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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Raven Crane

Deep Cuts
Collective Member

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Raven Crane is a black, queer, organizer, educator and artist. Raven's work focuses on curation and representation of folx who are harmed the most by capitalist- white- cis- hetero- patriarchy. They are the founder of the Coffy Film Collective: A Womxn of Color Film Collective, an organizing member of Deep Cuts, as well as board member for Patois: The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. Raven's day job involves fighting against housing discrimination.

10:00am

Bodies in Resistance Network Gathering (open) MCGREGOR: Room B Facilitation for Liberation Network Gathering (invite only) STUDENT CENTER: Room 285 Immigrant Food Stories Network Gathering (at capacity) The Baltimore Gallery Interlocking Roots for Food Justice Network Gathering (at capacity) CASS COMMONS: Memorial Hall Healing Justice Resource Space STUDENT CENTER: Room 010Violeta Donawa • Chiara Galimberti • Adela Nieves

2:00pm

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

5:30pm

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

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.

10:00pm

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

11:00am

Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Communities of Practice: Creating Community Accountable Research STATE HALL: Room 116Qui Dorian Alexander • Diana Chandara • A.K. O’Loughlin • Noah NuhuBabuKubwa Isaiah Sims Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJamon Jordan From Growing Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman

12:45pm

Decolonize your Bod-tany with Queer Ecology STATE HALL: Room 116Moretta Browne • Edgar Flores Digital Data Detox STATE HALL: Room 118Karolle Rabarison Wakanda Foreva, eva? Black Folks at AMC! STATE HALL: Room 113Moya Bailey • Nandi • Tawana Petty

2:00pm

BYP100 Presents The Black Joy Experience STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CJonathan Lykes • JeNae Taylor Reflections in BlaQ: Performing Black Queer Archives MCGREGOR: Room BKiyan Williams Data-Driven Research for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 115Chelsea Barabas • Sharlyn Grace • Rodrigo Ochigame • Hannah Sassaman Archiving Movement Media STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BHelyx Chase Scearce Horwitz

4:00pm

Audacity Awesome: The Basics of Editing Audio STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DKrusheska M. Quirós DIY video making STATE HALL: Room 114Makhno's Ghost • Djab Maroon • Tierra Morena 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 I’ma Read, I’ma Read, I’ma Read: Collecting a Hip Hop Archive STATE HALL: Room 117Shanna Collins • darien r wendell

6:00pm

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

7:30pm

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

8:00pm

GET TO WERK The Marble BarTT the Artist • Stacye J and the Anthology of Booty • Miz Korona

12:45pm

Black Filmmaker Link Up STATE HALL: Room 118Golden Collier Imagine! Create! Liberate! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EAna Amaya • Tekiyah Arrington • Steph Campoverde

2:00pm

Trans is Magick: Building Trans Community Through Celebration STATE HALL: Room 135Jimena Lucero • Mikaela Xochitl

3:00pm

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

4:00pm

When It All Changed: A Transformative Media Experience MCGREGOR: Room CJohn Sloan III • Sultan Sharrief Fight Your Racist Camera STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DPatri Gonzalez-Ramirez • Jesus Villalba Sailing for Social justice STATE HALL: Room 115Tala Khanmalek • Audrey Kuo The Big Idea: Taking Film Ideas from Impulse to Action MCGREGOR: Room BAndrea Claire Morningstar • Jasmine Rivera Mapping the Power with LittleSis STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Munira Lokhandwala

6:00pm

Dear Black Women: The Power of Black Women Affirming Themselves STATE HALL: Room 127Florence Noel QTPOC Southerners Growing Food, Flowers, and Other STATE HALL: Room 131ACG • Alicia Bell • Brianna Daniels

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

10:00pm

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

10:00am

Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo Lucha Libre & Afromexican Consciousness STATE HALL: Room 117Lauren Williams Black Trans Narratives STATE HALL: Room 114Sasha Alexander • Mikalya C. • Bre Campell • Maddox Guerilla • Ahya Nicole Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony + KirbyJamon Jordan

11:45am

Black, Queer, and Trans Filmmaking Network STATE HALL: Room 131Courtney Sebring • Joie Lou Shakur • Maya Washington

1:00pm

Mariposas & Unicorns: Narratives Defying Borders and Binaries STATE HALL: Room 118Giselle Ariel Bleuz • Citlali Ortiz