigenous Storytelling: Resisting Co2lonialism STATE HALL: Room 125S (she/her) • Eriel Deranger Migration Justice in Canada-US Border Communities STATE HALL: Room 117Grace Wu • Julie Young Detroit Cooperates: C2BE’s Grassroots Enterprises tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyBryce Detroit Detroit Narrative Agency 2.0 Project Screenings SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + Kirbypaige watkins • ill Weaver 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 Networks of the Equitable Internet Initiative Tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJanice Gates • Diana Nucera

12:45pm EDT

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 Sustainable Sisterhood: Two Founders Share Stories and Skills STATE HALL: Room 116Dail Chambers • Chinyere E. Oteh

2:00pm EDT

Shifting Power with Participatory Video STATE HALL: Room 106Monica Curca • Rhanda Dormeus • Thor Morales • Theresa Smith • Lauri Valdez Youth Participatory Action Research for Social Justice STATE HALL: Room 116Sana Azim • Alan Cheng • Marquise Cox • Jessie Levandov • Iyleen Torres An(Other) Cyborg Manifesto: Disability as Dissonance STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CArcee Neal Dress Up 4 the Revolution STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry FMichah Bernstein • Mishal Qureshi Joyous Action: Youth Protest Playground STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EK. Rodriguez • Ona W • darien r wendell Subversive Design: Exploring Power in Design Practice STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Julia Kong • Brooke Staton The Future Generation: Parenting, Children, and Community Stories STATE HALL: Room 128Dortheá Enriqúe • Scheherazade Washington Parrish Visionary Organizing: Crafting Radical Futures STATE HALL: Room 137Jonathan Hanna • Erika Linenfelser Who "They" Is: Humanizing the Built Environment STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BAlexandria Barnes • Bradley Cooper • Jasmine Humphries • Madison Schillig "How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen Reclaim Our Futures: Take Back Land & Housing STATE HALL: Room 134brandon king • Zach Murray • Devi Peacock • KP Pestaño • Denechia Powell • Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul Liberate the Skies: Diaspora and the New Anti-Militarism STATE HALL: Room 114Farah Erzouki • Ali Issa • Samira Shifteh

4:00pm EDT

Capoeira Angola & Batucada of Michigan STUDENT CENTER: 020Kelvin Wyatt Cost of Content Moderation: Censorship and Human Rights STATE HALL: Room 117Nasser Eledroos • Jennie Rose Halperin • Becca Ricks Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Food Fight STATE HALL: Room 118En Sawyer Lee • Julia Vallera Lifting as They Climbed: A Tour of Chicago Black Women Histories STATE HALL: Room 125Mariame Kaba • Essence McDowell • Kierra Verdun Biomythography STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAsia Mock • Valencia Vanner Joyful Resistance: Art and Protest in Defense of the Hood MCGREGOR: Room JChiResists and Barrios Against Displacement Staying Power: Creative tools for housing & belonging STATE HALL: Room 128Evan Bissell • Sasha Graham • Cierra Jevae-Gordon 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 EDT

Against Erasure STATE HALL: Room 128Chiwan Choi Circle of Practice among Media Makers Focused on Sanctuary STATE HALL: Room 123Macky Alston Community Dinner for Black Native American/Afro-Indígena Folks STATE HALL: Room 125Jillian White Just Ricanstruction: Construyendo Puentes PosMaria STATE HALL: Room 114Puerto Rican Healing Justice Delegation Strengthening Self Empowerment STATE HALL: Room 116Mariana Castañeda-Lopez • Deesha Narichania

7:00pm EDT

Black Music The Baltimore GalleryDeon Jamar • Nicole Misha

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCADBeige • K-HAND • Le1f • Oshun • Vespre • Miz Korona and the Korona Effect • Stacey HOTTWAXX Hale • Los Hermanos • DJ Pia
 
Sunday, June 17
 

9:00am EDT

How Theatre Helps Us Share What We Know STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EElon Sloan

10:00am EDT

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 Hacking Capitalism: Divest, Manage Debt, and Ethical Money STATE HALL: Room 123Hadassah Damien Imaginación Post-___: Designing Justice After Disaster STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BCynthia Burgos López • Alexandra Llegus Santiago • Sofía Unanue Consciousness Raising & Solutions Along the Media Color Line STATE HALL: Room 127Kimberly Bellware • Sierra Council • Adeshina Emmanuel • Geoff Hing • Darryl Holiday Food Stories Unwrapped: Decolonizing the White Gaze of Food Media STATE HALL: Room 113Serena Maria Daniels • Dorothy Hernandez • Sabiha Khan • Sarahlynn Pablo • Natalia Roxas Restorative Justice Peace Ambassadors STATE HALL: Room 118James Coleman • Tomas Ramirez • Bejor Weathersby An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony + KirbyJamon Jordan

11:45am EDT

Black Michigan Urban-Rural Collaboration STATE HALL: Room 117Ezekiel Joubert III • Batiste Joubert • Janeau Joubert Community Storytelling: Amplifying Neighborhood Voices STATE HALL: Room 115Imani Mixon Radical Grandparents! An Intergenerational Conversation STATE HALL: Room 116Aiko Fukuchi • Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones • Myrtle Thompson-Curtis

1:00pm EDT

A Radical Wikipedia Workshop STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DNora Almeida • Melissa Chavez • Lena Greenberg • Jen Hoyer • Lauren Hudgins Adventures in Co-Design! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry AUna Lee First Response for Gunshots and Asthma STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Martine Caverl • Ana Lily Mccullom • Amika Tendaji Fuel the Poor People's Campaign with Music STATE HALL: Room 131Naim Edwards • Yexenia Vanegas Practical Magic: Lunar Ritual for Manifestation MCGREGOR: Room CCarmen Mayes Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba Humanizing Schooling In Detroit STATE HALL: Room 134Alondra Castañeda • N8 Mullen • kelly rickert Mariposas & Unicorns: Narratives Defying Borders and Binaries STATE HALL: Room 118Giselle Ariel Bleuz • Citlali Ortiz Reclaiming a [Native] Central American Narrative STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CGénesis Mancheren Abaj • Keyanna Blanco • Delia Cumez • Kenia Guillen • Leslie Martinez • Benjamin Rojas Whose Story Is It? De-colonizing Documentary Practice STATE HALL: Room 106Bryan Bello • Sonya Childress • Maori Holmes • Nehad Khader • Michael Premo • Set Hernandez Rongkilyo

6:00pm EDT

Black Independence Celebration The Baltimore Gallery

8:00pm EDT

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