Posted By Marisa Kalil-Barrino on Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 4:59 PM click to enlarge Ayse Gursoz, courtesy of Allied Media Projects Every two weeks from the end of April to mid-June, Allied Media Projects’ Speakers Series is hosting a collection of four virtual events called "Bloom." The free events include a short-film premiere, a musical performance, artist discussions, special guests, youth-empowering discussions, ancestral ceremonial practices, and various artistic collaborations. Brenda Hernandez, event manager at AMP, says its speaker series is different this year due to the pandemic. “So for this reason, we call it ‘Bloom’ because we thought it was sort of a nice visual reference of what’s going on in the network, and what’s going on in the world as we’re 16 months into a pandemic,” Hernandez says. “We wanted people to envision a world without borders, honor Western ceremonial practices, and celebrate artistic collaborations at different events.”