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10:00am EDT

Healing Justice Practice Space Strategy Session Day McGregor: Room L/M

9:00am EDT

Can You See Me Now? Visibility & the Digital Space Education Building: Room 204 Creative Peacebuilding in the Streets State Hall: Room 137 Defining Yourself: Collage as Self Portrait McGregor: Room J Earned Media: Writing an Effective Press Release Education Building: Room 300 Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Librarians on the Frontlines State Hall: Room 214 Make Your Own Video PSA! Education Building: Room 169 Moving Grief Through the Body Community Arts Auditorium Online Identity Health Checkup for Your Organization Education Building: Room 189 RRRTV Documentation Team Training & Orientation McGregor: Room E Two-Spirit Self-Determination, Land & Body Sovereignty McGregor: Room C Visions of a Post-Capitalist Future Education Building: Room 200 Waging Love in Action McGregor: Room F/G Wonderful Welcome Games McGregor: Room H

11:00am EDT

Activist Video Archiving and Preservation State Hall: Room 219 Belly Flop! State Hall: Room 214 Choreographed Resistance: Movement for the Movement Community Arts Auditorium Courage > Conflict: Communicating Accountably Art Education: Room 158 Femme of Color Altar-making Healing Space Art Education: Room 156 Fundraising Your Stories State Hall: Room 213 Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Make Your Own Video PSA! Part 2 Education Building: Room 169 Our Big Book of Beautiful Bodies McGregor: Room H Produce and Host Community Radio with CKUT Montreal McGregor: Room E Putting the T in Tech: TransTech Social Enterprises State Hall: Room 131 Question Bridge: Dialogue & Identity Mapping State Hall: Room 106 Tandas (Savings Circles) as a Step to Economic Autonomy Education Building: Room 200 Two-Spirit Self-Determination, Land & Body Sovereignty Part 2 McGregor: Room C

2:00pm EDT

A People's Oral History of Detroit in Pictures McGregor: Room J Collective Intergalactic Space Travel McGregor: Room H Deploying and Customizing a Wordpress Theme Education Building: Room 169 DIY Audio Cables McGregor: Room E Domestic Worker Disco Community Arts Auditorium Envisioning and Modeling Our Future Cities McGregor: Room C Get Yr Rights: LGBTQTS Youth Working to End Police Violence State Hall: Room 213 Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M New Frontier Native Forum State Hall: Room 106 Our Bodies Our Sounds: Creation to Recording State Hall: Room 214 Performative and Collaborative Writing with The Dining Room Art Education: Room 156 Visionary Resistance & Resilience-Based Organizing McGregor: Room F/G

4:00pm EDT

Be the True Wheel McGregor: Room F/G Data Visualization for the Movement McGregor: Room J Fixit Friday: Community, Self-Reliance, and Repair Education Building: Room 189 Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Holding Space: Anti-Oppressive Facilitation State Hall: Room 208 How to be a Street Medic: Skills for Actions & Beyond State Hall: Room 128 If You Dream It, It Will Come McGregor: Room H Love on Our Own Terms: Relationships, Zines and Change State Hall: Room 213 Making Meaningful Media McGregor: Room E New Frontier Native Forum Part 2 State Hall: Room 106 Performing Wireless: Making a Human Mesh McGregor: Room C Reflections on B&P National LGBTQ Prisoner Survey Art Education: Room 156 Sidewalk Science: Knowledge Sharing in the Streets! Education Building: Room 200 Technological Empowerment 101 for Femmes of Color Education Building: Room 169

9:00am EDT

Collecting Ourselves: Organizing a Youth-led Summit State Hall: Room 213 Cooperative, 3D, Immersive, Interactive Storytelling McGregor: Room B Guerilla Projection and Public Art Intervention Student Center: Room 285 Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M How to Build Decentralized, Smart Movement Networks State Hall: Room 218 Jewelry Making with Found Materials McGregor: Room J Keep Healthcare Cute: Multi-series Program for Zine Making Education Building: Room 189 Kids Collage Studio McGregor: Room H Making the Web for Kids McGregor: Room C Nonprofit Trauma: Transforming Harm Education Building: Room 204 QTPOC Youth Healing Oppression through Storytelling Art Education: Room 158 Reimagining Neighborhoods with Board Game Making Student Center: Ballroom A Rituals for Spatial Change DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Story Stitching: Create Your Own Radio Story McGregor: Room E Tools for Power Part 1: Introduction to Power Analysis State Hall: Room 131 Weaving Community: Transforming Trauma with Textile Art Art Education: Room 156

