20th Annual Allied Media Conference: Full Schedule

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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11:00am EDT

DIY Embroidery Patches

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The humble fabric patch can be a simple means to mending or a brave declaration of self-determination. What language do we use to mark ourselves when existing labels are too limiting? In this kid focused workshop, little hands will learn basic stitching techniques to embroider small patches. We will brainstorm made up words to describe our complex personalities and backgrounds.

Presenters

Lucia Calderon Arrieta

Lucia learned sewing from Abuelita and learned to call it Fiber Art from academia. She is the daughter of Peruvian immig, none

Lucia learned sewing from her abuelita and learned to call it fiber art from academia

Friday June 15, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
MCGREGOR: Room J

Hands-on Session

Practice Space Community Art as Community Defense Practice Space
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

11:00am EDT

Ha`ani`s Adventure Story!

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Are you ready for an adventure? Join Ha`ani, FEMelanin and friends for a creative journey based on a Chamorro folk tale, blending story drama and story making. Help Ha`ani resist the injustice against her people through sound, pantomime, tableaux, and more! Young people of all ages will walk away with expanded imaginations, larger community, and sensational drawings of monsters.

Presenters

Mariana Green

FEMelanin Collective

Mariana is a Chicago-based theatre artist and teacher who seeks to promote healing and social activism through her work. She is a company member for Erasing the Distance, which makes performances that destigmatize mental health, and Barrel of Monkeys Theatre. Ahe is also a working... Read More →

Enid Munoz

Enid Munoz is a Chicago based theatre creator. Her work as a performer, writer, director, and deviser has led her to work with amazing artists that believe in social justice, social change and true equality. Some theatres she's worked with are Third Eye Theatre, an opera ensemble... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry E

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

2:00pm EDT

The Courage to Feel Sing Along!

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We will sing along to a song that fosters emotional intelligence created by Ri and Encian of the Bay Area Radical Childcare Collective and then make up a new one of our own.

Presenters

Ri

Intergalactic Conspiracy of Childcare Collectives

Ri has been a professional childcare provider for over fifteen years and has been making up songs since they were very very little. They were a core organizer with the Bay Area Radical Childcare Collective for four years and continue to center families and kids in their organizing... Read More →

Friday June 15, 2018 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry F

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

4:00pm EDT

Just Joking: Humor Writing For Young People

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What`s so funny about your favorite joke? In this session, we will share why humor is important to us and explore what makes us laugh. We will giggle our way through some examples together and practice telling our own funny stories, both true and pretend. Participants will leave with new ideas on how to make people laugh, inspired to share their joy through jokes and storytelling.

Presenters

Macy Gould

[coming soon], Chicago Childcare Collective

[coming soon]

Friday June 15, 2018 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry E

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

11:00am EDT

Express though Tech, Ozobots: Coding Meets Art

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This workshop will be led by a teen crew from the Science Museum of MN. We will focus on how kids can be leaders and use troubleshooting to tackle issues they are passionate about. Kids can learn the principles of coding in a flexible, physical and fun environment. Collaborating to create functional art and solve self imposed challenges, this tech workshop will communicate to kids how programming can come in many shapes and sizes, promoting connection and creativity.

Presenters

Fatima Abdihoosh

Fatima Abdihoosh a member of the LinCT computational thinking team with the Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center, Science Mueseum of Minnesota

Fatima Abdihoosh a member of the LinCT computational thinking team with the Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center

Anika Duckwall

LinCT tech Crew member, Science Museum of Minnesota

Anika Duckwall is a member of the LinCT computational thinking team with the Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center

Keke Simpson

Science Mueseum of Minnesota

Corionna Washington

Science Mueseum of Minnesota

Kayse Yang

Kayse Yang a member of the LinCT computational thinking team with the Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center, Science Mueseum of Minnesota

Kayse Yang a member of the LinCT computational thinking team with the Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center

Halima Yassin

Halima Yassin, 10th grader at Blaine High school. I`ve been part of LincT for a year and a half. I see myself becoming a lawmaker., Science Mueseum of Minnesota

Halima Yassin, 10th grader at Blaine High school. I've been part of LincT for a year and a half. I see myself becoming a lawmaker.

Saturday June 16, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry E

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

12:45pm EDT

Imagine! Create! Liberate!

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Presenters

Ana Amaya

Chicago Freedom School

Ana is a member of Chicago Freedom School's Youth Leadership Board, she has led our youth participatory evaluation process, co-facilitated adultism and youth-adult partnership workshops, and has led healing and wellness spaces across the city.

