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Conference Schedule

AMC2010 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

SEE ALSO: workshop tracks | sessions
 

THURSDAY - June 17, 2010

2:00pm - 5:00pm ... Registration Opens / AMC Media Lab set-up [McGregor]
7:00pm - 11:00pm ... Joe Namy solo exhibit [Re:View Gallery - event details]
 

FRIDAY - June 18, 2010

8:00am ... Registration opens [McGregor]
9:00am - 10:30am ... Session Block 1
10:45am - 12:15pm ... Session Block 2
12:15pm - 2:00pm ... LUNCH BREAK / Caucuses [places to eat]
2:00pm - 3:30pm ... Session Block 3
3:45pm - 5:15pm ... Session Block 4
5:30pm - 7:30pm ... Opening Ceremony [Community Arts Auditorium]
7:30pm - 9:00pm ... DINNER BREAK / Caucuses [places to eat]
8:00pm - 1:00am ... AMC2010 Bowling Extravaganza [Majestic Theater Complex]
 

SATURDAY - June 19, 2010

8:00am ... Registration opens [McGregor]
9:00am - 10:30am ... Session Block 5
10:50am - 12:20pm ... Session Block 6
12:20pm - 2:10pm ... LUNCH / Caucuses [places to eat]
2:10pm - 3:40pm ... Session Block 7
4:00pm - 5:30pm ... Session Block 8
5:30pm - 8:00pm ... DINNER BREAK / Caucuses [places to eat]
8:00pm - 2:00am  AMC2010 Music Showcase [Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - event details]

 

SUNDAY - June 20, 2010

10:00am - 11:30am ... Session Block 9
11:50am - 1:20pm ... Session Block 10
1:40pm - 2:30pm ... Closing Ceremony [Community Arts Auditorium]

 

June 21 - June 26 , 2010:  AMC - U.S. Social Forum "Bridge" Activities

 

 

SCHEDULE GRID

PLEASE NOTE: SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE 

Friday June 18th

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
  E B C F/G
 I J L M 154 158  TOUR  
9:00 - 10:30 Let's Draw! With the Beehive [KD] Intro to Investigative Reporting Media Strategies to Expand Access for Disabled People [DJ] Repensando la Comunicacíon [ME] The Prison Poster Project [PR] [AR] Your Phone is Your Microphone [RA]   Media Tools for LGBTQ Youth Organizing (Part 1) [QT] [YO] Street Art Bumps Your Campaign [AR]

 
10:45 - 12:15 Kids Club Meet-up / Seed Bombing [KD] Collaborative Editing with Make/Shift Radio Against Rural Poverty and Prison Expansion [PR] [RA] The Power of Storytelling [SF]   La Creación de Contendios para la Radio Comunitaria [ME] Super Computer Build [TC] Media Tools for LGBTQ Youth Organizing (Part 2) [QT] [YO] How to Make Radical Comics and Why [AR]  
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch: See "Places to Eat"
Caucus: INCITE! Gender Justice (Cass Cafe 4620 Cass Ave)
Caucus: Media Justice and PEG Access (Cass Cafe 4620 Cass Ave)
2:00 - 3:30 Arabic Drumming [KD] A Know Your Rights Video by and for Queer Youth of Color [QT] HOT MESH! Wireless Mesh Network Build [TC] This Is How We Do It: An Introduction to Disability Justice [DJ] Phone Access for Prisoners, Detainees, and Calling Card Users [PL] [PR] Land of the Free: Performing the World We Want to See Create a Gender Inclusive Online Game [TC]

Soporte Técnico para Radios Comunitarias [ME] [RA]

 

Building an Intergenerational Filmmaking Community

 Collaborative Mural Design: Part 1 [AR] [YO]

TOUR: Eco-Media in Motion: Messages from Detroit [EJ] [YO]

Departs: McGregor North Entrance
3:45 - 5:15 Online Game Design For Kids [KD] Performance, Disability & the Revolutionary Body [DJ] Culture Jamming & Action Planning For BDS Turn  Research into Animated Computer Games and More! [IC]  [SF] [QT] [YO] Explorations in music composition Cultural Production & Popular Education [ED] [AR] Open Source Internet Radio with Flujos-Vivos [ME] [RA]

Broadcasting: from old-fashioned radio to high-tech streaming [RA]

 

What's Your Internet Story: Learning Lab [PL]

 

 Collaborative Mural Design: Part 2 [AR] [YO]
5:30 - 7:30 AMC 2010 Opening Ceremony (Community Arts Auditorium)
7:30 - 9:00 Dinner: See "Places to Eat"
Caucus: Youth can Create Media Systems as well as Media Content! (Traffic Jam 511 W. Canfield)
9:00 - 12:00 Consumers Union presents the AMC Bowling Party (The Garden Bowl) and show featuring: Tamar-Kali; I, Crime and Defiance, OH (Majestic Cafe)

Saturday June 19th

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast & Homorobics (Community Arts Outer Gallery)
  B C F/G
 I J L M 156 157 158 1515 1545 COM ART TOUR  
9:00 - 10:30 Media Tools for Creating Safe Communities: A Science Fair [SF] [YO] Steppin Up Student Voice to Take Back Our Schools! [ED] [YO]

