NYC Grassroots Media Conference: Sat February 11th, 2006

Information about the Grassroots Media Conference:

REGISTER EARLY! www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/register

NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Sat February 11th, 2006
The New School 65 Fifth Ave at 13th St
www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org
10am-6pm
$20 Adult, $5 Youth (21 and under)

Conference Schedule:
* Schedule & Workshop Titles are Subject to Change*
Official Workshop Descriptions due online by Monday
Jan 30th

9am-10am
Registration Check-In, Coffee, Exhibition Area Open
*Be sure to get in early to avoid the line!*

10am-11:30am
*Research Like a Librarian: Advanced Internet and Critical Evaluation
of Websites, + FOIA, FOIL, and RSS
*Panel on Youth Newsletters
*Build Your Own Radio Station
*Breaking the Chains: Building a Media Strategy for Juvenile Justice in
America
*NYC Blogging Caucus
*DIY Distribution: Strategies and Challenges
*Interactive Funding Workshop
*Sister Radio Stations: Bringing together the anti-corporate
globalization movement with campaigns for Media Democracy in the
U.S.

11:45 - 1:15
*A Media Literacy Lesson Share for Educators
*PSA in a Day Video Production workshop for Youth
*Making Folks Think, When They're Laughing Too Hard to Realize it:
Performance as Creative Resistance
*Get It Online with Harlem Live!
*Archiving Grassroots Media: How to Collect, Preserve and Access
*Using Video as an Organizing Tool with the Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled (CIAD) & Our Voices/Nuestras Voces: Putting the Community in Community Media with the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS)
*Hip-Hop Activism
*Media Policy: Why It's Important For Everyone! with Free Press
*Wireless Internet Activism
*DIY Silkscreening with Visual Resistance
*Do It Yourself Media Criticism
*Freemix Radio: The Mixtape and Emancipatory Journalism

2:30 - 4:00
*NYC Feminist Independent Media
*Using Youth Media To Fight Stereotypes
*Interviewing for Independent Media (for Youth) with Riseup Radio
*The Portable Printing Press: A Hands On Guide to Stencil-Making
*Community Media- Personal or Political: From Limited Acces to
Transformative Communication
*Ethnic Press with the IPA
*Grassroots Media in an Election Year: Creating Community Voter Guides
*How to Build Your Own Website
*Talking to Mainstream Media: Indy Media Isn't Always Enough

4:15 - 5:45

*Videogaming and Military Recruitment with Global Action Project
*Creative Politics: The Art of Freestyling
*Do it Yourself Podcasting and Videoblogging
*Celebrating Community and Public Access Television: The Fight Ahead
*Video Production with DYKE TV
*Media Literacy
*STORMWATCH: The Struggle for a Renewed Activist Media after Hurricane
Katrina
*The Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME)’s International Artists Union
(IAU): *How Artists Can Benefit By Being Independent
*Independent Mediamaking and Political Organizing: How Can We Do It?
*Africa Not in the News: What mainstream and Alternative Media are
Missing in their Coverage of the Continent

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)