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Project/Program <br />Summary <br />Floraffiti® Hillsborough 2023 <br />“Unremembered” <br />The following is a proposal for a collaboration with NC Poet Laureate, <br />Jaki Shelton Green, Orange High School teacher, Xav ier Adams, & <br />his students, along with Carter Hubbard’s Floraffiti® to take place in <br />the beginning of 2023. <br />Students of Xav ier Adams’ language arts class will be paired up with <br />elders they know: in their family and/or in their community. W ith the <br />guidance of Jaki and Xav ier, students will discuss the role that elders <br />play, how history has shaped their liv es, and the v aluable stories they <br />possess that may hav e yet to be told. The students will learn how to <br />interv iew the elders and write a compelling story. The workshop for <br />this will take place in February 2023. <br />I will meet with the students to hav e a dialog about the relationships <br />we hav e with community members and why they are important. W e <br />will discuss public art in its v arious forms and the role it plays in <br />society. W e will pay close attention to the words chosen to be planted <br />and talk about the process of v etting the words to be planted. <br />An important word will be chosen by each student/elder pair from the <br />story of each interv iew written. A recording will also be made from <br />each interv iew. The chosen and approv ed words will be planted in <br />highly v isible, well-trafficked and pre-determined, approv ed areas of <br />downtown Hillsborough by the students, an assistant, and me in <br />March 2023. <br />The words will be v isible for up to three months, one of the first <br />things that will sprout after winter, creating an element of surprise. <br />The recorded stories will be uploaded to an app called “Echoes”. <br />This app serv es as a “walkable city tour guide”. A person downloads <br />the app to their smartphone and when they stand next to a word, they <br />will be able to listen to the recording of the story v ia geolocation <br />within the app. <br />This will giv e the public an opportunity to learn more about the untold <br />stories of local elders at their conv enience and promoted v ia the <br />monthly artwalk. Additionally, the stories can be preserv ed by local <br />historians, accessible to the public after the project ceases to exist. <br />The project implementation is subject to receiv ing the full funding <br />amount required from v arying sources. <br />Community Impact Floraffiti is a placemaking and community engagement project. It <br />combines community and youth dev elopment through v isual, literary, <br />and performing arts in a distinctiv e way to present and digest <br />information, responding to the local climate and embodying local <br />stories. <br />This year, Floraffiti will focus on Northern Orange County, an area of <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: C41BE79B-8E81-4908-831C-FBA80D3E041A