5 days until "Express Your Rights"!

Hello all!

There are only 5 days between now and the kickoff of the 4th annual HRTE conference! Be sure to REGISTER NOW at http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=42

Additionally, please be aware that two of our speakers on Friday, February 5 have switched times. Nick Tobier will now be speaking at 5 PM about "Human Centered Design and How Collective Creativity Enables Change," and Danielle Abrams will be going at 6 PM with "Burritos and Bulldykes."

Finally, be sure to visit this blog in the next few days to find out cool info. about each of our speakers. You can already check out some cool links about our speakers' individual projects at our facebook event which is located at http://tinyurl.com/ye9uf48

Full EXPRESS YOUR RIGHTS Schedule!!!

We have a finalized schedule, complete with presentation names!

EXPRESS YOUR RIGHTS: THE ROLE OF ART IN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM

Conference Itinerary:

Friday February 5 (at the MICHIGAN UNION, PENDLETON ROOM)

3:30-4: Registration

4-5: Carol Jacobsen: Women's Criminalization, Clemency and Human Rights
Professor, U-M School of Art and Design. Award-winning social documentary artist whose works in video and photography address issues of women's criminalization and censorship.

5-6: Danielle Abrams: Burritos and Bulldykes: Performance Activity in the Gay Ghetto of the Mission District in San Francisco
Assistant Professor, U-M School of Art and Design. Former artistic director of BUILD, a performance space in San Francisco’s hub of queer performance - the Mission District and a founding Board Member of the Harvey Milk Institute in San Francisco.

6-7: Nick Tobier: Human Centered Design & How Collective Creativity Enables Change
Associate Professor, U-M School of Art and Design.

7:30: Emmanuel Jal (MICHIGAN LEAGUE): WAR CHILD: A Story of Survival
Internationally-renowned hip-hop artist, human rights activist, and former child soldier from Sudan
Co-sponsored by: U-M Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA); MSA Peace and Social Justice Commission
Most seating reserved for U-M students, faculty, and staff; limited seating for general public


Saturday February 6 (at the MICHIGAN UNION, PENDLETON ROOM)

10:30-11: Registration/Breakfast/Breakfast

11-12: Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP): Human Rights and Art in Prison
University of Michigan

12-12:30: OyamO: Sensing the Censors
Associate Professor of English, U-M College of Literature Science and the Arts; Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama, U-M School of Music

12:30-1:30: Allied Media Conference (AMC): Create, Connect, Transform
Jenny Lee, Allied Media Projects Program Director; Diane J. Nucera, Allied Media Projects Allied365 Program Director

1:30-2: Reception

2-3: M1: From the Ghetto to Gaza
Hip-hop artist and political activist; one-half of hip-hop duo Dead Prez

3-4:30: Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons: Visual Activism: The Role of Designer as Author
co-authors, "I-Live-Here;" creative team and former creative force behind "Adbusters" magazine
Special appearance by Phoebe Gloeckner, "I-Live-Here" collaborator and assistant professor at School of Art & Design

Phoebe Gloeckner

Phoebe Gloeckner is the author of the novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002), which salon.com praised as "one of the most brutally honest, shcoking, tender, beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America." Her work first appeared in underground comic publications when she was in her teens. A critically acclaimed collection of her comics, paintings, and etchings, A Child's Life and Other Stories, with an introduction by R. Crumb, was published in 1998.

During the period of her Guggenheim Fellowship, she worked on a "multimedia" novel inspired by the lives of several familes living within a four-block radius of each other in Ciudad Juarez. Ms. Gloeckner conceived the ideas for this novel while working on a short piece about an epidemic of violent crime in Ciudad Juarez, recently published in I Live Here (Pantheon, 2008).

Ms. Gloeckner is currently an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

http://www.gf.org/fellows/5443-phoebe-gloeckner


Check out some of her amazing work!
- http://www.ravenblond.com/archive/pages/stco1.html

REGISTRATION FOR HRTE CONFERENCE 2010 HAS ARRIVED!!!

START SIGNING UP!

http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=421

18 DAYS UNTIL THE MOST EPIC CONFERENCE TO HIT ANN ARBOR BEGINS

...and that is not an exaggeration, my friends.

We love creative folks who are compassionate about human rights and we also think they play an integral role in raising awareness and creating social change. To show how much we appreciate their work, we've decided to throw this conference, Express Your Rights: The Role of Art in Human Rights Activism, together for others to learn from.

So check it out. The conference will take place at the Michigan Union on February 5th and 6th. Sudanese ex-child-soldier-turned-hip-hop-artist-and-activist Emmanuel Jal will perform the first night at the Michigan League and a concert featuring many great local artists will occur Saturday night. Details concerning the line-up for the conference are listed below:

Also, come back to this blog because from now until the conference, we will be providing bios of our speakers and artists. CHYEAH.

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