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.
Past Events
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2023 Seeds Series Waging Love: Building an Environmentally Just Detroit
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.
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2023 Seeds Series Community Nourishment: “Gather” Film Screening
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.
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2023 Seeds Series Hood Work: Neighborhood as Resistance
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.
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Fall 2021 Wisdom of Small Joys
“So often the scars are the detritus of attempting not to be the Earth. It’s the violence that arrives from separation.” – Ross Gay
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2023 Seeds Series My Body, My Movement
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.
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Fall 2021 Performance as Resistance
“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
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Fall 2022 Bodily Autonomy and Care
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.
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Fall 2022 The Internet is Black
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.
