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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.

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Hyatt Hasegawa Bailey

People's Institute for Survival and Beyond; Resource Generation
Organizer (Non-Staff)

Hyatt is a mixed-race Japanese American data scientist and organizer. He is currently living in Brooklyn and working with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), an anti-racist org most known for their Undoing Racism / Community Organizing Workshop. He also recently got involved with Resource Generation (RG), which organizes young people with wealth and/or class privilege to equitably redistribute wealth, land, and power.

8:00am EDT

FoodLab Detroit at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

5:30pm EDT

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

10:00pm EDT

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

8:00am EDT

FoodLab Detroit at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

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 Deep Relaxation Room MCGREGOR: Room L/M

11:00am EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

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

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

7:30pm EDT

I-Collective at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

8:00pm EDT

The Original AMC Karaoke + Bowling Party The Garden BowlJennyoke

10:00pm EDT

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

8:00am EDT

Breakfast & Beats Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Sicily Amaris McRaven FoodLab Detroit at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

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 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 Healing Uses of Plant Technology STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Karen L. Culpepper • Richael Faithful • Miriam Zoila Pérez Cooperative Ecosystem: Lessons in Building Community Wealth STATE HALL: Room 113Margo Dalal • B. Anthony Holley • Meghan Sobocienski • Lucas Turner-Owens • Ed Whitfeld Act Out to Tear Down: Disrupt with Theatre of the Oppressed MCGREGOR: Room JRaven Stubbs • Chahney Young

12:45pm EDT

Finding Yourself in the Break: Lessons in Black Jazz Meditation STUDENT CENTER: 020NIcole Campbell Lunchtime Meetup: Astrology Readings with Alexander Weyer MCGREGOR: Room L/MAlexander Weyer Perfection in Movement Spaces STATE HALL: Room 117Aiko Fukuchi • Teia McGahey Tarot Club: Building a Community Around Divination STATE HALL: Room 137Mary Shock

2:00pm EDT

An(Other) Cyborg Manifesto: Disability as Dissonance STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CArcee Neal Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction MCGREGOR: Room Bamp • Deep Center&amp • Dare Dukes • s Youth Leadership Team Poetry as Freedom STATE HALL: Room 117LaShaun 'Phoenix' Kotaran • Eldric Laron • A'janae Neal • Imani Nichele • Justin Rogers • LaShawn Smith-Wright The Art of Interviewing STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DKeisha TK Dutes Liberate the Skies: Diaspora and the New Anti-Militarism STATE HALL: Room 114Farah Erzouki • Ali Issa • Samira Shifteh

4:00pm EDT

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Piss on Pity: Radically Uprooting the Culture of Ableism STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones Biomythography STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAsia Mock • Valencia Vanner

5:30pm EDT

Kit an Kin at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe) Live Ambient Performance by Lexi (from Video7) MCGREGOR: Room L/MLexi

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

10:00pm EDT

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

10:00am EDT

Where is Vincent Chin?: Asian American Tour of Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRebecca J. Kinney • Soh Suzuki

3:00pm EDT

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

6:00pm EDT

Black Independence Celebration The Baltimore Gallery

6:30pm EDT

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

8:00pm EDT

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