AMC @ NIGHT
PARTIES
At the AMC, we take celebration seriously. We believe that relationships begin in workshops during the day, but they are solidified on the dancefloor, and in other community-building spaces at night. For the virtual AMC, we embrace the challenge of expanding the dancefloor across continents, while still cultivating that life-affirming joy. Thank you to Marble Bar for supporting the technical production of these events!
Vibe With Me: Welcome to Detroit |
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| Thursday, July 23rd | 9:00PM-1:00AM EST |
| Stableheed comes with another installment of Vibe with Me for the AMC2020 Welcome Party. A live sonic experience of curated music and culture from some of Detroit’s best performers and DJ’s. Vibe with live performances by Motorkam and Monalyse and dance with DJ’s Jhouse, Problematic Black Hottie, and Stardust. CONTENT WARNING This event contains strong and/or explicit language that may not be suitable for children. Flashing lights and bright colors will be used during this event. Viewer discretion advised. |
| Performances by Motorkam + Monalyse, DJ’s Jhouse + Problematic Black Hottie + Stardust Hosted by Stableheed |
Motorcity Street Dance Academy Youth Party |
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| Friday, July 24th | 7:00PM – 8:00PM EST |
| MCSDA works to enhance the lives of Detroiters through hip-hop, physical activity and healthy living. This interactive virtual event featuring special guests Fresh Classics and students from MCSDA. All levels, abilities, and peoples are encouraged to take part in the cypher we will create. |
| Performances by MCSDA |
House Werk |
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| Friday, July 24th | 10:00PM – 1:00AM EST |
| Featuring: DJ Beige (Leftfield House & Breaks); LadyMonix (House, Disco), and Channel Tres (Compton, Dance) CONTENT WARNING Flashing lights and bright colors will be used during this event. Viewer discretion advised. |
Werk From Home |
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| Saturday, July 25th | 10:00PM – 1:00AM EST |
| Featuring: Dez Andrés (Detroit, Latin Soul-Funk-House) and a performance from Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh (Baltimore, Jazz-Rap) CONTENT WARNING Flashing lights and bright colors will be used during this event. Viewer discretion advised. |
COMMUNITY DINNERS
For seven years, Community Dinners at the AMC have been sites for honoring food as a form of media that can transmit healing, resilience, and collective power across space and time. This year, AMC Community Dinners, produced by chef and culinary organizer Ora Wise, will invite AMC participants into a virtual dining room to engage with chefs, growers, and food sovereignty activists who are building solidarity and decolonizing cultures to build the food world we need.
Braided Nations Dinner |
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| Friday, July 24th | 7:30PM – 9:00PM EST |
| A virtual gathering of black and indigenous collectives sharing teachings of mutual aid, seed histories and divestment from whiteness. |
| M. Karlos Baca Indigenous Food Activist, 4th World Farm/I-Collective DeVonn Francis Creative Director, Chef, Yardy Kirsten Kirby-Shoote Farmer/Chef/Activist Leilu-Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty Project Klancy Miller Writer, cookbook author, founder of For the Culture: A magazine celebrating Black women in food and wine LeGenevieve Squires Chef, Experience Relish Brittiany Peeler Chef, Experience Relish Ederique Goudia Chef and Co-owner, Gabriel Hall; Co-Founder, In the Business of Food Camren Stott Chef/Owner, Jiibaakwaan Foods Sewa Yuli, Community Cook/Student Midwife |
Seeds of Power: Cultivating Resilience through Food in Borikén, Palestine & Diaspora |
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| Saturday, July 25th | 7:30PM-9:00PM EST |
| A virtual gathering in the kitchens & gardens of Palestinian and Boricua organizers resisting occupation through their work with food. Through conversations, recipes, and collaborative presence, our hosts will share their knowledge and how they have embraced food systems, from seed to plate, to fight erasure, cultivate hope, and achieve truly intersectional & international solidarity in the ongoing liberation struggle for all beings, everywhere. |
| Tara Rodríguez Besosa, El Departamento de la Comida / OtraCosa / #quenosepierdalasemilla Chef Gabriela Álvarez, Chef Amanny Ahmad, Artist and Chef Reem Assil, Chef/Owner of Reem’s California Pao Lebron, Diaspora radical/BoriTrans/food grower and Colectivo Babilla Laila Elhaddad, author, social activist, journalist |
FILM SCREENINGS
The Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA) will host two nights of film screenings as part of their Ethics and Aesthetics program. DNA is a community organization that disrupts harmful narratives about Detroit by supporting Black, Brown, and Indigenous Detroiters to examine and create film and media that build collective healing, power and liberation. Both nights will open with select videos from DNA’s Radical Remedies: Collective Healing and Power Through Story project.
DNA Presents: Gender Justice Kaleidoscope |
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| Friday July 24 | 7:00 – 9:30pm EST |
| Eight perspectives on the intersections of gender and a multitude of experiences from Black filmmakers across the diaspora.Screenings followed by a moderated conversation with filmmakers. Part 1 Carrie Hawks, Origin of Hair (1 min) Franchesca Lamarre, VIRAGO (17 min) Maxwell Addae, Outdooring (18 min) Felicia Pride, Tender (15 min) Part 2 RJ Dawson, Gummi Bear (18 min) Nova Scott James, Wild Darlings Sing the Blues (and it’s a song of Freedom) (22 min) Naima Ramos-Chapman, Piu Piu (10 min) DaeQuan Collier, What If Black Boys Were Butterflies? (4 min) |
DNA Presents: Mothering and Caregiving for Liberation |
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| Saturday July 25 | 7:00 – 9:30pm EST |
| These films honor Black and Indigenous Mothers and Caregivers, and portray them in their full complexity and power. Screening followed by moderated conversation with filmmakers. Jalena Keane-Lee, Standing Above the Clouds (15 min) Loira Limbal, Through the Night (75 min) |
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