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2. What is the AMC?
Held every summer in Detroit, the Allied Media
Conference brings together a vibrant and
diverse community of people using media to
incite change: filmmakers, radio producers,
technologists, youth organizers, writers,
entrepreneurs, musicians, dancers, and artists.
Our definition of “media” includes all forms of
communication, from videos and websites to
theater, dance, design, and interactive technology.
Since its move to Detroit in 2007, the AMC has
become one of the most important hubs of
creative social change in North America.
About the AMC

3. Brief Timeline of the AMC
1999-2016
1999
Allied Media Conference
founded as the “Midwest
Zine Conference” in
Bowling Green, Ohio.
2002
The Midwest Zine Conference
is renamed the “Allied Media
Conference”(AMC) and Allied
Media Projects is founded as
the umbrella organization that
coordinates the AMC.
2007
The AMC moves to Detroit.
2008
The AMC begins using
“Tracks” to organize
sessions that focus on a
specific theme.
2009
The AMC surpasses
1000 attendees.
2015
The AMC surpasses 2,500
attendees - our largest
attendance number to date.
“AMC @ Night,” a five-day
music festival during the AMC,
showcases local and national
musical talent.
2012
“Practice Spaces” and
“Network Gatherings” are
introduced as new ways
for attendees to engage at
the conference. 2016
The tenth anniversary of
the AMC moving to Detroit!

4. The Allied Media Conference is a collaboratively designed event curated
with care every year by 100+ volunteer coordinators. Conference content
explores the intersections of media and communications, art, technology,
education, and social justice.
Every year, the AMC takes on a different shape as it develops its thematic
focus areas called “Tracks,” “Practice Spaces,” and “Network Gatherings.”
These are the content areas that structure the 300+ sessions of the
conference.
The glue that holds these incredibly diverse content areas together is
“media-based organizing,” or any collaborative process that uses media,
art or technology to address the roots of problems and advance holistic
solutions towards a more just and creative world.
What happens at the AMC:
• hands-on workshops
• panel discussions
• film screenings
• Detroit tours
• art and music events
• strategy sessions
• karaoke
• bowling
• collaborative art
• and more!
What we do at the AMC

5. Who attends?
Participation in the AMC has grown from 600
people at the first AMC in Detroit in 2007, to 2,506
participants in 2015, our biggest audience to date.
Roughly 35% of participants come from Detroit.
Attendees come from cities all over North America,
and internationally from countries such as Mexico,
Pakistan, Brazil, and the UK. From artists to
organizers, technologists to entrepreneurs, the
AMC convenes individuals representing a wide
range of fields and backgrounds.
AMC participants are incredibly diverse. In past
years, 56% of participants identified as a person of
color, 31% identified as low­-income, 10% identified
as an immigrant, 14% identified as a technologist,
and 18% identified as youth.
Who is following?
Beyond the 2500+ participants of the conference, Allied Media Projects
reaches an online network of over 15,000 people through our social media
networks and approximately 9,000 people through email marketing.

6. In 2015, the AMC:
• Partnered with Sundance Institute to present the New Frontier Day Lab,
New Frontier Native Forum and Film Forward screenings directed at
local filmmakers who are experimenting with innovative ways to use film
for social change.
• Hosted the first national convening of the Black Lives Matter movement,
bringing together chapter organizers and members from 26 BLM
chapters across the U.S. and Canada.
• Hosted the international Community Technology Network Gathering,
bringing together close to 100 civic technologists, community wireless
advocates, coders, network engineers and participants from as far as
Germany, Brazil and Spain.
• Partnered with the Detroit Sound Conservancy to host a tour about
Detroit’s rich musical history and as well as a nighttime event dedicated
to the roots of Detroit dance music.
• Presented “AMC @ Night” - a five-day music showcase supported
by a Knight Arts Challenge grant. This included acts such as THEE
Satisfaction, Passalacqua and Las Cafeteras. Our signature event at the
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit was the museum’s largest event of
the year.
The AMC:
A space for
learning,
connection, and
movement-building

