Ongoing Activities at the AMC
AMC2009 featured these ongoing activites:
- "Food Security" Art Exhibit
- Kid's Track / Childcare
- Exhibition Area
- Send Letters and Media to People in Prison
- Media Lab
- We Are Ready Now Radio! Broadcasting Live from the AMC
- Radio Electronics Workshop
- Super Computer Build: How to build computers from recycled parts and open source software
- Direct Action Consultation Sessions With the Ruckus Society
With works from 20 artists from around the country associated with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, "Food Security" explores the issue of what we eat with a diversity of media, tone, and message. Food Security runs from July 12 - July 25 at Cass Café (4620 Cass Ave.). Opening Reception: July 15, 8PM - 1AM. Performances by Blair and the Boyfriends, I, Crime, Noman, and General Population. More info.
The Kids' Track is a children-centered space at the Allied Media Conference which recognizes kids as media makers by providing them with the skills to create media work influenced by their own points of view. Many Kids' Track sessions are interwoven with sessions in other conference tracks, helping to create an intergenerational atmosphere at the AMC. Facilitators of the Kids' Track will provide childcare during non-session times, supporting the participation of parents in the Allied Media Conference. More info.
The AMC features an exhibition area showcasing an exciting collection of book and zine distributors; non-profit and activist organizations; technology presentations; sellers of art, film, music and handmade crafts; and acupuncture!
This letter-writing/media-making station will be set-up in the exhibition area. Drop by to write letters or create a page (or pages) of a print zine that will be mass-produced and sent to people in prison. We will ask prisoners who receive the letters and zines to send us a response, which will be made available during next year’s Allied Media Conference. This station is connected to the session Using Media to Connect People Inside and Out.
The Media Lab is a hotbed of hands-on skill-sharing from beat-making to transmitter-building. It stays open all weekend-long in the basement of the conference center. In the lab, you’ll find collaboration stations for beat-making and audio recording, a live radio broadcast and radio build, an alternative energy experimentation station, silk screening, and DIY animation.
Prometheus Radio Project in collaboration with People’s Production House will be organizing a live radio broadcast at the Allied Media Conference. This broadcast, We Are Ready Now Radio, will be transmitted throughout the conference area and also be webstreamed and archived online so listeners around the world can hear what’s going down at the AMC. Folks are also encouraged to drop by the "We Are Ready Now" radio station with digital media that they have produced that they would like aired during the conference.
The Prometheus Radio Project (PRP) is bringing its hands-on electronics workshop back to the Media Lab. At the past two AMCs, PRP has worked with Detroit Summer and Centro Obrero de Detroit to teach soldering, basic electronics and radio skills. This year, PRP is partnering with the Hush House, a home, community center and movement museum based in Detroit's Northwest Goldberg neighborhood. To learn some radio electronics skills, as well as how to fight to expand legal, low power FM radio, join this hands-on radio technology and transmission learning experience. All are invited!
Super Computer building participants will get their hands dirty salvaging and and rebuilding PC computers, installing free and open source software, and learning how to use and train others on the Linux operating system. The computers we build will go towards building an Open Source Linux computer lab in AMP's Detroit Community Media Center, to open in the Fall of 2009.
Is your community ready to take action and wanting some support to think about creative, strategic next steps? Get a consultation with The Ruckus Society Action Think Tank! Email Adrienne Maree Brown by Wednesday July 15th to schedule a one-on-one consultation session during the weekend of the AMC: adriennemaree@tmail.com
