2016-451-E Arts - Hillsborough Arts Council - Spring 2016 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 16EA11A7-56F9-4B2E-875D-257F8FC28995 Hillsborough Handmade Parade provides a series of puppet-making workshops, culminating in a community parade. It is a bi-annual community event held the third Saturday in October. This is the parade's sixth year. The theme of this year's parade will be Eons on the Eno. Past themes have been Creatures on the Eno, Rhythms on the Eno etc. The theme is meant to foster awareness of our natural resources and to celebrate them. With its headwaters in Orange County, the Eno River is an important part of our community to be promoted. Hired performers and instructors at past events have included The Shabu family, Magic of African Rhythms, Donavan Zimmerman of Paperhand Puppets, Jane Filer as puppet maker instructor and Cakalack Thunder Drum Group. Prior to the October event, there will be several public workshops, and parade artists will assist participants in creating their own masks, costumes and giant puppets. We also lead, teachers and other group leaders in how to teach large puppet making to children and adults. Workshops include all ages and local ethnicities. We have been given approval from the county to use one of the Whiffed building rooms this year to host the workshops. We have also agreed to promote the parade during the county monthly meetings. The purpose of this outreach event is to foster community involvement in the arts through participation in every aspect. The informal atmosphere and hands-on character of the experience allows members of the community to work directly with creative people while gaining confidence in their own abilities. There is a natural exchange across cultures in this community artistic process. Parading their artistic creations in and around the town center before an appreciative audience links the townspeople of Hillsborough to the act of creativity in the most rewarding and public way possible. It also creates a highly unique attraction for tourists throughout the region. This is a recurring bi- annual event. It has proved to be a very successful attraction for the Hillsborough area. We have participation from many of the county schools, public and charter, Boy Scout troops, church groups, families and individuals. We have a registration for the parade. In the past parades it has been around 600 participants. We estimate for every participant there are 4 people in the audience watching. This does not include those who have come to the parade from advertising. Additionally there are visual police estimates. We estimate around 4500- 5000 participants are involved in this event as part of the audience or as a participant in the parade. Here is a link to one of the parades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRpX5ccl h0 To publicize the event, we print posters and flyers and purchase print advertising in the News and Observer, the Durham Herald and the News of Orange and Carolina Parents. We will also have radio advertising and partner with the Hillsborough Alliance to help promote the event. In addition we have collected emails for parade interested individuals since 2008 and use that to send out publicity as well as continually using social media to keep the excitement going. We are requesting funds to support HAC program coordinator to help with the organization of all the volunteers and participants in both the workshops and the parade. It is critical for the longevity of this event that a staff person is trained in all aspects so that when the volunteer leader is no longer available the event will continue. We provide many of the materials and tools for the participants for puppet making and are requesting financial assistance with that, as well as for hired performers for the parade. 6 Application Checklist (do not staple, bind, or put into individual folders) Please include the following materials in your application packet in the following order: 1 copy each: (only 1 sided, 8 1/2"x 11", white paper) and 1 complete electronic copy(in PDF