Allied Media Projects

Allied Media Projects Media strategies for a more just, creative, and collaborative world. and beyond, who come to Detroit every year to teach and to learn.

AMP grew out of the annual Allied Media Conference, which began in 1999 as a celebration of independent publishing and do-it-yourself culture. The AMC has expanded to a large and diverse gathering, offering hands-on trainings in a wide-range of media practices, from breakdancing to video-blogging to building radio transmitters and wireless mesh networks. The AMC fosters strategies for how these pr

actices can support and inspire grassroots organizing for social justice. AMP moved the AMC from its original home in Bowling Green, OH to Detroit, MI in 2007, connecting with the city’s rich legacy of community media and social movements. The AMC has become a one-of-a-kind convergence point for the most visionary and effective media-based organizers from across the U.S. AMP’s local programs model and innovate practices in education, economic development and community organizing. We facilitate organizing around issues of technology access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities through the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition. Our Detroit Future Media program is a 6-month training course in core digital media competencies, and their application in shaping Detroit’s future through education, entrepreneurship and community organizing. Through Detroit Future Schools, we pair graduates from Detroit Future Media with K-12 teachers to design and implement digital media arts-integrated curricula in the classroom. We are building web platforms that support and celebrate the collaboration and creativity of our network. AMPTalk is an online forum for idea-development and resource-sharing amongst the participants of the Allied Media Projects network. Allied365.org is an online catalog where participants in the Allied Media Conference, Detroit Future Media, and Detroit Future Schools showcase and distribute their services, curricula, and other offerings.

Sold out! 🎉 “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.” —Toni C...
07/29/2026

Sold out! 🎉 “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.” —Toni Cade Bambara

On Saturday, we felt the power of that call in a room full of community, reflection, and possibility. We filled the ’s community event space for a sold-out screening of the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing documentary and the premiere of our original documentary short, What It Takes to Build, directed by radical play.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, volunteered, and helped make the evening so memorable. Together, we reflected on Black feminist media organizing, art as a tool for liberation, and the powerful lineages rooted in Detroit and reaching far beyond.

Special thanks to TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing for helping make this program possible.

We can’t wait to gather with more of our community at upcoming AMP programs. Stay tuned! 🌱

07/25/2026

Only two tickets left for tonight’s premiere! ✨

AMP Presents: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing Documentary (TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing) and the premiere of AMP’s original short documentary, What It Takes to Build, by Detroit filmmaker Na Forest Lim (radical play).

The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing Documentary (TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing) shares the life of the Black feminist writer, filmmaker and cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara is reconstructed through her words and stories of colleagues and friends.

What It Takes to Build is an original film by Detroit-based filmmaker, Na Forest Lim. This window into AMP’s work as a fiscal sponsor and steward for media-based organizing projects rooted in Detroit and beyond offers insights from Adrienne Maree Brown, , Comfrey Films, and on building movement infrastructure today.

Together, these films open an ongoing conversation on how media-based organizing shapes us, the communities that hold us, and the traditions that help us build toward collective power and liberation.

After the screenings, we invite you to stay for a thoughtful talkback with Detroit-based cultural organizers and AMP staff, moderated by ciarra ross.

Event Details:

🌱 Free entry with RSVP at link in bio
🗓️ Saturday, July 25th
⏰ 6:00 - 8:30 pm
📍 The LOVE Building
4731 Grand River Detroit, MI

We still can’t stop thinking about MOVEMENT weekend. From community dancing to community organizing, AMP was outside! Th...
05/29/2026

We still can’t stop thinking about MOVEMENT weekend. From community dancing to community organizing, AMP was outside!

The Summer of Resistance came into full swing at The Potluck at . So many brilliant organizers joined Detroit Spokescouncil to bring media-based organizing against surveillance to life.

For the Green Chairs, Not Greenlights campaign, we focused on “being seen and not watched.” Together, we wrote about what safety means to us across green benches, painted chairs green, made buttons, screen printed t-shirts, and distributed the Be Seen, Not Watched zine. Images by

And our first Joy in Movement Happy Hour with our sponsored projects was the only way to begin Techno Christmas. Thank you for showing up and out at . We hope you enjoyed your hydration care packages. 🪩 Visit the link in bio for what’s on at AMP next Thursday!

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4731 Grand River Avenue Suite 400
Detroit, MI
48208

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Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm

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+13137182267

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