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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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Lisa Evans

@thequeerdoweirdo Performing artist and cultural worker based in Oakland. Interested in creating artistic spaces for healing, connecting to ancestry and imagining liberatory futures with a focus on qt and neuro-divergent black folks.

9:00am EDT

AMC Work Room STUDENT CENTER: Room 358

10:00am EDT

Healing Justice Resource Space STUDENT CENTER: Room 010Violeta Donawa • Chiara Galimberti • Adela Nieves

2:00pm EDT

Tour to Dabls MBAD African Bead Museum SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + Kirby

9:00am EDT

Deep Relaxation Room MCGREGOR: Room L/M

11:00am EDT

Black Touch STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Angela Davis Johnson • nyx zierhut Repetition Is Sacred: Group Poetry as Ceremony for Change STATE HALL: Room 134Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace)

12:45pm EDT

Grow Abundance: Black Women Business Bestie Mastermind Circles STATE HALL: Room 123Hope Lehman • Kamilah Richardson Wakanda Foreva, eva? Black Folks at AMC! STATE HALL: Room 113Tawana Petty (she/her) • Moya Bailey • Nandi

2:00pm EDT

BYP100 Presents The Black Joy Experience STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CJonathan Lykes • JeNae Taylor

4:00pm EDT

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 Audacity Awesome: The Basics of Editing Audio STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DKrusheska M. Quirós Artivism: Radical Art for Rapid Response Change STATE HALL: Room 135Sabiha Basrai • Free Egunfemi • Biana Nozaki-Nasser • Nijeul Porter Digital Consent is Coercive MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HJamie Garcia • Hamid Khan • Nadia Khan • Ken Montenegro

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

8:00pm EDT

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 EDT

Black Futures: Monetizing the Scam STATE HALL: Room 127McKensie Mack • Elijah McKinnon 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 Truly Accessible Spaces: Designing WITH Disabled Organizers STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Elea Chang • Melissa Chavez 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 EDT

Finding Yourself in the Break: Lessons in Black Jazz Meditation STUDENT CENTER: 020NIcole Campbell Perfection in Movement Spaces STATE HALL: Room 117Aiko Fukuchi • Teia McGahey

2:00pm EDT

An(Other) Cyborg Manifesto: Disability as Dissonance STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CArcee Neal "How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen Trans is Magick: Building Trans Community Through Celebration STATE HALL: Room 135Jimena Lucero • Mikaela Xochitl

3:00pm EDT

Trap in the Park SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJoy Mohammed

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

6:00pm EDT

Disability Justice and Neurodiversity Dinner STATE HALL: Room 115the Redwoods

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

1:00pm EDT

Save Yourself! The Musical STUDENT CENTER: Room 285John Sloan III • Britney Stoney

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