The Allied Media Conference Is Almost Here.
Hundreds of grassroots media makers and social justice organizers are on their way to Detroit. And hundreds more are getting ready to greet them, at the 10th Annual Allied Media Conference, June 20-22, held on the campus of Wayne State University.
"While there are many media conferences held throughout the year, none approach grassroots media-makers, policy organizers and media justice fellow-travelers with as much focus, intention and urgency as the Allied Media Conference." -- Siyade Gemechisa, 2007 AMC Participant
At the 2008 AMC you'll find over 60 hands-on workshops, film screenings and focused discussions such as:
- Using What You Got to Create & Promote: Grassroots Video Production
- The Future of Censorship
- Be the Web: Using Web 2.0 Innovations to Organize and Connect
- Slingshot Hip Hop (Sundance Film Festival 2008 Official Selection)
- Using Google Maps for Youth Community Organizing
- The Art of Awesome Facilitation
- Plotting a Media-based Economy for Detroit's Future
and so much more...
Over 15 youth organizations will come together to run the Youth Media Lab-- a hotbed of hands-on activity in the basement of the conference center-- throughout the whole weekend.
The AMC provides childcare, and for the first year, we will offer a "kids track" of media-based activities for kids in the childcare area.
For the second year, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence collaborates with the SPEAK Women of Color Media Justice collective and the AMC to produce a track of sessions aimed at using to media to end violence against women and trans people of color.
Popular education is woven into every aspect of the conference. But the Popular Education track is especially designed for educators looking to incorporate new media-based curricula into their teaching.
When it comes to media policy work, the AMC empowers media-makers at the grassroots to understand and shape the policies that directly affect them, rather than default to the experts. This year, Peoples Production House sponsors a policy track focused on The Future of the Internet.
By day, we get our hands dirty and our minds sharp. By night, we bowl and we party. From the bowling party and the shakespeare hip hop/rock show on Friday night to the Emergence music showcase on Saturday night--the AMC is all about the afterhours...
Come early and stay late! The local youth media organization, Detroit Summer will host a pre-AMC youth hip hop show called D-TENSION on Thursday June 19th, and post-AMC tours of the city on the afternoon of Sunday June 22.
Bring your whole crew. We can't wait to see you.
~AMC08 Organizers
