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Conference Schedule


See below the schedule overview and the schedule grid from the last AMC. The 11th AMC was held July 16-19, 2009 in Detroit. View a pdf of the 11th AMC program booklet.

The next AMC will be held June 18-20, 2010 in Detroit.


AMC2009 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

WEDNESDAY - July 15, 2009

8:00pm - 12:00am ... "Food Security" Opening Reception w/ I, Crime, Noman, Blair & The Boyfriends and General Population [Cass Café]

THURSDAY - July 16, 2009

7:45am - 8:00pm ... The Women's Media Equity Collaborative Summit [McGregor]
2:00pm - 6:00pm ... AMC Media Lab set-up [McGregor]
6:00pm - 12:00am ... D-TENSION: Special Edition - Kick-off party for 11th AMC (Dinner @ 6:00, Show starts @ 7:00) [Furniture Factory]

FRIDAY - July 17, 2009

8:00am ... Registration opens [McGregor]
9:00am - 12:15pm ... Detroit Tour I [depart from north side of McGregor]
9:00am - 10:30am ... Session Block I [see schedule grid]
10:45am - 12:15pm ... Session Block II [see schedule grid]
12:15pm - 2:00pm ... LUNCH BREAK / Caucuses [places to eat]
2:00pm - 5:15pm ... Detroit Tour II [depart from north side of McGregor]
2:00pm - 3:30pm ... Session Block III [see schedule grid]
3:45pm - 5:15pm ... Session Block IV [see schedule grid]
5:30pm - 7:30pm ... Opening Keynote: "Media and Creativity to Transform Our Selves and Our World" [Community Arts Auditorium]
7:30pm - 9:00pm ... DINNER BREAK / Caucuses [places to eat]
8:00pm - 1:00am ... AMC Bowling Party [Garden Bowl in the Majestic Theater Complex]

SATURDAY - July 18, 2009

8:00am ... Registration opens [McGregor]
9:00am - 12:20pm ... Detroit Tour III [depart from north side of McGregor]
9:00am - 10:30am ... Session Block V [see schedule grid]
10:50am - 12:20pm ... Session Block VI [see schedule grid]
12:20pm - 2:10pm ... LUNCH / Caucuses [places to eat]
2:10pm - 5:30pm ... Detroit Tour IV [depart from north side of McGregor]]
2:10pm - 3:40pm ... Session Block VII [see schedule grid]
4:00pm - 5:30pm ... Session Block VIII [see schedule grid]
5:30pm - 8:00pm ... DINNER BREAK / Caucuses [places to eat]
8:00pm - 2:00am Allied Funk Party - Official after-party for 11th AMC [Furniture Factory]

SUNDAY - July 19, 2009

10:00am - 11:30am ... Session Block IX [see schedule grid]
11:50am - 1:20pm ... Session Block X [see schedule grid]
1:40pm - 2:30pm ... Closing Keynote: "We Are Ready Now" [Community Arts Auditorium
7:00pm - 9:00pm ... 94th Birthday Party for Grace Lee Boggs [Central United Methodist Church]
10:00pm - 2:00am ... AMC After-After Party [Motor City Brewing Company]


AMC2009 SCHEDULE GRID

Friday July 17th

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Film: Our School Mobile Voices: Cell-phone based community journalism The Lobby Game: Kicking ass in the halls of power Politicizing Pop Culture by Youth for Youth Introduction to Supercomputer Building Shawty Got Skillshare: A hands-on skillshare for women, girls and genderqueer people of color
10:45 - 12:15 Film: Un Pequito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth) Organizing Through Community Studios and Performance Spaces De-bug the System: Youth media for decriminalization in the courtroom and on the streets How To Run Audio for Live Shows DIY Animation
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch / Caucuses: Strengthen Women’s Media & U Strengthen the Women’s Movement WOC With Disabilities Organizing and Building Community Literary Piracy in the Age of Free Information with the National Writers Union
2:00 - 3:30 Film - In Our Own Image: Sex worker media and the story of Spread Magazine Building Strong Selves/Families/Community(ies) thru Subversive Media Using Google Maps to Visualize the Network of Youth Organizations at the AMC Infrastructure for Movement-building: The role of community media centers in networking local movements Incorporating Computers and Technology into Education: The Classroom and Beyond Tour: Beyond The Creative Class to Creative Communities: A look at Detroit's growing media-based economy with lessons from San Antonio's Local 782
3:45 - 5:15 Media Justice: What's Next? Our Pride, Your Pity – Digital Stories as Transformative Media Strategy Session Between INCITE! Speak Women of Color Media Collective and Cyberquilting We made awesome videos, now what?: developing a youth-led curriculum for building safe schools and communities AMC-FM: Using Radio to Document the Allied Media Conference 2009
5:30 - 7:30 Opening Keynote: Media and Creativity to Transform Our Selves and Our World
7:30 - 9:00 Dinner / Caucuses: TBA
9:00 - 12:00 Consumers Union presents the AMC Bowling Party

