NYC Grassroots Media Conference Workshop Timetable
** Subject to change, please check back as conference gets closer!**
Saturday, 10 - 11:30
Opening Plenary
Saturday, 11:45-1:15
1. Under Seige: Copwatch with The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
2. Digital Distribution: Building Youth Media Online
3. Web journalism for youth with Harlem Live!
4. How to run a Grassroots Press Campaign and Talk to the Press : Nan Rubin
5. Much More Than a Reporter of News: Legal and Political Challenges Facing Grassroots Journalists
6. Raising Environmental Awareness through Multimedia Activities - Green Circus
7. Video Activism - Brandon Jourdan
8. Agitate, Educate, Publish! Zine Making from Concept to Distribution- Lauren Jade Martin and Eleanor Whitney
9. The Portable Printing Press: A Hands-On Guide to Stencil-Making: Visual Resistance Collective
10. Get Psyched! Get Pissed! A Radical Cheerleading Protest Performance workshop with the NYC Radical Cheerleaders
11. Merchants of Culture: Decoding Culturally Specific Marketing: Antonio Lopez
Saturday, 1:15-2:30
Lunch
(Youth are invited to join us in the youth lounge for free pizza)
Saturday, 2:30-4:00
1. Youth Media Film Festival
2. Superhero Storyboards (Pt 1) with Global Action Project
3. Calling all Youth, Get Involved, Get Heard! Radio Rootz, Radio Solidarity,
4. An Inside Look at How Collectives Function: Paper Tiger Television, May First Technology Collective, Indepedent Media Center and Flux Factory
5. Developing Vision and Resistance: The Defining Role of Grassroots Media: Priya
6. A New York City Guide to Free Public Library Resources: Radical Reference
7. Creative Networking
8. Produce a Segment with Dyke TV (Part 1)
9. People Speaking for Themselves: Community Organizations Taking Control of Media
10. Videoblogging 101: Posting Videos on the Internet for Free
Saturday, 4:15-5:45
1. Creative Politics: The Art of Hip Hop Freestyling: Movement in Motion
2. Media Ownership and Consolidation with MNN Youth Channel
3. Super Hero Storyboards (Pt 2) with Global Action Project (Part 2)
4. A panel discussion on hip hop activism
5. Culture Jam 101: You Are A Thinly Veiled Threat - Reverend Billy, William Etundi Jr. and Swoon
6. Websites for Beginners with May First Technology Collective
7. Beauty and the Beast: Aesthetics in the Era of Global Activism
8. Raising Women’s Voices: Yolanda Shoshana
9. Produce a Segment with Dyke TV – (Part 2)
10. Youth Start-Ups: Make it Happen!
Sunday, 10 – 11:30
1. The Nuts and Bolts of Democracy Now! Production and Outreach
2. Hip Hop is Political, Everything Is . . . with G.A.ME The Hip Hop Union
3. The Global Threat to Independent Press
4. Freelance for Independent Media
5. Meet the Funders, a Panel of Progressive Funders
6. PSA In A Day - Video Production for youth with Global Action Project (Part 1)
7. Graffiti Workshop with Educational Video Center (Part 1)
Sunday, 11:45-1:15
1. Censorship and Racism in the Media
2. We Are New York City: Grassroots Movement Building with Print Media: Amanda Hickman and William Etundi Jr.
3. Out of Control Copyright
4. Accessing Government Information: Independent Press Association
5. Stayin' Alive: How Zines and Indy Mags Stay Afloat: Mandy Van Deven – Altar Magazine
6. Radicalizing the Familiar: Props for Action: (Part 1)– Not An Alternative Arts Collective
7. Policy for the People: Threats and Opportunities for Community Media and Internet in NY and What We Can Do About It: Liza Dichter
8. History of Radical NYC Media - Arun Gupta, Chris Anderson, Dee Dee Halleck
9. PSA In A Day - Video Production for youth with Global Action Project (Part 2)
10. Graffiti Workshop with Educational Video Center (Part 2)
11. Zine Reading - Bring your zine and read, or just come and listen.
Sunday, 1:15-2:30
Lunch
(Youth are invited to join us in the youth lounge for free pizza)
Sunday, 2:30-4:00
1. Accessing Government Information: IPA
2. Billboards for People: Using Murals in Organizing: Groundswell
3. Media rights.org film festival screening
4. Free103point9 Radio Lab
5. Owning Our Own: Creating People's Media and Rejecting Corporate Systems presented by R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop
6. Fact Checking and Research Skill for Independent Journalists - Radical Reference
7. Love, Labor, Loss - A Film-based Campaign to Improve Global Women's Health: Lisa Russell
8. An Introduction to Cinematic Storyboarding - Ghetto Film School
9. Youth Start Ups - Independent Press Association
10. Radicalizing the Familiar: Props for Action (Part 2) – Not An Alternative Arts Collective
11. Patriarchy is Malarchy - Educational Video Center
Sunday 4-6
Developing web tools for grassroots organizing - an open discussion/caucus to discuss building out NYC Activist resources through Compass for Change, building the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition website and more.