AMC 2008

The 10th AMC is going to be huge. Help us make it huge-er. Contact us and tell us to send you some of our brand new postcards for you to distribute around your town.

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New Yorkers heading to the AMC: Come together this Friday, May 16, 7pm - 10pm at the Brecht Forum.

Grace Lee Boggs described the last year's Allied Media Conference as a movement milestone. The 10th AMC promises to be even more momentous. While maintaining a focus on media and communications, the AMC has transcended media activism to become a key gathering for many different networks and movements.

New Yorkers have been key to the AMC's growth and we will be playing an important role at this year's conference. For the first time, many of us are traveling together on a chartered bus. This gathering on Friday at the Brecht Forum is a chance for us to come together. What shared values have made us all choose to go to this event in Detroit? What do we bring as New Yorkers to this national event? This is also a chance to ask important logistical questions.

This will be an informal event. Refreshments will be served. The event is free. Committed AMC attendees are encouraged to attend, but people who have not decided to attend the AMC but want to learn more are welcome. Please spread this invitation.

The 10th annual Allied Media Conference

Thursday June 19th-- The Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project will host a special pre-AMC version of their bimonthly all-ages hip hop show, D-TENSION. This D-TENSION will be a national youth media showcase, featuring some of the freshest talent from Detroit, Cincinnati, Oakland, Minneapolis and MUCH MORE. If you can, you should definitely make it to Detroit in time for this show.

Sunday June 22nd-- Detroit is so much more than the campus of Wayne State University! Last year in the post-AMC survey, many of you said you wished you could have seen more of Detroit. This is your chance. On Sunday afternoon, immediately following the conference, a crew of Detroiters will be offering guided tours of Detroit. These tours will take place in small groups (a carload or two) and will each focus on a particular aspect of the city. From the city's vast urban agriculture movement, to it's history of labor, Black power and environmental justice movements, to the Motown Museum, the Diego Rivera Mural in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and much more-- you will be able to sign up for a tour with a specific focus.

SPEAK Women of Color Media Collective and members of the Radical Women of Color blog ring have kicked off a fundraising campaign to cover their travel expenses to Detroit. You can donate by clicking the links below, following the instructions and clicking the paypal donate button.

Every donation makes a difference, and your support is greatly appreciated.

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A Womyn's Ecdysis.
Having Read the Fine Print.

THE LAST DAY TO RESERVE HOUSING IN THE DORMS is Friday, May 30th.

Also, the INFO section of the AMC website has undergone a massive overhaul. This is your portal to everything you need to know about transportation, food, and housing at the AMC, and much more.

KIDS TRACK

Kids are welcome at the AMC! We believe it is important to introduce media techniques to children and engage them as media makers who have an important voice and point of view. Throughout the weekend there will be a mini Kid's Track of sessions happening in the childcare area, focused on how children can use several different forms of creative media as a form of protest, action and self-expression. Sessions include 'Letter Writing as Activism for Kids and Young People' and 'Kids Making Zines.' We are still accepting session proposals for the Kid's Track! If you want more information or to submit a proposal please email nadia (AT) alliedmediaconference.org.

And if you think it's awesome that kids are welcome at the AMC, please be sure to check "I want to donate $3 for childcare" when you Register.

WE ARE SO EXCITED to announce the keynote for the 10th annual Allied Media Conference:

Regress, Plateau or Evolve-- a multi-dimensional look at the future and our media's role in shaping in.

AND the line-up for the Saturday night (6/21)  Emergence Music Event-- an unrelentingly dope night of media-music to mobilize the movement.

Click on the links above to get all the details.

Click here for descriptions of 18 workshops, panels and film-screenings that will give you a glimpse of how sweet the AMC will be this year. 

This is only about 30% of the conference content so look out for a lot more sweetness in the coming days. 

The conference this year features several tracks-- think less “railroad tracks” that would route your interest in a particular direction and more “animal tracks” that end up criss-crossing each other repeatedly as they travel in unexpected patterns… 

The tracks at this year’s AMC are: the INCITE! Women and Trans People of Color Media Track, the How-to Track, the Media Policy Track, the Popular Education Track and the Youth Media Track.

Like radio waves emanating from the epicenter, the AMF kicks-off this weekend in two cities that are close to the AMC heart: Ann Arbor, MI and Bowling Green, OH (both on April 11th). Then it's a straight shot down I-75 to Gainsville, FL (on April 12th).

It's NOT TOO LATE to get in on the action! Host a benefit event in your town to help youth, and other people from your community who need it, make it to Detroit this summer (click "Read More" below for details).

Ann Arbor

Hosted by The B Side and Josh Redd Sanchez.
April 11th @ The Neutral Zone (Ann Arbor's Teen Center) 310 E. Washington. All-ages. $5 student / $7 general admission. 7:00pm - 11:00pm.
Featuring: 1 2 3, Boxcars, Actual Birds, Incisor, F.A.S., Power Duo (From the Macpodz), Texas Prison Rodeo, Night Bringer and Canada

Bowling Green

Hosted by Electronic Enlightenment.
April 11th @ The Beat, 109 S. Main St. All-ages, 21 + to drink, $5 admission. 8:00pm - 2:00am.
Featuring: All-female electronic music from across the Midwest... Lady Bandit, tiKa, DJ Ororo, Damselfly and Raskalz

Gainsville

Hosted by Denise Aguero.
April 12th @ The Kickstand. All ages. $5. 10:00pm.
Featuring: Scum of the Earth, Mercy and more TBA

And in the coming months, look-out for:

Durham, NC

April-- A house party hosted by Southerners on New Ground
May-- A concert featuring local Durham soul artists
May-- A teen party featuring the DJs of Youth Noise Network and Spirithouse
June--True School Prom hosted by 9th Wonder

NYC

Hosted by Peoples Production House.
May 16th @ The Brecht Forum
Featuring the youth MCs and Djs of Hook Productions, plus more TBA

Detroit

Hosted by Allied Media Projects.
May 23rd @ The Bohemian National Home

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Presents
a Women of Color / Trans Folks of Color Track
at the 2008 Allied Media Conference: June 20 - 22 | Detroit, MI

As women and trans people of color making media that directly mingles our personal lives with the political issues we speak on, we face daily racialized, sexualized intimidation, but facing it in isolation from each other is more dangerous. We believe as Audre Lorde did that "it is better to speak, knowing we were never meant to survive." The community of support we create through the INCITE! Track at the Allied Media Conference is vital to our survival as women and trans people of color making media and organizing to end violence within our communities. Equally vital, is the exchange of brilliant ideas, which takes place when we come together. We are all pushing the boundaries of what media is capable of and sharing the lessons of that experience with each other. Please join us in Detroit this June.

Hello. Here's some info you need to know about...

1. AMC Sponsorships!
2. Session Proposals!
3. Registration!
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1. AMC Sponsorships

Thank you to our sponsors. Without them, we would have to go asking Comcast and AT&T for sponsorships. (JUST KIDDING!)

But seriously, sponsorship is our most important source of funding after conference registrations. Nearly all money from sponsorships and over a third of the entire conference budget goes towards expanding participation in the AMC.