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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

DAY TWO
SUNDAY, APRIL 10th
Session 1
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Graffiti Workshop: (Part I)
Vanessa Carlo; Melody Angelique Ortiz; Cope2
Part One of this workshop presents two youth-produced documentaries on graffiti. Watch interviews with graffiti legends and learn about the history of graffiti as an art form. Vanessa Carlo and Melody Ortiz, youth producers from the Educational Video Center, will present their documentary “Street Art: From the Can to the Canvas.” Get an inside look on graffiti through interviews with NYC youth and professional artists like Cope, Zimad and TATS Cru. You’ll also have a chance to talk with youth producers to find out more about documentary production and workshops available to high school students in NYC.

Speakers for the 2005 NYC Grassroots Media Conference

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele
Tahira Faune Alford
Chris Anderson
Jen Angel
Denisse Andrade
David Alpert
Azania Al-Shabazz
Howard Bessler
Friends of William Blake
Joshua Breitbart
Leigh Ann Caldwell
Antoine Cadwell
James Calinda
Vanessa Carlo
Paul Chan
Grace Cheung
The Church of Stop Shopping
Kathleen Cleaver
Community Voices Heard
Cope2
Derrick Dawkins
Jay Dedman
Libero Della Piana
Aliza Dichter
Tala Dowlatahahi
Kerry Downey
Emily Drabinski
Beka Economopoulos
Green Circus
Jonne Cope
Savitra D.
William Etundi Jr.

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Conference Schedule:

* Schedule is Subject to Change*

Download the Printed Schedule Here (.pdf file)

Download the NYCGMC Film Screening Schedule (.doc file)

9am-10am

Registration Check-In, Coffee (courtesy of Green Mountain), Exhibition Area Open
*Be sure to get in early to avoid the line!*

10am-11:30am

Click here to view Session 1 workshop descriptions

Breaking the Chains: Building a Media Strategy for Juvenile Justice in America

A Fundraising Forum: Dialogue Between Grantmakers and Grantseekers

DIY Distribution: Strategies and Challenges

Microradio: Tactical Overview and Operations

Voces de Nuestra Tierra: A Community Sister-Radio Project Between WBAI and Radio Payumat of Cauca, Colombia

NYC Blogging Caucus

Research Like a Librarian: Advanced Internet and Critical Evaluation of Websites, Plus FOIA, FOIL, and RSS

Journalism for Youth: Writing, Editing and Publicizing

11:45 - 1:15

Click here to view Session 2 workshop descriptions.

The Spectrum Spectacular: Community Wireless and Smashing Your Way into the Thrill Ride of the Century

PSA in a Day: Hands-on Video (limited sapce, youth prioritized)

The Role of Ethnic Press in Times of War and Natural Disaster

Using Hip-Hop for Social Change

Making Folks Think, When They're Laughing Too Hard to Realize
it…Performance as Creative Resistance

Get It Online with Harlem Live!

Teach the Teachers: Media Lesson Share

Reading Between the Headlines: A FAIR Reading of the News

Silkscreening 101

Archiving Grassroots Media: How to Collect, Preserve and Access

Putting the "Community" in Community Media: Video as an Organizing Tool

1:15-2:30

Lunchtime!

Youth under 21 are invited to join us for free pizza and activities in the Youth Lounge.

Make sure to check out the exhibition room!

2:30 - 4:00

Click here to view Session 3 workshop descriptions.

Community Media - Personal or Political? From Limited Access to
Transformative Communication

Media Policy: Why It's Important For Everyone!

Get Your Questions Answered: Interviewing 101

NYC Feminist Independent Media

How to Build Your Own Website

Talking to Mainstream Media: Independent Media Isn't Always Enough

Grassroots Media in an Election Year: Creating Community Voter Guides

The Portable Printing Press: A Hands On Guide to Stencil-Making

Say What You Mean: How to Tailor Your Video and Your Message

4:15 - 5:45

Click here to view Session 4 workshop descriptions.

PS2 Wants You: Examining Digital Warfare - Videogaming and Military
Recruitment

Africa Not in the News: What Mainstream and Alternative Media

are Missing in their Coverage of the Continent

Storm Watch: The Struggle for a Renewed Activist Media after Hurricane Katrina

DIY Media Literacy

Creative Politics: The Art of Freestyling

Models for Independent Mediamaking and Political Organizing

Podcasting 101

Video Production with Dyke TV

Celebrating Community and Public Access Television: The Fight Ahead

The Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME)’s International Artists Union(IAU): How Artists Can Benefit By Being Independent

GMC CONFERENCE AFTERPARTY/NETWORKING EVENT

Please join the NYCGMC to celebrate the local grassroots media community.
Free Admission for all, Cheap drinks to benefit the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition
4 DJ's, Drinks $2-$4 - Make this NetWORK!
ALL AGES

9pm
Abc No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(between Clinton & Suffolk)
Map

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PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES:

The NYC Grassroots Media Conferences and Coalition activities have convened thousands of New Yorkers for education, outreach, networking and action events. We offer your organization a number of exciting ways to get your message out to a targeted and active audience. We are expecting an incredible turnout for the 2006 Conference so don’t miss out on these opportunities. Limited availability – all options on a first-come, first-served basis.

Advertise

Purchase advertising space in our Program Journal. A copy is handed out free to every ticket holder. We expect more than 800 conference attendees this year.. make an impression and let them learn about your organization.

Program Journal Ad Rates:

Listing

- $35

The following organizations have officially endorsed the 2007 NYC Grassroots Media Conference:

ACME NY / Horace Mann School
Act II Productions, Inc
Africananews.com
Allied Media Projects
American Documentary | P.O.V.
Anderson@Large
Art For Change
Asian CineVision
Atwater Library
The Ave Magazine
Binghamton Indy Media
Black Agenda Report
Boston Indymedia
brooklyn freepress
Brooklyn Parents for Peace
Building Movement Project
Chops Films
CISPES
CKUT Radio Montreal
Columbia University student
Community Media Services
Connecting.nyc Inc.
Connie Hogarth Center
Cornell University

All screenings held in Swayduck Auditorium.

10:00-11:30am

Urban Visionaries Film Festival presents:
A collection of short films from the Urban Visionaries Film Festival

1 hr 30 min

11:30am-1:30pm

Documenting Repression and Police
Brutality:

• Land, Rain, and Fire: Report from Oaxaca
  29 min., Tami Gold & Gerardo Renique

• Get that Camera! 6min., FluxRostrum

• Brad Will Vigil @ the NYC Mexican Consulate 7 min., Glass Bead Collective

• 50 Shots and a Mule - Part 1
  13 min., Glass Bead Collective

• With Blood
  excerpt, 15 min, Dan O’Reilly Rowe

• CJT$
  27 min., Youth Rights Media