11:00am EDT

A Documentary Film Production Survival Guide State Hall: Room 218 Broken Time, Fractured Space, & Collective Memory Art Education: Room 158 Contemplative Design: Unpacking White Supremacy McGregor: Room C Drug War Survivors: Coping, Telling, Loving Ourselves Student Center: Ballroom C Grieving through Humor: The Black Body Survival Guide Art Education: Room 156 Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Heart Memories: Memorializing Lost Loved Ones State Hall: Room 214 Kids Collage Studio Part 2 McGregor: Room H Let's Dance Some More: A Bgirl/Bboy Workshop Student Center: Ballroom B Social Justice and Collage McGregor: Room J The Revolution Will Not Be in English State Hall: Room 218 Tools for Power Part 2: Research Methods State Hall: Room 131 VJ Basics & Live Video Performance McGregor: Room E With Wing and Roots Community Arts Auditorium

2:00pm EDT

Collecting Sacred Stories from the Community State Hall: Room 214 Design for Decentralized Communications State Hall: Room 208 Digital Game Basics for Free! McGregor: Room B Fat Hacks: Alterations Against Fashion Size Bias State Hall: Room 213 GIFs Are the Future: A New Art Form McGregor: Room J Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Honoring Aadisookanwag [Spirits] as they Travel Art Education: Room 158 How to Do Online Communications as an Organizer Education Building: Room 189 How to Talk About Race with the Media Student Center: Ballroom A Media History Timeline: an Interactive Tool for the Movement McGregor: Room C Move It! Dance Class for All Community Arts Auditorium Movement Memory Mapping and Story Seed Saving McGregor: Room F/G Prison Abolition for and with Kids! McGregor: Room H Reclamation of Culture: Using Art to Rebuild Community Art Education: Room 156 The Art of Alternative Media Personality McGregor: Room E We Flawless! Journey to Gender Balance Student Center: Room 285 We Reminisce Over You: The Black Death Mixtape Student Center: Ballroom C

4:00pm EDT

Branding The Future of Women in Hip-Hop Culture State Hall: Room 208 Dream Pillows, Flower Potions & Plant Power Popsicles! McGregor: Room H Groundswell: Oral History for Movement Building State Hall: Room 219 Healing Justice for Black Lives Matter: How We Did It Student Center: Room 285 Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Home-creation, Home-embodiment and Future-making McGregor: Room B Mapping Fat Bodies: Arts-based Storytelling Art Education: Room 156 Media History Timeline: an Interactive Tool for the Movement Part 2 McGregor: Room C Old Gold: Do-it-yourself Music Production State Hall: Room 213 Open Air Space McGregor: Room E Speculative Cities: Becoming Place Education Building: Room 204 The People's Encyclopedia 2070 Education Building: Room 189

10:00am EDT

Dance It Out, Shake It Off McGregor: Room H Glitter and Goddesses: Mujeres Making Magic McGregor: Room J Harnessing the Power of Community Media Centers McGregor: Room E Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M How to Start a Major Donor Program Education Building: Room 189 I Live for Trans Education: Train the Trainer State Hall: Room 219 It Ain't About the Money: Currency as Resistance Education Building: Room 169 Methods and Jokes of The Ladydrawers Comics Collective Art Education: Room 156 Our Ancient Future Storytelling State Hall: Room 218 Outdoor Games for Love & Liberation McGregor: Room H Personal Therapy: Holistic Healing from Sexual Assault State Hall: Room 213 Queer Black Sunday School: Mobile Homecoming Choir Student Center: Room 285 Stop Saving Youth State Hall: Room 214 StoryCircles: Sparking Interdependence with USDAC State Hall: Room 208 The Watershed Game: Great Lakes State Hall: Room 128 Vincent Chin: Lessons of Being the 'Other' in America Education Building: Room 300

1:00pm EDT

Action Dome! Role Playing Game for Direct Action Student Center: Room 285 Build a Digital Security Culture in Your Work Education Building: Room 204 Co-Design Across Borders: Learning from Contratados.org McGregor: Room B Collage of Words: Creating Meaning through Found Poetry McGregor: Room J Counter Mapping Education Building: Room 169 Creating Safer Spaces through Zine Libraries Education Building: Room 200 Femme Futures: Devising Multimedia Fem(me)ifestos Student Center: Ballroom A Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Intergenerational Story-sharing McGregor: Room H Open Air Space McGregor: Room E queenSpeak: Forging Identity through Poetry State Hall: Room 131 Salve of Sankofa: Healing Intergenerational Trauma Art Education: Room 156 Silkscreen Design and Printing McGregor: Room C Speaking Our Chakras: Using the Body as Speech State Hall: Room 214 There is Always Movement Community Arts Auditorium Transformative Approaches to Ending Police Violence McGregor: Room F/G

3:00pm EDT

Building Our Movements Without Losing Ourselves State Hall: Room 214 Fat Femmes Write: Expanding Media for Fat Femmes Education Building: Room 169 Glitch in the System: Green Screen for Imagined Utopias Student Center: Ballroom A Healing Sessions McGregor: Room L/M Open Air Space McGregor: Room E Social Justice Co-ops Building New Economies Education Building: Room 189 Tech Strategy for Community Organizing in Detroit & Beyond McGregor: Room B Transformative Approaches to Ending Police Violence Part 2 McGregor: Room F/G Where’s the H2O?! Intergalactic Design and Play McGregor: Room H