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Welcome to the Allied Media Conference 2015! 
Grieving Arts [clear filter]
Friday, June 19
 

9:00am EDT

Moving Grief Through the Body
Grief lives in our bodies, long after what we grieve has moved on. It shapes us. This session will draw on tools including Octavia Butler's Earthseed, theater, dance, and somatics. We will learn more about how grief works in our bodies and how we can reshape our grief. Participants will build more space inside of ourselves for embracing our feelings and transforming our grief into gratitude, possibility, and wisdom.

Presenters
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adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit., How to Survive the End of the World Podcast
adrienne is a writer, facilitator, healer and pleasure activist living in Detroit. she is Co-editor of Octavia's Brood and author of the forthcoming Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (AK Press).


Friday June 19, 2015 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Community Arts Auditorium
  Hands-on Workshop

7:30pm EDT

Serving the Dying: Radical Death Workers Meetup
This is a roundtable discussion for hospice nurses, end-of-life doulas, grief counselors, and all who serve the dying. We will meet one another and share resources, insights, and visions for the future. What changes do you want to see in the coming decade that will allow more people to actually experience a peaceful death? What are some of the ways you connect your work to intersecting forms of social justice? How can we better support our clients, communities and each other through grief in order to move toward collective healing? This meetup will take place at Seva [Location: 66 E Forest Ave, Detroit, MI 48201 | (313) 974-6661]

Presenters
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iele paloumpis

Independent End of Life Doula
As a disabled, trans, queer survivor from a working class background, iele paloumpis empathizes across multiple axes of oppression and brings this awareness to their work as an intuitive healer, teacher, dance artist, and end of life doula. For more information, visit www.ielepal... Read More →


Friday June 19, 2015 7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Seva 66 E Forest Ave
  Meetup
 
Saturday, June 20
 

9:00am EDT

Nonprofit Trauma: Transforming Harm
After experiencing work-related trauma, we are told that we cannot tell our stories for fear of becoming “unhirable.” How do we find healing when our traumas are ignored? In this workshop we explore storytelling as survival, and how strategic story-sharing enables us to change the way nonprofits function and the way harms are handled. Utilizing drama therapy, participants will have the opportunity to embody their stories and collectively generate strategies for turning their stories into resources for transformation.

Presenters
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Autumn Brown

Autumn works as a facilitator, political educator, trainer and consultant in service of movement building and social change. Over the years, she has facilitated with community and movement organizations in a wide variety of fields, including reproductive justice, education, urban planning, food and environmental justice, anti-violence, green entrepreneurship, alternative transportation, radical social change, and independent media. Her focus as a facilitator is community and organizational transformation through the implementation of egalitarian decision-making practices and anti-racist, anti-oppressive analyses. Her motivating principle is that we cannot create sustainable and transformative social change without using transformative models for doing the work. Autumn utilizes a popular education and emergent design methodology in her client work, while also rooting in black, brown, and indigenous traditions and histories., AORTA
Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, science fiction author, singer, and facilitator who grounds her work in healing from the trauma of oppression. Autumn formerly served as the Executive Director of both RECLAIM!, and of the Central Minnesota Sustainability Project. She is now a... Read More →
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Alexis Powell

Alexis Powell, LCAT-permit, currently facilitates drama therapy groups with trauma-affected youth in public schools in NYC, and is a longtime believer in the correspondence of creativity and health. Alexis is a performer, musician, and video artist working under the moniker Hearsay... Read More →


Saturday June 20, 2015 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Education Building: Room 204
  Hands-on Workshop

9:00am EDT

QTPOC Youth Healing Oppression through Storytelling
QTPOC youth are often silenced by oppression, but through storytelling we can resist colonization and reclaim our communities. In this workshop, QTPOC youth will come together, share stories, and heal from the violence of oppression. Participants should come ready to explore their own life stories and the stories of their community through interactive dialogue. We will then share those stories through either video or photography.

Presenters
avatar for Marcos D. Carrillo

Marcos D. Carrillo

Detroit REPRESENT!
Marcos is a community organizer from Southwest Detroit. Since high school, he has been active in supporting queer and trans youth, as well as immigrants and immigrant families in his local community, and across the region. In his free time, Marcos loves to play video games and cuddle... Read More →
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Lance Hicks

Lance is a biracial/Black trans femme organizer, writer, and healer. These days, Lance works as social worker and therapist with queer and trans youth of color and trauma survivors. Lance loves dandelions, dogs, and hiding out in libraries., Detroit REPRESENT!
Lance is a mixed race trans organizer born and raised in Detroit. He started organizing when he was fifteen, but has been telling stories his whole life. Lance believes that oppressed people reclaiming their own stories is the most powerful kind of magic.
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Emani Love

Ruth Ellis Center
Emani is a Detroit based Activist and community organizer.


