[Pttv-announce] LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! Fri, 5pm - See You There!

[pttv-announce at lists.mayfirst.org]

One Last Reminder:

Time is running out, the last chance to register at the Pre-Registration fee is
on Friday February 10th at 5pm.

*Visit: www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/register to Register Now*

NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Sat February 11th, 2006
New School University
65 Fifth Ave at 13th St
www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org
For directions please visit: http://nycgrassrootsmedia.org/directions2newschool

10am-6pm - Doors open at 9:00am
$20 Adult Pre-registration, $30 At the Door $5 Youth (21 and under)

**If we have not received your payment as of Friday at 5pm, you must pay the $30
conference registration fee, the day of the event. (Youth excluded)**

+ The NYC Grassroots Media Conference is pleased to announce our 2006
workshop lineup. We have 40 panels, a political art gallery, a mini-film
festival, exhibition room and afterparty.

Register now, to save your spot at this historic event. More details on
speakers, workshop and film descriptions and more available
at www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org.

Conference Schedule:

9am-10am
Registration Check-In, Coffee (courtesy of Green Mountain), Exhibition Area
Open
*Be sure to get in early to avoid the line!*

10am-11:30am
*Breaking the Chains: Building a Media Strategy for Juvenile Justice in
America
*A Fundraising Forum: Dialogue Between Grantmakers and Grantseekers
*DIY Distribution: Strategies and Challenges
*Microradio: Tactical Overview and Operations
*Voces de Nuestra Tierra: A Community Sister-Radio Project Between WBAI and
Radio Payumat of Cauca, Colombia
*NYC Blogging Caucus
*Research Like a Librarian: Advanced Internet and Critical Evaluation of
Websites, Plus FOIA, FOIL, and RSS
*Journalism for Youth: Writing, Editing and Publicizing

11:45 - 1:15
*The Spectrum Spectacular: Community Wireless and Smashing Your Way into the
Thrill Ride of the Century
*PSA in a Day: Hands-on Video (limited sapce, youth prioritized)
*The Role of Ethnic Press in Times of War and Natural Disaster
*Using Hip-Hop for Social Change
*Making Folks Think, When They're Laughing Too Hard to Realize
it
Performance as Creative Resistance
*Get It Online with Harlem Live!
*Teach the Teachers: Media Lesson Share
*Reading Between the Headlines: A FAIR Reading of the News
*Silkscreening 101
*Archiving Grassroots Media: How to Collect, Preserve and Access
*Putting the "Community" in Community Media: Video as an Organizing Tool

2:30 - 4:00
*Community Media - Personal or Political?  From Limited Access to
Transformative Communication
*Media Policy: Why It's Important For Everyone!
*Get Your Questions Answered: Interviewing 101
*NYC Feminist Independent Media
*How to Build Your Own Website
*Talking to Mainstream Media: Independent Media Isn't Always Enough
*Grassroots Media in an Election Year: Creating Community Voter Guides
*The Portable Printing Press: A Hands On Guide to Stencil-Making
*Say What You Mean: How to Tailor Your Video and Your Message

4:15 - 5:45
*PS2 Wants You: Examining Digital Warfare - Videogaming and Military
Recruitment
*Africa Not in the News: What Mainstream and Alternative Media
are Missing in their Coverage of the Continent
*Storm Watch: The Struggle for a Renewed Activist Media after Hurricane
Katrina
*DIY Media Literacy
*Creative Politics: The Art of Freestyling
*Models for Independent Mediamaking and Political Organizing
*Podcasting 101
*Video Production with Dyke TV
*Celebrating Community and Public Access Television: The Fight Ahead
*The Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME)’s International Artists Union
(IAU): How Artists Can Benefit By Being Independent

GMC CONFERENCE AFTERPARTY/NETWORKING EVENT

Please join the NYCGMC to celebrate the local grassroots media community.
Free Admission for all, Cheap drinks to benefit the NYC Grassroots Media
Coalition
4 DJ's, Drinks $2-$4 - Make this NetWORK!
ALL AGES

9pm
Abc No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(between Clinton & Suffolk)

We can't wait to see you on Saturday.

- The Organizing Collective, NYC Grassroots Media Coalition