7. The 18th annual Allied Media Conference will
take place June 16-19, 2016 on the Wayne
State University campus in Detroit. This year’s
conference will mark the 10-year anniversary
of the conference moving to Detroit. We look
forward to celebrating a decade of building and
growing our community here!
AMC 2016 Schedule Overview
Thursday, June 16
All Network Gatherings are held on this day.
Friday, June 17
First day of sessions.
Opening Ceremony convenes participants.
Saturday, June 18
Second day of sessions.
Our signature music event is held at the
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Sunday, June 19
Last day of sessions. Closing celebration.
10 years of creating.
10 years of connecting.
10 years of transforming.
What will another 10 years
bring in Detroit?

8. AMC2016
Tracks,
Practice Spaces &
Network Gatherings
Tracks
• Abundant Bodies Track
• Black Survival Mixtape Track
• Building Climate Resilient Communities Track
• Community Technology and
Independent Media Track
• Education for Freedom Track
• Filmmaking and Beyond Track
• The General Track
• Performance from the Stage to the Street Track
• RAD Care Beyond Social Justice Track
• Radical Librarianship Track
• Resourcing and Sustaining our Movements Track
• Youth Making Movements Track
• Women in Hip Hop Track
Practice Spaces
• Really Rad Radio & Video Practice Space
• Wage Love Detroit Practice Space
• Creative Coping and Grieving Arts Practice Space
• Women in Hip Hop Practice Space
• Dancing Our Lives Practice Space
• Kids Practice Space
Network Gatherings
• MAG-Net Network Gathering
• Design Justice Network Gathering
• Complex Movements Translocal Cohort Network Gathering
• Envisioning Our Herstory, Actualizing Our Humanity
Network Gathering
• Getting Proud: Disability Justice and Collective Access
Network Gathering
• Say Her Name/ Black Trans Lives Matter Network Gathering
• Strategies for Staying Power Network Gathering
• Women in Hip Hop Network Gathering
• #transTRUTH National Youth Council Network Gathering
This year there will be 28 unique tracks,
practice spaces and network gatherings
taking place at the conference.

9. Who supports the AMC?
While the AMC generates more than a third of its revenue from
attendees, the AMC continues to rely on the generous support of its
sponsors, who help sustain our growth and success.
A diverse collection of more than 20 organizations generously sponsored
the AMC in 2015, including Mailchimp, the Sundance Institute,
Youthprise, the Sierra Club, and the New Economy Initiative.
The Allied Media Conference is additionally supported by the Nathan
Cummings Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
“We are honored to have the opportunity to support
and participate in the AMC year after year. The
AMC is an unmatched experience that amplifies
the social justice issues we face today and bolsters
the voices of those from the most impacted
communities. It is our favorite gathering of the
year to listen, grow, and build new relationships to
continue collaborations year around.”
- Aspiration Tech, AMC Sponsor
“Each year, the Allied Media Conference offers
a valuable opportunity to better understand a
community of change and connect directly with the
individuals working inside it. Without creativity and
collaboration—both from our customers and in our
own organization—MailChimp wouldn’t exist. AMC
helps reinforce the idea that these are the values we
must continue to elevate.”
- MailChimp, AMC Sponsor

10. To learn more about our sponsorship
packages and select one that works
for you, contact Morgan Willis at
morgan@alliedmedia.org
Sponsor AMC2016
Help us make our 10th year in Detroit a special
one! Support the AMC by becoming a sponsor
today. Your sponsorship contribution will help us
make this year’s AMC more impactful, inclusive,
and dynamic. We are excited to work with you
to build a sponsorship package that meets
your needs. Benefits range from complimentary
conference registration, prominence in marketing
materials, tabling in the exhibition area and more.
We also welcome in-kind and media sponsorships.
Photos by Ara Howrani