An update on our Culture & Narrative Fellows and their projects.
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Dear John,
At The Opportunity Agenda, we know that artists and cultural strategists are key to moving hearts and minds and overcoming some of society’s most urgent problems. That’s why in January we launched our first Culture & Narrative Fellowship. Through a thorough process, we selected five dedicated, talented, and insightful Fellows who are advancing critical narratives for true and lasting economic justice for all through original creative pursuits.
Scroll for a first look at the Fellows’ projects!
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Annie Del Hierro is challenging harmful assumptions and narratives about diverse communities facing economic hardship through “Flatbush Faces & Voices.” The participatory public art project recollects life stories to create dialogue between people who reside and/or visit Flatbush, Brooklyn. This project uses video and photography as a tool for storytelling and amplifying the voices, hopes, and dreams of those whose lives have been directly impacted by economic and social disparities.
Sheri Bradford is centering human narratives around the economic justice impacts of mass incarceration and drug decriminalization for her scripted television/digital series CameronTown. CameronTown is a dramedy that follows Shannon Cameron, a millennial Black woman as well as various Black family members, as they start a successful cannabis business on land they were once enslaved on, and simply exist as Black in America.
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Josh Healey’s scripted digital series, “Normal Ain’t Normal,” names the structural, racialized roots of American poverty and inequality in this strange, almost-post-COVID terrain. The series follows four colorful characters whose stories pose a bold and irreverent challenging of what is and what should be “normal” – in a healthy society.
Nando Alvarez is creating original images that portray immigrants in a humanizing way, inspired by an Andean graphic technique known as CHICHA. The images will be used to lead a series of public screen-printing sessions being held at the Poor People’s Campaign’s Moral March on Washington. The project employs screen-printing as a medium because it is a versatile resource that engages folks in making their own art, transforming them into the artists telling their stories.
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Alex Albadree is designing a series of online, interactive, illustrated vignettes that deconstruct negative narratives and allow us to reimagine and support economic, environmental, and racial justice. Viewers will be invited to “walk” their way through a character’s daily life. The stories will feature a point of change in the character’s lives that offer us examples and tools to craft new narratives to reimagine and support visionary efforts for a better future.
Over the next four months, Fellows will continue to develop and build out their projects. Our team of narrative and communications experts will lead customized advisement sessions allowing the Fellows to expand their knowledge and collaborate with each other and our incredible network of creatives and advocates. In fact, just last week the fellows got the chance to come together and dive deep into learning about the power of shared social narratives with members of our Training and Cultural Strategies teams. In addition, each Fellow receives $15,000 to assist with related costs.
The Opportunity Agenda believes that providing space, time, and resources for artists and cultural strategists to develop their ideas is pivotal to re-shaping economic justice narratives. Through their singular approach and creative effort, these five visionaries are determined to show us what’s possible in a world where everyone has a chance to do more than get by.
We’re more than happy to get behind that!
Warmly,
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Sughey Ramírez
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Cultural Network Strategist
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