Saturday June 20, 2015 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Art Education: Room 158
  Hands-on Workshop

9:00am EDT

Weaving Community: Transforming Trauma with Textile Art
Throughout history people have used available materials to decide where home is, creating sites of resistance to dislocation and dominating narratives. Textile arts are one way to map memories, document family history, and locate ourselves. Through discussion and hands-on activities, we will explore various forms of textile art including weaving, crochet, quilting, and embroidery. We will discuss how individuals and communities can use textiles to heal from displacement, trauma, and marginalization.

Presenters
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Indira Allegra

Indira Allegra is a writer, visual artist, and winner of the Jackson Literary Award and Oakland Individual Artist grant. Her work has been published and screened internationally.


Saturday June 20, 2015 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Art Education: Room 156
  Hands-on Workshop

9:00am EDT

Nourishing Our Spirits: Desi Kitchen Stories of Healing
What do beef biryani, slit green chilies, kitchens in Jackson, New Orleans, Chapel Hill and healing have to do with each other? We will share stories of radical dalit, muslim, and queer desi women living in the south, cooking up beloved friendships that nurture us and open up portals to ancestors. We will share our ways of healing and strengthening appetites for difference and community building through culinary art. Folks will walk away identifying the potential of such work to build and grow across race, caste, sexuality, class, and faith.

Presenters
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Noel Didla

MS Food Justice Collaborative
Noel Didla is an immigrant making Jackson, MS home. Noel is one of the anchors of the MS Food Justice Collaborative and MS Food Systems Fellowship.
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Sumi Dutta

Matti Collective; Southerners on New Ground
I'm a pisces-rising leo born in Durham, NC, now living in Atlanta, GA. I'm in grad school working on a pedagogy rooted in being so free that your presence wields energy that'll make the current social order collapse. Healing 4 me: singing, swimming, #dopemealsonabudget, & cackling... Read More →
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Sham-e-Ali Nayeem

Matti Collective
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Manju Rajendran

Matti Collective
Manju's work w/ her mama's food justice experiment, Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe, informs her hunch that nourishing movements with delicious food is transformative work. Loves include Jackson Center 4 Saving + Making History, Fusion Youth Radio, Ready the Ground Training Team, & War... Read More →


Saturday June 20, 2015 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 208
  Panel - Presentation

11:00am EDT

Drug War Survivors: Coping, Telling, Loving Ourselves
The "War on Drugs" left a legacy of immeasurable harm that has yet to be fully documented. If you grew up with parents impacted by the war you may still be coping with the trauma. In this session, we will explore mindfulness, somatic practices, and creative writing to inhabit our woundedness, deepen compassion, and let go of survival mechanisms that no longer support our well being. Participants will explore how they have been impacted by the war and what it has meant for their families, communities, and ways of being in the world.

Presenters
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Piper Anderson

Create Forward
PIPER ANDERSON is a writer, educator, and healing practitioner. She has spent the last 15 years cultivating a creative practice at the intersections arts, healing justice, and social change. This year she co-created spreadmasslove.com, a critical dialogue on love in the era of mass... Read More →


Saturday June 20, 2015 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Ballroom C
  Hands-on Workshop

11:00am EDT

Grieving through Humor: The Black Body Survival Guide
Comedy and satire have often been used as tools for oppressed people to process their experiences in a racist environment. Through looking at satirical survival tips in the Black Body Survival Guide, we will acknowledge and process our collective trauma and normalize our healing. Participants will walk away with a background on Black humor/satire, survival tips and a different way of contextualizing their Black experience.

Presenters
avatar for Terry Marshall

Terry Marshall

Intelligent Mischief
Terry Marshall has been involved in social justice movements for over 20 years and founded Intelligent Mischief in 2013. Born in Boston, his feet are firmly planted in Barbados where his family is from. Terry's work has spanned a range of intersecting creative and social justice endeavors... Read More →


Saturday June 20, 2015 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Art Education: Room 156
  Hands-on Workshop

11:00am EDT

Heart Memories: Memorializing Lost Loved Ones
Our hearts hold our memories of the people we love, even after they die. We will explore the rituals and ways in which we can remember and reconnect to lost loved ones. Using collage techniques, we will create a special "heart memories" box that represents our special person or people. Participants will walk away with new strategies to memorialize loved ones and a personalized keepsake box to bring home and fill with pictures, notes and trinkets.