Tekiyah Arrington

Tekiyah is a member of Chicago Freedom School`s Youth Leadership Board. She is a freshman in high school and loves to have fun, but is serious about social justice., Chicago Freedom School

Tekiyah is a member of Chicago Freedom School's Youth Leadership Board. She is going into her sophomore year in high school and loves to have fun, but is serious about social justice.

Steph Campoverde

Stephanie is a member of Chicago Freedom School`s Youth Leadership Board. She is passionate about social justice issues and works to understand and build solidarity with different people., Chicago Freedom School

Stephanie is a member of Chicago Freedom School's Youth Leadership Board. She is passionate about social justice issues and works to understand and build solidarity with different people.

Saturday June 16, 2018 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry E

Mealtime Meetup

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

2:00pm EDT

Dress Up 4 the Revolution

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Makeup is for EVERYONE! This session will have fun makeup and dress-up supplies for young people to try on, make art on their faces, and shapeshift into whoever they want to be. We will debunk myths about makeup and fashion only being for some and make a space that is playful for ALL! This session will end with a showcase of participants` newly made-up looks. For young people 12 and under.

Presenters

Michah Bernstein

Chicago Childcare Collective

Micah Bernstein is a sexuality educator, activist, and theater artist whose work focuses on ending interpersonal and state violence. They've been organizing Childcare for racial and economic justice movements in Chicago for almost 5 years.

Mishal Qureshi

Chicago Childcare Collective

Mishal is a childcare provider with the Chicago Childcare Collective. Her past work has centered on providing socio-emotional support to young people in underresourced schools in Chicago.

Saturday June 16, 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry F

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

2:00pm EDT

Joyous Action: Youth Protest Playground

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Artists and organizers will share how we can support community struggles with joy, laughter, and love at the center. Through games, play, and examples of youth-led movements, youth will pick what issues to uplift and explore how to celebrate the work of making change. We will identify a demand we have of attendees and plan an action to achieve our demand. We will make a banner, signs, chants, and a performance to include in the action at the end of this two-part session.

Presenters

K. Rodriguez

Latinx resistance artist and organizer K Rodriguez is a member of For the People Artists Collective and Lifted Voices. T, Praxis Group, For The People Artists Collective, Lifted Voices

Latinx resistance artist and organizer K. Rodriguez is a member of For the People Artists Collective and Lifted Voices. Through their practices utilizing graphic design, watercolor, photography, and zinemaking, they use art as a tool for community healing and resistance. As a core... Read More →

Ona W

Educator, writer, artist, and restorative justice practitioner, For The People Artists Collective

Ona Wang is an educator, writer, artist, and restorative justice practitioner. Their work explores the intersection between social identities, building solidarity between movements, and personal narratives. They are committed to addressing complex and community trauma through restorative... Read More →

darien r wendell

Transdisciplinary artist, curator, & educator, Chicago Black Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Collective (BTGNC), FTP, & For Youth Inquiry (FYI)

darien r wendell is a sensitive, black, gender expansive, queer being & punk living in Chicago, IL from many other places like Phoenix, AZ & Pontiac, MI. A transdisciplinary artist, curator, & educator, ey makes art and work creates space/time for refuge, repair, and release between... Read More →

Saturday June 16, 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry E

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

9:00am EDT

How Theatre Helps Us Share What We Know

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Making art is also making knowledge. When it comes to theatre that knowledge is often about what it means to have a certain body, identity, or social position. This session will help young people explore how they can use theatre and writing to assert their own ways of understanding the world and resisting oppression. Through theatre and writing exercises attendees will question what knowledge is, identify their own knowledge, and explore how they can share their viewpoints through media making.

Presenters

Elon Sloan

DePaul University

Elon Sloan is a Chicago based writer and educator, who is currently studying playwrighting and gender studies at DePaul University in Chicago. They work with DePaul LGBTQIA Resource Center, creating and facilitating programming and workshops which support DePaul's LGBTQIA students... Read More →

Sunday June 17, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry E

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)

10:00am EDT

Magick Slime: The Art of Potion Making

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Slime is many things - squishy, stretchy, sparkly but can it be MAGICK? We will explore the process of potion making including the power of intention, aromatherapy and color therapy. We will create multi-sensory slime that is uniquely infused with all sorts of healing, protective or superpowers. Participants will walk away with their very own Magick Slime and decorative container.

Presenters

Stephanie Mae Howells

Detroit Radical Childcare Collective / MIRA / Living Arts

Stephanie Mae is a teaching artist and organizer in the Detroit community work centers around art, healing and resistance, fueled by love and magick.

Sunday June 17, 2018 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry E

Hands-on Session

Track Let's Play! Kids Track
Audience Kids only (This session is geared toward people 13 and under)