Saturday July 18th

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Speaking for Ourselves: Transgender Identity in Independent Media Community Supported Media: What Media Makers Can Learn From Community Food Distribution Systems Good Writing: Practical tools for writers, bloggers and citizen reporters navigating the line between activism and journalism Disability Beauty: A Skit and Discussion with The Empowered Fe Fes White Spaces What? How to Talk About Media Policy From the Ground Up Beatmaking and Recording Graphics for the Commons II From Palestine to Turtle Island: Making Media for Decolonization Tour: Another Detroit is Happening - a look at Detroit's industrial past and visionary future
10:50 - 12:20 How Can Detroiters Be Leaders in the Emerging Film Industry? Testimonios: Storytelling as Organizing Soundtrack for Movement-building Introduction to Investigative Reporting The Magic of Popular Education and Strategies for Using it in Unmagical Education Settings Social Media: What it is and how to use it for organizing Hands-on Print-making Workshop with the Beehive Collective
12:20 - 2:10 Lunch/ Caucuses: Planning for a Spanish-language track @ AMC 2010 Re-imagining Blackness in a Post-race World Mini-session: File-sharing for Collaborative Media Projects 1:00pm (Media Lab) Mama's Quilt : Mamis of Color Caucus Print Caucus
2:10 - 3:40 The National Broadband Strategy and You Viral Media and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement Today If I can’t laugh, it’s not my revolution!: The Art of Comedy as Subversive Tool in Performance Art Making the Most of Your Internet Video Experience Rhyming workshop between MCs in Detroit and Johannesburg, South Africa The Culture of Video Remix: Tools and approaches for the media educator Mini-sessions: 45 min Web-searching techniques for activist media-makers / 45 min Learn how to build a website using Drupal The Zapatista's Other Campaign Breaking Down Borders: Live Cross-Border Press Conference with Mexico Tour: Graffiti Art and Murals of Southwest Detroit
4:00 - 5:30 Media through Movement :How to map our stories through our bodies and words A Healthy Digital Ecology: Creating a Community Vision for Federal Funding Youth Airwaves, Youth Action: Connecting youth-led radio with community organizing Using Stories to End Violence Everyday What is the Purpose of Education? Once Upon A Town: An interactive theater performance/workshop with EastSide Arts Alliance Mini-sessions: 45 min Alternative Energy for Alternative Media-makers / 45 min Maximum wattage: How to build and install your radio antenna
5:30 - 8:00 Dinner / Caucuses: Youth Track Meet-up Sex Workers Hustle Harder Documentary Photographers Caucus Alternative Economies of Care
8:00 - 1:00 Leftist Lounge and 5E Gallery Present: A Funk Party w/ Monica Blaire, Dj Sicari, Frank Raines, Radio Rios and more

Sunday July 19th

9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 11:30 Live Video Conference: A step in the organizing of the Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine Using Media to Connect People Inside and Out Cyberquilting: Women of Color Stitching Together a New Media Movement Raising Resources: A strategy session for supporting media justice How to self-publish and distribute your writing More with Less Facilitating for Truth and Reconciliation
11:50 - 1:20 Film: The Yes Men Fix The World Strategies for Intergenerational Movement Building We are the journalists we have been waiting for – finding new audiences in corporate media's decline How 2 Broke Queer Brown Femmes Organized a Radical Performance Tour and How You Can Too How We Used the DTV Transition to Expand the Fight for Media Justice, and What Comes Next Research your way to a Youth lead social justice Campaign The Media That Matters Film Festival (selections)
1:40 - 2:30 Closing Keynote: We Are Ready Now