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WEDNESDAY - July 15, 2009

8:00pm - 12:00am ... AMC Art Show and Music Showcase with I, Crime, Noman, Blair & The Boyfriends and more TBA @ The Cass Cafe

THURSDAY - July 16, 2009

8:00am - Evening ... The Women's Media Equity Collaborative Summit
2:00pm - 6:00pm ... AMC Media Lab set up
7:00pm - 11:00pm ... DINNER & DTENSION hosted by Emergence Media and the Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project with Invincible, Rebel Diaz and more (Food and drinks will be available for purchase) @ The Furniture Factory

FRIDAY - July 17, 2009

8:00am ... Registration opens
9:00am - 12:15pm ... Extended Session Block I
9:00am - 12:15pm ... Detroit Tour I
9:00am - 10:30am ... Regular Session Block I
10:45am - 12:15pm ... Regular Session Block II
12:15pm - 2:00pm ... LUNCH BREAK / Caucuses
2:00pm - 5:15pm ... Extended Session Block II
2:00pm - 5:15pm ... Detroit Tour II
2:00pm - 3:30pm ... Regular Session Block III
3:45pm - 5:15pm ... Regular Session Block IV
5:30pm - 7:30pm ... Keynote / Opening Ceremony
7:30pm - 9:00pm ... DINNER BREAK / Caucuses
9:00pm - 1:00am ... Consumers Union presents the AMC Bowling Party @ The Garden Bowl in the Majestic Theater Complex

SATURDAY - July 18, 2009

8:00am ... Registration opens
9:00am - 12:20pm ... Extended Session Block III
9:00am - 12:20pm ... Detroit Tour III
9:00am - 10:30am ... Regular Session Block V
10:50am - 12:20pm ... Regular Session Block VI
12:20pm - 2:10pm ... LUNCH / Caucuses
2:10pm - 5:30pm ... Extended Session Block IV
2:10pm - 5:30pm ... Detroit Tour IV
2:10pm - 3:40pm ... Regular Session Block VII
4:00pm - 5:30pm ... Regular Session Block VIII
5:30pm - 8:00pm ... DINNER BREAK / Caucuses
8:00pm - 1:00am ... 5E Gallery and Leftist Lounge present A Funk Party with Monica Blaire, Djs Sicari, Frank Raines and Radio Rios @ The Furniture Factory

SUNDAY - July 19, 2009

10:00am - 11:30am ... Regular Session Block IX
11:50am - 1:20pm ... Regular Session Block X
1:40pm - 2:30pm ... Closing Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm ... 94th Birthday Party for Grace Lee Boggs @ Central United Methodist Church

 


Friday July 17th

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Film: Our School Mobile Voices 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 Keynote
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 Finding and Using Data for 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 Re-imagining Blackness in a Post-race World 1:00pm Mini-session: File-sharing for Collaborative Media Projects 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 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 Event