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Yollocalli Arts Reach on the Road!

By: Adilene Salgado Allied Media Conference in Detroit was Yollocalli’s first summer adventure. We took a road trip on June 15-18 to be participant on this extraordinary conference that contains more than 2,500 people and brings energetic and multiple communities together. A world of nerds where people use media to encourage change: Filmmakers, Radio Producers, Technologists, Youth Organizers, Writers, Musicians and many more! In other words, Allied Media Conference is a space that redefines“media”, a space to innovate and explore digital alternatives.

Our youth, instructors and Director took the opportunity to represent Chicago and Yollocalli Arts Reach; sharing their work and experience in 3 different panels, from DIY internet Radio Exploration (Pop Up Youth Radio), Remixing Archival Videos (Camera Flux) and Teen Presence in the National Museum of Mexican Art (Youth Council). Each team had to give a presentation to an audience, breaking down how we produce our contents and inviting the audience to the magnificent world of Yollocalli.

Jennifer Aguilar has been part of the youth council over 3 years! She developed her skills for being around in Yollocalli, from creating events, exhibitions and special projects. The fun organizing and making sure teen ideas are heard within each youth council meetings. In this presentation, Teen Presence at the National Museum of Mexican Art, she walked with Whitney Ross, Youth Development Advisor at Yollocalli Arts Reach, and Gilberto Sandoval, former founder of the Youth Council back in 2012 and now organizer at the National Museum of Mexican Art. They shared stories and experience on how the youth council helps the NMMA to get more visitors especially from youth and to explore museums. Also they broke down the ideas and the roles they take such as creating events for youth, fundraisers or even something that will give a positive environment for youth to hang out and experience good vibes with educational resources.

Gianna Lightfoot and Jaime Lopez, both students of Camera Flux class, along with their instructor Todd Diederich and our Director Vanessa Sanchez presented Remixing Archival Videos. They explained how youth learn the power of media to challenge conventional narratives about history, communities, & public policy using Chicago Slices. This is a project trained youth in using freely accessible tools to produce & introduced media literacy concepts through the use of archival footage. These two students have been part of big projects while participating in Yollocalli classes or even collaborations with local community artists. They’ve challenged themselves and even their own class to produce high quality content with only using the tools they are available to use at Yollocalli Arts Reach. They also are both individuals that have different unique style on how they produce archival footage. Gianna enjoys to be weird, creative and unique. Jaime enjoys to have his professionalism on point making the most high quality content from photography to recording videos, he also enjoys to challenge himself by keeping it weird and mysterious!

And finally, DIY Internet Radio Exploration Panel and hands-on workshop of Pop Up Youth Radio where I, Adilene Salgado and Brian Cuz, both students of the Radio Production class took the control of the internet waves and transmitted live through our channel on mixlr and on Live on Lumpen Radio. We broadcasted the panel composed by Vanessa Sanchez and Stephanie Manriquez from Yollocalli, explaining their work on their Difusion Media teen program; via telephone we chatted with Logan Bay, station director at Lumpen Radio about the importance of community radio; also, Diego Aguirre, graphic designer and a radio experimental artist based in Mexico City, explored different alternatives on how to bring radio access into small low-income communities and groups.

After our one-hour show, Brian and I taught the audience how to do Pop Up Radio, from what equipment to use, set up, applications to broadcast, structuring a show to interaction with your environment and audience. The final message was to show that everyone can do DIY Radio!

Check out and listen to this awesome conversation here:

In the long run, experiencing and being part of the Allied Media Conference was an amazing adventure. A long drive from Chicago to Detroit was a thriller! We enjoyed every minute in our stay from improvising as a radio station to visiting Detroit Institute of Arts, witnessing the Diego Rivera mural and of course discovering new foods! We kept it weird and brought all of our Yollocalli love to Detroit; hoping people were influenced or inspired by our ideas, plans and of course the team that represented Yollocalli Arts Reach!!!

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