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Please explain the <br />impact of your <br />organization on the <br />Orange County <br />community in a <br />typical year. <br />Our projects ev olv e ov er multiple years and with community <br />engagement. During any giv en year, sev eral projects are underway; <br />since each inv olv es numerous components in different stages of <br />dev elopment/ production, it can be difficult to describe a “typical” <br />year. Our last “typical” year, 2019, included four projects: a multiyear, <br />multi-arts project with military serv ice members (At Ease); a project <br />with surv iv ors of sexual v iolence (W eAreHere); residents of death <br />row and their families (Serv ing Life); and stakeholders in the school- <br />to-prison pipeline (None of the Abov e). <br />Our projects always include Orange County v oices, sometimes <br />exclusiv ely as in La Vida Local (undocumented youth) and Because <br />W e’re Still Here and Mov ing (local neighborhoods of color). Other <br />projects hav e a more statewide focus, including Home Is Not One <br />Story and None of the Abov e, but still highlight OC <br />v oices/stakeholders and local partner organizations. <br />Current 2021-22: <br />At Ease: Bridging the Military-Civ ilian Div ide includes narrativ es from <br />student v eterans at the univ ersity and other local military serv ice <br />members and opened to the public in Chapel Hill with an interactiv e <br />exhibit and a student reading of the accompanying story cycle. <br />W eAreHere (in dev elopment) includes workshops with surv iv ors in <br />Orange County, a series of local interv iews, and a partnership with <br />the OC Rape Crisis Center. <br />Serv ing Life includes works from OC artists in the trav eling <br />installation, which debuted in Chapel Hill. The original dev elopment <br />team for the prison work liv e in Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, <br />and the county. One of the performance components of the project, <br />COUNT: Stories from America’s Death Row, debuted at PlayMakers <br />Rep and remains the most attended show ev er in the Kenan Theater. <br />Numerous readings of the story cycle Right Here, Right Now hav e <br />been held in the area (always free and open) at churches, in classes, <br />and at conferences. An ev ent in Carrboro in Feb/March 2022 <br />centered around a reading of RHRN with songs from A GOOD BOY is <br />being organized by OC public defenders, NCCRED, NAACP, and <br />others. There are also plans for a similar ev ent in Hillsborough <br />(rescheduled from 2020). Three or the four members of the core <br />dev elopment team for A GOOD BOY liv e in Orange County, as do <br />sev eral of the performers and musicians. W e are also in <br />conv ersation with the Student Union at UNC to host the exhibit <br />Standing on Lov e. Like the exhibit for At Ease, this installation had <br />just opened (for 6 weeks at Duke Chapel) when v enues were closed <br />for COVID. W e’re also in conv ersation with local bookstores about <br />readings and signings for Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from <br />America’s Death Row (May 2021, Duke U Press). <br />None of the Abov e: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline <br />includes narrativ es from teachers and students at OC alternativ e <br />schools, as well as local parents and attorneys. Sev eral artists for the <br />exhibit also liv e in the county. The exhibit has trav eled to a dozen <br />v enues, including the Student Union at UNC, where the opening <br />welcomed local high schoolers and community members. The <br />performance debuted at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 27B8BEB3-EB74-405B-9C6B-C68CD6BEEA8F