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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Grace Wu

Independent community organizer, researcher, formerly of Canadian Council of Refugees and Amnesty International
Independent Researcher & Campaigns Consultant

Grace Wu has worked in refugee advocacy in North Africa and Canada. She is a community-based organizer and design-researcher. She is currently organizing with the Caribbean Solidarity Network to develop teach-ins on migration history and refugee deterrence policies in Canada.

9:00am

AMC Work Room STUDENT CENTER: Room 358

5:30pm

3Leches x Liberation Cuisine at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

7:00pm

Past, Present, Futurism: Resilient Infrastructure Community Arts AuditoriumJenny Lee • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Monica Lewis-Patrick • Diana Nucera • Maya Wiley

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.

11:00am

Digitizing Palestine: Storytelling and the Moving Image STATE HALL: Room 117Leila Abdelrazaq • Ryah Aqel • Nehad Khader • Razan al Salah Hacking Wikipedia: How to bring your community to the world STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Sanghapali Aruna • Grace Banu • Maari Zwick Maitreyi • Thenmozhi Soundararajan Healing Justice Podcast Story Lab MCGREGOR: Room CJustin Campbell • Marcia Lee • Kate Werning Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Kinetic Knowledge Through African Dance STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Ajara Alghali • Whitney Smith Sonic Rewrites STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CSam Cooper • Elisabeth Pixley-Fink The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising from Foundations STATE HALL: Room 113mai cortez doan • Joy Messinger 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 Kit an` Kin - Cooking Class with the Family SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyAnya Peters and Peters Family

12:00pm

FoodLab Community Market at The Commons The Commons

12:45pm

#MoreThanCode: Findings from the Tech 4 Social Justice Field Scan STATE HALL: Room 114Sasha Costanza-Chock • Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz • T4SJ Project Partners Building a Research Justice Network STATE HALL: Room 131Sam Appel • Diana Benitez • Sally Marquez Digital Stories of Community, Art, and Resistance STATE HALL: Room 117Nijeul Porter • Ozi Uduma Sharing Tools for Change: creating a more just and open city STATE HALL: Room 134Tara Eisenberg

2:00pm

CareForce One Travelogues STATE HALL: Room 106Anjum Asharia • Marisa Jahn Choose Your Adventure: DIY Future Architecture Comic STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Aaron Jones 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 How to do Individual Donor Visits to Raise Money! STATE HALL: Room 113Mary Grace Wolf Reclaim Tarot within Communities of Color STATE HALL: Room 128Casey Rocheteau • Jana Lynne Umipig Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma with Food STATE HALL: Room 131Amanny Ahmad • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Neftali Duran • Kate McCabe • Anya Peters Intro to Podcasting STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Aaron Lakoff • Abby Madan • Aliya Pabani Archiving Movement Media STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BHelyx Chase Scearce Horwitz Strategies for Transforming Journalism STATE HALL: Room 125Mia Henry • Lewis Wallace Detroit Sound Conservancy Music Tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyCarleton Gholz • Jonah Raduns-Silverstein • Adriel Thorton

4:00pm

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 Revisiting Asset-based Mapping STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Diana Benitez • Betty Marín An Online Platform for International Solidarity Movements STATE HALL: Room 115Micah Fedenko • Maimuna Touray 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

6:30pm

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

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

11:00am

StoryShift: Amplify, Resource & Support Accountable Storytelling STATE HALL: Room 134Noel Didla • Jayeesha Dutta • Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi • Yudith Nieto • Michael Premo From the Rebel Alliance to Wakanda: Sci-fi Movement Building STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Kai M. Green • Terry Marshall • Jenna Peters-Golden • Manju Rajendran • Makani Themba Visual Resistance & Design for Our Movements STATE HALL: Room 137Molly Jane • Andrea Salazar Indigenous Storytelling: Resisting Co2lonialism STATE HALL: Room 125Eriel Deranger • Suzanne Dhaliwal

12:45pm

Break Bread & Build: (Em)Power Brunch + Building Session CASS COMMONS: Memorial HallDevita Davison • Shakirah Simley • Julia Turshen Reflections on Learning Liberation: Breaking Bread & Getting Deep STATE HALL: Room 113N8 Mullen • Thomas Nikundiwe

2:00pm

Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction MCGREGOR: Room Bamp • Deep Center&amp • Dare Dukes • s Youth Leadership Team Subversive Design: Exploring Power in Design Practice STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Julia Kong • Brooke Staton Using Zines to Center Native Peoples in Community Organizing MCGREGOR: Room CPauline Alvarez • Michelle Bernardino • Joel Garcia • Andrea Perez • Marina Perez • Kimberly Robertson Visionary Organizing: Crafting Radical Futures STATE HALL: Room 137Jonathan Hanna • Erika Linenfelser Policing Black Lives and Resistance Across Borders STATE HALL: Room 123Robyn Maynard • Leroi NewBold Mawadisidiwag: They Visit Each Other SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyThe Aadizookaan

4:00pm

Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project: Coming Home STATE HALL: Room 131Didi Adi • Jo Boakye • Fatou-Seydi Sarr Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown People Power Art STATE HALL: Room 116Sol Aramendi • Sara Angel Guerrero • Carolina Penafiel Community Digital Risk Matrix MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HGreta Byrum • Seeta Gangadharan • Ana Maria Reichenbach

6:00pm

Circle of Practice among Media Makers Focused on Sanctuary STATE HALL: Room 123Macky Alston

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

10:00am

Imaginación Post-___: Designing Justice After Disaster STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BCynthia Burgos López • Alexandra Llegus Santiago • Sofía Unanue Know Your Rights Immigration Poster Making STATE HALL: Room 125Dewey • Joel Garcia Community Action Research to Empower, Engage, and Transform STATE HALL: Room 131Emily Kutil • Monica Lewis-Patrick • Kaitlin Popielarz 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 118Tawana Petty (she/her) • Serena Maria Daniels • Levon Kafafian • Cayden Mak • Toni Moceri • Benito "Mav-One" Vasquez

1:00pm

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 Fuel the Poor People's Campaign with Music STATE HALL: Room 131Naim Edwards • Yexenia Vanegas 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 Building Relationships to Transform Local News MCGREGOR: Room BAlicia Bell

6:00pm

Black Independence Celebration The Baltimore Gallery 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