Join Prometheus in Detroit!
This June, the Prometheus Radio Project will be participating in two amazing gatherings in Detroit, Michigan, The Allied Media Conference and The United States Social Forum. We will be hosting a series of workshops, panels and a live broadcast.
You can listen in to our live radio webstream throughout the Allied Media Conference starting Friday June 18th 11-5, Saturday 9-5:30, Sunday 10-1:30 and during the Social Forum on June 24th and 25th from 3:30 – 5PM here.
The Allied Media Conference (AMC), is taking place from June 18-20, and focuses on transforming communities through media-based organizing. The US SOCIAL FORUM will take place June 22-26, 2010 and will provide a space to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, and share analysis of the problems our communities face. It will help develop leadership, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.
We are hosting a series of workshops, panels and broadcasts at the AMC and have helped coordinate a radio track:
Radio Active: From the Streets to the Airwaves
Prometheus, with Peoples Production House, is coordinating this track which will guide people through the nuts and bolts of radio production including interviewing, recording, and editing audio and using your cell phone as a microphone.
We are also hosting and participating in the following sessions:
Radio as a Tool to Transform, Organize and Build Community
Saturday, June 19, 2:10-3:40pm Room 1545
-- Presenters will share lessons from their experiences producing radio that advances social justice. "Participants will walk away prepared to utilize radio in their hometowns in ways that serve to catalyze community engagement and empowerment..
-- Jeanette Foreman, Prometheus Radio Project & WRFG, Karl Jagbandhansingh, KPFA's First Voice Apprenticeship Program; Kim Lyons, Virgin Islands Prison Project; Danae Peart, CHRY-FM; the Community News Production Institute of Peoples Production House.
Build a Mini Radio Transmitter
Saturday, June 19th 9-10:30am Room M
Participants will learn basic electronics and the principles of radio transmission in this hands on workshop to build mini radio transmitters.
Maggie Avener, Prometheus Radio Project
From Your Mind to the Mic to the World: Basics of Transmission from Old-Fashioned Radio to High Tech Streaming
Friday, June 18th 3:45 - 5:15pm Room M
Sakura Saunders, Prometheus Radio Project and Joaquin Uy, KBCS
Cultivating Our Digital Ecology: From a Community Vision to a Broadband Plan
Sunday, June 20 11:50-1:20pm Room F/G
-- Presenters will examine how we developed community-led visions for large-scale broadband projects and turned those visions into workable plans.
-- Hannah Sassaman, Allied Media Projects; Juliet Fink, Ed.M, Philadelphia FIGHT; Lottie Spady, East Michigan Environmental Action Council; Denise Wellons-Glover, the Family Place; Danielle Chynoweth, Prometheus Radio Project, Urbana IMC.
We Are Ready Now (WARN) Live Radio Webcast
Friday 11-5, Saturday 9-5:30, Sunday 10-1:30
From the media lab in McGregor, Room M
This broadcast will feature live shows hosted by MAG-net, Flujos Vivos, Radio Rootz, Making Contact, Community News Production Institute and many more! -- Listen at http://giss.tv:8000/ussf_2010.ogg, or come drop by for an interview!
US Social Forum, June 22-26
Making Waves: Radio as a Tool to Build & Organize Communities (bilingual)
Wednesday, June 23, 1-5pm
DO-03D Cobo Hall, 1 Washington Blvd., Detroit, MI, 48226
When used strategically by grassroots organizations, radio can be an essential tool to building community, denouncing injustices, organizing around campaigns, and facilitating communication. This bilingual workshop is geared towards grassroots, base-building organizations, showing the power of radio to organize communities. This will also feature a multimedia exhibit of our cross country Making Waves Tour.
This is a Prometheus collaboration with Palabra Radio, Project South, The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Thousand Kites, Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality
We Are Ready Now (WARN) Live Radio Webcast
Come visit us in the Cobo Hall People's Media Center
Thursday the 24th and Friday the 25th 3-5:30pm
You can also find us at our table at either gathering where you can drop by, say hi or give a video testimonial for our People Powered Radio Project
