2017-460-E Arts - Pam Baggett - 2017-18 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:3E2A8197-2735-44CA-8810-5AD399233576 I anticipate that grant-funded workshops will attract similar numbers.Audiences have been a mix of poets and interested non-writing members of the public. • Past workshops at the library have served 5-15 writers, both experienced and new, with ages ranging from 16-80. My goal is for each workshop to serve 15-20 participants. Increased advertising will enable me to reach those numbers. • Kim Lamon-Loperfido of the Orange County Department on Aging estimates that the lecture on Peace of Mind at the Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers will reach audiences of 25-40 seniors at each facility. • Kim Lamon-Loperfido of the Orange County Department on Aging estimates that the writing workshop on Journeys at the Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers will attract 30-40 participants at each facility. Artist's Volunteer Experience: • Co-organizer and co-host since January 2014 of the Second Thursday Poetry Reading at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. • Organizer and host since April 2015 of five poetry readings at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough, featuring distinguished local and regional poets:An Evening of Local Poetry; Poetry and Race; Poetry and Personal Identity;An Evening of Accessible Poetry; and Poetry of Witness. • Organizer and host of Remembrance: an Evening of African-American Poetry, to honor the Charleston, South Carolina parishioners murdered in June 2015. Held in June 2016 at the Chapel Hill Library. • Organizer and instructor for seven writing workshops since April 2015, held at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough: Getting Honest and Yet More Honest; Heroes, Heroines, and Heartthrobs; Writing About Race; Poetry and Personal Identity; Revising Toward Clarity, Energy, and Elegance; Writing Poems of Witness; and Wrestling the Four-Tongued Beast: Revision and Imagery. • 2014-15: Co-writer and co-facilitator of two writing support groups for women survivors of domestic violence, funded by a grant from the Orange County Arts Commission and conducted at the Compass Center in Chapel Hill.A journal of survivors' work, The War Against the Mirror: Reflections on Domestic Violence was produced with funds from the grant. Paid Work in the Arts: • Instructor of the following poetry classes/one-day workshops held at the Seymour Center in Chapel Hill: Writing Your Life Story Through Poetry, an eight-week workshop; Poets Critique Group, an eleven-week workshop; Writing from the Rope Bridge; Soundtrack; and Writing Poems of Witness.