Conference Schedule

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

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

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

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!

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

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