Presenters
avatar for Stephanie Mae

Stephanie Mae

Stephanie Mae is a teaching artist and organizer in the Detroit community work centers around art, healing and resistance, fueled by love and magick., LivingArts, MIRA, DRCC
Stephanie is a visual artist, educator and curator that believes art is an essential tool of resistance and resilience.
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Sicily McRaven

Radically Art Infused Detroit
Sicily is an artist living in Detroit spreading the good news of radical consent


Saturday June 20, 2015 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 214
  Hands-on Workshop

12:45pm EDT

Healing Through Comedy in Daily Life
What happens when we acknowledge comedy as a serious endeavor towards daily healing? This will be a performative presentation that prompts idea generation from the audience. Comedic styles will focus on humor in opposition to masculine/capitalist forms that dominate the field (like stand-up). We will present oppositional forms of humor as well as generate ideas for enacting your own humor through a series of comedic videos from our two presenters.

Presenters
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Molly Berkson

3rd Language
Molly Berkson is a Chicago-based artist and student from Evanston, Illinois. Her work explores fantasy, utopia, remembering, and useful anger. She investigates identity through a multi-layered practice, employing underground media and subversive uses of craft practices.
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Emily Schulert

3rd Language
Emily is a queer, feminist artist working and living in Chicago. She is interested in exploring fiber and material, animation and community building.


Saturday June 20, 2015 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Meetup

2:00pm EDT

Honoring Aadisookanwag [Spirits] as they Travel
What happens when life in this reality ends? The purpose of this space is to gather knowledge via Zhaawendaagoziyaang [that which is given lovingly to us by the spirits]. It will be a culture share with an Anishinaabekwe [Ojibwe Woman] on traditional teachings about that journey to the spirit world. This workshop will give way to a decolonial framework and practical tools that can contribute to healing processes when faced with loss and trauma. Methods will be based in movement, media-based storytelling, and sacred sound frequencies.


Saturday June 20, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Art Education: Room 158
  Hands-on Workshop

2:00pm EDT

We Reminisce Over You: The Black Death Mixtape
Music is a collection of cosmic vibrations that allows us to transcend the idea that death is fixed in time or place. We will create and speculate about how music and art has been used historically to cope with death and trauma in the African Diaspora. We will produce digital or “ghost” platforms to honor our dead through multimedia mixtapes. This space is open to people of African descent only.

Presenters
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Carrie Leilam Love

Individual Spiritual Genealogy Consultation: Science recently discovered what many of us have known for generations: we carry our ancestors trauma in our bodies. Before coming to a session, please have as much information as possible about your known ancestors born before 1940, including... Read More →
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Jova Lynne

Black Surival Mixtape
Jova Lynne is a multimedia artist, activist & educator. Originally from Brooklyn, Jova's work is rooted in capturing/exploring genealogies of Blackness. Jova currently lives in Detroit.


Saturday June 20, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Ballroom C
  Hands-on Workshop

4:00pm EDT

Surviving the Mic: Making Safe Creative Space
The consequences of trauma can echo throughout the lifetime of a survivor. Creativity captures that echo, helping survivor artists shape the sound of their healing. We will explore our experience with Surviving the Mic, a collaborative organization creating safe and affirming creative spaces for survivors of trauma. Participants will learn how we have impacted the way that other creative spaces now welcome the voices and vision of survivor artists. Participants will walk away with a model for how to build their own safe creative spaces.

Presenters
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Nikki Patin

Surviving the Mic
Nikki Patin is the founder of Surviving the Mic (www.survivingthemic.org), a collaborative organization of survivors who are dedicated to creating safe and affirming creative spaces for survivors of trauma.
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Stephanie Lane Sutton

Surviving the Mic
STEPHANIE LANE SUTTON is a poet, performer, and educator. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Radius, THRUSH, elimae, and Button Poetry, among others. She is the author of a chapbook, Blood Dowry. She holds a degree in Poetry from Columbia College.


Saturday June 20, 2015 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 137
  Panel - Presentation

4:00pm EDT

FaultLines: Invocation of Loss at the Intersections
This multidisciplinary performance explores three narratives of parental loss by death, addictions, migration, and by choices made. Using storytelling, poetry, embodiment, projected visuals, and a vocal and electronic soundscape, this work stitches distinct stories together with themes such as intergenerational trauma and survival; the commonality of inherited silence; the restorative recovery of story and identity; and the political implications of the work of "re-storying" the past.

