UNCONFERENCE – CALL FOR CONVERSATION IDEAS.
KEYWORDS
The “Rock the Archive” unConference is participant-driven and open to all present. This event transforms conventional ways of gathering. It is multi-genrational. By structuring the conference around participant interest and this year’s theme of “Rock the Archive,” we set the stage for dynamic conversations and chance encounters. We ask people to propose topics for conversations/skill-shares/diálogos around this theme. To archive is to collect, record, file, document, and create artifacts for the purpose of telling our stories and crafting our histories. So we want to hear about how you and your communities, movements, organizations, and cultural scenes are documenting your stories, processes, and sharing the work that you do. Why is this important? We are all engaged in social change work. By documenting and making sense of what we do, we can share strategies, remember the past and change the future. What do you want people now and in the future to know about your organization and your work?
Examples of Possible Topics:
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preserving D.I.Y. cultural history and/or music across styles/scenes
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preserving the cultural history of undocumented immigrants (HB1070)
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histories of queer and feminist organizations
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youth spaces
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healing through storytelling
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developing skills for documenting and managing your organization’s work
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our bodies as our own archive of our work
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theatre/movement/dance – community-building activity
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preserving ways of being together (through food, music, dance, conviviality)
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preserving and enacting convivencia through music, dance, art
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR IDEAS FOR A CONVERSATION
If you are interested in leading or co-leading an unConference conversation/skill-share/diálogo, please submit the following information by leaving a response to this post in the box below. By leaving a reply with your information, your conversation/skill-share/diálogo will be displayed for browsing so that others with similar interests might find you. If you see something already posted that is similar to a topic you would propose, you may propose combining your idea with that topic. All proposed topics will be posted at Washington Hall the morning of the event so that participants can make choices of what to participate in as they arrive and register at the unConference. Depending on the number proposed, conversations/skill-shares/diálogos will creatively share space within the unConference site of Washington Hall.
1. Your proposed conversation/skill-share/diálogo
2. Your name and affiliation
3. A brief summary (100 words max) of your proposed conversation/skill-share/diálogo
4. Please note that this year we will not be able to provide data projectors. We will however provide papers and pens if requested.
5. Please try to have your proposed conversation/skill-share/diálogo posted by Feb. 21st
In addition, please don’t forget to click the link below to register for the 2013 UnConference and Film Festival…so we know how much cake to get 
ART-chiving with La Gallina
Exploring ways that Mothers TELL and Re-TELL stories
The POWER or oral HER-stories and arching them in memory
The BEAUTY of ART-chiving our lives- memories- snippets of time that are glimpses into who are and how we are
with our CHILDREN
From Giavanni White (originally send to womenwhorockproject@gmail.som)
1. The title of your session- Her Hips Hop
2. Your name and a very brief biography of all workshop leaders (1-3 sentences each)- Giavonna Love White, She is recent alum of UW Seattle with a major in Dance Research and minor in African American Studies. She has a passion for performing arts and is currently a teacher of Ballet, Modern and Jazz at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. She hopes to go to grad school in the next year.
3. A brief (100 word max) summary of topics you would address- This class will address the topic of women’s bodies in hip hop from both male and female rappers. We will read and discuss lyrics and then create our own works.
4. Please note that this year we may not be able to provide data projectors for workshops. We will however provide papers and pens if requested.- May I have paper and pens?
1. Writing memoir through music
2. Nicole Cherie Peoples. Recent MFA graduate from Mills College in Oakland with a major in Creative Writing: Memoir. She is in the process of finishing her first memoir entitled “More Peoples than you can handle.” She is the guitarist in local locomotive punk rock band NighTraiN and the lead singer of her local self led indie/folk/soul band Lawndree. She is in the processing of applying to a lucrative internship at This American Life and hopes to become a C list Seattle author and musician someday.
3. This class will combine techniques for teaching women both how to begin developing her/their own memoir and will give basic techniques on how to turn those stories into songs. There will be core song development as well as information on how to pursue music if she is starting with no musical background.
4. I would also like some paper and pens. I will have my own visual aids if necessary.
What does it mean to rock the archive, and what does it mean to archive the rock? I can share a bit from my experiences as an archivist at UW and UCLA and how I’ve been helping to archive community music in LA and Seattle but, most importantly, I can learn from all of you about what your expectations are for preserving, providing access, and (re)activating to your cultural heritage sounds, images, more. What can institutions like the UW do to help you meet those expectations? I could also do a bit of a basic workshop on archiving if there’s interest.
1. Rock the Archive / Archive the Rock
2. John Vallier, UW Libraries
3. What does it mean to ‘rock the archive’ and what does it mean to ‘archive the rock’? How can each approach benefit the other? How can we (communities, publicly funded archives and libraries, non-profits, artists, more) work together to document, describe, preserve, provide access, and activate our cultural heritage materials and aspirations? In this spirit I can talk about my experience as an archivist at UCLA and UW, places where I archive music from local scenes (more info about the UW project is here http://guides.lib.washington.edu/ps) but, more importantly, I can listen to all of you about what music archiving needs exist in your personal and/or community orbits. If there is time, I could also give a quick overview of DIY archiving basics.
