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This grant will partially fund the Handmade Parade, which provides a public series of giant <br /> puppet-making,costumes,music and movement workshops,culminating in an annual parade. <br /> The Handmade Parade is an annual community event held the third Saturday in October.in <br /> Hillsborough. This year it will be Oct 20 . The event will commence in the afternoon and <br /> continue till dusk. The theme of the fourth year's parade will be The Waters of the Eno. The <br /> theme is meant to foster awareness of our natural resources and to celebrate them. With its <br /> headwaters in Orange County,the Eno River is an important part of our community. This year <br /> the sub theme is Characters and Creatures of the Eno. It will be fun and educational to delve <br /> into past historical characters of the area. Prior to the October event,there will be a series of <br /> public workshops, and parade artists will assist participants in creating their own masks, <br /> costumes and giant moving puppets. Workshops will be designed to include all ages and local <br /> ethnicities. They will also include music, and movement with an emphasis on stilt walking and <br /> street theater. We are continuing to hire other artists throughout the area to teach workshops and <br /> to perform. <br /> One of the first workshops is specifically designed as a free "leadership class". This is for <br /> community,church,business and school leaders, some of who will be invited and others who <br /> will sign up when they hear about the workshop's educational and creative opportunities for their <br /> constituencies. They then will return to their groups and teach them how to make masks, <br /> puppets or floats for the parade. A goal of this approach is to ensure that the parade includes <br /> participation by diverse and minority populations in Hillsborough and surrounding areas of <br /> Orange County. We will also be coordinating with after schools programs, summer camps and <br /> schools. In past years,this coordination has been working with the Eno River Association's <br /> summer camp to involve the children in making puppets for this parade. Group and family sub- <br /> themes will be encouraged, for example, six people creating a 12-foot-long snake. Children and <br /> parents will be encouraged to create together. The purpose of this outreach event is to foster <br /> community involvement in the arts through participation in every aspect. The informal <br /> atmosphere and hands-on character of the experience allows members of the community to work <br /> directly with creative people while gaining confidence in their own abilities. We are very pleased <br /> with the enormous response we had to our previous years workshops and final parade. There is a <br /> natural exchange across cultures in this artistic process. Parading their artistic creations in and <br /> around the Hillsborough town center before an appreciative audience links the people of <br /> Orange County to the act of creativity in the most rewarding and public way possible. <br /> Financial Information <br /> Please provide a projected budget for your proposed project utilizing the format below. <br /> Project Expenses Cash Grant Amount + Applicant <br /> Expenses Requested Cash Match <br /> A Personnel <br /> Administrative staff 500 <br /> Artistic staff <br /> Technical/Production staff <br /> B Outside Fees and Services <br /> Artistic contracts <br /> Other contracts: 3810 <br /> C Space Rental 1500 <br /> D Travel <br /> E Marketing _2500 <br />