PPH @ The AMC
Written by Arturo Contreras Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:00
People's Production House is excited to attend the Allied Media Conference in Detroit this year!
If you are there, please look for us, meet with us, and find ways to collaborate with us. If you are not attending, please feel free to follow up with us to hear about our experiences at the conference.
The Allied Media Conference is a place where educators, artists, activists, organizers, media-makers, and concerned citizens come together to share and co-create strategies for social justice organizing through media. Below are the workshops that PPH staff will be participating in and leading. To see the full list of workshops, projects, and participants please visit the AMC website.
- Friday
Presenters: Renée Feltz, Abdulai Bah, and Kristofer Ríos, Peoples Production House; Andalusia Knoll and Puck Lo, Free Speech Radio News
In this hands-on, workshop/lab series, the Community News Production Institute (CNPI)- a media justice project of People's Prodcution House- and Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) invite you to learn how to do community driven radio journalism. In two, 45 minute workshops, participants will learn how to document the news and events at the 2009 Allied Media Conference, edit their sound into a mini-documentry or radio segment, and have the opportunity to air their audio projects on a micro radio station that will be broadcast throughout the conference and webstreamed. Participants will also help complete a short sound collage using voices and sounds from the AMC that will be played at the closing plenary and posted on the AMC website.
- Saturday
Presenters: Mary Alice Crim and Misty Perez, Free Press; Kristofer Ríos, Peoples Production House; Sydette Harry/Blackamazon, SPEAK! Women of Color Collective and Salt & Rice productions; Denise Wellons-Glover, The Family Place
We as individuals and organizations committed to public interest can change politics as usual in Washington. To do so, we need to sit down together to share in a dialogue about the future of communications policy in the U.S. This interactive workshop will help you contribute to an ongoing conversation about developing a National Broadband Strategy. For far too long, the public has been left out of the debate over communications policy in Washington, D.C. This workshop will bring together conference attendees with public interest advocates to help shape new policies for our changing the Internet. Through interactive discussions, short videos, and wireless keypad polling technology we will highlight the importance of universal, open and affordable Internet access, diverse ownership, and a vibrant public media.