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Christine Alcindor

Christine Alcindor will create "The Beauty of Black Life" - a set of two portable murals that represent being Black in America. The murals will be painted on wooden panels that can move to any location. Both murals shed light on the Black experience, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the beauty of being Black.

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Mila Fields-Zayas

Mila Fields-Zayas will create a mural based on responses she receives from questions asked of BIPOC women around communites where we are taught that we are less than. This will include Mila filming the process and creating a documentary of the work as she creates the art and includes clips from community members themselves.

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Silvina Ibañez

Silvina Ibañez will create "The Paper Theater Project," a collaborative opportunity for the Latinx community to make everyday micro-stories visible. The project aims to create a space of radical imagination and expression, giving a voice to those who need to be heard.

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Mariona Lloreta

Mariona Lloreta's short experimental film“Altars” will highlight the Black and brown men in her neighborhood. The film negotiates a space between darkness - dehumanization, erasure, violence and trauma - and light - life, truth, empowerment, love.

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S

S's work will collaboratively expand on previous media work centering the narratives of formerly incarcerated people, to bring forth critical issues in the American criminal legal system.

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Leonard Tshitenge

Leonard Tshitenge will create "Black Fathers Are Sleeping with One Eye Open," a creative arts experience that is animated, interactive, and connects spoken word, expressive writing, and multidisciplinary arts.

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Irischa Valentin

Irischa's project "Medicina For The People" is a vision that dreams of providing herbal medicine and aromatherapy to Black, Indigenous, and people of color who in direct and indirect ways are fighting at the front lines of injustices and anti-oppression

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Adobo-Fish-Sauce

Young Boston migrant youth-leaders/poet-chefs will collaborate with Adobo-Fish-Sauce (AFS) and I Learn America to cook up stories -- poignant, provocative, but always flavorful -- that will help participants create art celebrating their cultural identity; share meals with cross-cultural dialogue; and engage family and communities to better understand their humanity, thus challenging racist stereotypes.

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Fabiola Méndez

Fabiola Méndez's project "Negrura" is an audiovisual experience that aims to create spaces for conversations about colorism, anti-blackness, discrimination, and racism within our own Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx community, by engaging with the Latin Quarter Cultural District in Jamaica Plain.

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UnBound Bodies Collective

Roots + Futures is UnBound Bodies’ three part exploration into QTBIPoC futurity, liberation, and active archiving. Living Altars, co-created with QTBIPoC Elders, layers landscapes with memories, sited throughout Boston where our Elders shaped their lives and our legacies.

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Lily Xie

Lily Xie's project "Washing", in partnership with Asian Community Development Corporation and local residents, is a multimedia art project about the embodied effects of community power, urban design, and environmental racism in Boston's Chinatown.

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