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Provide a brief <br />description of your <br />pre-pandemic core <br />arts-related <br />programming or <br />offerings. <br />Hidden Voices projects hav e included a div ersity of v oices: local, <br />undocumented immigrant youth (La Vida Local); rural Latinx, Black, <br />and W hite youth (Not Yo Mama’s Home Cookin’); historically African- <br />American communities in Chapel Hill /Carrboro and the Univ ersity of <br />North Carolina (Because W e’re Still Here and Mov ing: Mapping a <br />W orld of Black History in Our Own Backyards); those dealing with <br />home-lessness (Home Is Not One Story); families escaping v iolence <br />(Speaking without Tongues), the formerly incarcerated (Rewind) and <br />others. <br />Project components include oral histories, performances, mapping, <br />digital media, readings, interactiv e exhibits, music, VR, and more. <br />Venues include schools, churches, civ ic organizations, conferences, <br />galleries, community/professional stages, classrooms, public <br />sidewalks, libraries. For example, in response to the Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro’s historically Black communities’ desire for “the children to <br />know their story,” we collaborated on the first-ev er “text message <br />tour.” Stickers places in historic but unmarked spots asked, “W hat <br />happened here?” abov e a phone number. Texters receiv ed a <br />response sharing the hidden history of that particular place. For that <br />particular project, we also created an interactiv e exhibit and trained <br />docents at UNC-Chapel Hill to educate all incoming students and <br />families about their new neighborhood. The project included a printed <br />walking map with archiv al photos from these communities, two <br />performances, and a short film. W hat we create and where it liv es is a <br />collaborativ e process that changes with each project. <br />Our current community participants include military serv ice <br />members, with a focus on female members (At Ease: Bridging the <br />Military-Civ ilian Div ide); surv iv ors of sexual v iolence and v isionary <br />students engaging communities around ending sexual assault <br />(W eAreHere: Imagining a W orld without Sexual Violence); residents of <br />death row and their families (Serv ing Life: ReVisioning Justice); and <br />the many stakeholders in the school to prison pipeline, from students <br />to alternativ e-school teachers, school resource officers and <br />attorneys, parents, judges and the current and formerly incarcerated <br />(None of the Abov e: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline). <br />For ten years we also partnered on Seeking the Self, a summer <br />ov ernight camp for middle school students of color. The camp <br />supported students in understanding and creating counternarrativ es <br />to empower their success. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 27B8BEB3-EB74-405B-9C6B-C68CD6BEEA8F