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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.

We offer a sliding scale registration rate so that the conference can be accessible to as many people as possible. Please support the AMC by giving generously with your registration contribution. Register here.

Sam Cooper

Earthwork Music
Musician, Facilitator, Teacher
Kalamazoo, MI

coopersamantha.com

I'm a freelance musician, teacher, songwriter and expressive arts facilitator. I'm interested in contemplative studies, restorative circles, recovery culture, rites of passage work, ecological literacy, residencies, accountable white spirituality, non-binary thinking and being, celebrating and centering queerness, generative somatics, flow arts, and improvisation.

11:00am EDT

Sonic Rewrites STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CSam Cooper • Elisabeth Pixley-Fink

12:45pm EDT

Decolonize your Bod-tany with Queer Ecology STATE HALL: Room 116Moretta Browne • Edgar Flores

2:00pm EDT

Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody The Courage to Feel Sing Along! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry FRi

4:00pm EDT

Emergent Motion Jam: Improvisational Dance from the Margins STUDENT CENTER: Room 020the Redwoods Imagination as a Research Tool STATE HALL: Room 116Nina Bhattacharya • Payal Kumar

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

10:00pm EDT

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

11:00am EDT

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 Not in My House: Celebrating LGBTQ Identity through Performance STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Kristi Faulkner • Dwayne Cole Jr. • AJ Sims • Brandi Smith Healing Justice Lineages: A History Discussion STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAutumn Brown • Adela Nieves Martinez • Cara Page • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • Rico • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis Roundtable: Objectivity, Intimacy & Integrity MCGREGOR: Room BSarah Alvarez • Jade Begay • Tina Vasquez • Lewis Wallace • Ayana Young Transforming Trauma: Youth-Led Social Justice Movements STATE HALL: Room 106Hasna Ghalib • Alex Kime • Ebere Oparaeke • Laila Pasha • Molly Pershin Raynor Act Out to Tear Down: Disrupt with Theatre of the Oppressed MCGREGOR: Room JRaven Stubbs • Chahney Young

12:45pm EDT

Digging out the Roots of Trauma: Healing our Relationship to Land STATE HALL: Room 135Leo Orleans 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

"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 afrofuturepast: Dance Technology and Aesthetics as Self Care STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Bree Gant

4:00pm EDT

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Joyful Resistance: Art and Protest in Defense of the Hood MCGREGOR: Room JChiResists and Barrios Against Displacement

6:00pm EDT

Left Wing Futbol Game: Soccer For Justice WSU Field: Warren + TrumbullMartin Macias • Xili Our Radically Sober Futures STATE HALL: Room 118Sicily McRaven Talent Rising: A Gathering of Mission-Driven Media Makers OFFSITECandice Fortman • Sue Schardt • Tran Vu

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

10:00am EDT

Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo Food Stories Unwrapped: Decolonizing the White Gaze of Food Media STATE HALL: Room 113Serena Maria Daniels • Dorothy Hernandez • Sabiha Khan • Sarahlynn Pablo • Natalia Roxas An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown

11:45am EDT

Radical Grandparents! An Intergenerational Conversation STATE HALL: Room 116Aiko Fukuchi • Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones • Myrtle Thompson-Curtis

1:00pm EDT

Whose Story Is It? De-colonizing Documentary Practice STATE HALL: Room 106Bryan Bello • Sonya Childress • Maori Holmes • Nehad Khader • Michael Premo • Set Hernandez Rongkilyo

3:00pm EDT

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

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium