2020-740-E-Arts Commission-Milbre Burch

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hundreds of clients and their families. In a February 23, 2019 article in the Daily Tarheel, Lauren Vied writes that “Chapel Hill has been on the forefront of progressiv e policing for many years as a town, including in domestic v iolence and sexual assault policies.” I hav e reached out to the Crisis Unit of the Chapel Hill Police Department to be my fourth community partner. To each of these, I am offering a free liv e performance or digital screening for use in a staff training, public education ev ent or (where appropriate) fundraising efforts. As a nationally known touring artist, I usually ask $2000 per public performance, but my honorarium for local nonprofit organizations and community agencies is $500. Thus a $2000 grant from the Orange County Arts Commission would cov er presentations offered gratis to these four community agencies in Orange County. Artist Experience A GRAMMY-nominated performer, digital storyteller and v eteran touring and teaching artist, I’v e worked in univ ersities, museums, theaters, schools, libraries, faith communities, senior centers, residences for mentally challenged adults and prisons. Similar project examples: 2010: Through Independent Actors Theatre, I mounted Changing Skins, interweav ing folktales featuring non- heteronormativ e characters with science, sociology and personal observ ation. The show features ten photos of transgender people. Photographer Jane Lav ender and Sam Bullington, a transgender univ ersity professor, participated in the premiere’s talkback. W hen touring the show, I ask audiences how hearing these stories impacts their understanding of the fluidity of gender, and share my findings at national conferences. 2012: I premiered Sometimes I Sing as part of a production called: Justice Serv ed: three short plays about women confronting v iolence. Patricia L. Bryan – the author of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland, a book-length study of the murder trial that inspired Susan Glaspell’s Trifles – gav e a related lecture and participated in the post-show talkback with representativ es of the local women’s shelter. 2016: I compiled Tales from Beyond the Ban, featuring folktales from the sev en predominantly-Muslim countries named in the president’s initial trav el ban. Following this show-intended-as-adv ocacy, I interv iewed international grad students from the targeted countries about their experience of the ban. W eav ing snippets of their oral histories with folktales familiar to them, I’v e toured Tales to raise money for groups helping immigrants and refugees, and written about it in the International Journal of Conflict and Reconciliation. PROJECT/PROGRAM BUDGET Please fill out the charts below with your project's expenses and income. Use the "Explanation" box to offer details for each category. NOTE: The Total Cash Expense must equal the Total Cash Income. Budgeted Expense 365176fb-5a91-41a5-85d6-1c9a702901f3.xlsx Budgeted Income DocuSign Envelope ID: 695A1714-C7AB-4D4B-8382-68F21FCD9EA9