1. Rockin through the ages
2. NighTraiN – NighTraiN is a four piece African-American female locomotive punk band residing in Seattle, WA. They formed through performing in a play called Hot Grits wherein they all learned how to play their instruments at 25 and up. After the play they stayed and have been performing in Seattle and across the West Coast for the past five years.
3. A class to help women who have always wanted to learn how to play instruments or start a band, build confidence and gain enough knowledge and resources to venture out on their own and successfully enter the music industry.
4. Paper and Pens would be fantastic!
1. D.I.Y. Women’s Sex Education
2. Heike Rodriguez, Feminist Alliance student club at North Seattle Community College in Seattle, WA. Heike is a full-time student majoring in Gender Studies and a former teacher of Female Ejaculation workshops. She has worked and volunteered for the Body Electric School and has done intensive scholarly work around identity politics, sustainable activism, and resilience practices.
3. How can we preserve and pass on information about our sexualities? How do we deal with the prevalence of sexual trauma in our communities? How do we resist dominant ideas about what sex is and looks like and create space for exploration?
This workshop will facilitate a discussion about what we have learned and discovered about our sexualities, the spaces in which we have felt validated, and what we can do to help ourselves and other women to grow as sexual beings.
4. Pen and papers would be so hot.
Love this Heike!
1. Holistic Peer Counseling
2. Nekole Shapiro of Embodied Birth
3. HPC is DIY/DIWO technology! Often, we are passionate about change because we feel the emotional weight of trauma. Because of this, we are ripe to be triggered by our work and by each other. Without the proper understanding and skills to utilize flared triggers as catalysts for personal healing, we simply reenact the protectionist patterns we set up long ago. When we find the healing these patterns are pleading for, we can propel sustainable change. I will provide a taste of the embodiment and peer counseling techniques we use in HPC to create communities that can heal together.
Screenprinting the revolution we create workshop/unworkshop
1. Screenprinting for all!
2. Learn what screenprinting is, how to do it, why it is important to learn new art forms, see examples of what can be screenprinted and then screenprint the women who rock logo on a t-shirt. SOme t-shirts will be available but bring your own if you can. Many art forms are limited to those who can afford it and that’s just not acceptable anymore. Learn one form of art you can do yourself with a screenprinter. No experience needed, instruction booklet will be provided take screenprinting back into your communities.
3. Breeana Blalock was introduced to screen printing years ago and uses it to get messages and art into communities that have been marginalized, silenced and oppressed. Join her to expand the screenprinting movement and learn another art form. All ages and no experience needed.
4. Screen printing ink and any sized t-shirts would be greatly appreciated. I will work on getting what i can donated as well.
Greetings women who rock
1. Women Protest Music/chants during Demonstrations
2. Amal Eqeiq, Comparative Literature, PhD Candidate
3. I have written on Palestinian hip-hop ( both by men and women). I also presented on Arab youth protest music in a conference in Cairo and a course on Islam and popular culture here at UW. Next Fall, I will teach a course titled, “Popular Culture in the Arab World: Youth, Populism, and Politics.” For the conversation in this un-conference, I would like to discuss the topic of women protest music by specifically addressing music and chants by Arab women during demonstrations. Here are two examples. The first clip is from a protest against Morsi and the constitution in Egypt. The second clip is from a march in Beirut where women marched in solidarity with Egyptian women to protest against sexual terrorism in Tahrir Square. I would like to reflect on ways of reading these texts in the context of popular culture, political resistance and feminist poetics.
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Title: Interrogating the Intersections of our multiple Identities
Submitted by Rudy Mondragon
Type of workshop: Interactive
Abstract: This interactive workshop will explore and deconstruct the concept of identity from a social justice perspective. Participants will gain an understanding of how they can become self-authors of their multiple identities as well as how those identities interact and intersect with each other. By utilizing videos, poetry and reflections, participants will examine their own identities and discuss experiences where their multiple identities have intersected (Example: How our racial identity intersects with our gender, class, sexual orientation, etc). Lastly, participants will also learn tools they can use in their own-going process of making sense of their whole selves.
Title: Interrogating the Intersections of our multiple Identities
Submitted by Rudy Mondragón, Pre-College Programs Manager, UW
Title: Interrogating the Intersections of our multiple Identities
Type of workshop: Interactive
Abstract: This interactive workshop will explore and deconstruct the concept of identity from a social justice perspective. Participants will gain an understanding of how they can become self-authors of their multiple identities as well as how those identities interact and intersect with each other. By utilizing videos, poetry and reflections, participants will examine their own identities and discuss experiences where their multiple identities have intersected (Example: How our racial identity intersects with our gender, class, sexual orientation, etc). Lastly, participants will also learn tools they can use in their own-going process of making sense of their whole selves.
Title: (Inter)Action! Amplifying Voices Through Storytelling and Interactive Theater
Facilitators: Theresa Ronquillo (University of Washington) and Tikka Sears (Memory War Theater). Theresa and Tikka are Co-Directors of the Interactive Theater as Pedagogy Project, a collaboration between the UW Center for Teaching and Learning and Memory War Theater.
Abstract: As a community of learners, sharers, and creators, we will:
· Explore our own social identities, experiences, and locations of privilege and oppression
· Interview each other and share stories
· Use interactive theater and Theatre of the Oppressed approaches to embody themes and bring stories to life
· Engage in dialogue about shared issues