We are beyond excited to welcome you to our first in-person AMP Seeds Series! After spending a few seasons in the virtual realm, this year we are coming back home, to Detroit. Like you, we need to gather in community, relish a room full of laughter, soothe in the embrace of a neighbor— because care is revolutionary. From the dance floors of Detroit to the farms of the White Mountain Apache Nation, the Series will take us on a journey exploring how we creatively activate our bodies, our neighborhoods, and the earth to build thriving communities. Join our incredible panelists and moderators as they share stories exploring dance, art, food, and activism, collectively planting the seeds for more liberated futures here in Detroit and beyond. 

AMP Seeds produces events that bring together visionary minds from across the Allied Media Projects network for dialogue, resource-sharing, and reflection. These events offer a space to strengthen existing connections and forge new relationships that sustain our collective healing and learning while building the world we need.

We are thrilled to partner with Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit  & LOVE Building for our first in-person Seeds Series as we continue AMP’s mission of rooting in Detroit. All of the sessions will be documented by our community partner Khary Frazier from Detroit is Different and shared following the series. 

Each event is free with ASL interpretation available and light refreshments provided! 

My Body, My Movement

June 8th, 2023 | 7:00 PM | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution!” (Emma Goldman). The power of dance has long sustained social justice organizing as a technology of resistance that brings communities together for collective expression, joy, and healing. Join us for a night of performances, workshops, and a discussion that explores the liberating force of collective movement across abilities, ages, and styles. The panel features dancers and choreographers organizing communities through dance and storytelling in Detroit, including Benito “Mav One” Vasquez (Motor City Street Dance Academy), Cara Graninger and Gwynneth VanLaven (DanceAbility Detroit),  and Derrick Finely-Bell (Thee Plastic Dollz dance crew). The conversation will be moderated by choreographer and performance artist Jennifer Harge. 

Hood Work: Neighborhood as Resistance

July 13th, 2023 | 7:00 PM | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

From Southwest to 7 mile, the hood is driving Detroit’s cultural renaissance while carrying the heavy burdens of community disinvestment, trauma, and violence. How can we center and uplift neighborhood-rooted artists in Detroit and redistribute the resources needed for these communities to thrive? Hear from Asia Hamilton of Norwest Gallery, Bryce Detroit of New Center, and Tyree Guyton of the Heidelberg Project as they discuss how they’re proudly creating from the hoods of our city while resisting gentrification and erasure with creativity, innovation, and community care. The conversation will be moderated by artist Scheherazade Washington Parrish.
 

Community Nourishment: “Gather” Film Screening

August 3rd, 2023 | 7:00 PM | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Here on occupied Anishinaabe land and beyond, food is one of the most powerful tools we have to build community and repair lineages lost to genocide, colonization, and assimilation. Join us for a special screening of Gather, a 2020 film that captures the growing and vast food sovereignty movement of Native Americans across Turtle Island building community, restoring ancestral foodways, and reclaiming Native food and agriculture systems. Stay after the film to hear from “Gather” chefs and activists Twila Cassadore and Nephi Craig  alongside local food sovereignty activist and farmer Kirsten Kirby-Shoote as they reclaim and heal their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food. This panel will be moderated by Black agrarian activist and Detroit farmer shakara tyler.
 

Waging Love: Building an Environmentally Just Detroit 

September 14th, 2023 | 7:00 PM | LOVE Building

From summer floods to widespread power outages, all Detroiters are impacted by the escalating climate crisis and unjust environmental policies facing our city. This community panel will bring together an intergenerational coalition of organizers from Detroit’s environmental & climate justice movements dedicated to amplifying the solutions we need to ensure safety and equity for all.  Rooting in Detroit activist and water warrior Charity Mahouna Hicks’ call to “wage love,” we’ll share fellowship, strategies, healing, and visions for an environmentally just Detroit.

 

Allied Media Projects (AMP) cultivates media for liberation. Working at AMP is fun, dynamic, and challenging. AMP is a growing, grassroots organization that is continually evolving and we are seeking candidates who are passionate about their work and excited to contribute.

• Director of Finance 
• Director of Operations 
• People and Culture Manager
• Executive Assistant