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Conference Schedule

Here you'll find when things start and end throughout the AMC weekend. We'll be adding workshops to the grids below as we schedule them. You can see the updated list of all of the sessions here. Or view the sessions by track or type.


THURSDAY

2:00pm - 6:00pm ... Youth Media Lab set up
6:00pm - 8:00pm ... DINNER BREAK
8:00pm – 11:00pm ... D-TENSION youth showcase presented by Detroit Summer

FRIDAY

8:00am ... Registration opens
9:00am - 12:15pm ... Youth Meet-Up I
9:00am - 12:15pm ... Extended Session Block 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 ... Youth Meet-Up 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

SATURDAY

8:00am ... Registration opens
9:00am - 12:20pm ... Extended Session Block 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 - 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 ... EMERGENCE presents the AMC Music Showcase

SUNDAY

10:00am - 11:30am ... Regular Session Block IX
11:50am - 1:20pm ... Regular Session Block X
1:40pm - 2:30pm ... Closing Event
3:00pm - 6:00pm ... Detroit Tours

 

Friday June 20th

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Negroes with Guns Film Screening Graphics for the Commons Be the Web: Using Web 2.0 Innovations to Organize and Connect Conversation between INCITE! and Speak This is Why I'm Hot: Youth Meet-up & Knowledge Exchange
10:45 - 12:15 Using What You Got to Create & Promote: Grassroots Video From Mashups to Intellectual Property Rights: Copyright from an Artist's Perspective Building Solidarity, Inciting Change through Digital Storytelling
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch / Caucuses Black/Arab Solidarity Caucus WOC With Disabilities Organizing and Building Community (Caucus)
2:00 - 3:30 Creating the Tools for an Immigrant Safety Net Manifesting Spirit Through the Arts Growing the Field As Youth Media Educators SPEAK: Media skills trainings for women and trans people of color Youth Media Lab Opens / Tour of Detroit for Youth
3:45 - 5:15 Grassroots Radio Production: Telling and to the Point Vision Is Our Power: Creating Safety in our Communities Without Police Youth Media: To What End?
5:30 - 7:30 Keynote: Regress, Plateau or Evolve
7:30 - 9:00 Dinner / Caucuses Youth Media Educators Caucus
9:00 - 12:00 Consumers Union presents the AMC Bowling Party

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Saturday June 21st

9:00 - 10:30 Strategic Framing and Messaging Media Monitoring for Disability Rights and Beyond More than News: Community Organizing Through Community Radio Social Justice and Zine-making Unbought & Unbossed Culture and Resistance from Brooklyn to Palestine Transporting Silenced Voices through Interviews for Film/Video
10:50 - 12:20 Social Networking to Online Security: The Web 2.0 Future The 5th Element: Party Promotion as an Organizing Tool The Art of Awesome Facilitation Using Google Maps for Youth Community Organizing Sex, Disability and Videotape
12:20 - 2:10 Lunch Cyber Quilting Caucus Radical Parenting Caucus Study Group Caucus
2:10 - 3:40 Doing Research Together Youth Social Justice Videos From the Factory Undoing "Crime": Media to De-criminalize and De-colonize If I Can't Dance at Your Revolution: B-Girls for the Movement SNAG Magazine: Native Culture, Genocide and Resistance in California From Independence to Interdependence: Building alternative economies for alternative media makers The Internet Part I: What It Is
4:00 - 5:30 The Future of Film and Video Online Slingshot Hip Hop Film Screening Street Art 101 Media Coverage and Grassroots Organizing: Jena Six and New Jersey Four from the Inside Recess: One Girl's Struggle between getting an Education and getting Schooled The Internet Part II: What It Can Be
5:30 - 8:00 Dinner / Caucuses INCITE! dinner meeting Midwest Indymedia Network Meetup
8:00 - 1:00 Emergence presents the AMC Music Showcase

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Sunday June 22nd

10:00 - 11:30 New Grassroots Video From New Orleans Video Conference With Youth in Palestine The Future of Censorship Zero Dollars: Setting Up a Media Publishing Nerve Center with Free and Open Source Media Tools Media Access For Prisoners People's Statistics Part II: Putting Participatory Research to Work!
11:50 - 1:20 History, Memory and Public Space:Taking Back the Plaque Plotting a Media-based Economy for Detroit's Future The Forces of Urban and Rural Unite! Mapping the Next 10 Years Showcase in the Youth Media Lab
1:40 - 2:30 Closing talk with Grace Lee Boggs
3:00 - 6:00 Detroit Tours

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