Medios Caminantes: Foro de Intercambio (1) [ME]

 Communication Strategies and Movement-building [PR] Indigenous Media and Technology Track Talking Circle [IG] Cut & Copy: Create a 1-minute radio story (Part 1) [RA] [YO] Build a Mini Radio Transmitter [RA] Silkscreen Printing for Everyone [AR] [KD] How Participatory Technology can Empower Everyone [TC]   Electronic Books: Creating your Own and Preparing for a Paperless Society Social media to support the global BDS movement OPEN LENS Youth Eco-Media Jam [EJ] [YO]

TOUR - Guerilla Publishing and Media-based Economics for Ex-Offenders [PR]

Departs: McGregor North Entrance
10:50 - 12:20 Our Hearts are Bigger than their Maps [ED] [YO]

 

How to create a multimedia, renewable energy demonstration vehicle [EJ] [YO]

 Medios Caminantes: Foro de Intercambio (2) [ME] Social Media for Social Justice 101 Indigenous media-organizing to address climate change [IG] [EJ] Cut & Copy: Create a 1-minute radio story (Part 2) [RA] [YO] End to End Media Production with Open Source Software [TC] Mud Stencils for Tactical Media Campaigns [AR] Collective Narrative Campaigns to End the Prison Industrial Complex [PR]

 

Cultural Organizing for Land Rights and Public Space 


 Rights, Access, Power: Broadband for the People [PL] Media Strategies for Surviving Poverty-related Violence [SF] Embodying Resistance Dance Workshop [IC]
12:20 - 2:10 Lunch: See "Places to Eat"
Caucuses:
2:10 - 3:40 Usando  teléfonos celulares para crear nuestros propios medios  [ME] [TC] Hurricane Season: Unearthing Solutions in an Era of Unnatural Disaster [EJ] M/others, Mamaz and Community Care-givers Unite Through Truth-telling! (Part 1) [IC] Cooperative Economics, Popular Education and Cultural Interdependence [ED] [YO] Traditional Techniques for Community Dialogue [IG] The Build Your Own Open Source Website  Part 1: Wordpress [TC] Intro to Electronics and Noise Music [TC] Puppetry as Media for Social Change  Part 1 Collaborative Mapping as Community Media Part 1 [TC] Online Tools For Youth Organizing Against Violence [SF] [YO] How Community Media and Community Businesses Can Work Together Radio as a tool to Transform, Organize and Build Community [RA] The Next Generation of a Queer/Trans Youth Narrative [QT] [YO]

TOUR: Grafitti Art and Murals of Detroit

Departs: McGregor North Entrance
4:00 - 5:30 Digital Justice Coalition Meet-up [PL] Let’s Talk About Sex: Disability Perspective [DJ] [YO] M/others, Mamaz and Community Care-givers Unite Through Truth-telling! (Part 2) [IC] Colonial Images in Burlesque [IC] Indigenous Media  Organizing to End Occupation [IG] [ED] Build-Your Own Open Source Website  Part 2: Drupal [TC] Music Production and Beatmaking [YO]

Puppetry as Media for Social Change  Part 2

 Collaborative Mapping as Community Media Part 2 [TC] Octavia Butler Symposium Turning Prison Writings into Performance and Organizing Tools [PR] Media for Queer organizing in the American South [QT] FILM: Red Dust
5:30 - 8:00 5:30 - 7:00 Spoken Word Caucus (McGregor Room I)
5:30 - 7:00 STOP Partner Meet-up (McGregor Room C)
Dinner: See "Places to Eat"
8:00 - 1:00 AMC 2010 Music Showcase (MOCAD) with Mark Flash (Underground Resistance), Miz Korona, jessica Care moore, DJ Rimarkable VS. Durandy, Stereoluxxx, & more

Sunday June 20th

9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
  E B C F/G I J L M 157 COM ART  
10:00 - 11:30 Comics: How to make 'em [KD] Redefining media and scholarship from our lived experiences [ED] Tools, Technology, and Tips for Protest Coverage [TC] Creating a Music-based Economy for Detroit's Future Safe in Our Skin: A Paradigm Shift [SF] Online and Offline Organizing for Healing Justice [IC] Media Mad Libs [ED] [YO] Open Internet Meet-up / Gaming Meet-up [TC] Youth Speak Out on Avatar [EJ] [YO] Live Video Conference with Palestine [IG] [ED]

TOUR: Another Detroit is Happening

Departs: McGregor North Entrance
11:50 - 1:20 Let's Make an AMC KIDS Zine [KD] FILM: Feminine Monologues of Disability Justice [DJ] Public Art and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland Going from Community Vision to a Broadband Plan [PL]  Community Accountability In Real Life [SF] Performance Arts for Self Determination [IG] Online Organizing Against the Prison Industrial Complex [PR] Music Production and Beatmaking Meet-up Media Interventions in the Future of Our Cities Performing New Feminisms [IC]
1:40 - 2:30 AMC 2010 Closing Ceremony (Community Arts Auditorium)
3:00 - 5:00 Caucuses: