AMP Seeds

AMP Seeds produces events that bring together visionary minds from across the AMP network for dialogue, resource-sharing, and reflection. These events offer a space to strengthen existing connections and forge new relationships that sustain our collective healing and learning while building the world we need.

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  • Waging Love: Building an Environmentally Just Detroit

    September 14 7:00PM EST

    This community panel will bring together an intergenerational coalition of organizers from Detroit’s environmental & climate justice dedicated to amplifying the solutions we need to ensure safety and equity for all. 

  • Community Nourishment: “Gather” Film Screening

    August 3 7:00PM EST

    Join us for a special screening of Gather, a 2020 film that captures the growing and vast food sovereignty movement of Native Americans across Turtle Island building community, restoring ancestral foodways, and reclaiming Native food and agriculture systems.

  • Hood Work: Neighborhood as Resistance

    July 13 7:00PM EST

    Hear from Asia Hamilton of Norwest Gallery, Bryce Detroit of New Center, and Tyree Guyton of the Heidelberg Project as they discuss how they’re proudly creating from the hoods of our city while resisting gentrification and erasure with creativity, innovation, and community care.

  • My Body, My Movement

    June 28 7:00PM EST

    The power of dance has long sustained social justice organizing as a technology of resistance that brings communities together for collective expression, joy, and healing. Join us for a night of performance, workshops, and a discussion that explores the liberating force of collective movement across abilities, ages, and styles.

  • Sound and Resistance

    October 27 7:00PM EST

    When Esperanza Spalding asks, “what is the frequency of healing?,” when Nina Simone proclaimed, “You are Young, Gifted and Black,” and when Marvin Gaye reckons with “What’s Going On” – this music influences how we think and feel about justice, and calls for us to hold on to dignity & grace in a world on fire and the love we need to survive. Join is for an evening of musical performances whose sound draws from the sparks of movements.

  • Community-Rooted Development

    October 13 7:00PM EST

    Join us for a rich conversation with Detroit leaders to discuss the complexities of investment and ownership that decentralizes capitalist gains and encourages relationships with a community's history, culture, and legacy.

  • Bodily Autonomy and Care

    September 29 7:00PM EST

    Beyond access to contraception and abortion, the Reproductive justice movement challenges us to consider broad access of reproductive care, affirmative bodily autonomy, and self-determined parenthood as essential aspects of autonomy and justice. Bodily Autonomy & Care brings together reproductive justice organizers and filmmakers who are collaboratively creating short films that center and affirm unapologetic feminism with love and dignity.

  • The Internet is Black

    September 15 7:00PM EST

    Join us for a special screening of That’s So Black, a pop culture video series produced by MediaJustice about how Black people have created, shaped, and nourished Internet culture.

  • Performance as Resistance

    October 21 12:00AM EST

    "The one thing that you always need with resistance is always look at yourself and be proud of the fact that you made it to another day to keep fighting, to keep pushing, to keep being yourself." - Junior Mintt

  • Dismantling Barriers with The Undocumented Filmmakers Collective

    October 7 5:00PM EST

    "Look at us as collaborators. We're not subjects. We are not subjects." -Dorian Gomez

  • Reimagining Safety

    September 23 5:00PM EST

    "Can we just have a really honest conversation. Just a really honest conversation. Can we take the anger out just for a second? Just long enough to have a conversation. A meeting of the hearts and minds." -Myrtle Thompson-Curtis

  • Wisdom of Small Joys

    September 9 5:00PM EST

    "So often the scars are the detritus of attempting not to be the Earth. It's the violence that arrives from separation." - Ross Gay

  • Deep Work

    June 10 5:00PM EST

    “I don't even consider myself to be a musician. The real work in my life is about collective healing and transformation.” - Sterling Toles

  • Ancestral Ceremonies

    May 27 5:00PM EST

    “This is not a film. This is a ritual. This is Black queer alchemy.” -Liz Kennedy

  • Undocumented and Unafraid

    May 13 5:00PM EST

    “I want to be free, and I want our people… to have small joys, and big joys , and everything in between… To travel, to be, to love. That’s my dream. It’s our collective dream.” – Patrice Lawrence

  • Youth Power

    April 29 5:00PM EST

    “If we really care about our young people then that means you care about protecting the future, that they're going to be here longer than we will.” – Adrienne Ayers

  • Visions of Ancestral Resilience

    June 25 4:00PM EST

    “This is the time when we should feel limitless, to focus on the Black excellence, from the beginning of time.” -Lottie V. Spady

  • Better Futures: Visioning In A Time of Crisis

    June 11 4:00PM EST

    “We absolutely need imaginative spaces like visionary fiction, that allow us to say, what if?” -Walidah Imarisha

  • Black Mothering: Surviving and Adapting during a Pandemic

    May 28 4:00PM EST

    “I'm grateful to black moms every single day, every minute of every day for the work you all do.” -Andrea Ritchie

  • Can’t Stop. Won’t Stop: Making it Happen No Matter What!

    May 14 4:00PM EST

    “We must have a vision, to walk towards the future that we want to see, and we must have a practice in order to make these things happen. And I think we could all find that within the arts.” -Diana Nucera