Presenters
avatar for mia susan amir

mia susan amir

Dramaturgy Research Associate, PTC / Artist in Residence, Fight With a Stick / Convener, Unsettling Dramaturgy
mia susan amir (she/her/hers) was born in Israel/Occupied Palestine. A queer, Crip+MAD Jew of mixed Ashkenazi and Sephardic ascent, she lives as an uninvited settler on the unceded and occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh... Read More →


Saturday June 20, 2015 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Community Arts Auditorium
  Performance - Screening

6:00pm EDT

A Feast for Ghosts: Reimagining Grief
How have you been fed by your experience of loss? How can we shift our understanding of loss from something being taken from us, to something opening within us? We will recognize and celebrate the ways we embody and radiate the energy of our lost ones through our art, activism, family-making and more. Participants will be guided through creative exercises and supported in connecting with the echoes vibrating around us. Folks will leave with new connections and gathered wisdom from the group. This session centers queer and trans spectrum folks; BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour); and sick and/or disabled folks. 

Presenters
avatar for Kay Ulanday Barrett

Kay Ulanday Barrett

KAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a winner of the 2022 Next Book Residency with Tin House, and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at... Read More →
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Mel G Campbell

mel g campbell is a queer, black, chronically ill, poet, performer, educator and occasional femme. a VONA alum and the Tangled Art+Disability Artist in Residence, mgc regularly explores themes of resilience, trauma, and intersectionality. mel is passionate about interdependence... Read More →


Saturday June 20, 2015 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Meetup
 
Sunday, June 21
 

10:00am EDT

Personal Therapy: Holistic Healing from Sexual Assault
In this interactive workshop we will share holistic tools for healing ourselves and our communities from violence and sexual assault. We will practice yoga, guided meditation, creative expression and multiple healing modalities together. Participants will walk away with the tools, knowledge, support and faith necessary to begin healing themselves, their families and their communities in times of crisis.

Presenters

Sunday June 21, 2015 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 213
  Hands-on Workshop

11:45am EDT

Creative Coping: Share & Strategize
This is a space carved out for us – presenters and participants of the first Creative Coping and Grieving Arts track at the AMC. We will share food, share space, share stories from our sessions and reflect on the process and space we have been part of. We will use this as a time to connect, strategize and reflect in real time on our experiences as part of this track. We hope to build out a supportive and sustainable network of people who are passionate about working with trauma, loss, grief and healing.

Presenters
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Emani Love

Ruth Ellis Center
Emani is a Detroit based Activist and community organizer.


Sunday June 21, 2015 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Education Building: Room 204
  Meetup

1:00pm EDT

Salve of Sankofa: Healing Intergenerational Trauma
Science recently discovered what many of us have known for generations: we carry our ancestors trauma in our bodies. This session will explore genealogy as a healing modality for intergenerational trauma. We will map our biological and chosen families with the goal of connecting our known experiences with the stories of those who came before us. Participants will walk away with tools for discovering the lives and identities of their ancestors, and for leveraging that knowledge towards healing present and future generations.

Presenters
CL

Carrie Leilam Love

Individual Spiritual Genealogy Consultation: Science recently discovered what many of us have known for generations: we carry our ancestors trauma in our bodies. Before coming to a session, please have as much information as possible about your known ancestors born before 1940, including... Read More →


Sunday June 21, 2015 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Art Education: Room 156
  Hands-on Workshop

1:00pm EDT

There is Always Movement
In this session folks will be guided through integrated dance/movement with energy, breath, spirit and emotional awareness to prompt discovery of new pathways to move and interact with themselves. Under the belief that even when we feel stuck there is always movement and that everybody has the right to dance, we encourage self-direction knowing we have all the things we need and all bodies are amazing. No prior movement experience necessary.



Presenters
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Kumari Giles

ILL NANA/DCDC, Unapologetic Burlesque
kumari giles is a queer, mixed, South Asian multidisciplinary artist, movement storyteller, facilitator and performer. they believe in movement as a tool for empowerment, healing and change
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Sze-Yang Lam

ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company
Sze-Yang is a queer east Asian dance artist and educator who does not identify with society’s confining definitions of what it means to be a man or woman. He is a proud co-founder, and collective member of ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company


Sunday June 21, 2015 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Community Arts Auditorium
  Hands-on Workshop
 

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