NEW FRONTIER DAY LAB & NATIVE FORUM
@ The Allied Media Conference
Impacting Justice at the Convergence of Story & Technology
Since 2007, the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier program has fostered exciting independent artists and social justice activists who are pushing the boundaries of story and experimenting with the language, forms and tools that will become standards for future storytellers and change makers.
Wayne State University
State Hall Room 106
5143 Cass, Detroit, MI 48202
FREE EVENT!
The New Frontier Day Lab is designed to share learning from these experiments in non-fiction storytelling; to encourage the expansion of artists’ and activists’ creative practice; and to challenge them to contribute to the evolution of story.
Day Lab Presentations and panel discussions by Bayeté Ross Smith (Question Bridge: Black Males);Yasmin Elayat (18 Days in Egypt); Jeremy Mendes (Bear71); Sasha Costanza-Chock (Author of Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! & Researcher at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Dept); Sarah Wolozin (Director, Open Documentary Lab at MIT); Wes Taylor and Carlos Garcia (Complex Movements); Adrienne Maree Brown (Octavia's Brood); Dream Hampton (I Am Ali, Black August Hip Hop Project, Treasure) and Evan Bissell (The Knotted Line).
This invitation includes a continental breakfast, refreshments, and a boxed lunch.
Seating is first come, first served.
This invite admits one.
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.  FREE film screening of Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, followed by a discussion with director Brian Knappenberger - at the Community Arts Auditorium.  LEARN MORE
The New Frontier Native Forum provides a space for Indigenous artists, activists and innovative media makers to have conversations and participate in working sessions around leveraging transmedia storytelling for social activism. Share ideas. Talk about works-in-progress. Envision new projects and campaigns.
Native Forum participants include: Bird Runningwater (Sundance Institute Native and Indigenous Program), Skawennati (CyberPowWow and TimeTraveller), Eve-Lauryn LaFountain (Conversation Pieces: A Swan Song, NAWADINIWE), and the New Frontier and MIT presenters from the Day Lab.
8:00p.m. - 10:00 p.m.  FREE screening of We Are the Giant, followed by a discussion with director Greg Barker - at the DeRoy Auditorium LEARN MORE
This collaboration between Sundance Institute and Allied Media is made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Parking Structure #2 : located at 5150 Lodge Service Drive bordered by Kirby Street and Anthony Wayne Drive
Machines at the entrance gates on Anthony Wayne Drive accept $7 by credit card. Cash is not accepted. It will also be necessary to swipe the same credit card upon exit; however, a charge is applied upon entry only.
PS#2 can be accessed by entering through Gate 2 or 4
